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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
This is somewhat a non-sequitur, but I just want to highlight one significant distinction between SE and Quora, which is that "[All user-generated] content (questions and answers) posted on the Stack Exchange Network is licensed under a Cre
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Google's Schmidt to sell roughly 42 percent of stake(reuters.com)
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How Amazon Could Save the U.S. Postal Service | Wired Business | Wired.com(wired.com)
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Kentucky Route Zero(kentuckyroutezero.com)
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Who owns the hashtag? (It isn’t Twitter)(theverge.com)
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Raspberry Pi Announces $25 Camera Module(wired.com)
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Modular Abstractions in Scala with Cakes and Path Dependent Types(debasishg.blogspot.com)
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Git for Ages 4 and Up(mirror.linux.org.au)
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
I've been looking forward to seeing what Jeff was going to put out next. If Discourse is anywhere near as well thought-out as Stack Exchange, it could be a great success. Congrats and best of luck, Jeff!
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Id_aa_carmack comments on "John Carmack asks why Wine isn't good enough"(reddit.com)
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
If for whatever reason you want to download the number, there are a couple of links here: http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/digit/m57885161/prime-...
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Color and color spaces: An introduction | Steinar H. Gunderson(blog.sesse.net)
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We should only work 25 hours a week, argues professor(sciencenordic.com)
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Sugar turns twenty(esr.ibiblio.org)
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Apple will cease shipping Mac Pro in Europe on 1 March(macworld.co.uk)
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Jeff Atwood Goes Off The Rails(reedmangino.tumblr.com)
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A Pay Cut for Tim Cook? Not Really(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Microsoft launches ‘Don’t get Scroogled’ Bing campaign(thenextweb.com)
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
...but corporations are people, and people have feelings! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
That's almost an Ubuntu logo on the f6 key. :P http://www.wired.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tabl...
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
Can't watch the videos on linux. Nice.
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
No text button! :,( But yeah my posh grandparents had a pretty posh telly! >> "And now, some pages from Ceefax," in the afternoon? My cue to go outside and play... Kinda reminds me of this: http://imgur.com/AlzRd Weather on Ceefax
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
This is what I would play around with before I had a computer. You could only use it with a certain remote (with coloured buttons) and my folks didn't have one so I couldn't use it at home. It infuriated me knowing it was nevertheless comin
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
haha, nice! What a joke. This happens even on Windows 7. Granted, I have only had it happen on Windows XP/Vista-era machines, but yeah, I guess the point is that Ubuntu pulls it off without a hassle in most cases
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
'OSX' being the operative term here. Windows is an entirely different kettle of fish. If your hardware is considered too outmoded or somehow slipped by the Windows driver dragnet, you're SOL. There are very few times I have installed Window
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
That notion is pretty alien to me. I've thrown Ubuntu onto some pretty useless old machines and had better hardware support. Example: I found out a couple of years ago that two-finger scrolling was possible on an nine-year old machine. The
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
That's great to hear! When I wrote that comment, I had just been watched the VBS documentary on garbage island. Kind of bummed me out
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
More plastic shit to print more plastic shit into the world. I can only see this "changing" things in a negative way, at least environmentally. I hope this doesn't take off, unless it is able to actually counteract the way things are going
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
http://www.aosabook.org/en/ffreleng.html
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by ashleyblackmore 14y ago
Nice post. I like the approach from first principles. Looked at from this perspective, and if you'll excuse the vulgarism, Quora seems like an exercise in turd-polishing

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