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xijhing··on Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]
Also you should watch 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. And then you'll get it
xijhing··on How I Simplified My Life
You're also just not doing it right. Icebreaker clothing + www.evaser.com. 40L bag + 25L daypack.
xijhing··on Stateless and Proud in the Realtime World
I searched around but couldn't understand what this means: 'Many applications (and all Flask applications by default) will even used cookies with a MAC to store your session information so that you can pass state between independent workers without requiring a single database operation.' <-- what is MAC and how is it used?
xijhing··on HyperDex: A Searchable Distributed Key-Value Store
PACELC[1] helps distinguish just the kind of CAP sacrifice this makes.

[1] http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-an...

xijhing··on Ask HN: Any book scanners in San Francisco?
contact info in profile :)
xijhing··on Show HN: Enter a message, delivery at a random time up to 6 months from now
Set up a trust.
xijhing··on TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court
The fifth amendment defense was overturned in the Boucher case because: "A District Court judge agreed with the government, holding that, given Boucher's initial cooperation in showing some of the content of his computer to border agents, producing the complete contents would not constitute self-incrimination." [1]. Without Boucher having given up the names and titles of his files, it is entirely reasonable to expect that the fifth amendment would hold when testimony is asked without knowing what is inside the encrypted space.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States...

xijhing··on TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court
5th amendment is the right against self-incrimination. The response could provide self-incriminating evidence of an illegal act punishable by fines, penalties or forfeiture. Giving a password to your encrypted database could easily be interpreted as testifying against yourself as defined in the 5th amendment.

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik#at=950

xijhing··on Readable: A more readable version of "readability"
I put this above, but I'd like to have access to my Apture extension. For some reason it gets disabled.
xijhing··on Readable: A more readable version of "readability"
I'd use it, but my Apture extension doesn't work while using your script.
xijhing··on The Really Smart Phone
Isaac Asimov's Foundation, anyone?