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by blogimus 17y ago
You youngins got things easy. In our day, we had to search uphill, twice. No simple Google search, We had to gopher to get our documents. When we finally did get HTML, it was simple. No flash, nothin' fancy like that. But we did have blink.
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by blogimus 17y ago
For another perspective on snuggies and slankets, http://www.infomercial-hell.com/blog/2008/11/25/blanket-with...
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by blogimus 17y ago
There are less than two dozen names. I expected the list to be longer, given the breadth of human creativity and propensity for risk taking.
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by blogimus 17y ago
For example, Steve Yegge's Five essential phone screen questions: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/five-essential-phone-scre...
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by blogimus 17y ago
For that matter, have you seen a book after that combines Victorian social satire with mathematical pedagogy?
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by blogimus 17y ago
The seeds never actually made it to the surface of the Moon. They stayed with Roosa, orbiting the Moon 34 times in a metal cylinder. So technically they are more space trees than Moon trees.
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Massachusetts Offers Developers Real-Time Transit Data(wbur.org)
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Energy-Aware Internet Routing(technologyreview.com)
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Russian Crackers Stole U.S. IDs for Georgian Attacks (online.wsj.com)
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by blogimus 17y ago
This blog is yet another reason why editors play a crucial role in weeding out crap articles. So scientists aren't the ideal protagonist in every story. Tell me something I don't know.
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by blogimus 17y ago
I used to have Volkswagon rabbits and even replace the disk brakes and ball joints. for the ball joints, I had to buy a "pickle fork" and drill through the rivets. It was intimidating at first, but I figured it out and even did an "eyeball"
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The brutal truth about America’s healthcare(independent.co.uk)
37 points by blogimus 17y ago|80 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
I read it and was surprised at how readable I found it (never mind being a dissertation). http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm What is also really good is Richardson and Ruby's "RESTful Web Services" book. They coine
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by blogimus 17y ago
When reading his intro to HTTP, I kept thinking of what Clay Shirky said, "HTTP and HTML are the Whoopee Cushion and Joy Buzzer of Internet protocols, only comprehensible as elaborate practical jokes." Read further if you're not familiar wi
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by blogimus 17y ago
For me the end of Lexmark was their abuse of the DMCA. http://www.eff.org/cases/lexmark-v-static-control-case-archi... After hearing about that, when people ask me to recommend printers, I'd tell them about Lexmark and their business prac
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5 Reasons Your Business Plan Is In A Trash Can(businessinsider.com)
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by blogimus 17y ago
They should add a black beast to the game (if there isn't one already). It would be a nice touch.
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by blogimus 17y ago
Because we get a lot more done that way than if we packed all those celebrations into one earth's rotation about it's own axis.
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Walking the Amazon (river)(walkingtheamazon.com)
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Curitiba's Urban Experiment(pbs.org)
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Brain-Computer Interface Begins New Clinical Trial(news.brown.edu)
9 points by blogimus 17y ago|4 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
Your not the only one. Is there something wrong with the font? Because I went to the site and tried, but just won't read it past a couple of slides, its ugly as hell. My vision isn't the best in the world, but a bigger question is "How can
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by blogimus 17y ago
Thanks. I was considering 4 partitions. One for each OS and a small FAT partition to share among all (damn licensing on NTFS and windows incompatibility with EXT anything.
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by blogimus 17y ago
Can you elaborate? I've run VPC on Mac (I bought PVC with office 2004 for my G5), but this leave a LOT to be desired. I'd rather avoid the virtualization. the only success I've had with virtualization is with Xen. Other virtualization att
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Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, now what?
10 points by blogimus 17y ago|18 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
I have yet to find the mythical "real estate you can own" I've leased/rented and even taken out a mortgage on my condominium, but if I don't pay my condo fees every month, the association threatens to take my condo away... And if you don't
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by blogimus 17y ago
"The only middle-aged programmers we have are absolutely solid" As a several year veteran in the government contractor space and from personal experience as a configuration manager, I strongly disagree this this. I've seen poor and mediocre
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by blogimus 17y ago
I wish you had an option for "Cautiously interested." I've not yet carved out the block of time to watch the demo video, but from what I've gathered about it, I'm interested enough to learn more and maybe give it a try with a wave project.
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Going Private: The Sardonic Memoirs of a Private Equity Professional(equityprivate.typepad.com)
3 points by blogimus 17y ago|1 comments
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The Display That Watches You(technologyreview.com)
1 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments

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