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by avdempsey 16y ago
You could always get the dev tools for free* because they always came with some other purchase. That seems like it would cover the "SOX" compliance to me. Examples: you bought a copy of Mac OS X (the dev tools were in the box), you bought a
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by avdempsey 16y ago
How about programhers?
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by avdempsey 16y ago
I'll bite. I don't care if WB makes a Mickey Mouse movie. Walt is dead. We're not talking about the state stealing "Rearden Metal" shortly after its invention. Generations have grown up with this character and it seems just as outrageous as
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by avdempsey 16y ago
LOL, but even those two points aren't mentioned in the article. I'm down to talk about XMPP; I share your interest in the subject. I just don't know why anyone voted this particular submission up. Sorry, I don't mean to be an HN curmudgeon.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
This is a press release with no evidence cited about XMPP's takeover. They do say there is some evidence in two linked documents, but both are behind pay walls. Where's the meat?
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by avdempsey 16y ago
On a personal note, I was raised in a Christian Science family. While devout, my parents were very attentive and I was lucky to have a healthy childhood (though I didn't even try aspirin until I was in college). A philosophy degree at SFSU
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Even Hitchens' examples reflect some basic rights a civil libertarian should want to protect. Mormon polygamy: the government shouldn't be telling you who you can or can't marry. Christian sects that disapprove of medicine: the government s
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Sounds like James Cameron has another influence to thank for his Pandora.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
I think evolutionary humility is a great thing to be reminded of, thank you Palomides. What's interesting to me is, an organism wouldn't have to out-compete the majority of already existing natural organisms to end the world, it "only" need
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Glad to see something like this. As formulated, I'm not sure how it's better than a calendar. I still need to be in a browser to enter a goal, so entry doesn't seem any easier. The reminders are random, but I'm not sure how random is any be
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Agreed about Huxley. Neil Postman covers many of the same themes in his non-fiction work. Technopoly in particular is a good read. Atlas Shrugged is _not_ a message I think our age is lacking however. I enjoyed it as a kid, but it's pretty
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Sounds cool, anyone concerned about their email touching additional third parties? You can do the same trick yourself with a little handy Python: http://snipt.org/qvnl/ Save that to your utils directory. Don't remember where I found the s
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Huh, I don't see what they're seeing in the icon. Excel 2011, at least, has been a revelation compared to 2008. I'd go as far as to say it's some of the best mouse-driven software I've ever used. What good is Word these days? A spreadsheet
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by avdempsey 16y ago
In 2006 I visited the Yangon Zoo. Four elephants were chained behind a short barrier (designed more to keep humans out than elephants in). They begged zoo visitors for handouts, swaying side to side as much as the chains allowed. A fifth el
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by avdempsey 16y ago
That is exactly why I don't like bonuses.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
True, not having parens on the end of the function call makes this look better (and those parens are optional in Ruby). Extra kudos to lisp flavors because you could argue they have even "purer" syntax than Python. Mostly, I'm just tickled
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by avdempsey 16y ago
I liked this line: "Though Ruby/Rails would likely have been fine too, there’s something about it that I just found unnatural. If I had a dog, the dog would bark at the Ruby code." That's how I felt when I started learning Ruby after years
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by avdempsey 16y ago
I'd love to believe this. I wept like a baby when Microsoft bought Bungie. Although a minor blip on most PC gamers' radars before Halo, Bungie was Mac gaming.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Looks like it just went for 30 grand.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
According to Prop 13 grand-daddy Howard Jarvis, state revenues have indeed increased since Prop 13 passed (1978). We have a heckavu budget morass in California. Our ballot initiative democracy has _written into the constitution_ both spendi
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Or it's not that goofy, and you see greater value in seeing a world at peace than imposing your parochial judgment on someone else. Man, we fought a war over skapegoatism; wise up!
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by avdempsey 16y ago
You can have all the demo information in the world. But if you're a new network with limited inventory, you aren't going to serve fine-tuned relevance.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
I just performed this operation last Sunday: bought a new MacBook Pro, swapped out the internal for an Intel X25. Whole deal took 15 painless minutes. I can press the power button, fish something out of my backpack, and glance up and it's d
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Agreed! Some of the biggest successes have this in common: they've gotten away with something that wasn't obviously possible/legal. Microsoft: you can make people pay for software. Google: you can index the web (and all online information).
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Check out Charles S. Peirce, American father of pragmaticism (not pragmatism). Two essays, 'The Fixation of Belief' and 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear' are particularly inspiring. Google 'peirce how to make our ideas clear', it's number one.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
Has anyone been able to connect a VPN with openvpn? That, plus a mysql client that gracefully re-connects when the server kills you, would be worth much more than $5 to me.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
I think we can all agree that Safari is the furthest behind in this regard. For a company that takes pride in stripping things down to the bare essentials, having an address bar and a search bar is becoming obnoxious.
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by avdempsey 16y ago
As the author points out, the easy fix is to let users know what they just liked, or ask them to confirm. Also I suspect this service is fairly self-regulating. Facebook users are generally careful about what they broadcast. The author give
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by avdempsey 17y ago
No...you originally write in Objective-C, using an Objective-C framework designed to make cross-compiling to Flash bytecode easier. I think Apple would be a-ok with its competing platforms getting filled with ported apps. You'll still need
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by avdempsey 17y ago
I wonder if there's a simile to make with electric utilities. A "smart grid" could potentially distinguish between surcharge-able electrons, just as a "smart internet" (one without net neurtrality) could distinguish between good and bad pac

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