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by blasdel 16y ago
Please stop repeating that canard, it got old years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=297297
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by blasdel 16y ago
Hilariously, the official Acrobat plugin now only works in Safari on OS X — the only browser that absolutely does not need it. I think the change happened during the Intel transition, so you can't easily use an old version either.
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by blasdel 16y ago
I was literally born into it — my parents met working at a software company and quit to start their own out of their apartment in the early 80s. My dad started using computers in the early 60s at Berkley to do Mathematical Psychology for hi
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by blasdel 16y ago
This is what YouTube was originally. Turns out people just upload clips from film, sports, and television instead.
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by blasdel 16y ago
HN doesn't even do a consistent equality-based dupe check of the submitted URL! Submitted URLs are only checked against the URLs of past stories that are cached in memory, and the Arc process crashes regularly, which invalidates all comment
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by blasdel 16y ago
'hydro' is the electrical grid?
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by blasdel 16y ago
Sorry about that, you're right, I misread the negative leading into the parenthetical
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by blasdel 16y ago
It does absolutely have direct bearing on whether "opting not to provide services is the seller's prerogative" as the parent stated, when the services actually are under a formal contract and post-paid. The argument holds up for Zipcar but
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Spam unsubscribe links no longer considered harmful(essays.dayah.com)
79 points by blasdel 16y ago|25 comments
550.
by blasdel 16y ago
The Julian Assange maneuver does unfortunately appear to work.
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by blasdel 16y ago
There's a tradition of ridiculous file names for these things, like jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c
552.
by blasdel 16y ago
Nearly all cable services and most cell phone contracts are post-paid, not pre-paid. How else would they tack on fees for elective usages without a debit system? It's effectively a credit system. You owe them money at the end of the month f
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by blasdel 16y ago
Tony Hsieh's presentation at Startup School 2009 came off exactly like this to me, but I don't come to the same conclusion as the author — encouraging your employees to do jackass 'fun' stunts with attendant PR isn't much worse than just st
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Down with fun: The depressing vogue for having fun at work(economist.com)
112 points by blasdel 16y ago|74 comments
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The Permission We Already Have(bldgblog.blogspot.com)
71 points by blasdel 16y ago|13 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
You're right, you don't know much about IP addresses. The entire 10.x.x.x block was reserved long ago for use on private networks, it's not routed anywhere on the internet. This RFC from 1996 describing best practices for their use is still
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The <spacer> HTML Element Is Gone(hsivonen.iki.fi)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's called MSI, the downloaded files may behave like they're standalone exes, but they're really just bundles of data and scripts for the Windows Installer to take care of. Apple's PKG / Installer.app setup on OS X is very similar. Both ar
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by blasdel 16y ago
They don't just have to dogfood it — they need to do so in a manner such that they get a fresh Out Of Box Experience at least once per week. Make it so they can't get comfortable in their customized setups for long, make it so that they hav
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by blasdel 16y ago
That's why realistic restaurateurs buy all their initial fixtures and equipment used from liquidation auctions :)
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by blasdel 16y ago
My parents did this when they started their software company in the early 80s. It only happened because a group of their friends was starting a bank -- they got a sweetheart deal that included a mortgage for the neighboring apartments in
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by blasdel 16y ago
I'm sorry, but that isn't what RESTful means at all. Structured URIs like you mention can be pretty, but are completely unrelated to REST. In the real world they are often used in an anti-REST way, specified in advance instead of linked via
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by blasdel 16y ago
Valleywag was blacklisted early on, and Gawker has been too at least as long as Valleywag has been reintegrated into it. Plenty of other domains are blacklisted too: http://infoworld.com has been for some time, http://oppugn.us/ got add
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by blasdel 16y ago
Chrome does a pretty terrific job of surviving the Flash plugin — it doesn't let it get out of control nearly as much, when it does it only affects a few tabs, and if it dies or I kill it everything's peachy with black boxes where flash onc
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by blasdel 16y ago
Right now I use a 27" iMac at home almost exclusively, but there's a handful of other computers that I use in various locations, and several have persistent sessions (which makes gchat think I am available almost 24/7). It was more of a pro
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by blasdel 16y ago
I must have scrolled right past it when reading the PDF. It turns out that no, you can't just materialize all the source by simply typing one command. get_reference_source is a rather absurd python script: https://gist.github.com/86abe58
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by blasdel 16y ago
They form stacks of things that haven't been finished with yet. If I bookmark something in that state, it just falls off the end of my brain. In a tab it remains in my periphery. I shall attempt to document what I am presently filling all t
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by blasdel 16y ago
How appropriately Stallman-like (see "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" in the GPL)
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by blasdel 16y ago
From the User Guide: http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonLinuxAMIUserGuid... Can I run Amazon Linux on my own servers outside of EC2? No. The Amazon Linux AMI is only available for use inside of Amazon EC2. Uh, what? I re
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yes there is. It's called Google Chrome. I presently have 164 tabs open in it across 6 windows. It works just fine. I am regularly amused by the stream of inane blog posts from "UX Professionals" declaring bankruptcy because oh god they ha

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