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I had a look at a bunch of other wm's and some common themes I found were that configuration files were in a programming language and documentation was "the mailing list and irc". If I had to learn a new language or have an irc chat room open for every piece of software on my machine, I would never get anything done.
It's pretty broken. Firefox 27.0.1 on Arch if someone from kimono sees this.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely do not support "walled gardens" that are now becoming common and I don't think they are the solution to this problem. Power should always be left in the hands of the user, the solution is education. This is of course a social issue and one of gigantic scale. There are so many strong political hurdles to overcome that I'm not surprised that the industry has taken the approach it currently has.
A lot of private trackers lately have been getting hit by DDOS attacks. To the point that a few have taken on extra developers/admins which have openly stated their primary goal is to deal with said attacks.
One in particular that has a large user base (35,000 active users) has been experiencing difficulties and is also customer of CloudFlare. This might be one reason why CloudFlare is hesitant to give out details.
The "French networking host" (OVH) that is mentioned in the article is one of the largest suppliers of seedboxes I known of. Usually indirectly through smaller companies who buy from OVH and then provide support and server management services. In fact, this is so widely known within the private P2P community that "being on the OVH network" is actually a selling point due to the sheer amount of peers that you'll be getting ridiculously high speeds with.
Of course, it could all just be a coincidence too.
I assume most people install Firefox because it's better then the default browser experience. The argument in the parent comment is that this isn't the case so those that would normally go out of their way to install it have no reason to do so.
e: Or maybe I read it incorrectly? Firefox is a better mobile experience? If that's the case, I'm not really sure what the parent comment's argument is.
What about video? If I record a movie with a cam corder do I now own the copyright to the video I made and can distribute it legally?
Even if this reaches the threshold, it's still only a tiny fraction of the state population. What is to stop this state going into a Civil War? There is probably equal or more that would want to stay as part of the US.
Honestly, this is a really stupid submission to HN.
This is still copyright infringement though, you are not authorized to view the media because you live outside the countries that these companies have the rights to broadcast to.
I can't help but feel this sort of shit is just to make people feel better about piracy. You may as well just be honest with yourself and go ahead and download torrents, at least then you aren't actually costing Hulu, Netflix, Pandora etc money by using their bandwidth.
I actually think this would be a great idea and it would probably prevent me from having to reread paragraphs every now and then because I thought the wrong person was talking.
[Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it].
My old emacs.d still sits in my home folder because I have this fear that Sublime will just stop being supported tomorrow and I would have no choice but to go back to emacs.
I really just wish emacs had an amazing mixed mode, it's the only thing that even made me try out Sublime. All the php mixed modes I tried were really bad and I do a lot of work in PHP/HTML mixed view files.
Thank goodness for Internet shopping. Whenever I can I buy online specifically so I don't have to put up with sales people like the ones described in this article.
The dude released a script to the public under a free software license and people used it. If you think it's bad, fork it and fix it, otherwise don't use it, that's how the open source ecosystem works.
Which are all not available outside the US. I could only find 4 books on that entire site that were actually available to be purchased outside the US.
Isn't that the entire idea behind OkCupid? That seems quite successful.
Of course, it's a completely different thing to do that as an exercise for yourself compared to actually publishing it on a social developer site, but to each their own I guess.
Baen Books is my favorite for science fiction. (www.baenebooks.com) O'Reilly Media for technical books. (http://shop.oreilly.com/category/ebooks.do) Calibre eBook store. (http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/) Project Gutenberg for the classics. (http://www.gutenberg.org/)
There are quite a few more, but I don't want to link them because I haven't personally used them. I'm also hoping DRM-Free eBook bundles catch on (https://www.humblebundle.com/).
If there are books that I "desperately" want to read and can't find them in DRM-Free form, I visit the local library. If the library doesn't have it, I will buy a print version. As long as it isn't a technical reference manual I will use frequently, I then donate it to the library when I'm done with it.
>I think of it as a discretionary entertainment spend. I get literally hours of enjoyment from fantasizing what I’d do if I won.
It took me a matter of minutes to zero in on the exact commit that broke the app on that one machine. This would have been something I would have spent hours, possibly days trying to figure out by going over every tiny config detail (it wasn't a config issue).
Bisect is a powerful little tool to have in your back pocket when you know something you introduced at some time broke something and you need to find out what. The smaller and more "relevant" you keep your commits, the easier it will be to use. Obviously the opposite is true, if you have these massive commits which change large amounts of different files and/or multiple features, bisect becomes significantly less useful, almost worthless.
It's a blanket policy and a reason why I never use Paypal for Steam, use a real or "throw-away" credit card for Steam purchases. Alternatively, you could not buy from Steam at all, I don't anymore but it's too late for me. I already have over 200 games with them and worry about losing access to everything.
Hey, I can dream can't I?
This wouldn't be a big problem, but the entire thing seems to rely on you going very slowly and only click one at a time and wait for it to load.
If I click another photo during that loading period, it mashes up the photos [1]. Scrolling down while a photo is in the center also doesn't appear to work well, if I click another photo it tries to bring it up and cuts them up [2]. Looks like it could do with some more testing my friend.