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Trying to visit this on my phone, all I get is a poorly formatted “one more step” page that asks me to complete a captcha that loads mostly off the side of the screen so I have to scroll to see it, which makes it jump around. Whenever I manage to beat the captcha, it just redirects me to archive.is, which looks exactly the same and I have to beat another captcha, and the whole process begins again.

I get a SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER on that site.

That link says the ISO goes to 409,600, not 4,096,000.

I don't think the corewars assembly is available outside of the game.

A little while ago, someone used Facebook's last active time to track their friends' sleep: https://medium.com/life-tips/how-you-can-use-facebook-to-tra...

It's a mistake to think we can't improve on something because someone smart built it. In my academic community, everyone fights with LaTeX and I can only say with confidence that one person I know has mastered it. Everyone else just hacks at their document until it's close enough.

If the connection between you and DDG is over SSL, what does it matter that they've scraped your encrypted packets?

I hadn't heard of the dyslexic font situation. After a little searching, I found: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121004/18530620612/font-...

I assume that's the legal situation to which you are referring.

There was a nice post about Atlassian's choice of Mercurial over Git on their blog: https://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/mercurial-vs-git-why-mer... Their argument about a windows version doesn't seem to hold today. There seems to be a first-class Windows version of git.

Since there exists HgGit (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgGit) and git-remote-hg (https://github.com/rfk/git-remote-hg), the two are equivalent in the sense that you can use either to contribute to any hg/git repo. Which is your prefered flavour of interface?

Encrypting data certainly increases the barrier to entry for spying.

It always amuses me when this gets posted on HN. As a link, it appears as medium grey on slightly lighter grey.

http://html5rocks.com seems to be a wealth of resources. What in particular did you find useful?

The unbalanced paren at the end of your comment really irks my OCD.

It's more than 400 now and has been for some time.

> By design, it does not handle the following tasks:

> ...

> Obtaining libraries (use clbuild, LibCL, cl-librarian, asdf-install, etc. for that)

I imagine one could also use QuickLisp for libraries? ;-)

In my defense: it's a very stable prerelease copy.

Am using FF4.0b6 with FlashBlock 1.5.14.2 and it correctly fell back to standard html.

Odd, I'm using "GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.25) of 2010-03-27 on gallifrey.local" and it still has the dashes on the modeline.

I don't think SV is SV _because_ it's in CA. I think SV is SV _despite_ being in CA.

Which important respects?

If you agree, would you care to point out what is badly written about that quote?

> [...] and all kinds of other wonderful proprietary systems: OSX, CPM, & Pick.

Youngster here: I'm guessing when you say OSX you mean something other than Mac OS X?

How so?

> Do you really think they have a blind suspicion of everyone?

They certainly act as though they are suspicious of everyone.

My school has 5km of (heated!) tunnels connecting all the buildings on campus, but since they're open to the public they don't feel eerie at all.

I'd like to see your pictures if you ever put them online. =)

Wicked cool replies, thanks. =)

> Also, did you know that the Eastern provinces have some crazy tax and startup capital advantages for starting your own tech / net related business?

Care to elaborate? I'm just starting a CS degree in the east, and I'm interested in starting a business in my free time.

It would be neat to see some of these places (tomb of the forbidden ladder, bricked in showers at the library, etc), if anyone knows where to find pictures.

Speculation: Google Wave is implemented with heavy use of Google's internal libraries.

Building a list doesn't work for me either. It gives every indication that I succeeded in creating a list, but the tutorial tells me I'm not doing the right thing. =(