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Halfbakery is a popular but not very serious one.

You mean William Gibson's. Note how despite the author's intentions (or perhaps because of them) "pirated text of the poem was released the next day on MindVox."

Interesting. Do you find it more or less terse than PowerShell?

And for Windows there is Far Manager, which since 2007 has been open source as well (BSD license) and has plugin support.

http://www.farmanager.com/

Neovim looks promising. Not to derail the thread but is there a similar reimplementation effort on the Emacs side?

Have you looked into Nimrod? It is different from Python in that it embraces some concepts that Python rejects (e.g., AST macros, which are actually quite brilliant in Nimrod) but it's the most pythonic programming language that I know of that compiles to native code.

The bounty only explicitly mentions stock firmware but it is implied that the exploit should also not require disassembling your device and messing with its hardware. This makes me wonder: would a hardware exploit be easier? Modchips have been a staple of the console scene since at least the original PlayStation but I am unaware of their use in smartphones.

As a technical fix to the Scribd copy-paste problem you could implement a user script to perform frequency analysis on the text of the document and to correct the text as it is being loaded substituting the DRM font for a regular one. (You can't easily perform the substitution at copy time with JavaScript and put the modified text into the clipboard.)

An alternative that is not to be easily dismissed is that in 100 years we will have learned to manipulate our contentment. If handled badly enough, this could become our final discovery. Not that we would then care.

You may be right about the extensions.

Thanks for suggesting gvfs. I'll investigate it and similar databases from other packages (I know at least KDE has its own).

> find that automatically filters out files that are not source code

Not just that but an extensible set of file type filters that are simple to invoke is what I had in mind. E.g., the tool would let you perform searches like

  find++ --Python  projects/archive/200?

or

  find++ --video trailer

where in the latter case the hypothetical find++ would refer to my config to get a list of video file extensions and then print a list of all files in the current directory and its subdirectories with the word "trailer" in their name. For better effect it would ship with useful filters like "--video" by default.

There can be overlap here with Gopher servers written in golang like https://code.google.com/p/gogopherd/.

Is there a tool that is to find what ack is to grep?

Have you tried using it in production (for some value of "production")? I wrote a web API "Hello, world!" in Jester about half a year ago as a way to learn a little Nimrod and at first glance found it to be a nice web framework.

Looking at Nimrod's AST macros (which I haven't used) I imagine Julia as a closer competitor to it than Go. They both appear to come from a "programmable programming language" mindset, though Julia arguably more so because it's homoiconic.

How do you find the keyboard compared to that of the X220 and earlier X series laptops? It's the one thing that makes me reluctant to consider the newer devices of the series.

Science fiction may have only shaped the "brain ray" idea superficially. James Tilly Matthews, the first documented case of paranoid schizophrenia, complained that he was tormented by a criminal gang operating an "air loom", and he died before Jules Verne was born. This delusion, manifested in some form, appears to be inherent to the condition.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tilly_Matthews

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_the_%22Influen...

Is this in accordance with YouTube's TOS?

> there are many server plugins you can install to prevent griefing or building.

I think what would suit their use is a plugin that rather than prevent building would make the world slowly regenerate towards a preset form (the map of Denmark).

Edit: Either that or create an incentive for players to restore and maintain key landmarks with premium items. ("Rebuild Copenhagen and get diamond armor! Help defend it for X redstone per day!" or something like that. What do successful freemium Minecraft servers offer their sponsors?) These sorts of quests will probably help keep the players interested for longer and produce viral stories as well, so more people will visit virtual Denmark.

Perhaps. See also: http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/04/_trial_version.ht... (not an endorsement).

It's an interesting discussion to have but it may not be a good fit for Hacker News in general and especially not with the short prompt you've posted. Consider writing a more in-depth blog post and submitting to, e.g., MetaFilter or Reddit if you want to have this discussion.

I run Firefox and last I tried Chrome it did use more RAM for the same content. However, I wonder: since Chrome runs its tabs as a collection of processes does that mean individual tabs could be swapped out by the OS without affecting the rest?

>Which isn't great file naming for the web.

Why?

A truly dystopian monetization strategy for this type of app would be to let users pay to reveal each other's IP address and/or location (location costs extra).

Edit: Or worse, enable and encourage bidding wars over whose identity gets revealed. It may sound obvious when you actually say it but there's a great potential for evil schemes profiting from "shallow" (not cryptographically ensured) anonymity.

To be fair, the front page is already there at http://www.wikipedia.org/.

I haven't used it in a while but Tcl/Tk with Tile (now known as ttk) used to be a decent solution for cross-platform GUIs with native-looking widgets. Among other things it had top-tier Unicode support and a declarative layout system (compare: QML). Is it still viable?

Can you elaborate why?

Have you tried using one of those USB-over-CAT5 adapters they sell on eBay? I've always wanted to but never had a real application for it, and robotics sound perfect. Just bolt down the adapter on one side.

Valid point. It make me think that perhaps sousveillance isn't a bad idea.

That is a heartbreaking read. I had to deal with bullying at school but what is described here is at such a different scale I feel it would be wrong to compare my experience to the author's. If, like me, you were surprised at first at the magnanimity she showed towards her bullies (not wanting them to get a criminal record) consider that even if you absolutely wanted them to be punished there would have been a psychological price to pressing charges and going to court, so it would by no means be an easy choice to make.

Is the documentation as accurate and up-to-do date as OpenBSD's?

Interestingly, this business model incentivizes subscribing to every such website's mailing list you see on the off chance you might need the photos later.