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by ameoba 13y ago
But you can't find them without an account. Going to the front page provides you with almost zero information & no (obvious) way to explore the site.
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by ameoba 13y ago
Have they fixed the tutorial yet? Last time I checked, you couldn't even get through the second (third?) step without running into instructions you can't complete (they changed the testing framework & it won't run with t
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by ameoba 13y ago
> kind of shitty - you have to log in to view or download anything ...just like 90% of all other social sites. I still don't know what Tumblr is because they won't tell me any more without creating an account.
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by ameoba 13y ago
That was my first thought. Educause is pretty strict about .edu domains. I was working IT at a (legitimate, accredited, state-run) school that renamed itself and we only had a short window (6mo before & after, IIRC) that we were allowe
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by ameoba 13y ago
It was the bean counters that put the kibosh on the all-you-can work pizza parties? Fire the bean counters. Compared to the hourly wage of an engineer, even a whole large pizza per hour is a great deal. Granted, the institution would hav
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by ameoba 13y ago
Don't know if they actually make money but their costs are minimal. Those are the bottom of the barrel ads that ad networks serve up when nobody else actually wants to pay for the impression - either because a site is crap or because
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by ameoba 13y ago
Clever way to crowdsource your spambot's CAPTCHA breaking routines.
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by ameoba 13y ago
Valve, a AAA developer in their own right, already has plans to release their own hardware & doesn't need to wait for a third party to make hardware for this to succeed. They already have a massive base of customers which have alr
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by ameoba 13y ago
> having decided to have all four of my children involved in competitive, organized team sports through local "travel" soccer programs There's a reason that "soccer mom" has become synonymous with out of touch, p
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by ameoba 13y ago
Crackheads trying to get their next fix just take any sort of electronics and get $10-20 for it. It doesn't generally matter what it is - they'll take it if they can get their hands on it & want to unload it ASAP. If they&#x
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by ameoba 13y ago
The big graph in the middle, which drives the argument that you're somebody's bitch for two decades as a postdoc before making it on your own is driven by NIH data. How is the situation for other fields of research & sources
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by ameoba 13y ago
Unless you can convince people to pay for your service, you can either openly use them as advertising platforms or you can be sneaky and sell your data to advertisers behind the scenes.
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by ameoba 13y ago
When you call somebody a hipster... http://dustinland.com/archives/archives464.html
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by ameoba 13y ago
If it's only a dozen people or so, it's a pretty minor expense for them. The cost to the company is easily offset by the urban legends circulating among business travelers about knowing some guy that got free upgrades for life.
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by ameoba 13y ago
The biggest problem is that Samsung and LG think they need to customize & brand the phone to be recognizable as their own product. They're spitting in the face of OSS when they go and half-ass their own versions of standard compon
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by ameoba 13y ago
...or PayPal.
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by ameoba 13y ago
Because you can. Pretty much everyone's had the idea that, since HTML is a structured markup language, you can "simply" represent it in whatever language you're working in. It's great when you're a noob &
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by ameoba 13y ago
...and it shows.
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by ameoba 13y ago
Linking to a Reddit submission that links to a blog that links to a tweet that links to a blog that talks about mailing list drama. ...and it all boils down to "Fuck you, I'm leaving & I think I'm important enough to cry
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by ameoba 13y ago
That's why you're not HP, Acer, Asus or Toshiba. They're not interested in marketing or supporting these things as computers, they're consumer electronics, much the way that phones and tablets are. The moment you start
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by ameoba 13y ago
Not idiocy, limited experience. The target audience for these rankings is high school seniors and their parents. When you're 17/18 years old you don't have a lot of experience with judging the merits of higher education. T