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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Demand mixed with a librarian's sense of worth/taste is one approach. There are many others. And libraries do have to choose due to shelf space and publisher agreements. My hackles rise whenever I hear someone tell me what's worthwhile and
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Are you saying that libraries should only have sensible holdings? Which ones are those? I once checked out le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It was something of an action novel, and it was entertaining. Was that one OK?
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Maybe. But there's a certain amount of risk in two sides pointing loaded guns at each others' heads. Let's hope trade succeeds.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"I'm sorry" is just the latest way of getting away with shit. In the seventies it was "At this time, Senator, I do not recall." In the eighties and nineties it was "there's nothing new here." Now we're sorry. SSDD.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Plus fixing the bugs that happened because you said you could do it in days.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
You probably want to be Secretary of State.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Yes, agreed. "Connections" was an extremely interesting discussion of exactly that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28TV_series%29 However, at some point conditions may emerge that allow you to leave the trodden path, which I t
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
A similar question then: 1. What are the most important problems in your life. 2. Why aren't you working on them?
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
pair.com has cheap shared hosting which includes email. In some ways they're more flexible than solutions like fastmail. It's a middle ground between total outsourcing and running your own server: you get a shell account, yet you don't have
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Besides gmail's superior spam filtering, this is the one thing I miss from google. I look around once in awhile, and I never do find a good solution. My current solution is Thunderbird's Lightning extension, and I cringe every time Thunderb
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I used offlineimap when I moved from gmail, worked fine.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
fastmail.fm has a free account, but it's nowhere near the space that gmail provides. But it's good enough. I originally used fastmail's free account just to have a backup smtp server for when gmail or whoever I was with at the time went dow
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"There’s quite a bit of low hanging fruit in terms of (a) improved image processing that can be done on modern computers that wasn’t possible when Photoshop’s core features were designed 20 years ago," That's an interesting area of thought.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
There is nothing cheesy about your list.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
How could you possibly do that is as interesting a question. You want something. How do you make it happen?
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Personally I don't own a facebook account" Neither does anyone else.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
That's the beauty of Facebook, you get to find the answers to all kinds of illegal questions. Collateral information, if you will.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Rule 34a: there is a web site for everything .
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"when you bring up the “team” page of the Airy Labs website, you now get a 404 error message." Because the team is now 404: not found. "employees were told not to speak to anyone who had left the company." Oh, so it's a cult then. Understoo
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Executable whiteboard.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
You can look at markdown et al. from another point of view: it's a file format that is human readable (text) and therefore "safe". Many people care more about rendered markdown than about raw markdown, and would prefer to edit closer to the
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"he's effectively "paid" ~$50 for 3GB of cloud space, for life. Which, on a shared server, would come to cents a year." Except he doesn't have to manage that server, he doesn't have to implement the really cool synch between machines, and d
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
That settles it, we'd better not let students write code, in case that code invalidates patents produced by students' code.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Not just "likely"; anyone who had such experience would get kicked off the jury." I was disqualified from the jury on a drunk driving trial, because the defense was based in some way on the Breathalyzer and its design or calibration, and I
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
My total guess is Python Essential Reference. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=new+riders+python
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
After growing up in the sixties listening to this commercial for Radio Free Europe, which was meant as much to highlight the west's freedom of expression as it was to advertise RFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LWSOKOqh2c I am disappoi
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"the Apple 'walled-garden' and the perceive strictness of the app approval process" I wonder if Apple's tight control over app approval has made them actually legally responsible for this kind of thing. Not that it would absolve the app sel
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
So, any user who has had their address book or other personal data illegally uploaded should contact the FBI.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Mostly.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Ironically, I do maintain a list of websites that I check every day for updates. I think RSS is the greatest thing since sliced white bread, and it was killing me. I literally once spent an entire unemployed day reading what was in my rea

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