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by acabal 15y ago
That was one of the tensest things I've read in a while. My heart was pumping up until the end. The level of stress, confusion, and terror those pilots, not to mention the passengers, must have experienced must have been truly terrible.
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by acabal 15y ago
I haven't trusted Paypal for a long time, since they repeatedly froze my account just for accessing it from a foreign IP. That wouldn't be so bad, except for their demands of things like faxes of utility bills and bank account statements j
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by acabal 15y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm not trying to start a business though, I've happily self-employed with my own website for a few years now. (Though not earning the 60,000 euros suggested by that link.) I'm mainly just looking for a residency per
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by acabal 15y ago
I completely agree with everything you've said, and that's why I'm doing the same thing. My girlfriend is German so I was thinking of trying for a residency permit there next year. You mentioned the government wasn't supportive; do you ha
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by acabal 15y ago
I agree that the way it was presented to the community was a big issue. Plus, when people bring genuine complaints to the table, a lot of geekier open-source advocates say, "hey, it's open source, fix it yourself instead of complaining." (
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by acabal 15y ago
Unity could have been something great if only Ubuntu had decided to release it after thorough QA testing and polishing. First impressions are everything, and Ubuntu chose to release Unity in an objectively unfinished state. They effective
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by acabal 15y ago
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/how-to-downgrade-to-compiz-08... Every version of Compiz newer than the one in this PPA gives me endless problems. If you're still on 11.04 like me (I downgraded after upgrading to 11.10), this PPA is a mus
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by acabal 15y ago
The Mint team deserves big kudos for striving to maintain a Gnome-panel-like desktop experience. IMO both Gnome-shell and Unity are arrogant usability nightmares; thankfully the Mint team is still keeping traditional usability alive in the
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by acabal 15y ago
Sometimes I feel like some sort of leper amongst the tech crowd because not only do I not have a smartphone, but I haven't even had a functioning cell phone for over a year now. There have been times when a bare-bones cell would have been u
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by acabal 15y ago
I've been traveling the world and running my site, Scribophile, for a few years now. I just spent 3 months in Germany living with my girlfriend, and now that my EU visa is up I'm in Colombia for a few months enjoying the warm weather in Ca
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by acabal 15y ago
Agreed--not just typography but in many cases the entire ebook experience is just terrible. Some works are very clearly just OCR'd from the print version, with no proofreading done (you can tell if you're reading one if you spot an obvious
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by acabal 15y ago
Even if SOPA doesn't pass, what really worries me is that the perpetrators have bottomless pockets and lots of time. They'll doubtlessly keep ramming similar bills into congress until either the politicians decide they've received enough c
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by acabal 15y ago
I don't know about that. This year they're both the same age, had both amassed billions, and had become titans of industry. One of them publicly devoted himself to spending his riches on improving humanity; the other continued to enrich h
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by acabal 15y ago
Have you ever tried configuring your own mail server? It's very close to black magic at times. Installing a mail server is easy, but configuring it to actually get mail into inboxes and not spam filtered or even blacklisted is complex. Y
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by acabal 15y ago
I've found Komodo Edit to be indispensable for PHP development on Linux. I haven't yet found an editor that does such a good job mixing PHP and HTML syntax highlighting, has solid autocomplete--even of custom classes--and is so easy to set
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by acabal 15y ago
Rolling release isn't quite the same, because you still get frequent updates to "core" software. For example I hear from many Arch users that it's great, but it breaks even more frequently than Ubuntu. (Though I've never personally used Ar
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by acabal 15y ago
I've long argued that the entire Linux mentality of distros and packages is broken, and one of the huge reasons why it'll never be widely adopted in the desktop. Linking versions of trivial software like photo organizers or music players--o
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by acabal 15y ago
I'm guessing that in the northern states, part of the year is a harsh winter and early sunset, so having kids leave school at 6pm could lead to them walking home in the snow and in the dark.
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by acabal 15y ago
I was extremely surprised to read that the guy in charge of a company that almost exclusively produces highly expensive 1st-world gadgetry was himself disdainful of conspicuous consumption.
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by acabal 15y ago
I'd argue that cover art is still important even in the digital age. Humans are visual creatures, and your first impression of a book is always the cover. Whether you like it or not, many people will always judge books by their covers. Di
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by acabal 15y ago
I'm not talking about a reader browsing some books and picking one based on the publisher's mark. I never really do that myself either. The "validation" I'm referring to is much more subtle: the mere fact that a book is in print and in a
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by acabal 15y ago
I've been reading about the imminent death of publishers for a while now, but I don't think they're ever going to disappear completely. And I run a site for writers that processes hundreds of manuscripts daily. People like to make the comp
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by acabal 15y ago
I'm excited for Ubuntu 11.10 if only because it means I can flatten and reinstall, thus relieving me of Firefox's performance woes for another few months. It's really crazy the amount of memory it uses and the slowdowns that happen when yo
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by acabal 15y ago
If I'm reading this right, the NY Times say that if parts are classified, the interpretation should be released but the classified parts blacked out. What's to stop the government from just blacking out every word, then "releasing" that?
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by acabal 15y ago
Pre-existing conditions. I discussed this in a different thread long ago, but the long and short of it is that while I may qualify for a "car-crash emergency" type plan, it currently makes more financial sense for me to simply declare medi
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by acabal 15y ago
Germany. My girlfriend lives there, and besides being the powerhouse economy of the Eurozone at the moment, they seem to have more or less successfully blended a highly successful capitalist economy with realistic and humane social initiat
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by acabal 15y ago
Exactly why I'm leaving as soon as I can secure a residency permit in my country of choice. While every country has its problems and there's no utopia, I'd rather live in a place that has no illusions about the realities of its flaws and r
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by acabal 15y ago
Sometimes on rainy nights when I've had a few too many glasses of wine, I dream of doing a PHP "reboot": something with syntax and features like C#, which I personally love, but without the sometimes deceptive magic that goes on behind the
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by acabal 15y ago
It does have Wifi, but not 3G (which I personally I think is overkill for a reading device). You can plug SD cards into it to extend the space, and with books weighing in at a few hundred KB, for the vast majority of people space isn't an
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by acabal 15y ago
It's too bad that the Kindle is getting so much attention (even if some is negative, like this piece), when there are many other better options. I had a Kindle 3 until I bought a Nook Simple Touch, and the NST blows the K3 out of the wate

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