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The interview is from 34 years ago.

The UN was founded in 1945. I have reason to believe that countries existed long before that.

I just rebase my feature branches before merging. Keeps the tree more or less linear.

Anything with e. coli I presume.

The author didn't say "most", she puts the number murdered at 300. Either way most people rightly describe the incident as a massacre.

Who are "they"? The "chicom globalists"?

There's a command for that.

    " Use Unix line feeds.
    :set fileformat=unix

    " Use Windows line feeds.
    :set fileformat=dos

    " Shortcut
    :set ff=unix

    " See the current format
    :set ff

He didn't declassify them. They were scheduled to be declassified. Trump's involvement was that the IC asked him to stop them from being declassified and he ignored their request, probably out of spite for the IC.

I'm no Chinese expert, so somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I've found that the Chinese word 茶 (cha) doesn't always necessarily mean tea, but can refer generically to a number of different brewed drinks. e.g. barley tea (大麥茶), ginger tea (薑茶), golden oats tea (燕麥茶), etc. all of which translate to tea, but often contain no tea leaves. It may seem like a nitpick, but when you're in China and order what you expect to be a ginger flavored tea, only to receive a cup of hot water with chopped ginger at the bottom, the distinction can be important. That isn't to say you can't simply order 茶 in China and receive what you would expect, as long as you're expecting green tea. Likewise, if you simply order tea in England, you'll likely receive what the Chinese call 紅茶 (red tea). So in my mind, the words aren't exactly equivalent and I wonder how much the different variations of tea and cha relate to themselves and each other.

Edit: Applied jpatokal's correction.

Or maybe he deactivated it to get attention.

Why would you ever exit vim?

How does one secure a deer to their bumper anyway? I figured a better place would be the roof or the bed of a truck. A Google image search for "deer on the bumper" only turns up roadkill.

I'm beginning to think either these quotes are fake or James Hetfield doesn't actually hunt.

The problem that the author describes is that eBay does not accept proof and offers no way to submit it.

It's worth noting that there's a Taiwanese BBS established in 1995 that's still extremely popular, with "over 150,000 users online during peak hours" according to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

Interestingly, none of my friends that use it know what Telnet is. It's almost exclusively accessed through unofficial dedicated smartphone apps.

Do you mean Ramblin' Jack Elliot? If so then it's ironic because Bob Dylan wrote in his autobiography about Elliot's voice and guitar playing and that he was jealous when he first heard it because it was more or less what he wished he could sound like. I personally also think he has a great voice.

Taipei, Taiwan.

* Clean and modern.

* Very safe.

* Nice people.

* Excellent public transportation.

* Good housing (relatively inexpensive).

* Great restaurants (extremely inexpensive).

* Low sales tax.

* Mandarin is a fun language to learn.

Also, $150-200 buys you a round-trip ticket to almost any other major city in Asia, so experiencing a new culture is just another way to spend a weekend. Taiwan's Eva Air and China Airlines are also excellent.

It's all fun and games until somebody with less noble intentions hacks his account to access all those passwords. I'm sure somebody's working on it.

maybe I should go back to Snow Leopard; I can't think of a single valuable change to OS X since then...

I wish I had that option, but I'm an iOS developer, so I upgrade when Apple forces me to, and right now their forcing Mavericks and up.

Linux is only free if you don't value your time.

Amazing how the largest server farms on earth are all run by administrators who don't value their time...

most of the public content is under free licenses

Is it? I've read reports that all but a fraction of Github repos are single-commiter code dumps.

the TOS explicitly dictates that you grant certain licenses to other users for free

Where?

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/

The only stipulation I see is:

By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories.

Unfortunately, the TOS doesn't provide a clear legal definition of fork. Does it go beyond clicking the fork button and copying the repo across Github servers? Does it including cloning the repo to a local disk? Or running the code? Or maintaining a derivative project?

one of the leading complaints being that it takes a lax approach to software licensing

I never understood this criticism. There's plenty of software I haven't bought a license for. I don't feel that just because somebody shares their code or archives it in public that I'm entitled to a free license.

That said, I've been approached on Github about licensing my code and I'm happy to grant one. For the most part, however, I just dump code to Github because it's a convenient way to backup and dealing with licenses just creates friction. I'd rather know that somebody out there explicitly wants the code before dealing with it.

Much better article IMO. Introducing the low level commands that the higher level ones wrap around is a much more fun and interactive way to understand the .git schema to me.

Yeah, the non-phonic nature of written Chinese leads to dozens of dialects in which two Chinese speakers can read the exact same sentence without a single overlapping syllable between them.

Regarding scientific communication in particular, the most obscure Chinese characters are for words unique to scientific fields, so while the average English speaker might not be able to understand an English physics paper, the average Chinese speaker can't even read a Chinese physics paper. In other words, you must possess above average Chinese skills to communicate about science.

I've been using http://10minutemail.com/ for years now. It's not pretty, but it works and I can't recall any of the generated addresses ever being rejected.

McVoy was adamant: "sorry, we're not in the business of helping you develop a competing product," he replied.

This business model is precisely what lead to a killer competing product being developed. Good job.

I understand it, I just don't buy it. Reader was a great opportunity to apply machine learning. When left neglected to a couple of days, my feed reader becomes a huge pain to sift through. There's a lot of room for innovation in this space, a la Inbox.

I'm not accusing Google of anything, but their treatment of Atom/RSS can be likened to Microsoft's old Embrace/Extend/Extinguish strategy. I honestly believe that in some ways it's worse off now than it would've been had Google not got involved. Killing Reader was at worst malicious and at best irresponsible.

That's a good point. A feed reader is responsible for delivering the ads embedded in feeds. That leaves not much room for any of your own.

I think Google's strategy was to get their ads into people's feeds with services like FeedBurner, but when that didn't go over so well they didn't see much use for Reader.

Just yesterday I was debugging a piece of code I was writing. I started with a printf where I suspected a segfault was occurring.

  printf(...);
  for (...) {...}

{user: "aBlackDude", pass: "12inches", flag: "u"}

Cool racism, bro.

How I found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia: by browsing it.

Yelp is very aggressive against crawlers. They IP banned me for curl'ing their site a few times for something or another that their API didn't provide. I had to email them and promise never to do it again. I'd imagine it has provoked some to attempt to crawl them via Tor. I just use the Open Table API instead.