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by bowlich 10y ago
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” ― Heraclitus (I thought this quote was Xeno, but the internet says I'm wrong)
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by bowlich 10y ago
garbage IP-theft. This morning, clicked on a link to a video in facebook. Took me to a page where someone had embedded the youtube video on their page. And then did one of those screen-sized inlays asking me to disable my ad blocker. Steal
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by bowlich 10y ago
And when I file a warranty claim on this overrun product and the manufacturer sees that the serial is not on file and refuses to fulfil it what then?
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by bowlich 10y ago
Bought a $300 turn table that was being sold directly by Amazon. Package turned up with the box beat to hell. I opened it up and found that all of the accessories (the cartridge, platter, etc.) had been taken out of their factory packaging
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by bowlich 10y ago
Some of us don't have a local option. I live in the countryside and it's a 30 minute drive in to town, which I only do twice a month. I do probably 2 or 3 Amazon orders per week. They give me a $1 off a digital movie rental if I o
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by bowlich 10y ago
I wonder if JavaScript just doesn't show up as much in their sources because it's implied? At least when I've been job hunting for web-related work, your typical job posting lists the back-end language and the front-end is ju
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by bowlich 10y ago
I made the rounds to my relatives last year and upgraded everyone's 15+ year old PCs from "Windows" to "Lubuntu." It's like breathing fresh life into an old machine. A huge chunk of users have no need for a new
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by bowlich 10y ago
I've tried a few different methods. Two years ago, I switched to using Evernote and just recently back to pen and paper. The two big issues that I had with Evernote where: (1) It didn't really support a nice view for code snippets
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by bowlich 10y ago
You can buy single pre-stamped envelopes at the post office. The mark up is only a couple cents so if you're not doing hundreds of mailings it's worthwhile to just buy what you need. I just finished reading KonMari. I move a lot f
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by bowlich 10y ago
Sequel Pro - No native linux support Workbench - Massively unstable on linux. (Although I do like the visualizing tools assuming I'm willing to put up with it crashing every hour or so).
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by bowlich 10y ago
Last time I tried it (about two years ago). It would crash all the time on Ubuntu. Went back to PHPMyAdmin.
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by bowlich 10y ago
I find the Slack mute (away) doesn't quite do what I want. There is still a visual display in the icon tray that indicates that conversation is going on. Short of closing out of Slack entirely there doesn't appear to be a way to m
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by bowlich 10y ago
The broken window fallacy isn't concerned with the local economic benefit for the app developer but the total economic benefit of society. A user who is addicted to an app may be using that app far past the actual utility they are deri
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by bowlich 10y ago
+1 for Automate the Boring Stuff. I was going to hop in and say I keep a pad of paper where I just list out any process that I find myself doing rote, finding myself doing more than once, etc. A lot of it ends up being really simple. A six
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by bowlich 11y ago
I spent two months trying to control what the facebook feed would give me. I wanted only posts by my friends. Photos of my friends. Videos of my friends. No third-party posts. No news posts. No ads masquerading as content. No clickbait. No
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by bowlich 11y ago
Except in the United States you don't need to incorporate in order to start a business. You can start a sole proprietorship any old day, and don't need to report it to the government until filing your schedule C -- and if your bus
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by bowlich 11y ago
It would be interesting to see something like this built into the browser and then automated. Perhaps sites could send a header detailing where to send the micro-transaction. You could load up your browser with $X/month and then have t
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by bowlich 11y ago
I still don't trust them to back it up. I checked the box, still make my own local backup.
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by bowlich 11y ago
There is also travel expenses in the U.S. that I don't think occur as frequently in Europe. For example. I have grandparents in Ohio and California. Parents in South Dakota and live in Arizona -- and my employer is in North Carolina. I
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by bowlich 11y ago
I liked Flattr, but it seemed like a number of people whose content I consumed (Web Cartoonists, Bloggers, etc.) just weren't on board with it. A couple months ago, I ended up getting rid of Flattr and transferring all of my contributi
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by bowlich 11y ago
+1 for Hiking Boots. I wear a pair of keens most of the time. If I am standing for a long time then I switch over to a pair of over-ankle boots -- which I happen to think are Vasque brand a well -- put a layer of polish on them from time to
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by bowlich 11y ago
I spent far too much time trying to come up with the perfect custom build for the WASD keyboard. Ended up getting a CODE keyboard which is also made by WASD just to stop myself from wasting more time on the decision making process.
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by bowlich 11y ago
Wow. How did I miss this? I still keep Facebook around 10% for looking people's contact information and 90% because everyone has migrated to using Facebook's messenger. Cutting it just down to the messenger is a godsend.
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by bowlich 11y ago
Conversely, by working remotely you can live where you want to. You can own forty acres adjacent to prime public lands. You can keep horses. You can take a lunch break and hike up the mountain in your back yard and look out over the vast em
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by bowlich 11y ago
US/Software Engineer Work remote so the day starts at 8 or 9 and typically ends around 7. Usually average around 37-42 hours per week of actual "work"
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by bowlich 11y ago
I was on board until I got down to that figure. No way am I going to whitelist google's ads, pay $15/mo just so I can see 75% more ads! Just cut out 100% of the ads and divide the $15 among the sites a viewed. If that comes out to
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by bowlich 11y ago
A concrete description of the product being developed. Bonus points if I can actually get a demo copy of it to play around with before applying. I'm amazed at the number of job listings filled with a lot of verbose abstract language th
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by bowlich 11y ago
When I was a kid I used to get sick all the time. Out of school probably two months a year and just never really felt well ever. We identified the source as pretty much corn products via an elimination diet. The amazing thing is just how mu
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by bowlich 11y ago
Nice. Bookmarked for future use. I was going to say that my biggest complaint about the existing Netflix site is for me (who doesn't keep an ongoing account) is the inability to search for films without first having an account. I can&#
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by bowlich 11y ago
Not online. But I still keep a number of print subscriptions going (Nat Geo, Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine). It's rather rare that I find an online article that is well enough researched and written to warrant paying for it. I

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