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quakkels··on CrunchBang Linux: The end
Do you use it? How do you like it? (I visited the archbang.org site. After about 5 minutes of browsing the wiki their server started throwing 500 errors. I assume due to high traffic.)

[edit] It seems to be working again.

quakkels··on Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser for Windows 10
So, it will take a 'snapshot' of the page that you can markup. This snapshot will disable dynamic features of the webpage but still allow links to work. I wonder if they are talking about halting DOM manipulation, or JavaScript execution. Seems this will definitely create new classes of QA test paths.
quakkels··on The God Login
I suspect that Facebook still wants to know that some letters have a different case than other letters. If They just converted all letters to uppercase then that information would be lost.
quakkels··on A better alternative to Rust and Go
Was expecting a link to D ;-)
quakkels··on Learn C and build your own Lisp
Well, just made it to the next chapter where you talk about AST. :-)
quakkels··on Learn C and build your own Lisp
Thanks for writing this. I find your writing style to be very easy to follow. I've wanted to play with a toy language for some time, so I'm very excited to dive into your book with both feet. I'm working on Windows and am up to chapter 6. Very enjoyable. The only suggestions I would offer is perhaps to mention that AST stands for Abstract Syntax Tree. It seems this book is targeted to less experienced programmers, so it may be helpful to mention what AST means in this context. Thank you for your hard work and willingness to share your knowledge.
quakkels··on IRS Says Bitcoin Is Property
I can't tell if this is good or bad. But, does it strike anyone else as odd that the IRS ignores that bitcoin _is_ actually currency? Can they even declare it to be property when the reality is that it is currency?
quakkels··on [dead]
This reads like an article from the Onion.
quakkels··on Ask HN: Where can I find some good free MySQL hosting for development?
If this is for development, is there a reason to not run it on your dev machine?
quakkels··on Music For Coding
I'm there with you. I have to have music while coding. Thanks for the list of new (to me) music.
quakkels··on Ask HN: What are the rules for posting?
Thanks!