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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I was going to say the same thing. Similarly, you can get around the NYT 10 articles per month simply by opening the link in an incognito/private browsing mode window.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
And that doesn't include a place to live or food to eat. The hidden costs can be quite substantial as well.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I agree with the album playlists issue. My account has a ton of playlists for exactly this reason. That said, the browse and discovery screens have found quite a bit of interesting music for me so I'd call it a wash at this point.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
For a very extreme take on this, you should read Ian M. Bank's Culture series. The AI's have progressed to true sentience and run mind-bogglingly massive space ships which can hold billions of people. At this point, the ships trul
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
There was also this workflow [1] posted recently, which is what I'm basically doing at $work. It's simpler than gitflow, so the reduced overhead might suit you better as a sole developer. [1] http://blogs.atlassian.com&
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
See my other comment in this thread. I'll be adding in a ton of names this weekend.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I live in a suburb of Sydney, Australia and in this area most of the residential streets on OSM are unnamed. So my assumption would be that there is a LOT of metadata waiting to be collected in most (all?) cities across the entire world.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
This made me look up my local area on OSM. The streets are there, but most of the residential streets are not named. Time to do some editing tonight!
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I'd say it's more a "because we can", but isn't it interesting anyway? Exposure to new ideas, or new ways to implement existing ideas, is usually interesting.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Unrelated to the article content, I just noticed the table of contents on the left side. The slow fade in/out when you mouse over it is perfect! It's fixed position so you always see it, yet it's totally unobtrusive while rea
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Plex Media Server on your FreeNAS is what you're looking for. If the client doesn't support a format PMS will transcode automagically for you. I'd bet this will solve your sound issues.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Only until the PlexPass exclusivity window runs out. It's a (cheap) carrot for you to support Plex development.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I recently bought a Roku 3 and paired it with a FreeNAS server running the Plex media server. Add the Plex channel on the Roku and you get the network file support + Youtube. Getting Plex + Roku setup been the best thing I've done on m
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I have the luxury of having both of things. At the time, I had neither the money nor the time to deal with getting a 157 visa. Guess I've been lucky so far.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I'll take a different angle from most of the comments and talk about the prohibition of Medicare negotiating the price of drugs. The article talks about how two other countries have negotiated discounts of 35-45% off the list $2000 USD
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I got started programming back in 1995. After a few months of crafting HTML pages using MS Word, and learning to write macros to help automate it, I wanted something more interesting. My first foray into true programming was writing perl CG
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I've been in Australia for over 2 years, coming in under the 457 program. No degree either, and it didn't seem to be a problem. Getting PR through a 457 is pretty straightforward, though it will take 2 years and is more expensive
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Or put another way: when they open their mouth just assume they are lying or at best stretching the truth for their special definition of the word.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I've been reading the Culture series by Ian M. Banks (RIP) recently and have been fascinated by the idea of an underlying energy grid between universes, and how that is used to power spacecraft moving at 1000x multiples of the speed of
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
If you let it keep playing past the primary segment, they show an old segment from 1999. The screenshots featured Netscape Navigator. Good times!
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I remember seeing Vanilla when it first came out. It looked quite nice them. I'll have to look into seeing how it could be integrated into an external site - hopefully via an API.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
This looks very interesting. The Google, Facebook and Twitter login options are great to have.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
The demo site says that it's IE10+ only. This is a non-starter for me unfortunately.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I saw the reference to PayGarden, but I was curious how it worked on a technical level.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I'd love to more about how gift cards in general work. Is it like a numbered swiss bank account where when you buy a card and the account number/password under the scratch-off on the back is your only access? Clearly there are mul
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
It's always a treat, both intellectually and visually, to see new posts by Ilya. They are consistently excellent. You would be well advised to read the previous posts as well. On a related note, I didn't realise that websockets di
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Go to google, copy-n-paste the url into the search box, click the link from the search results page and you're in!
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I've recently purchased a Roku as well so I can use Netflix. So that combined with Plex + downloaded content means I hardly ever watch broadcast TV any more.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
The article did mention the use of 40k unique IP addresses, so I'm guessing their rate limiting is based on IP address and not the username or IP+username combination.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Been there, done that too! Less than 2 weeks ago at that.

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