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by antidoh 14y ago
email and attachments. Either use a distribution list, or have someone in your group set up a forwarding address that forwards to all the people in your group. No, there's no place to go to, but it's much more conversation oriented than o
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"as if such a thing was or is factual or even possible." Or even desirable.
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A good point, but not the only useful point. The role of government should be at least as good as the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm. And while it's not the government's role to provide happiness, the structure and practice of governme
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"My health insurance costs $150/month, and isn't connected to my employer." If I could change one thing about the US, this would be high on the list. In order to have meaningful access to quality health care , you must have insurance, and
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by antidoh 14y ago
Maybe it was load at the time I tried. Literally typing the following in the address field in Firefox 14.01, Lubuntu 12.04: pythononwheels.org 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
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> Privacy is basically a historical accident belonging to the few hundred years in the west where transportation tech got ahead of information technology. I don't think privacy should be dictated by whatever is possible with technology,
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"If Ajax works something will happen here if you click the Send Ajax Request button" <click> "Internal Server Error" Something happened. Ship it!
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That, and maybe combined with outsourcing companies being mostly Indian because of the last decade, and really good at sourcing.
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Normally that's just un-thinking control. Although if they're hiring from "the park bench," as the article says, then there might be a minimum personal hygiene standard that dressing up might maintain as a side effect.
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In Chromium recent-ish on Ubuntu 12.04: http://pyjs.org/examples/CanvasProcessing.html "Note that this is an example of using processing.js. See http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/ for more info. Since processing.js is built for state-o
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Coupled with improving the effectiveness of distribution of aid to recipients, which would involve increasing the cooperation of the recipient governments and decreasing the corruption of those same governments and independent thugs, allude
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Top+Hat+Monocle+groupon+sales http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-top-hat-monocle-legal...
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I want to be able to make a link, usable in the browser address field as a link or clickable from a mail message, so I was looking at URI fragments after looking at XPointer. I don't think you can make much more that a #id based link at the
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> What is the make of your first car? Winston Churchill.
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That seems to depend on the presence of ids. Can my example page (with correct uri and fragment syntax) work in this scheme? There is no id associated with the part that I tried to link to.
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Request for browser feature: in-page search in url
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Apologies. I withdraw.
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I have put this in my very small file of "things to share when I leave."
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Same.
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I think the advice was sarcastic.
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Remove all labels and text from a patent drawing. Can you still figure out what the patent is about? Most software patents, their drawings being servers (so there is a "machine") connected to other devices, would be denied if we did this te
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I pay for bookmarks (pinboard), even though I have a free alternative right in my browser. A paid Facebook would likely look different than today's Facebook, both in features and in financial organization, but it may be a more predictable a
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"So Facebook must make money from the members it has rather than simply by adding new ones." The test will be if they can charge for membership. People find phone service worth paying for. People find internet service worth paying for. Some
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by antidoh 14y ago
Ah, but now you're talking about the relationship between Amazon and their paying customers. You take care of your paying customers. An occupant of a blog is, as the saying goes, a product, not a customer. EDIT: I re-read the article. I tho
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It's not a bug, it's a feature. As long as they make more by not being human than they lose by pissing people off, they're good. It's on purpose.
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It's not new, it's been around for what, five years? It's not unique; it's usenet with javascript and ads.
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Ah. Maybe universities should issue stock.
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And, your boss may be able to figure out who the feedback came from, based on the feedback itself. Weakens the anonymity.
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The law provides a way to offer accounts to under-13s. They don't have to close the account, they just choose to close it instead of complying with the added burden that would be required.
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Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing. The rules: http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages/index.php/Pag... The book: http://www.elmoreleonard.com/index.php?/weblog/more/elmore_l... The man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmore_Le

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