Splines

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by Splines 15y ago
True enough, if you're targeted it's not going to help very much. However, like outrunning a bear, you only need to be harder to catch than the guy behind you.
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by Splines 15y ago
More like the bully has someone smaller in a headlock and you light both of them on fire.
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The Smartphone Wars: Tightening the OODA Loop(esr.ibiblio.org)
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934.
by Splines 15y ago
So... I need to make Skype calls with the water faucet and/or some music playing now?
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by Splines 15y ago
I once had an HTC HD2, and while WM6.5 wasn't very good, the xda-developers community loves this device. I was able to try out all sorts of Android builds on this device, as well as getting WP7 sort-of working on it. Truly amazing. My o
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by Splines 15y ago
Yay. Exchange policies + toddlers = fun times This is why I don't sync my phone to my work email. It's just not worth it.
937.
by Splines 15y ago
Is Apple's growth in the tablet space eventually going to put a bullet in the traditional PC? Call me naive, but I have a really hard time seeing the traditional PC going away. Tablets just aren't cheap or versatile enough to replace PCs
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by Splines 15y ago
I've heard this, and I've said it, and I wonder if there's an answer. Are we allowed to complain about the trivial? I get a chuckle reading reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems, but some of those things do annoy me. I don't go around complai
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by Splines 15y ago
I'm very surprised they were able to develop a PSP Phone. I'm very surprised that they did it at all. In my opinion it creates a confusing story for PSP owners looking to upgrade. NGP or PSP Phone? Sometimes I wonder if the two teams we
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by Splines 15y ago
> if/when Microsoft starts doing it too They already do it with Automatic Updates. Turn the update dial to 11 and let your machine apply them at night. I don't believe they provide binary diffs for updates, but I believe it's for logi
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by Splines 15y ago
I wonder if the Kindle will ever add something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
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by Splines 15y ago
The problem is we've given up long-term benefits in exchange for short-term ones, and it's not clear where that's going to lead us. Steam makes my life super convenient, but what happens if I move to a country with super-aggressive bandwidt
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by Splines 15y ago
Even bits on physical media are slowly being made un-lendable. EA's "Project Ten Dollar" is an attack at the used games market, and a side affect of this is that you can't lend the whole game to a friend. All Steam games require you to have
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by Splines 15y ago
Maybe, but if I were twitter and wanted to discourage 3rd-party clients, changing authentication methods to one that is harder to use is a really roundabout way of accomplishing that goal.
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by Splines 15y ago
FYI, this game crashed on me at launch (W2K8 R2). Setting the exe to run under WinXP compat mode made it work. It's also devilishly hard. Dual 1-back is easy, but Dual 2-back is surprisingly difficult. I think it'd be fun to get good at
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by Splines 15y ago
Personally, I don't buy the argument that this change is because Twitter wants users to use the official twitter clients. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor
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by Splines 15y ago
There are certainly company men in the, ahem, company, but one of the problems is that MS makes so many tools that are good enough that using open source tools is really hard to do. Internally, we're told to use MS technology whenever possi
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by Splines 15y ago
Because it's easy, and the costs are low? I sometimes torrent TV shows that I forgot to DVR and don't really feel bad about it. It really is a symptom of the decadence and entitlement of your typical Internet user. If the entire internet
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by Splines 15y ago
Also IMO the ActiveState did alot to make perl & Python popular. Only in the last 10 years or so did ActivePython become really useful. In the last 90's it seemed (in my mind, at least) to play second fiddle to ActivePerl.
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by Splines 15y ago
I do too, but considering the herculean task that this would be, I doubt the Windows org would ever consider it. WP7 might have been a good breeding ground for such technology, but even that never managed to shake off it's own legacy OS und
951.
by Splines 15y ago
Are your parents and/or in-laws retired? Maybe you can get them to take more time if you explained the situation. If they're not already committed to something else, they'd hopefully be glad to help out in your situation. My wife and I ar
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by Splines 15y ago
This doesn't help very much, but it worked for me (drag from file explorer in W2K8R2 into Chrome 11.0.696.60). Do you have UAC turned on?
953.
by Splines 15y ago
I feel like I'm in the minority here but rote practice has a role, just like playing scales or dribbling a basketball does. It lets you ingrain into your muscle memory the foundation-level skills. Once you're able to multiply arbitrary tw
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by Splines 15y ago
Personally, I would love it if a candidate I've interviewed had public-facing source code available. I make a point of reading the resume of every person I interview so I can ask relevant questions. To do otherwise would do our time toge
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by Splines 15y ago
It's the same reason why we still have beep codes and LED status indicators on our motherboards: You don't need to localize Fur Elise.
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by Splines 15y ago
It's most definitely a more easily understood mental model. I also run Live Mesh to sync my music between work/home, because it has the neat feature of non-server syncing (it allows you to sync an arbitrary amount of data, but only between
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by Splines 15y ago
I recently started digging into Arch and getting sleep to work was surprisingly easy. (pm-suspend and modifying handler.sh for power button/lid events).
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by Splines 15y ago
In a way it sort of reminds me of this: http://www.cabel.name/2009/09/kashiwa-mystery-cafe.html
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by Splines 15y ago
In particular, searches for computer equipment is generally frustrating. I've also seen sorts result in a large number of irrelevant outdated used items getting filtered to the top.[1] I'm willing to cut them slack since it's good enough,
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by Splines 15y ago
OT, but I've been listening to TLA for a few years now, and I had created a completely different image of Ira Glass in my mind. Watching these videos is like seeing a stranger talking with Ira Glass's voice.

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