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cinch··on Transform Data by Example [video]
the addon supports "excel online"
cinch··on Skypeopensource2 – Skype client based on reversing Skype 5.5
skype still has the best echo cancellation (that i've tried). you don't even need to wear headphones. according to a Tox developer: there aren't any comparable open source libraries.
cinch··on Keyboard Bacterial Culture
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/keyboardma...
cinch··on A native code to C/C++ decompiler
"The standalone decompiler runs fine under Wine."
cinch··on Slow is not a dirty word
i'd say it depends on how important a project you are working on. if it's another run of the mill CRUD app, that only get's used internally by a few people, then you'd want cheap/fast, low quality. if it's mission critical, air plane software, you take your time and get it right.

but the author is hinting in the right direction: today "slow" get's undervalued. i've been told i work slow, and yea it had a negative meaning. i interpret it as good: i take my time and do it right. maybe i was just working in the wrong company, where the software quality isn't that important versus churning out more.

cinch··on Seattle's University Bridge still operates on Compaq 8080 and 5.25" Floppy disks
machanical keyboards are still around. Cherry MX switches are the most common.

http://deskthority.net/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/buying_guid...

cinch··on Show HN: thedaywefightback.js
use Apache or BSD or MIT. simple
cinch··on Riemann, a distributed systems monitor (built in Clojure)
awesome, thanks for replying :)
cinch··on Riemann, a distributed systems monitor (built in Clojure)
hi, this project looks really neat! i'm evaluating icinga web + pnp4nagios at work, but this could be a viable alternative. cheers and glad you put this out there :-)

i see that you use Protocol Buffers. from google's page, it seems like they only work with C++, Java or Python. now this could be a problem for us. what if i want to pull events from a bash script, a delphi gui app, SNMP, Dell idrac interface, or any other event? do they have to interface over Protocol Buffers, or am i missing something here? would i have to write a glue layer?

and what about, if you have two seperate networks, and want one server to forward data for its entire lan to the other server, to process and graph them?

cinch··on Steam goes down
looks up to me?
cinch··on 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived
i'm interested in their server setup: DIY or vendor?
cinch··on Raspberry Pi Colocation
xen: you can install any kernel openvz: only the host kernel gets shared amoung guests and less isolation. also in the past there was no swap support, seems to work now.
cinch··on Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
use case for crappy crypto: performance. even google uses RC4 for gmail.
cinch··on I Google everything
"Now I wish people online would put a huge disclaimer saying "I'm only interested in arguing for the fun of it, not in finding an actual solution" before their posts. That would have saved countless hours of online typing wasted for nothing."

there's many things that get expressed "between the lines". arguing for the fun of it has benefits. for one, ideas get exchanged, validated and who knows: maybe something useful comes out of it.

cinch··on Gnome: Staring into the abyss
Sane defaults is fine. Hidden options limits its capabilities which are sometimes essential.
cinch··on Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS"
I dont get why your QA is better than red hats. They have a much longer experience with their product.
cinch··on Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
68MB with "xz -9 --extreme" :P
cinch··on Tell HN: RAM Requirements are going through the roof
for the open source chromium, there's a command line option to set how quickly it should release memory to the OS:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium_Tips_and_Tweak...

cinch··on Don't submit to the SSL cert racket. You can get one for no charge
i once built a clojure web app and used a startssl free certificate. it worked fine after i imported it into the java keystore. i was using OpenJDK under linux. were you using Oracle's java?
cinch··on Don't submit to the SSL cert racket. You can get one for no charge
when you sign up they install a certificate in your browser. without that, there's no way to login to your startssl account! so make sure to make a backup of it. i lost my account because i didn't realize this...
cinch··on Don't submit to the SSL cert racket. You can get one for no charge
you'd want to revoke it if someone steals your private key.
cinch··on FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement
ZFS supports deduplication with this release.
cinch··on Fear and Loathing in Debian/Ubuntu (or: who needs /etc/motd)
yep. why make it complicated when one could, for example, the admin can simply overwrite the motd from /etc/rc.local, instead of this symlink + motd.tail + regenerate at login/boot?
cinch··on ISPmail Tutorial for Debian Squeeze
nice. been looking for something like this.
cinch··on Neo4j 1.4 M01 "Kiruna Stol" released
looks like they switched their license from AGPL to GPL3! didn't know until now. great news!
cinch··on Collect HN: Aprils Fools
(in German) Netbook review: Compaq Aero 4/33C http://www.golem.de/1104/82381.html
cinch··on Home at Last, or, The Last Programming Language I Will Ever Learn
similar situation here. except i picked Common LISP.

for a couple of reasons: speed of your app; SLIME is great; more documentation (books); a long history :)