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rdebeasion RHEL is deprecating KDE

To clarify, this is related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux the distro, not Red Hat the company. Fedora 29 (released a few days ago) has a KDE spin, and the project has made no mention of discontinuing that. https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/download/index.html

Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat (but not on RHEL or Fedora).

rdebeasion C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

The name is interesting. I wonder if it's a reference to carbon 14, the radioactive isotope of carbon used for carbon dating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating

Or, maybe the service is 4.66 times as good as Amazon S3?

Or, the 14th letter of the alphabet is N. If we swap that for 14 we get "CN", which is the top-level domain for China, which is most certainly not in France.

The conspiracy theory possibilities are endless! ;)

rdebeasion The I-JSON Message Format

I'd love to see someone fork https://github.com/arc90/jsonlintdotcom and add an option for I-JSON validation.

[edit] Actually, it looks like the guts of this tool live here: https://github.com/zaach/jsonlint

rdebeasion Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

This is a really cool start! In the future, I'd love to be able to set preferences and save them to local storage. (For example, it would be nice to be able to set date formatting or location.) I know I could grab a copy of the code and then change those things myself, but then upgrades would be a pain. Overall, though, good stuff!

rdebeasion Firefox Developer Edition

Exciting stuff! If you're already on Aurora, when you auto-update to developer edition, you'll switch over to the new dev profile and your bookmarks and settings will be gone. You can get at those by opening the profile manager and switching back to the default profile, or by using a stable version of Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

rdebeasion Show HN: Sublime Text Book

Sublime Text isn't free; it's sold on the honor system:

"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use."

The developer could try to enforce this rule by building in DRM or by threatening legal action, but those things would make for a pretty crappy user experience. Instead, the author chose to do the right thing by users and provide an evaluation version with no restrictions.

Legally and technically, you can certainly use Sublime Text without paying for it. To me, though, using Sublime Text for your everyday work without paying for it is the ethical equivalent of using a cracked version of Photoshop.

rdebeasion Judge Sentenced to 28 Years for Selling Kids to the Prison System (2013)

The New York Times has more detailed coverage of this case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/28judges.html?_r=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/books/review/kids-for-cash...

rdebeasion Google has been rolling out Chrome beta to some stable channel users

Apparently this began in early December: http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/zmgiVCv9X0A/HXm...

rdebeasion My Favorite jQuery Plugin Template

Cool stuff! This reminds me a lot of jQuery Boilerplate: https://github.com/jquery-boilerplate/jquery-boilerplate/blo...

Personally, I find the "that" variable to be a little confusing. A developer looking at the code might wonder whether "that" is the plugin, a DOM element, or something else. To make the code a little clearer, you could use something like "elem" to represent the element on which the plugin has been called, and "plugin" to represent the plugin itself.

Happy coding!