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by bithive123 10y ago
"I thought again about my early plan of a new language or writing-system of reason, which could serve as a communication tool for all different nations... If we had such an universal tool, we could discuss the problems of the metaphysi
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"Because we believe system administrator appreciation day should be everyday, we started building a client based on nodejs." I must be a cranky system administrator because I find idea of using nodejs for a CLI extremely tiresome
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by bithive123 10y ago
In my experience all of Canonical's software is better in theory than in practice. I've been burned so often that these days I just stick with Debian.
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by bithive123 11y ago
Seems risky!
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by bithive123 11y ago
Indeed. The appropriate response when someone renders their own site unusable is to close the tab and go on about your day. Hopefully their analytics tools will help them refine their design.
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Smart organizations won't adopt even free services without a contract of some kind.
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http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html
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by bithive123 11y ago
Others might also find interesting this video from 1982 where Brian Kernighan demonstrates building a simple spell checker using UNIX command line utilities: https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw?t=5m15s
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by bithive123 11y ago
A good education is priceless. It's sad that apparently many people are dissatisfied with their college experiences, but I've always felt that if you went to a good school and feel that all you got out of it was debt and a diplom
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by bithive123 11y ago
See also: http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/image-analogies/
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I think what GP meant is that it's like the "Scroll direction: natural" option that appeared in OS X system preferences after Apple changed the default scroll behavior to match what happens on mobile devices. I am guessing th
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By the same token if you are dating using an app intended for hooking up, it's silly to complain that most of the dating pool is only looking to hook up.
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The whole point is that technological advances also change the social framework and we need to have a constructive plan for how to maintain a society in the face of that. Politics that tell us that poor people are naturally lazy, immoral ch
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by bithive123 12y ago
I believe this only increases apparent bandwidth for applications which may open multiple connections at the same time, like web browsing and BitTorrent.
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Also see: http://www.nearfield.org/2011/02/wifi-light-painting
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To add to bildung's comment, what many of us are wondering is given all the existing tools and complexity, why add another integration point? In the scenario you're describing where you're provisioning virtual machines in a c
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by bithive123 12y ago
The documentation would benefit from some clear examples of how the new architecture provides benefits over the existing ones. The given examples are opaque and its superiority is merely asserted, with references to concepts such as "
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As someone working in an enterprise environment, I've sort of lost interest in this breed of Rack server now that I've gotten used to having SSO and LDAP authorization available via Apache modules, to name a few features. Apache
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This isn't exactly the question you asked, but I recently accepted that client-side applications are the future and spent some time with Ember (which as a Rails developer I wanted to like) and AngularJS (about which I was skeptical bec
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by bithive123 12y ago
Transactions are subject to the laws governing all parties, your convenience is not the issue.
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Your stupid analogy aside, you can't expect to avoid consequences because you were operating without a knowledge of the law. Stand in front of a judge and ask him if you should have guessed that X was illegal and see how far that gets
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by bithive123 12y ago
I was shopping for phones today and physically they're all bigger than my almost five year old iPhone 4. The user interfaces are essentially the same as on my iPhone or my even older G1. I did see a curved smartphone for the first tim
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ScrubBoard: An audiotape-based alternative for turntable artists(jeremyseanbell.com)
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Make sure you keep backups of anything you upload to YouTube because all it takes is one DMCA claim and you'll never be able to download that video again, even via Google Takeout. I learned this the hard way.
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I thought Quora's philosophy was "blur the page and cover it with a modal signup form".
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Those TV specials are still being produced: http://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens/articles/ancient...
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by bithive123 12y ago
I have very fond memories of using HyperCard in a public elementary school in the early 90s (mostly to create cartoon violence).
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Siri also answers these kinds of questions.
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This is the truth. From what I have seen, organizations are bad at acquiring the technology and support they need because most managers lack the relevant experience to have any real oversight over their employees or contractors.
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The time travel show "Seven Days" from the 90s dealt with this -- sometimes the time machine would end up stuck underground or floating out in space.

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