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kba··on GfxCardStatus: view which GPU is in use at a glance, switch on-demand
Not exactly news, but it's a good piece of software that has followed my MacBook Pro 2008 for a couple of years.

Without this application, you have to log out and in again in order to switch graphics cards on the 2008 models. No longer.

kba··on Show HN: My static blog/site generator: "Shithead"
Sorry, but I would never use this, nor recommend it to anybody.

You make it sound like you left out features, because you wanted to keep it simple, but that really just comes off as you being lazy.

RSS could be implemented, without the user of your application knowing it's there.

Besides, on http://teh.oarsum.com/, the links don't work. They're going to /posts\article-name.html, not /posts/article-name.html as they should.

Another thing is you're talking about simplicity, yet you include Bootstrapper.

I realize that Bootstrapper is probably not included by default and is something you added in the template, but it just emphasizes the fact that you have mixed goals.

Besides, you don't really use anything from Bootstrapper other than the spans. On top of that, you haven't bothered to edit the LESS files to fit your needs, instead you just overwrite that with another CSS. That is not simplicity, that is just laziness.

And last, but definitely not least... Quirks Mode. Just no.

kba··on Show HN: My static blog/site generator: "Shithead"
I agree. The lack of RSS is inexcusable. RSS feeds can easily be implemented without the using know they're there.
kba··on Why 'Nigerian scammers' say they're from Nigeria
tl;dr
kba··on How I Store My 1's and 0′s: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = Joy
Please stop using fonts with serifs for the web. It's a strain on the eye. Great article, though.
kba··on Massive MYSQL Authentication Bypass Exploit
I can't seem to reproduce on MySQL 5.1.61-0+squeeze1.
kba··on Fl0wer.png.html
What is this supposed to do, other than attempt to crash my browser?
kba··on [dead]
Oh great, another Google+ wannabe.
kba··on Probability Paradoxes
I agree. Nothing paradoxical.
kba··on HackerIdeas- A place to store all our startup ideas, submit and get inspiration.
Disqus, please. No Facebook.
kba··on I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language
Sounds like a terrible place to be honest. With that mentality, in 60 years (when current compile designers are dead), nobody will know anything about compiler architecture.

On the third year at my university, there's a course centered around writing a Java compiler.

kba··on '9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808'
I'm not defending PHP. I'm not saying it makes sense. I'm just saying that's what's happening.
kba··on How Linux Shell saved my Day?
So you mounted a hard drive and copied some folders from the command line. Big deal.

Besides, if you could mount the drive without using any password, it doesn't seem like it was encrypted at all.

kba··on Programming Music with Overtone
Unwatchable because of the terrible audio. That echo is deafening.
kba··on When will I have to jailbreak my Mac?
This post is scary.
kba··on '9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808'
Your example would return true if just the first character was alike. And no, that's not how it works. PHP converts strings that look like numbers into floats and compares afterwards.
kba··on '9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808'
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... was on Hacker News at few days ago with a link to http://phpsadness.com/sad/47.
kba··on Why I'm Majoring In Computer Science (and you should too)
404. When you add something, please let it last for more than 4 hours.
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