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by candeira 8y ago
Door Into Summer also predicted Roomba, but with a 50s sexist brand name: ``` What Hired Girl would do (the first model, not the semi-intelligent robot I developed it into) was to clean floors . . . any floor, all day long and without super
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by candeira 8y ago
Oh, I had missed a step in the configuration. I can now announce that Windows-only HL2 mods play beautifully. _Minerva_ rocks.
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by candeira 8y ago
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I still can't play Windows-only HL2 mods.
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by candeira 8y ago
Thanks for changing your mind on receiving new information. DFSG and the OSD are essentially the same thing, having been written both of them by Bruce Perens. Main difference is that Debian doesn't certify licenses: they ship software,
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by candeira 8y ago
You've misinterpreted the license. What it says is that the licensOR (not the licensEE) is a non-profit. That is, by publishing your original software under the NPOSL, you claim that you are a non-profit organisation. That's it. N
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by candeira 8y ago
If you never liked the OSI's definition of "open source", what do you think about the Debian Free Software Guidelines? About the discrimination of fields of endeavour, please read the sibling comment to yours. I think you and
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by candeira 8y ago
I loved a manager I had who would listen to all arguments and allow himself to be persuaded. He also said sometimes "you're right, but we have to do it my way this time", and had earned so much trust that, when he said it, I
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by candeira 8y ago
Feels more like a toy (no win condition) than a game. But this is not a criticism, because it's a great little toy!
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by candeira 8y ago
The last link is from the Paris Review, not Paris Match. I get where the error comes from, but I chuckled.
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by candeira 9y ago
Leaving alone tax implications of owning a US corporation and making an income from it if you're a foreign national/tax resident.
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by candeira 9y ago
Joe Jackson sang of "going down to London[1] (to be the King)". According to his wikipedia biography[2], from age one he grew up in Portsmouth, which is South of London. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNoOLCsq
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by candeira 9y ago
I played the demo some 3 years ago, maybe 4, and loved it. I can barely wait to get it (but I will, I'm gifting it to my wife for Christmas).
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by candeira 9y ago
And it's masculine too in Spanish. Isn't it in Greek?
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by candeira 9y ago
Correct. "tema", "teorema" are masculine because they are cultisms, derived directly from greek. Same with "fantasma" and "miasma".
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by candeira 9y ago
That's almost correct. It's not all words starting with 'a', but words staring with a _stressed_ 'a', like "águila", "aula" and "hacha" that use "el" as an article, despi
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by candeira 9y ago
I'm teaching Spanish (my native language) to my daughters and my wife, and I disagree. There are many, many nouns that don't mark the gender except in the accompanying article or adjective.
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by candeira 9y ago
I'm guessing Northern England or Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative
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by candeira 9y ago
But some people have a family, and sometimes we cook for 20, most times for 8 or 10, occasionally for 1 to 4.
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by candeira 9y ago
The article is strangely outdated on the CouchDB side, like someone wrote it two years ago. It fails to mention that CouchDB now has Mango, which is a MongoDB-compatible query language. Since 2.0, CouchDB also has Dynamo-like clustering tha
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by candeira 9y ago
Bitcoin, Ripple, Flickr UIDs already use something called base58, which is like Base64 but with ambiguous characters removed. IPFS is one of several projects adopting the scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base58
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by candeira 9y ago
A lot of happy millionaires have close to no income, in fact they remain happy millionaires while incurring in negative net worth growth. Maybe poor people wanting to make more money need to rethink their strategies?
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by candeira 10y ago
Yes, but very few of them: Bookmarks bar: bookmarklets for pinboard, ffound, whatfont, etc. Plus bookmarks for Toggl and certain other work-related services. Bookmarks proper: one folder per client, with links to documentation, issue tracke
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by candeira 10y ago
My email is in my profile. I'd love to exchange tips and encouragement as we progress on this project.
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by candeira 10y ago
Because, once it's working, you have an upgradable laptop: every time a new rPI comes out, you can swap it out. Eventually you'll have a better/faster computer than the Intel Centrino, with potentially much better battery lif
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by candeira 10y ago
Vertical card layouts look cool, but they aren't very practical for people with longer names or surnames. To me this design seems right if you're English or Chinese, but try using it with your Greek or Basque name, or with the Spa
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by candeira 10y ago
I'd investigate something cross-platform like the awesome Toga: http://pybee.org/project/projects/libraries/toga/
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by candeira 10y ago
I have to show this post to my wife when she comes back home. She told me once that she remembers seeing colours for every loud noise since she was a kid. She even thought that everybody experienced sound/sight synesthesia the same way
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by candeira 10y ago
The sync happens in an unmanaged fashion, without the user or the application programmer having to care about the state of the connection. Your PouchDB application works locally on your device, whether the connection is up and down, and the
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by candeira 10y ago
One of my favourite tech jokes used to be "Google? I could build that out of wget, grep and baling wire!". The fact that "I could build that out of Lucene and money!" is not intended as a joke gives me pause.
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by candeira 10y ago
Silly brag. I often work out of a local library where the blinds don't work, so I always carry a towel in my bag which I use to block the sun. I always know where my towel is. Every day is Towel Day for me. Thank you, Douglas Adams!

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