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ryutin··on Battle of Alesia
This is one of my all time favorites. Is there a internet or computerized version of this yet ?
ryutin··on Jello Biafra's 1979 campaign for Mayor of San Francisco
No cars in the city, an even better idea.
ryutin··on Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal
I was thinking the same thing. Diplomacy is one of the best multiplayer games ever designed. This should be ideally suited for writing as a mobile app. I'd love to know if there any out there worth checking out.

There's this at the iPhone App Store: "The Game of Diplomacy by Chris Hughes" https://appsto.re/us/iCIzt.i

ryutin··on Valentines Day in BASH
no love for my mac :-(

[Fri Feb 14 14:35:37] -bash:~$ curl -s valentines.digitalocean.com | bash

bash: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

bash: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">'

ryutin··on Ask HN: Why does Amazon allow multiple accounts with the same email address?
I have the same problem. I don't understand what purpose that can serve.

Both are amazon.com accounts. One password links to a Prime account; the other, a non-Prime account. It started around 5-6 years ago. I vaguely recall that it must have started with a call to someone to change my password and later I upgraded one of them with Prime.

Maddening until I figured it out. Weird stuff.

ryutin··on Edward Snowden on Twitter
should say "Fake Edward Snowden on Twitter."
ryutin··on Does the US govt record every phone call?
It does, but does the US government have a record of it?
ryutin··on Healthcare Sector Vulnerable to Hackers
This observation doesn't surprise me: “I have never seen an industry with more gaping security holes,” said Avi Rubin, a computer scientist and technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. “If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.”
ryutin··on Firefox killing off favicon in nightly build
Good moves. Glad to see the URI scheme as a visible part of the URL.
ryutin··on The NoSQL movement
The survey of nosql technologies sounds more like a rationale for another O'Reilly bookshelf!

I mean, there are definitely arguments that can be made for alternatives to relational databases, but without those special cases, in such an early stage of maturation and without standards, it's worthy for pursuing by the hardy cowboy or blissful novice.

As the nosql technologies do mature and standards emerge, I think it should be expected that they will be subsumed into existing database products as new features.

ryutin··on [dead]
Sorry. I'm allergic to fb. What's this supposed to do?
ryutin··on Goodbye Current Events
Makes sense. I can relate. Maybe even give it a try. Good ideas, especially the observations on US politics and the two party system.
ryutin··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
CodeRyte - Bethesda, MD

CodeRyte (http://www.coderyte.com) is an innovative venture-funded healthcare software company located at the Bethesda Metro just minutes from Washington, D.C. We are a fast-paced and results driven team, offering an intellectually stimulating environment and opportunity for growth and development in a casual atmosphere. CodeRyte is a premier provider of computer-assisted coding technologies in the healthcare industry.

Hiring for:

- Senior Database Engineer

- NLP Software Engineers (Java)

- Software Engineers (Perl)

Job descriptions for these positions can be found at: http://www.coderyte.com/careers

ryutin··on Social network Hi5 dumps Linux/Postgres for Windows Server
I sure hope Hi5's engineers saw this coming when they brought on Alex St. John, "a former Microsoft evangelist," as CEO in late 2009.
ryutin··on Ask HN: I need a G+ invite
Me too, please!

My username@gmail.com

ryutin··on Vassal - Open Source Boardgame Engine
As an old wargaming geek who's always been disappointed that the never translated well to the electronic medium, this looks pretty exciting. I can't wait to spend some quality time digging into it more.
ryutin··on Boston area Comcast DNS down?
I'm having the same problem around dc. Change dns to use google: 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.8.4 . Problem solved.