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mahcuz··on Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
:-)
mahcuz··on Emacs packages for programmers
The way people typically do this is by VCing their configurations in a "dotfiles" repository. New machine? Pull your dotfiles, and create the symlinks in your homedir.
mahcuz··on Why email is broken and what we can do to fix it
This again...
mahcuz··on JavaScript Prototypes Made Easy
What on earth are you talking about, man?
mahcuz··on False Cognates and Syntax: The Importance of Syntax in Programming Languages
That would only evaluate the original [true] key, though, right?
mahcuz··on Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
Filled mine, too. Firefox 11.
mahcuz··on Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
Are you really against (re)introducing woolly mammoths?! I, for one, think they would be lovely pets!
mahcuz··on Poll: Do you touch-type?
I found GTypist helpful. http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/
mahcuz··on $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private
I don't think it's theft. It definitely is extortion.
mahcuz··on Php 5.4 vs 5.3: is really fast and with less memory leaks
Less grass. Fewer blades of grass. Boom! Grammar.
mahcuz··on Perceptons in Lisp/Racket (simple machine learning)
Valde interesting lectu. Gratuita usum Latine. Optimum.
mahcuz··on Year of the storm
Off-topic: tell me about it! We get it... you're a pythonista. Now quote like a normal person.
mahcuz··on Liberating software - interview with Richard Stallman
The authors of proprietary software control what you do with that software.

Quite clearly Free Software as a source of income works. Sell the support for the software which you have written, software you will be most familiar with. This is the model for countless companies writing Free Software.

People are malicious (I enjoy your cynicism, BTW). The difference between proprietary software and free software is that you're free to find those malicious "features" (mind the quotes) by reading the code that is available to you under Free Software. If you can't find it (the evil - not the code), you can assume that the massive community will (eventually). This is impossible in proprietary software. You don't control the software - it controls you.

mahcuz··on Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” released
Citation needed.
mahcuz··on Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?
Because it's PHP. Duh.

</sarcasm>

mahcuz··on GitLab - an open source clone of GitHub
Can somebody explain what "All for what you so love github" means? My brain is refusing to make sense of that sentence.
mahcuz··on Chocolatey - Windows Package Manager
CoApp is also backed by Microsoft, IIRC.
mahcuz··on What planes are flying over you right now?
Does this work for anybody in the UK? I'm using FF and always get 0 results (even though I can see planes above me).
mahcuz··on Evolutionary Algorithm: Evolving "Hello, World"
Regarding the squaring - would it be enough to take the absolute value of the distance? (abs -5) + (abs 5) = 10.
mahcuz··on Web Vi
I can't live without pentadactyl.
mahcuz··on From Pi to Puzzles: continued fraction of pi new record by a 13 years old
Isn't Knuth 150 years old though?
mahcuz··on Show HN: Final Touch
Is the ® necessary?
mahcuz··on Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down
I was just thinking this. It seems incredibly selfish to put software into its grave simply because the current developer can't afford to continue working.
mahcuz··on DEF CON: The event that scares hackers
Solid, dude.