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by clint 12y ago
Are there moral facts?
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by clint 12y ago
Doesn't seem to do anything except show text on the screen ("Drake Test") What is it supposed to do?
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Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning(washingtonpost.com)
301 points by clint 13y ago|234 comments
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by clint 13y ago
People probably are not actually chemically addicted to weed, but rather habitually inclined to keep doing an activity that gives them pleasure or has positive benefits in their life. Not too much different from what happens with "run
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by clint 14y ago
We did this a ton when I worked at Ars Technica. Flat files should definitely be one of the things in your toolbox you consider first before moving on to more complicate schemes!
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by clint 14y ago
Sounds a lot like Alice: https://github.com/leedo/alice
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Microsoft's first stab at a tablet: Surface reviewed(arstechnica.com)
6 points by clint 14y ago|0 comments
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New Fitbits can sync with iPhones, Androids via Bluetooth 4.0(arstechnica.com)
3 points by clint 14y ago|0 comments
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by clint 16y ago
You can make the same argument for "forcing" them to learn JavaScript, HTML and CSS—which would be a similarly silly argument to make.
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by clint 16y ago
Sorry :( I made a reading error and I updated my post. It still seems like a lot of software and time to just start developing. What does passenger get me for developing locally that Pow doesn't? (I've never used Passenger before today).
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by clint 16y ago
I did this and soon my computer was downloading and compiling nginx. When this finished, I got an error and it all failed: " * ERROR: Please install file-tail first: sudo gem install file-tail"… So I did and now its supposedly running on P
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by clint 16y ago
Why not just download it and then read it yourself? Do you enter your root password when installing some GUI applications? At least in this instance you can read over the commands that will be run beforehand—in fact, Sam actively encourage
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Does anyone know of any nice online teacher resources?
1 points by clint 16y ago|0 comments
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by clint 16y ago
I have no idea but judging from the amount of real ads I see on Reddit, I'd guess they make way more money from Gold than from display ads at the moment.
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by clint 16y ago
We do it every day ;) http://arstechnica.com/science/
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by clint 16y ago
I think you probably need to ask yourself: "would I pay for this?" then ask your friends and people in a wider community: "would you or your business pay for this?" I think you'll probably find that answer is, well, no. What's my ROI on kn
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by clint 17y ago
ignore em all you want, just don't hide em ;)
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Google's MapReduce patent: what does it mean for Hadoop?(arstechnica.com)
27 points by clint 17y ago|8 comments
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by clint 17y ago
right everything is always as it was before, but you get more options if you're a subscriber. There are not and never will be pay walls at Ars for normal standard content. We'll be doing exclusive chats and some new types of content that o
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by clint 17y ago
Another vote for Sticker Giant
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Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty(arstechnica.com)
43 points by clint 17y ago|40 comments
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Python Google Analytics Client: How to use it and how you can help make it better(blog.clintecker.com)
24 points by clint 17y ago|0 comments
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by clint 18y ago
IRC, Email, Git :)
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Developer who has used the Palm pré Mojo SDK speaks out on Ars Technica(arstechnica.com)
26 points by clint 18y ago|9 comments
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by clint 18y ago
To be fair the reader is warned thusly: "Some of the nicest bits of iPhone programming are included in the public iPhone frameworks but not in the SDK. Apple's unofficial policy on this is clear: You can use these items in your programs, b
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by clint 18y ago
Correct. Best practices are that you do not force your users into any particular browsing habit. Keep it consistent and do not open things in _blank that do not absolutely require it. There are a million tools for users to control their b
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by clint 18y ago
Unless you pay for your colocation provider to do it