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"Karma is what keeps reddit looking like a bunch of half ass comedians thrown into an endless open..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:59:19 -0400

“Karma is what keeps reddit looking like a bunch of half ass comedians thrown into an endless open mic night.”

- redlegacyatm50, commenting on “Reddit is changing. It’s being taken over by middle school and high school kids.”

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Mon, 14 May 2012 23:26:22 -0400

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Fri, 11 May 2012 16:01:30 -0400

Part I: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux and Samba Users

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:56:00 -0400

Part I: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux and Samba Users:

Pretty old guide, last update was July 2007). Hopefully it’s still got shelf life.

Taking another crack at getting Gitlab to work now that I have the free time. I’ve hit a wall when it comes to authenticating users, and I’m not sure where the problem’s occurring or what’s causing it. Time to put on my debugger hat.

surrogateself: CubeCloneXperiment.v1 (( by Surrogate Self ))

Wed, 02 May 2012 08:55:45 -0400

surrogateself:

CubeCloneXperiment.v1 (( by Surrogate Self ))

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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:53:46 -0400

So, I'm now the Northeastern University ACM Events Chair and PR Chair

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:13:31 -0400

Didn’t think I’d end up with two positions

okaypanic: paid my deposit officially going to northeasternmknflkdjaslkfjfklj !!!! Hey, congrats!...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:03:11 -0400

okaypanic:

paid my deposit

officially going to northeasternmknflkdjaslkfjfklj

!!!!

Hey, congrats! Any idea on what major you’re going for?

Editorial: Aoun’s concerns questioned by lack of real student interaction

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:01:06 -0400

Editorial: Aoun’s concerns questioned by lack of real student interaction:

sliu:

We understand that his [President Aoun’s] schedule is hectic, and his job is to promote the university and raise money. But there is something to be said when these meetings used to be semesterly, and there hasn’t been one since 2010. We also understand that we aren’t LL Cool J, haven’t served on national panels and most of us don’t have millionaire parents – but that doesn’t mean we, Northeastern’s largest student media organization, shouldn’t have access to the president.

I’ve given the Huntington News a lot of shit over the years for their poor grammar and generally uninteresting articles, but THIS. IS. GOLDEN.

Talked to him for about 5 seconds at Demo Day. He asked me if I was with IDEA (I said no, I’m a student), then he asked me what my major is, took a photo with the IDEA people, and then walked off. Didn’t really know what to think of it.

wilwheaton: comedycentral: Watch the clip. The Roberts Court...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:50:00 -0400

wilwheaton:

comedycentral:

Watch the clip.

The Roberts Court is on its way to fundamentally rewriting what it means to be American, and that’s pretty terrifying, since they’re unelected and wholly unaccountable to the people of this country for the duration of their lifetime appointment.

< ali> wylie: back to the CSS mines with you

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:25:26 -0400

< ali> wylie: back to the CSS mines with you
< ali> wylie conslist
< wylie> They've got a cave troll.
< ali> I didn't know you could mine CSS in Moria
< wylie> I may have accidentally awoken something in the deep

"My conscience won’t let me call Ruby a computer language. That would imply that the language works..."

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:28:10 -0400

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My conscience won’t let me call Ruby a computer language. That would imply that the language works primarily on the computer’s terms. That the language is designed to accomodate the computer, first and foremost. That therefore, we, the coders, are foreigners, seeking citizenship in the computer’s locale. It’s the computer’s language and we are translators for the world.

But what do you call the language when your brain begins to think in that language? When you start to use the language’s own words and colloquialisms to express yourself. How can it be the computer’s language? It is ours, we speak it natively!

We can no longer call it a computer language. It is the language of our thoughts.

”

- _why’s poignant guide to Ruby (via thoughtbot)

try using $* instead of $@ in that growl script, it will save you the printf

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:40:26 -0400

Thanks, fix’d!

PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device. Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open communications and file sharing network.

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:28:08 -0400

PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device. Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open communications and file sharing network.:

This is awesome. It’s a router hooked up to a server with some storage — a cheap, wifi-enabled, public drop box. And you can build one yourself!

PirateBox is designed to be private and secure. No logins are required and no user data is logged. Users remain completely anonymous - the system is purposely not connected to the Internet in order to subvert tracking and preserve user privacy.

What are you currently sharing on your PirateBox?
I’ve seeded my box with a variety of songs, books, and videos. At the moment, my PirateBox includes a collection of stories by Cory Doctorow, Abbie Hoffman’s Steal this Book, DJ Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals, a collection of songs by Jonathan Coulton and some animations by Nina Paley.

(via PirateBox - David Darts Wiki)

Music Everywhere: Tabber wins AngelHack

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:39:24 -0500

Music Everywhere: Tabber wins AngelHack:

I got to meet these dudes at AngelHack in Boston and I love what they’re doing — not only because I like gadgets and guitars and they do both, but because I think Tabber is a huge deal for music education.

music-everywhere:

Sorry we didn’t update sooner. Sunday at 11pm we found out we had won the East Coast part of the competition. Then we spent the next day preparing to pitch before some of the biggest angel investors in the world in the nationwide finals. We presented although there were technical difficulties. At…

Amit from Mashery was really cool to me and my team at...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:48:12 -0500

Amit from Mashery was really cool to me and my team at AngelHack. He also gave us these USB sticks (slash-bottle-openers) and merit badges.

Induction - Polyglot database client for Mac OSX supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, and MongoDB out-of-the-box

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:27:53 -0500

Induction - Polyglot database client for Mac OSX supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, and MongoDB out-of-the-box:

thechangelog:

Induction is an ambitious new project from Matt Thompson to explore, query, and visualize data from SQL and NoSQL sources including PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, and MongoDB. While in early alpha, the project shows promise.

Check out the project web site or grab the source on GitHub to contribute.

wired: [via warbyparker]: Whoa. The MLA has officially devised...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:24:15 -0500

wired:

[via warbyparker]:

Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times.

Tweet it.

A kickass Growl Notify function for your terminal

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:17:36 -0500

Pops a Growl notification when you do something in your terminal.

Are you a developer? Fill out our survey for AngelHack!

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:47:21 -0500

Are you a developer? Fill out our survey for AngelHack! :

Doing a hackathon right now and we could really do with some more responses on this.