hectorhector

Joined 18 years ago

Karma
26
Submissions
15
Member since
Jul 23
Embedded C programmer
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Comment · 4 years ago
Has Aerc added support for email threads yet? I tried it when it first came out and that was my biggest disappointment.
Comment · 5 years ago
You can put a signal handler in your program to catch the SIGSTOP and run some code before it gets killed.
Comment · 7 years ago
And honestly, the user's suggestion wasn't bad.
Comment · 7 years ago
Ah, thanks!
Comment · 7 years ago
What's the purpose of this code in the original decompressor? Assuming c is an uchar, aren't EOF and 0xFF equal?

  if (c == 0xFF) {
    len = getchar();
    c = getchar();
    while (len--)
    emit(c);
  }
Comment · 8 years ago
Anyone remember the old Buzzfeed links that were on the kottke front page? They were there before "Buzzfeed" was "Buzzfeed". I always thought that was strange since back then the day they mostly just re-posted Reddit content.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
A lot of these are laughable, but I think Tron: Legacy did a really good job of mixing something realistic as well as futuristic.
Comment · 15 years ago
bitcoin is just p2p paypal
Comment · 18 years ago
for crying out loud CUIL doesn't show up on cuil. it sucks. we get it.
Comment · 18 years ago
digg died several months ago when their comments slowly started looking a lot like youtube's
Comment · 18 years ago
i agree, as many problems as it may have today, one only has to look at some 3rd world countries to see how radically good governance can change things and how important it is. i'm not saying that just because we have it better than somwhere in africa or the middle east, we shouldn't complain or try to improve, but government, especially at the local levels, does a decent job.
Comment · 18 years ago
Why are ads on social sites so hard? They know my age, location, favorite bands and movies! It just seems like it should be really easy.
Comment · 18 years ago
yea, but those properties weren't that big to begin with. digg has already "gone somewhere"
Comment · 18 years ago
rtfa - 3 years

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