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by branden 17y ago
Reading the description of my type for the first time after eye-rolling my way through a test was a bizarre experience. Its accuracy made me suspect that there was something to it.
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by branden 17y ago
MBTI is more complicated than that. Those four preferences interact to form a fuller picture of the personality type. Regardless of whether you choose to view it as informative, it certainly has more depth than a Facebook quiz. http://en.w
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by branden 17y ago
Okay, that makes a lot more sense. The author's conclusion, supported by the statement's context, is that viewers referred by search engines will get a paragraph and a subscription nag. It's certainly more reasonable than removing his sites
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by branden 17y ago
This is really disappointing. I was about to buy a T400 after my way-too-expensive and way-too-flimsy HP Pavillion's screen finally died. It was the rock-solid construction and nonshit keyboard that drew me to it. Is there anything like tha
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by branden 17y ago
Make your other clients happy enough that they freely and enthusiastically detail their positive experiences on the web.
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by branden 17y ago
Have you heard of the "It's All Text" Firefox extension? It copies the content of any textarea to a tempfile and opens it up in an external editor of your choice. Writes to the tempfile are copied back to the textarea. It's not quite in-bro
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DataSF App Showcase(datasf.org)
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by branden 17y ago
I think the problem with Joel's post is that you have to read between the lines to understand what he's advocating. He knows that a strong voice makes for a more compelling blog, but that caused his message of balance and tradeoffs to get m
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by branden 17y ago
Sounds an awful lot like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis#Personal_ana... . I've certainly been there (well, I am there), and I don't know of a solution, if there is such a thing. The conclusion I've come to for myself is
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by branden 17y ago
Last.fm has a pretty nifty notification system that uses netcat and an IRC bot. http://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm/
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by branden 17y ago
Great idea. I'm not sure how useful it is to me since IPython can do the same and I rarely code without it, but I'll grab it and see if I find myself using it. Come to think of it, if this were a command within Vim I'd use it all time time.
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by branden 17y ago
I personally find that kind of professionalism to be stodgy and counterproductive. If you really care whether someone uses a briefcase or a backpack, your concerns are misplaced. (Excepting politeness, of course. I consider that to be an im
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by branden 17y ago
Hah, my schedule is just outside the bounds of the BBC poll. I must be a freak. My ideal day is 12 PM to 4 AM.
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by branden 17y ago
Ok, that's legitimate. But it sounds like your complaint is really with network manager, not Ubuntu's VPN support. And hey, at least you have a place to report bugs :)
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by branden 17y ago
Yeah, the VPN paragraph had me laughing. Surely one of those 14 blogs should've mentioned "sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc". VPN is a breeze on Ubuntu.
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by branden 17y ago
My access point is wide open but SSID broadcast is disabled. Considering the number of visible open APs in my apartment building, that's probably enough to keep the random bandwidth leach or mischievous wardriver away.
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by branden 17y ago
You're misreading the sentence. ""7. Threatening user security: Windows has a long history of security vulnerabilities, enabling the spread of viruses and allowing remote users to take over people's computers for use in spam-sending botnet
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by branden 17y ago
I'm glad they put their point about education at the top. Microsoft has pretty much guaranteed that any computer education a child in this country receives will be a lesson in how to use Windows or Office.
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by branden 17y ago
They mention the OpenDocument format, which is a great example of Microsoft actively resisting the adoption of an open standard, arguably for business reasons. Yeah it's Sun's baby and so naturally OpenOffice supports it, but I don't think
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by branden 17y ago
Ugh: The job of all artists is now self-promotion. In an age in which the old cultural gatekeepers are being swept away, the most pressing challenge of creative artists is to build their own brands. And it’s the Internet which provides cre
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by branden 17y ago
Maybe your tastes adjusted to the different sweetener and you just don't like the taste of regular Coke? There are flavors of Jarritos that I can't stand (lime, eugh) regardless of their sugar content. What I took from the article was that
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by branden 17y ago
The UNLincoln campus is an hour away, but the UNOmaha campus is square in the middle of the city and has developed some decent compsci, engineering, and MIS programs in the past few years. It's not yet the brain trust you'd get from a nameb
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by branden 17y ago
"Mitnick said that per AT&T policy, his password could only be digits and no more than eight characters long."
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by branden 17y ago
I don't see how that addresses this problem. Even if people can't see each other's e-peen, they will still seek to embiggen their own.
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by branden 17y ago
Similar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg&feature=relat... A crow, given food in a thin cylinder and a piece of wire, bends the wire into a hook and pulls the food out.
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by branden 17y ago
Source?
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by branden 17y ago
As someone who is considering moving to San Francisco, this is terrifying. Please, can a local soothe me with a rebuttal?
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by branden 17y ago
Yeah I'm the same way. I'm a compulsive highlighter and I often find myself disassembling pens or mechanical pencils, or folding paper, or removing the plastic coating inside a bottlecap, or balancing my glasses on the tip of my finger...Th
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by branden 17y ago
I don't think "I pay too much in royalty fees" and "everyone should pay equal royalty fees" are necessarily opposing positions.
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by branden 17y ago
I agree that this article straddles the line, but like you point out, it's a big fuzzy line. I think it's best to just flag and move on.

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