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by blahedo 15y ago
See, my first thought on reading the question is that this guy was fishing for answers to the sorts of questions he's not legally allowed to ask—relationship status, family plans, and so on. This is reinforced (at least to me, unless I'm m
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by blahedo 15y ago
As opposed to hacking free phone calls from the phone company?
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by blahedo 15y ago
Specifically, direction as well as speed . But yes, that would have self-answered my question about what the numbers mean (by showing the "sideways" component).
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by blahedo 15y ago
Can someone explain what the nominal "velocity" counter means? I thought it made sense going up (although I wasn't sure why its rate of change---which would be the acceleration---seemed to increase a bit), but then I was totally baffled af
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by blahedo 15y ago
A big problem with this prediction of the imminent decline and fall of paper is that it seems to neglect the fact that paper is soooooooo cheap. Also comes with many affordances, sure, but it is so cheap . That makes it easy to use for o
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by blahedo 15y ago
I thought the same thing, and I'm a little surprised they didn't do a larger print run for the last edition.
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by blahedo 15y ago
In particular, if you just type "qwertyuiop" or "asdfghjkl" or the like, the password looks at least as good (better, really) than when you type the correct password, right up to the last character. So, not very useful?
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by blahedo 15y ago
Whether this is an apt counter to the article's thesis depends on whether you perceive that thesis to be "This guy invented it and therefore should get acclaim/money/patents", or "This guy invented it and therefore Apple didn't and theref
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by blahedo 15y ago
...right. Upvoted because I feel dumb for not thinking of this too.
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by blahedo 15y ago
If ever there were a surface that screams "touch me and spread germs everywhere", this would have to be it. Right there at the table with you and your food. Yikes!
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The disappearing virtual library(aljazeera.com)
5 points by blahedo 15y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'd like to see the numbers for licenses in general (and particularly accounting for how often various sites' licenses change ). I've written before[0] about how Apple's iTMS policy is long and frequently updated and that they clearly hav
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Minimum wage laws destroy jobs and reduce overall welfare Cite, please.
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by blahedo 15y ago
That article both spoke to me and seemed foreign; I've lived alone for all but two years of the last 20 (since high school), and I do "spread out" in many of the ways it describes. But, when I do get to temporarily "live with" someone---wh
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by blahedo 15y ago
The six points remind me a lot of the points in the European data privacy conventions, which date from the 80s. I wonder if the connection was explicit/intentional?
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Library shuts down computer for learning to give saucy responses(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by blahedo 15y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 15y ago
The real issue with which one "seems right" in some sort of intuitive sense is that it varies with what I'm doing. If I'm sizing something that is fundamentally a container , then I care about the size of the whole box, including padding
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by blahedo 15y ago
And one of the most interesting parts isn't even mentioned in the Forbes article: on page 8, Duhigg has a great description of how he hacked his own brain to reprogram an unwanted routine. (Well, he probably wouldn't describe it that way.)
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by blahedo 15y ago
But neither button says "trash it", and "eject" in the context of disk images just means "unmount". So now I'm even less clear about what those buttons do.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Also, check out the available buttons on the dialog---"Cancel" and "Eject disk image". I'm guessing that "Cancel" is the one you need to click to say "Cancel the warning and mount it anyway", which in other contexts is known as "OK". Argh
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by blahedo 15y ago
> If you're teaching the process, teach the process . I do, thanks. > Don't set up a project with a clear objective, force students to rigidly follow exactly the steps I really do not understand what you're saying here. You want m
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by blahedo 15y ago
Two comments: 1) There are good teachers and there are bad teachers. Please don't tar all teachers with the same brush. (I know you said "tend" not "all" but every other part of this post implied a broad brush.) 2) Sometimes we really do
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by blahedo 15y ago
He did disclaim his involvement, and indeed, his in-the-middle mention of doing client work for them came exactly as he started talking about why WPEngine was so great. You literally can't get to the part where he's praising WPEngine witho
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is really interesting; by giving due consideration for access to your browsing habits and the sites you visit and so forth, they admit that this is not something that they could necessarily have presumed to use for free. The $25 p
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by blahedo 15y ago
Oh---I did miss your point then, but I think the text/photo distinction would actually be somewhat easier for them to defend than a content/porn distinction; as I understand it, porn is content, as a matter of very well-settled caselaw.
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by blahedo 15y ago
So maybe it's a photo/text distinction. Is anyone posting Nazi/skinhead photos on FB? Are they getting blocked?
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's probably more comfortable than reaching an unremapped modern PC Escape key, though. And if you do light remapping, making Caps a Control instead (as in the Mac's Keyboard control panel) makes ^[ even easier. If you're really down with
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Who takes photos of women breastfeeding? The same people who take photos of women doing anything else with their children. If you don't start from the (very loaded) assumption that breastfeeding is shameful, you're not likely to
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by blahedo 15y ago
> the people flagging these pictures are most likely the woman's friends. Why on earth would you assume that? Edit: oh, duh, I get it. I read "friends" as "friends", not "Facebook friends". Makes more sense now.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Why the false dichotomy? The author seems to imply that the alternatives are 1) never touching a drop of alcohol, or 2) getting blind drunk, being incapable of controlling your actions, and blacking out. There are some good points in ther

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