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idonthackon The Rust Programming Language

I tried to fullscreen it, but i couldn't because they intercept keystrokes.

So i fullscreened and then clicked on the link, but then i couldn't get out of full screen or close the tab because they intercept keystrokes.

idonthackon Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting

Well I'M told they WON'T.

idonthackon New Boston Globe website design

the designer is Ethan Marcotte, he's written a book about fluid (or as he calls it, "responsive") web design.

http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design

one member of the backend dev team was posting in /r/web_design over on reddit. if you're really interested, it couldn't hurt to post a reply and ask him about things.

http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/kd2e9/boston_glo...

idonthackon A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more user friendly

I don't have root on every box I log in to.

idonthackon Indie Game Devs Post Own Game on The Pirate Bay

direct link to torrent file: http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/6617784/No_Time_To_Explain_...

idonthackon [dead]

RAM can be placed in the stack, eliminating slow trips accross the frontside bus. The only remaining bottleneck should be hdd access.

idonthackon Reddit becomes reddit Inc.

/r/ideasfortheadmins is the place you should post.

idonthackon One base class to rule them all.

How clever. I've been inspired, I'm going to write a module named "mkfs" and it will do absolutely nothing related to making a filesystem

idonthackon Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind of Nails It

Maybe cities are the problem, and Detroit is the solution.

idonthackon The Curious Case of Mercedes Renee Haefer

for Mercedes specifically, there is http://freemercedes.org/

i can't attest to its legitimacy, i just did a google search.

idonthackon Want to run iOS apps on your Android? Back this

Thanks.

idonthackon The Patent Pledge

That's cute.

idonthackon Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

sssshhhhh.

idonthackon Rolling.fm: Yeah, We Copied Turntable.fm, But We’re Taking It to the Next Level

Looks pretty spiffy. Is there any list of public rooms somewhere? One of the things I liked about turntable was that I could pick through a wide selection and gate crash the ones that sounded interesting.

idonthackon Command line tools for web developers

If you run it against a public site, that may be what happens. However it's intended for stressing your own sites in a test environment, in which case you have full control over the config. Setting up your test environment to block your stress tester as a DoS offender would just be silly.

idonthackon Rolling.fm: Yeah, We Copied Turntable.fm, But We’re Taking It to the Next Level

I was hoping for something that dropped the whole stupid "dancing avatar" concept. I don't want to watch cookie-cutter people bob their heads, I want a human-generated playlist that takes up as few cycles as possible.

idonthackon We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future

you can't magic a billion people into the middle class lifestyle, but you can use a gun to keep them away from it.

i have no doubt those field workers in China would prefer the wages available to field workers in America, and if they could move to take advantage of that, they would.

idonthackon The future Firefox UI

muscle memory is less relevant when mousing. the range of starting positions is large.

idonthackon The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress

ipad play is probably wonky as df is heavily keyboard-based, but let me know how that goes.

idonthackon The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress

there's an ncurses mode in the linux version. i use it to play over ssh, as my laptop is weak. the opengl is mainly for tileset support.

idonthackon Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry

"about to"?

idonthackon A man patented Uber[Taxi] 29 years ago

Not surprising. It isn't a difficult concept.

idonthackon Once Greece goes...

more succinct, yes, but it imparts the reader with much less background information, which makes it much less useful to anyone who is not already informed about the situation.

idonthackon Once Greece goes...

he is obviously referring to the breakup of Yugoslavia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia

idonthackon Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)

i agree.

any reasonably complete unicode font should already include many of those glyphs. for the glyphs that aren't in the unicode standard, there are private use areas that could accommodate them.

idonthackon AnonymousIRC leaks hundreds of docs from Arizona law enforcement (3rd time)

most anarchists think that "anarcho-capitalism" is an oxymoron at best, and cryptofeudalism at worst. even those that disagree must acknowledge it is a point of much debate.

personally, i believe that capitalism is inherently statist. a state is simply an entity with a large amount of land capital.

idonthackon AnonymousIRC leaks hundreds of docs from Arizona law enforcement (3rd time)

"anarchist" does not indicate the simple lack of a stable government, it indicates a subscription to one of the many political/social theories/philosophies in the category known as "anarchism".

somalia is very obviously not an anarchist society, for that would require the majority of the population to be philosophically anarchist and organized in an anarchist manner. it is a collection of statist factions, each attempting to impose a state.