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by bpeebles 12y ago
The another blog post originally[1] had the phrase: "We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system when they choose not to pay for software." And like, they have this on their home page: "100% Free
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by bpeebles 12y ago
The section header underline has one "-" added, so the final "s" has a "-" under it.
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by bpeebles 12y ago
When I've tipped online for pizza, and tip pretty well, I tend to get my pizza very quickly with a driver wanting to please me (like one time an order was messed up slightly and he immediately drove back and brought a new one without m
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by bpeebles 12y ago
Of course, sometimes I still type: D.get(key, None) since I forget that dict.get and getattr() have different behavior in the case of missing keys/attributes...
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by bpeebles 12y ago
I've seen lots of people mentioning they've unlocked the boot loader on their Moto X 2014 Pure Editions (I think the carrier ones don't have unlockable bootloaders), including in this video[0], showing how to side load Lollip
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by bpeebles 12y ago
Do you have any links to actual studies that find you can get high by burning fat "even years later"? Everything I've read has said that some of the metabolites of THC can be stored in fat--and those are the actual compounds
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by bpeebles 12y ago
I'd say there's two types of "intentional" complexity. There's the complexity that comes about because we feel like some actions should receive preferred tax treatment over others. So, tax expenditures like student
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by bpeebles 12y ago
That is mostly true. So they oppose most things that make our current style of taxation--mildly progressive with a lot of deductions. So they want to make it as painful as possible for Americans so they can try to get what they want.
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by bpeebles 12y ago
I'm not sure you actually agree with Intuit. They're saying that the IRS and state-level agencies should not provide free online filing services--even though they already provide free paper filing systems. As far as I've se
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by bpeebles 12y ago
Virginia's Department of Taxation used to have a pretty decent online tax website. It was shutdown because of lobbying such as this. There was a year when no free online filing so I took the extra effort to do a paper return that yea
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by bpeebles 13y ago
The programming equivalent that I've heard is: "Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning".
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by bpeebles 13y ago
Dell XPS13 "Sputnik". One of the few Linux laptops from a major maker. I have the pre Haswell (but with a 1080p screen) and it's light and fast. The only downside, for me, is the wider screen compared to the squarer screen of
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by bpeebles 13y ago
Men can be sexy too.
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by bpeebles 13y ago
Do we really need random Atom extensions posted two hours after the first commit? Is this the shortest time from initial commit (like, it looks like this is the real first commit instead of a squash-like commit for release)?
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by bpeebles 13y ago
You could do it through redirects to from x.com to y.com/login, which sets cookies on y.com's domain, and then redirects back to x.com. Either only do it on login or set another cooking on x.com once you've done it once. (I a
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by bpeebles 13y ago
You can use https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack to get a newer X server and kernel while otherwise staying on 12.04 LTS.
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by bpeebles 13y ago
Upgrading from any Debian 7 upgrade should just be: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade
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by bpeebles 13y ago
What's wrong with uploading 200 photos to Flickr? Sharing 1.8GB of photos more than once on Dropbox (who deletes things like this?) means you need a paid Dropbox account. So even if this was in the Past when Flickr didn't have an
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by bpeebles 13y ago
All phone numbers in the US (actually, North America and some Caribbean islands) are the form AAA-XXX-YYYY, and there's a finite number of AAA (or area codes) that have been issued so far. And some types of numbers are not possible, mo
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by bpeebles 13y ago
Original source (and higher quality than the imgur gallery): http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists... and what the heck, I submitted it: xxx (argh, the dupe detector didn't see the original
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by bpeebles 13y ago
Managed with https://github.com/gmarik/vundle here are the plugins I'd say I use every day: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter show git change/deleted lines https://git
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by bpeebles 13y ago
Both _Attack of the Clones_ and _Revenge of the Sith_ were projected digitally as well as on film. And yes, if you looked closely at some points you could see the pixels on the projection. (Although _Attack of the Clones_ was also one of th
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by bpeebles 13y ago
Not quite: cw deletes until the end of the current word from the current position and then enters insert mode. ciw deletes the entire your current position is in and enters insert mode. Go ahead and try them.
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by bpeebles 13y ago
My bluray player (a Sony from a couple years ago) does this perfectly fine with my Samgsung TV. So, some devices use it.
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by bpeebles 14y ago
Linux 3.3 came out 2012-03-18, that's just less than 12 months ago.
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by bpeebles 14y ago
"Yahoo says ... is contemplating putting Axis on other mobile platforms such as Android."?! I can understand not supporting Linux at launch (but not forever). I can't understand only targeting iOS and then publicly saying you're not even pl
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by bpeebles 14y ago
Why shouldn't a government offer such a service? In fact, most large cities in America already do--parking! Most parking in America is priced well below the market value. (Slightly more arguable but still true: all non-toll (and some toll)
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by bpeebles 15y ago
It's not a really a "myth". Both have zero or a small amount of fraud liability (i.e., they give you back all of the money, or all but say $50 of the fraud). But! If you have fraudulent activity on a credit card, you're out that much credit
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by bpeebles 15y ago
Pretty cool, but is there a reason it doesn't have the actual product name/title on that page? Like the headphones and knife, unless you're a super expert, you can't tell what it is from looking at the picture. And having to following links
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by bpeebles 15y ago
I'm honestly surprised by the defenses of Google in the context of G+ pages. Yes, G+ is a new product, but releasing G+ Pages for business without multiple account support is not anything like a minimally viable product. It's just not. It

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