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541.
by antidoh 14y ago
The you're not curious about the right things. Or probably more accurately, you're an exception. Humans are social animals.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." How far we've come. Now we use 747s as the ironic competitor to digital transfer.
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by antidoh 14y ago
It's OK, the discussion that he generated here on HN is well worth whatever flaws are in his post.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"But why did they have to demo it now" Someone with power allowed their ego to make that decision. It must be now, because of something that some other company is or isn't doing. Damn the engineering, full speed ahead.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Many of my fellow teachers would be very comfortable with a tablet that could talk to a projector somehow and some good writing sketching software." That's probably good for short and "casual" writing. But for long distance writing, most p
546.
by antidoh 14y ago
"I still dont see people working on iPads in real offices where you do REAL work." Agree. Apple software has very little Enterprise presence. I see a few people bring iPads to meetings (they could be Androids, but I assume iPad). They quiet
547.
by antidoh 14y ago
"What about the Zune, Kin and Xbox." They abandoned two of those.
548.
by antidoh 14y ago
"Microsoft this week showed itself willing to do what was once unthinkable: design and sell its own PC hardware. ... But make no mistake: for better or for worse, Surface marks a watershed moment in PC industry history." That remains to be
549.
by antidoh 14y ago
It could be bad. Wealth that moves through the economy tends to keep people employed. Now, take all the money that's being spent and therefore paying N people, and put it in a room. That's bad, I think.
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by antidoh 14y ago
I can sympathize. In my organization we've shipped a lot more code since we stopped writing unit tests. Writing unit tests would just impede our ability to ship LOC.
551.
by antidoh 14y ago
QA: contact a few local contractor agencies. Some specialize in QA. Or contact a few companies directly and say "I wanna do X." You may have to look longer than you're used to if you want a QA position that pays what you're used to. How to
552.
by antidoh 14y ago
This: http://withdjango.com/readers/source/ from this: http://withdjango.com/ Their specific purpose is "to learn from."
553.
by antidoh 14y ago
My exact thought. Except I was going to add a "fuck you."
554.
by antidoh 14y ago
Think of a few things you would enjoy spending your time on. Now, pick one of those, and make a web site that lets you do whatever that is. Or: QA, tech writer, book writer, blogger/consultant/freelancer (where your blog supports and builds
555.
by antidoh 14y ago
"While many teachers relish sharing lesson plans, some say they might also hesitate to simply give away materials they have spent years fine-tuning. "“It was the first time I paused and thought, ‘I have spent 10 years developing this unit,
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by antidoh 14y ago
Bugs happen. Especially thoughtless ones. The title might better have been "Things programmers have tried to do with time."
557.
by antidoh 14y ago
For now.
558.
by antidoh 14y ago
Twitt? Do people say that? (On the right, in the grey, between the two Microsofts.)
559.
by antidoh 14y ago
An interesting phenomenon may come when unintentional photo bombs identify either celebrities or wanted criminals.
560.
by antidoh 14y ago
Suing charities for making him look bad by accepting donations? At some point does a judge get to say "you don't get to be a lawyer" for at least a little while?
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by antidoh 14y ago
A loose association of alien races scattered across the galaxy, called The Pranksters by their victims and eventual associates.
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by antidoh 14y ago
I'm surprised Fitts' law hasn't come up. While not exactly the same domain as Fitts (minimize the need for fine motor control for a potentially gross action by placing the active area at the end of a gross movement, e.g. pointing to the edg
563.
by antidoh 14y ago
I think it's a great pitch, because the pseudo-pitch appeals to exactly the people who would be interested in this. "Ha! I've got this licked, I'll just whip out argparse ... Wait ... Oh!"
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by antidoh 14y ago
America is the widely used casual name for the United States of America. Context matters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America "America usually refers to either: "The Americas, a landmass comprising North America and South America "The U
565.
by antidoh 14y ago
Why not just take an ax to the Internet cables crossing China's borders, and implement this internally? I suppose bitcoin mining might suffer.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Linux voids your warranty. Huh. In a way I can see their point. You bought hardware, plus a licensed copy of Windows. You returned it without Windows. But really, what does it cost to just re-image the disk? They don't really just resell RM
567.
by antidoh 14y ago
The test strips for my former meter are $64 for 50. Sometimes I just don't test; I can get away with that because I don't use insulin. Kroger (King Soopers in Colorado) has partnered with Wave Sense to sell a cheap meter (most meters are ch
568.
by antidoh 14y ago
Now just Google left to declare a company worth $1B and buy it. It's getting expensive to keep up appearances.
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by antidoh 14y ago
My impression is that the govt sees the internet as a Constitution-free zone, and the only question is how quickly they can boil the water without us frogs getting active.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Consider the Libraries feature" My gawd, I can't even figure out what's where in the Libraries context.

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