CaptSpify

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by CaptSpify 11y ago
Just because it's the user's fault, doesn't mean the user won't waste apple's time trying to fight for a new phone.
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
Honestly, people shouldn't click the unsubscribe links anyway. Spammers use that as a way to make sure people are actually reading their emails.
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
Sure, he's redefining the term "slave", but it's a loaded term he's using for illustrative purposes.
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
I don't think it's just technical queries. I have to look up a bunch of tech and nsfw stuff, and when google tries to think for me, it ends up going to shit. I usually end up just "searching" "like" "thi
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
IME, that is uncommon. Most have had minimum. YMMV of course
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
I remember hearing people were super-excited about it, and I kept thinking "It's a theme-customizer for your web-browser. Neat, but why is everyone going crazy for it? What's the big deal?" Sadly, I never looked into it
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
To be fair, I think schools encourage this sort of behavior. I've had countless "$x number of words/pages, minimum" writing assignments. Eventually, you start to be convinced that every teacher wants it that way.
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
On top of that: If it's pretty much a guarantee I'll die anyway, I'd rather them take the chance. Heavily dependent on the situation though
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
This is just one part of the equation though. Yes, bad home-environments are worse than bad schools, but we can try to eliminate both
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
This is why I've been working with rpi/arduino stuff: I can build it myself. Sure, it's more work, but the pre-built options all suck, as far as I've seen. I used to always follow the newest automation releases, but I ga
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
Closed source, unfortunately |:(
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
I would like to interject: This heavily depends on the boss. I've seen great bosses who will make stuff like this happen, and I've seen terrible bosses who don't give a shit. Make sure you work for the right-kind of boss if y
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
> Is it worse than any other free email provider? Not really, but they are definitely on the bottom of the trusted list. That being said, the WTFs in this story would be the same if it was yahoo, gmail, etc. The problem is that the email
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
This is why I hate "all-in-one" systems. Systems that try to do it all, end up being hard to work with, and just introduce multiple points of failure. IMO, it's better to decouple systems and have each of them do one job, and
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
Personally: ConnectBot has weird formatting issues, problems with keyboard input, and doesn't play nice with tmux. Ultimately it's what I use because it's the most tolerable, but I've yet to find a good Android ssh cli
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
AFAIK, JuiceSSH is still closed-source, which means I and a lot of others won't be using it. AFAIK, there's no good ssh clients for android, only tolerable ones. I'd love to be proven wrong about that though.
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
Especially for high-school kids who are getting started in tech
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
Honestly, as an android-user, I just run my browser with JS disabled by default. My phone is much faster, and I don't really want 90% of the "features" the JS is trying to give me. Too many sites do it poorly, and it just rui
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
You'd be surprised how low people are willing to go in a tough economy. I think the bigger issue is also that techs aren't given a fair-income, especially at places like Amazon, because of the H-1B scam. If you are young and tryin
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
Additionally, giving a company bad press is usually good business for the press. Especially in a place like Seattle, where Amazon is not thought of highly in the first place.
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by CaptSpify 11y ago
I used to work at a place that gave everyone 2 machines for development: Their regular desktop, and a 5 year old machine, with a throttled internet connection. The programs had to be run on both. I wish more companies would do this. Especia
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by CaptSpify 19y ago
The Ancient Greeks had something similar: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/gr... See "The Trial" section I wish we had something like this in place today.
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by CaptSpify 19y ago
But they also have old stuff stored away in a warehouse somewhere. P2P's don't. At least not currently.
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by CaptSpify 19y ago
Why do you think I still use Google as my primary source? Some people say iGoogle is overcrowded, but that falls under user-error, what with tabs and all. I like Google cause they don't shove themselves or their friends down my throat. In f
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by CaptSpify 19y ago
using p2p depends on what other people are sharing. I want to download some older, lesser-known artists: Damien Jurardo, Stavesacre, and the list is pretty slim. If you want something popular and recent like Linkin Park, no problem. But if
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by CaptSpify 19y ago
They've been saying that for years though. In a sense, we are cyborg-human mixes: Heart-monitors, hearing-aides, etc. I think the integration will come, but I think we're still far off. I'm just waiting for my flying car damnit!