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by cJ0th 11y ago
Haha, this is what Jerry Seinfeld once jokingly proposed when he was mocking the postal service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xR...
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Alternative proposal: Use that money to turn Facebook into a self-sustaining non profit that solely cares about maximizing its users experience and stop breaching privacy so that data can be sold. Perhaps that's not as fancy as investm
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> It could be that it was also result of the character recognition. That's what I initially thought. But then again, it seemed a bit too paranoid. The name of the service is discardmail.com
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by cJ0th 11y ago
A friend once mourned that she got too many spam mails. I recommended her a throwaway e-mail service via a private Facebook message. FB blocked my message telling me that I can not send it as it includes a dangerous link. I made a screensho
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by cJ0th 11y ago
"I like to offend people, because I think that everyone who gets offended, should be offended." -- Linus Torvalds
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Are there any good resources for someone who already knows how to code to get productive with (Free) Pascal quickly?
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> I don't see first option as a viable one I agree "option" wasn't a good way to put it. As to Breivik, I didn't know that he played WoW. You are probably right that games don't offer enough substance/n
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by cJ0th 11y ago
In the grand scheme of things this is possibly the correct answer. However, what technology can do is bring some meaning to more peoples life. One reason people do things like those which happened in Paris is due to the fact that these peop
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I wonder whether netflix et al will introduce ads once cable is dead and the VoD market is saturated. After all, they too want to increase their profit at any point in time.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I don't know but given the way you phrase it, i.e. > I would love to learn to code you don't seem to have any concrete goals. No wonder that there is no motivation! Imagine you want to buy a new laptop and you find this site wh
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Young People Are Happier Than They Used to Be(theatlantic.com)
65 points by cJ0th 11y ago|42 comments
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by cJ0th 11y ago
It does already exist: http://www.slow-journalism.com/ However, I can not say anything about that magazine's quality as I haven't read it myself.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Couldn't EU telcos just block this protocol and declare it a special service (thanks to the new net-neutrality ruling) ?
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> However, without mass adoption, it seems very unlikely that an alternative internet would emerge before the increasingly-likely collapse of the open internet. I am not sure what you mean by mass adoption. Sure, there has to be a critic
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by cJ0th 11y ago
There is a German firm which goes by the name Beringer. They cloned a genelec model: http://www.thomann.de/de/behringer_b2031a_truth_aktivmonitor... Many people refuse to acknowledge that you can work professionally wi
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by cJ0th 11y ago
That's what I've been wondering. They say these treaties facilitate trade between countries. But it actually looks more like they just shakes things. The result being a new, wild west trade environment in which the rules the playe
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Even though I am not keen of the arrogant tone this article carries I have to agree with its message. I find the space rocket analogy useful: If a rocket goes into the wrong orbit it will never reach its goal. Most people can't reach w
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Yeah, thanks for sharing. I am also a moc enthusiast. Your post inspired me to add key bindings for moc commands to my awesomewm's rc.lua. Oh and since I have no use for the audioStop key I made it run a python script that displays the
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The Video Game That Teaches Business Strategy Better Than Professors(qz.com)
5 points by cJ0th 11y ago|0 comments
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I dunno. Whilst I don't endorse the idea of helicopter parenting I think it is hard to judge how it affects kids. Helicopter parenting could have been fatal for some one like Richard Branson. But most people are not Richard Branson. Th
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by cJ0th 11y ago
That's exactly my experience. What's more, I find that people tend to rate a comedies more positively than movies from other genres.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I find that most of the time the word paradox is used when a description of a situation is done badly.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> I feel that that the article often mixes cause and effect. That was also my impression. I certainly agree with your observation that it is the ease of distribution which influenced the development first and foremost. It doesn't re
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Here I am, programming synths for a couple of years and it never occurred to me to make a hihat out of square waves (instead of noise) to have a more characteristic, well, noise. It's so obvious that it hurts! :D
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by cJ0th 11y ago
They still don't charge anything in Germany.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I don't disagree but it is just one function call. On the other hand: foo1() stuff foo2() would be two function calls. If every function has a helpful name then two function calls are more telling than one, no? Of course the level of
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Maybe writing lots of decorators helps you applying this concept when you need to solve some sort of complex problems. However, I fail to understand the usefulnesses of the examples given in all the tutorials I read about decorators. Sure,
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by cJ0th 11y ago
disclaimer: I haven't read the article very well. If you don't feel like reading some drivel don't read any further. My hunch is that this is the wrong question to ask. Tackling economical issues like this is like wanting to
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The Perils of Setting Goals (2012)(nytimes.com)
1 points by cJ0th 11y ago|0 comments
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Well, from a business point of view it makes sense for them to assimilate (see Hotelling's law[0]) As a user I am unhappy about their decision. For me, the whole point of the existence of Firefox is the freedom to customize the browser

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