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by acabal 16y ago
On one hand I agree that it's important to stand up for your rights, even it might seem like a trivial thing to argue at the time. Especially with how the TSA/Border control is evolving into less of a means of security than into an interro
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by acabal 16y ago
I stand corrected, good to know!
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by acabal 16y ago
That's the rub--Paypal is not a bank . They can do whatever they want with the virtual money that is exchanged on their servers. Which is why a real merchant account is the only serious option for a larger-scale business.
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by acabal 16y ago
Good on Rackspace. Free speech doesn't mean the freedom to say whatever you want on someone else's private infrastructure. You are free to burn books, spout hate speech, or do whatever other ridiculous stuff, but you're not entitled to
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by acabal 16y ago
1. You should look up the definition of hypocritical. 2. I have never used the service and I have said so. That doesn't mean your many of your arguments still aren't based on foundationless assumption and ad-hominem internet rage. If you'
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by acabal 16y ago
A little off topic, but was anyone else bothered by the fact that his picture is overlapping the navigation buttons on Ubuntu Firefox so that I can't click 'Home', 'TL;DR', or 'Archives'? This plus the fact that I'm looking at a web develo
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by acabal 16y ago
Whenever someone asks me what I think of cloud computing, I just reply with this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UYa6gQC14o
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by acabal 16y ago
Whenever I'm making a purchase, I try to think about whether or not I'll still want to use that item in a few years. The way many of us buy new gadgets and throw them in the trash the second the next generation comes out scares me. Food a
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by acabal 16y ago
I tried that before with the VPS that runs my app. Problem is they are granular down to the city. My PP address is in Illionis and I've had it frozen when accessing it from San Francisco.
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by acabal 16y ago
I clear about $2000/month through Paypal. My experience has been mixed. Their name recognition and well-established subscription API is a good choice for my subscription-based web apps. However they limit the amount of money you can withdr
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by acabal 16y ago
To be fair, Windows and the Windows ecosystem is so huge that it would be almost impossible for one guy to sit down and say, OK, this is how Movie Maker is going to get installed, and this is how it should function, and this is how Windows
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by acabal 16y ago
A little disappointed--I thought this was going to be a top-level explanation of how SSL works to protect data, but instead it was a step-by-step "how to buy a SSL cert for your server" that honestly wasn't even that clear or concise.
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by acabal 16y ago
I didn't know that and that's actually incredibly useful. Thanks!
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by acabal 16y ago
Interestingly, this sometimes works the other way around too. I frequented a coffee shop in my town for a few months (I later moved house). The baristas came to recognize my face, even though I didn't make smalltalk or introduce myself.
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by acabal 16y ago
I hate their new lockout system. I'm a frequent traveler and run my business from my laptop. FB is a great way to keep connected to other travelers you meet and your friends back home while being on the road. But because I'm often in a n
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by acabal 16y ago
My startup is a site for aspiring writers so I get to hear different sides of this argument a lot. I, for one, am completely certain that e-books and self-publishing will not sound the death-knell of big publishing houses. Once the publis
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by acabal 16y ago
I tend to agree with this. When an entity takes new power, they fight tooth and nail to keep it, regardless of whether it's "right" for them to have it or not. Bush II massively increased the power of the executive branch with terrorism a
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by acabal 16y ago
Not to be snarky, but if we all knew the answer to that, we'd all be making a million dollars from home by now. There's no easy way to make money fast. You need to come up with an idea that solves a problem, then work hard to implement it
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by acabal 16y ago
I have no idea what this does on first glance. The contrast between the font color and background is too low, so it's hard to read, and your screenshots are highly compressed so I can't read them either. If I was a random customer I'd cli
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by acabal 16y ago
Well he wasn't exactly being "nice" to them, just mocking the skills of the crackers (which my mom wouldn't think is so nice). So maybe it's more of a testament to reverse psychology or the huge egos of the crackers than being nice.
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by acabal 16y ago
Yes, but to catch up to whom? Your neighbor with the bigger house and fancier car? People who play games of catch-up are never winners. This is exactly the kind of fear I think is _un_reasonable, and that holds us back from doing things
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by acabal 16y ago
From what I understand, wages and jobs are about even, given that Germans, Kiwis, English, and Australian pay much more tax than we do. Kiwis and Aussies do get more time off, but only a few weeks more than us; many take a year off to trav
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by acabal 16y ago
Well, if you have a family and a mortgage, then your responsibilities are to them, not to indulge yourself in a year off. But my point is that many Americans who have the opportunity and position to do this kind of traveling still don't se
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by acabal 16y ago
I've been long-term traveling and running my startup at the same time for the past few years (in fact just today I set up an incomplete map of my travels for the past few months at my site, turkeysandwichindustries.com), and I can attest th
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by acabal 16y ago
My site uses a freemium model, and in some ways it kind of has to. The site is a social-network type site where writers critique each other's work. Members can join for free, but their accounts have lots of limitations that are lifted by
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by acabal 16y ago
The best part of this article is the screenshot of IE6 downloading Firefox.