LaGrange

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by LaGrange 14y ago
Leave both alone. Sorting by last access time is really useful. Saving the memory dump means there's space for recovery when batteries run out while asleep – it just takes a bit longer.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
The problem isn't storing -- remember that we don't know how they store it, we only know how the password is generated. IMEI is intended to be unique and private -- e.g. knowing your IMEI might be enough to report the phone as stolen. If so
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by LaGrange 14y ago
This is a well-known design decision on their side. This is not as much a discovery as bringing it up.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Only it has absolutely nothing to do with race. Culture, sure, to some extent, but it's not like the western cultures treat women well -- and if a TV show just focuses on FGM it does start sound like a conspicuously neat excuse to bash cert
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by LaGrange 14y ago
"Feminists have remained virtually silent on this matter for the past decade or two." No they didn't. It's a common subject in blogs, forums and such less-visible mediums. But if you think it's easy to get into the media with that, you're w
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by LaGrange 14y ago
The general idea is that before becoming a professional you're a student, and get a very significant student discount. Of course, this essentially puts one more barrier for people who can't afford formal studies. And especially with the DRM
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Actually, the proper traditional way to insult Open Source is "Open Sores". Use that and the feeling I got during flame wars between high schoolers on IRC channels in the late nineties will be complete.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Actually, the amusing thing is you're still reinforcing the cathedral metaphor. If the primary target of the cathedral was an event hall capable of housing a bunch of people it could have been built in a way more reasonable way. The point o
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Not a cathedral because it was not on a software but a near-monopoly market? I love taking metaphors too far, so I'll just notice that "near-monopoly" is what cathedrals are all about.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
You need only one process, and, furthermore it being push means it's possible to handle it with way more resources (you don't really have to maintain anything on the client, excluding the relatively rare situations when something important
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Because there's a single thing that makes presence useful, which is the device going off or to sleep, y'know, like a desktop computer in the nineties. There aren't many people who maintain their availability by hand, as that's just a pain.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
iMessage is based around APNS, which, while proprietary, doesn't require a background process on the client. This is way better than XMPP, and also doesn't try to do things that are pointless on mobile, like maintaining "presence". This doe
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by LaGrange 14y ago
I'll just pick this one: it's almost as if this article was partly whimsical, and the idea was to inspire, not prove anything. And the aesthetics of both the formula and the argument are actually the point here. It's a kind of entertainment
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by LaGrange 14y ago
The computer itself is different because it's just the space where the application lives. Complaining about the duality is like complaining that Dieter Rams' radio doesn't burst into fire whenever someone tries to play The Beatles on it. Th
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Oh, how I know this. The worst part is, this tends to stay with you in other jobs. In takes time to consider the possibility that maybe bringing a new idea to the table isn't a risky affair. Now, others already advised you to quit the job
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by LaGrange 14y ago
It's actually about perception — the Commission is selected by the governments in a diplomatic process. Of course the reality is way more complicated, but in this particular case the perception matters a lot. This is quite unfortunate, and
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by LaGrange 14y ago
The problem here is, that while it would increase the democracy of EU, it would also decrease perceived sovereignty of individual countries. A lot of progress in EU seems to be hampered by OMG NATIONAL IDENTITY, actually, and democratizatio
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Click the full-screen view. While this is of course a purely aesthetic impression, the clean-slate feeling is wonderful.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Take a piece of toilet paper, hang it down the risky area. Of course, this wastes some paper. You have to weight the cost of rainforest deforestation against the cost of treating you whatever walked onto you over the, um, bridge.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22137761 always leave the lid down. The poo spray is real.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
By moving both the seat and the lid into up and down position, checking manually for blockages, flushing water twice, and demanding to be shown latest annual inspection certificate. And after following such a procedure pretending that the t
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Actually we do very much enjoy Swiss staying a strong economy, thank you very much.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
3 pairs is optimal, because in emergency you still stay with 2. It's a backup.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Actually, the general tone seems to be exceptionally meek: he does say he was surprised, but I got the impression that he thinks he shouldn't be surprised. It reads much more like a "look what an idiot I was, and please don't repeat my mi
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by LaGrange 14y ago
"It seems a lot of people want to buy a car for a "monthly payment they can afford" and car dealers have long sold people terrible terms and terribly overpriced cars by structuring the "monthly payment" lower so the person thinks the car is
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by LaGrange 15y ago
So? Fear, uncertainty and doubt can also be seen as being careful. Yes, they are spoiling everyone's fun by pointing out how everything would fail, but would you really prefer if nobody questioned the wonderful silver-bullet business mode
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by LaGrange 15y ago
Actually, it does get mentioned a lot, both in discussion of difference of portrayal, how it hurts men who don't actually want to strive towards displayed image (or, for example, have little chance of developing such a body type), and how i
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by LaGrange 15y ago
Those poor objectified men. It must be horrible to be portrayed as powerful, capable, and striving for dominance. Edit: which is not to mean that the entire gender stereotyping thing doesn't hurt men — of course it does — but there's a worl
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by LaGrange 15y ago
That's what I mean: he apparently had issues with containing own instincts. And by saying "I am afraid I won't be able to contain myself" you actually state more-or-less the same — that you're aggressive and prone to act aggressively agains
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by LaGrange 15y ago
Only thing is, this would not be coming to partners defense, but pointless chest-thumping. Now, I think I know what he meant by writing that, and I doubt he'd actually do anything other than being nice to her and supporting her in whatever

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