Kadin

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811.
by Kadin 17y ago
That would be pretty awesome actually. All of the noted features, but particularly syntax highlighting and some sort of versioning. Key use case would be "multiplayer programming," rather than just one person driving while the other perso
812.
by Kadin 17y ago
Well, that actually seems more reasonable than the ACM situation. I expect Lieberman, as an individual, to have interests that are not the same as his constituents'. (He may be derelict in his duty as a Senator if he puts his own intere
813.
by Kadin 17y ago
If by "green screen" you mean 3270 terminal, then ... yes, but it would be pretty hard. The networking hardware for a 3270 is pretty expensive. (I was going to say "getting pretty expensive," but in reality SNA has always been expensive
814.
by Kadin 17y ago
Depends on the job. I've seen some very unfortunate PC deployments (most in the 90s) that axed perfectly good 3270-based systems in favor of clunky, crash-prone, button-and-wizard GUIs that were so bad, employees had to go back to paper-ba
815.
by Kadin 17y ago
Exactly. A lot of people don't remember domain names anymore, they remember the words they need to type into Google in order to bring that site up as the top link. E.g., if they want to get to Dell's website, rather than typing "dell.com
816.
by Kadin 17y ago
I'm not sure how much of a concern that is for most users, who use Google to get to all the content on the Internet anyway. Having DNS records wouldn't buy Google much that they don't already have from search queries and results. It's gett
817.
by Kadin 17y ago
That's a stupid design decision on the part of Twitter, which the rest of the Internet is paying for. At the very least, Twitter could only shorten URLs when messages go out via the SMS gateway, and not universally. All they'd need to do i
818.
by Kadin 17y ago
From the sound of it, the rate at which you turn the handle isn't directly connected to the dispensing rate. I suspect the crank just turns a small generator that powers the rest of the mechanism, which dispenses pennies at fixed intervals.
819.
by Kadin 17y ago
I have in the past (when disk was a lot more expensive than it is now) deleted email that I was sure I'd never care about -- archives from projects that had concluded, for instance, and mostly consisted of "hey, can you come into my office
820.
by Kadin 17y ago
I suspect, although I don't know of anyone doing this myself, that there are people doing this all the time, just as a hobby or for the hell of it. The equipment required is minimal and so are the storage requirements, so you could easily
821.
by Kadin 17y ago
Yeah, it did come across pretty whiny, but I think it's representative of what a lot of Myspace users think/thought about the service. For some reason -- which I still don't really understand -- a lot of people got lured into believing that
822.
by Kadin 17y ago
Keep in mind, though, that when you buy a future, the price of that future already has expectations factored into it. It's very easy for individual traders to get slaughtered in the futures markets; you're essentially betting against other
823.
by Kadin 17y ago
We overproduce food, and produce far more of particularly inefficient kinds of food (e.g. corn) than we need. Although the ultimate long-term solution is to bring the world population down to a more sustainable level, at least if we want ev
824.
by Kadin 17y ago
They were brute-forcing a PGP-encrypted ZIP archive, which would have been symmetric encryption. These kinds of archives were produced by the PGP Desktop application (at least in earlier versions; I don't know if it still does) and were fun
825.
by Kadin 17y ago
In what way is offering to check someone's tire pressure and then inflate it for a nominal fee, or a donation, "dishonest"? The first scenario is one a lot of Jiffy Lube-type garages and auto parts stores like Pep Boys do all the time (alth
826.
by Kadin 17y ago
Well, that's fair. And FWIW, I agree with you. But my frustration isn't with companies or corporations, it's with the cavalcade of idiots theoretically responsible for regulating them and generally structuring the market to produce desira
827.
by Kadin 17y ago
I have always preferred Kubuntu to Ubuntu for desktop installs, and that's one big reason. (Also, I've always preferred Konqueror as a file browser to whatever Ubuntu uses by default with Gnome.) However, it's been a while since I've used
828.
by Kadin 17y ago
> compensated incredibly well for very incredibly poor performance Sort of. They tend to be compensated well, right up until they're fired. The analogy someone else made to sports coaches is an apt one; if a team loses a few games, th
829.
by Kadin 17y ago
I think that's a good argument for why municipalities ought to, at the very most, maintain the bottom-layer infrastructure itself and not try to actually operate services over it. Somebody in Shrewsbury probably thinks the services and pric
830.
by Kadin 17y ago
And you find this surprising...why, exactly? Being surprised when a company maximizes profits is like being surprised that water runs downhill. If we want them to invest in infrastructure rather than pay out dividends, we should figure out
831.
by Kadin 17y ago
While competition is generally a Good Thing, there are times when it doesn't make sense to waste a lot of effort through duplication. How does anyone benefit by having two or three equally-slow internet connections into their house (say ove
832.
by Kadin 17y ago
There are multiple competing cell networks because it's relatively inexpensive to set up a cell site, compared to running wires to everyone's house in the same area. If this wasn't the case, you'd have a dozen pairs of copper phone wires an
833.
by Kadin 17y ago
Then you make the last-mile infrastructure a public utility, but allow companies to compete by offering services over it. This sort of arrangement has worked well in other countries (generally with copper phone lines and DSL), and it reall
834.
by Kadin 17y ago
> It frees them up to explore being people. This was not my experience. Granted, it was a while ago, and I'm not sure I'd call myself "gifted," but being ahead of the rest of the class certainly didn't get you any time to do interesti
835.
by Kadin 17y ago
If the RFP is being issued by a government agency, assume that the answer is always 'yes.' Personally, the only reason I'd ever recommend responding to [a public-sector] RFP is if it's a hoop you need to jump through in order to formalize a
836.
by Kadin 17y ago
> I spend at least 8 hours in front of a computer every single day - why in the world wouldn't I spend $100 on a keyboard/mouse combo? Well put. I actually think that this logic justifies spending much more -- or at least buying produc
837.
by Kadin 17y ago
Their terms -- keeping your data around forever, just inaccessible to you, as long as you log in once every 90 days -- is actually pretty nice for a backup perspective. You could conceivably get a Pro account, upload tons of stuff, then let
838.
by Kadin 17y ago
It would be worthwhile for anyone seriously concerned or interested in transparency to write or call their Senator--particularly if you have one on the Appropriations Committee--and let them know your feelings. Coburn may be a Republican, b
839.
by Kadin 17y ago
The article focuses on Coburn's response to the transparency measure being dropped, but I don't think that's totally inconsistent with the headline. The HN headline is sort of the upshot, probably more interesting and relevant to those who
840.
by Kadin 17y ago
Seems a bit disingenuous to compare it to an air conditioner, since it doesn't really cool the air, it just moves it. Comparing it to a box fan might be more fair. My suspicion is that a $9 window fan from WalMart uses 98% less power than

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