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th0br0··on An introduction to Kerf
Why do these products always have to be closed source... especially when the market's already fairly saturated, this seems to make little sense...
th0br0··on The Equidistribution of Lattice Shapes of ...: An Artist’s Rendering [pdf]
Yeah, same experience with AcrobatReader on my Android... opening it up on my computer worked though ... weird.
th0br0··on The Equidistribution of Lattice Shapes of ...: An Artist’s Rendering [pdf]
Original title is The Equidistribution of Lattice Shapes of Rings of Integers of Cubic, Quartic, and Quintic Number Fields: an Artist’s Rendering - sadly a tad too long.
th0br0··on Pixel C
I've got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (2014 Edition) and do quite like running a chrooted debian on it in combination with an Apple wireless keyboard. SSHing into the Debian system gives me a fairly powerful development environment. I've never tried running an Xserver on it though.
th0br0··on Vectr – Ephemeral Q&A App
You misspelled "Intelletual Network" in the video... might want to fix that.
th0br0··on A Brutal New Germany
Maybe quote properly? Probably just a (arguably very bad) vocalization of how we Germans have little understanding for the "trigger-happiness" of US police... even one shot fired in Germany is already relatively big news.

  In America, I was often appalled by the brutality of a society where the majority   support the death penalty and police are allowed to shoot people in the back even if they don't present an immediate threat.
th0br0··on Show HN: LeadFinch – Find Anyone's Email Address
Privacy-wise, this smells fishy.
th0br0··on Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what you read
The newest update had me remove the extension straightaway. I don't need a 'get started with hibou now' layer on all my pages if I haven't used it yet on which I can't even press 'not now' because Hibou injects some google analytics which µblock blocks of course causing the JS to break...
th0br0··on SpaceCurve: A Unique and Fast Geospatial Database
Lots of buzzwords everywhere and http://www.geekwire.com/2014/big-data-startup-spacecurve-cut... makes me sceptical. Though they do have a VMware image of their DB.
th0br0··on Send Messages by Carrier Pigeons
I love how they're touting their in-office kergerator to potential hires.

The "heigene" typo on their "Junior Caretaker" job offer is weird though.

th0br0··on Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
Uhm, ... packages don't always have the same names on all distributions!

i.e. "libunwind8" translates to libunwind, unzip to unzip and libssl-dev to openssl-devel. libunwind's from EPEL though...

th0br0··on Airbnb Shares the Keys to Its Infrastructure
I'm honestly surprised that the author includes Lyft & Uber in the "sharing economy" sector. After all, the sharing part of their businesses is only a minor aspect - they are rather a part of the "service economy", with the car owner not actually sharing their car in the AirBnB / "rental" sense...
th0br0··on Developervms virtual machines are now available for free download
no information about the provider ("developerVMs") but they expect me to trust their prepackaged VMs? umm.... given how short a fresh OS install is nowadays, that isn't very convincing.
th0br0··on Show HN: Sway – i3 for wayland
shouldn't that be

  if(parent == NULL || parent->children == NULL) {
in get_swayc_for_handle ?
th0br0··on Wellcome Image Awards 2015
A fixed 943px width page in 2015? That hurts.
th0br0··on Tianjin Explosion Seen by Himawari and Other Weather Satellites
this synced-up version is impressive as well. unfortunately, it seems to be confirmed that the upper right video was a live stream and the streamer did not survive the blast :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v5RQ2cDfiU

th0br0··on Facebook: Please fix this security loophole before its too late
That's a regular feature / intended behaviour of the FB search. It's quite useful to be able to search for people by their email address or phone number IMHO.
th0br0··on Ask HN: Best Linux sandbox?
Uhm... why not plain old SELINUX?
th0br0··on Live-capture forensics of a CIN injecting fake Chrome install
Might I ask why the title on this was changed from "Live-Capture Forensics of Corrupt-Injector Network Injecting Fake Chrome" to "Live-Capture Forensics of Corrupt-Injector Network Installing Fake Chrome"? There's quite the difference between the two verbs in this context. The CIN doesn't perform any install on the user's machine. The original "... injecting fake chrome install" title from the thread makes most sense.
th0br0··on The easiest way to run cron jobs on AWS
Uhm... there's something called Amazon Data Pipeline. They offer scheduled events and you can output Alarms to SNS...
th0br0··on Vanar.io – Realtime multiplayer browser game: Agar.io meets Asteroids
P2P fights are too much a case of "the bigger one wins" IMHO. The ships aren't maneuverable enough given the high rate of fire.
th0br0··on BitLocker recovery key is now *automatically* backed up to OneDrive
see also https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-persona...
th0br0··on John Conway – The world’s most charismatic mathematician
The best part of his teachings was probably sitting around in the commons area during the evenings and solving problems with him. Sure, his lectures were amazing, but the evenings were even better.
th0br0··on John Conway – The world’s most charismatic mathematician
I had the chance to meet him in person during a summer school a few years ago. He's simply awesome. Super fun guy, great to talk to and a great teacher (even though sometimes quite a bit disorganised... I remember him leaving behind some of his stuff when he had to catch the taxi that took him to the airport at 6am or so ;) ).
th0br0··on Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code
The reason for this is probably http://observer.com/2015/07/at-1k-55-gallon-bottle-of-lube-i...
th0br0··on Behind Germany’s refusal to grant Greece debt relief
I would call that a profound lack of knowledge (or concious ignorance thereof?) in combination with the fact that it's always better to claim the impossible (because you can polarise the masses more easily and scale down your claim later on once the main challenge - getting things things passed - is done with).
th0br0··on Web proxy to surf the web anonymously. No tracking, zero logging

  kousibei.net store and manage cookies for you. 
that goes against the claim of "no tracking, zero logging".
th0br0··on Behind Germany’s refusal to grant Greece debt relief
I wouldn't really call his past decisions insane, although I agree with you that he's our (German) version of a political hardliner.

Personally, I would describe his reasoning and actions as in line with the aim of always putting the German state (not necessarily its people) first. Maybe his idol is Bismarck, maybe there's some other reason for his actions. Who knows; I surely don't. It is possible, of course, that his views and behaviour have become quite disconnected from the "real" world. After all, he's been a MP for 43 years now - making him the most senior MP in the history of the FRG. But then, he's seen quite a few global disasters happening from a political perspective.

In the end, right now, he's doing a fairly good job of maintaining a stable German economic position in the EU/the world and is able to even strengthen Germany's global political position as well. This rather aggressive damage control certainly doesn't support the ideals that the EU is built upon, but then who knows whether he subscribed to it in the first place? I honestly believe that, should the EU fail in the coming decade, he'll be remembered quite positively.

th0br0··on You are a kitten in a catnip forest
In that case, this is probably quicker:

  for(var i in gamePage.resPool.resources) { gamePage.resPool.resources[i].value = 100000000; }
th0br0··on You are a kitten in a catnip forest
Simple means of accessing the currently available resources:

  gamePage.resPool
e.g.

  gamePage.resPool.maxAll()
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