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by bprater 18y ago
First, it's dangerous to give up psychotropics without a doctor's plan of attack. People that commit suicide and who take them are often found to be going cold-turkey when the incident occurs. Second, I've found that when I've lived where p
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by bprater 18y ago
I tend to be anxious and depressed like the author, but I've improved over the years. Things that have helped me: There are 3 kinds of books I read: business, programming and spirituality. (I don't read fiction.) It's a challenge to keep up
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by bprater 18y ago
Pretty brilliant in it's simplicity. I'm not sure how it'll deal with all the crap that always works it way down the drain, though.
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by bprater 18y ago
Ouch. Bummer it's Java. As a plain old lamp kinda guy, I wouldn't know the first about servicing Java requests. (Not just running a simple server like the docs recommend.) How hard is it?
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by bprater 18y ago
I've always rented. While I've "tossed my money down the drain", I've been able to live on the coast, in a mountain town (wanted to learn snowboarding) and in Amsterdam, to name 3 places. Is having the unique experiences worth it? To me, th
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by bprater 18y ago
Wow! Brilliant -- this could be huge. This would essentially allow you to create one-click installable apps that could run on any service running AppScale.
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by bprater 18y ago
Would it need to be absolutely positioned on the page? If so, how do you front-end guys handle this cross-platform?
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by bprater 18y ago
"I guess this guy has posted this a few other places around the internet but I thought it was pretty good info that should be passed on." Really? Why not just link to one of the many exact duplicates of what you posted, then? Trying to get
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by bprater 18y ago
The concept is great, but the restriction that Twitter puts on the number of queries you can do an hour makes it reasonably non-useful for on-demand tasks like restarting the webserver. It has the seed of a great idea, though -- everyone ha
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by bprater 18y ago
Andrew -- I was in and out in about 10 seconds. You've been staring at the webpage for weeks or months now -- and you get exactly what's going on. But nobody else does. (Or at least the slow-minded amongst us, including me.) You may have th
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by bprater 18y ago
We have a few trees left. We can always burn those puppies up. (Actually, if you've ever been to the Azore islands of Portugal, this is exactly what happened. You'll be hard pressed to find many trees on several islands.)
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by bprater 18y ago
Stop the dragon bashing!
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by bprater 18y ago
How did Flash 9 get to have such high installation levels? One word -- YouTube. How do you get people to nuke IE6 -- YouTube. More accurately: convince the big sites to take this seriously and force users to upgrade. But committees and acco
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by bprater 18y ago
>> Chuck Moore wrote everything himself, down to the hardware, which he designed with CAD software he wrote himself in Forth, a language he wrote himself. Whoa, I read a bit too fast there and thought for a second that it was true -
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by bprater 18y ago
Again, this is an argument for allowing downvotes. (Flagging is not appropriate in these cases, since it may not be spam.) Since there is only one button, an upvote, there is no way for folks who would prefer to not have an article to appea
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by bprater 18y ago
Big foolishness on the part of your cable provider. They (and others) are going to look back at this period and wonder why they sat around watching that part of their business dissolve instead of pouring money into keeping subscribers and f
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by bprater 18y ago
This is the type of article that should be passed out to everyone running an open Wifi network.
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by bprater 18y ago
How do the police even stumble on the fact that this guy was involved? Did they take down a pedophilia source and then rip through the web server logs? (That seems legit.) Or were they monitoring IP traffic on a larger scale, knew of a pedo
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by bprater 18y ago
Yeah, it's pretty disheartening that a guy who really was trying to do something good for folks who have restricted legal access to the Internet, is hammered by the cops because of some douche-rocket that needed his pedophilia fix. In his c
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by bprater 18y ago
I've been using Electric Sheep as a screensaver for a long time. Often, I'll catch myself on the couch watching the screensaver instead of commercials. Really beautiful stuff.
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by bprater 18y ago
Committees are death. They suck the life out of every living thing. I suspect that this is why Apple continues to thrive. It's very opinionated. One guy at the top is making huge sweeping decisions that wouldn't fly in a committee.
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by bprater 18y ago
It's the deflationary spiral that's bad. A little drop in price is nice, but when a feedback cycle occurs, it becomes very dangerous.
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by bprater 18y ago
You know, I don't have anything bad to say about the guy. I understand what it's like to put your persona out there. (And if you don't believe everything we put out on the Internet is, at a minimum, part persona -- you're full of shit.) Wea
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by bprater 18y ago
Offering "billions" sounds a bit ridiculous. Wouldn't you start with a couple million and see if there are any contenders before you break out the big blank check? Something's fishy...
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by bprater 18y ago
Anybody know how they got the images back down to earth?
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by bprater 18y ago
Why pay off debt? First, it seems like the honorable thing to do. Honor? Right thing to do? In the US? I guess we lost that a long time ago. If money that is servicing debt were freed up, wouldn't it be logical that it could flow to other u
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by bprater 18y ago
I've made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling digital products since '97. It really works. However, the challenge for folks new to the game -- is NOT the product. Product is simple. Repeat after me: don't worry about the damn product,
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by bprater 18y ago
Bingo. That "trance" is exactly what good long-form salesletters do. That's why they out-convert anything else. It's hacking for humans, and it works.
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by bprater 18y ago
I wouldn't be too quick to call shenanigans on this. Information marketing is a huge business. The average joe doesn't make a lot of money because they get the "information" part but not the "marketing" part. Look at his salesletter -- it's
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by bprater 18y ago
As a network neophyte, what are the "cards" they are talking about in the article?

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