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721.
by creeble 11y ago
"what is a unionized taxi driver to do in this kind of political and economic climate?" Start driving for Uber? And try and organize a union there?
722.
by creeble 11y ago
Hugely popular, in particular at commencement ceremonies. Where the supposed interpretation is to "forge your own path" or some such bullshit, since that is _clearly_ not the message in any interpretation...
723.
by creeble 11y ago
David Orr did a talk on NPR that was far less overwrought ( http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weve-gotten-wrong-robert-fros... ) It got to the point quickly: "DAVID ORR: He claims that he wrote it because he used
724.
by creeble 11y ago
Yea, I would agree that this is really the key point. If it's a fallow .com name (that you can't afford), then maybe you'll be lucky with an alternative TLD. But it's probably a poorer choice than changing your name.
725.
by creeble 11y ago
The absolute lowest friction is to have a .com domain. And yes, it's still true.
726.
by creeble 11y ago
Yeah. I heard this 13 years ago too. http://shirky.com/writings/domain_names.html
727.
by creeble 11y ago
I think it was release 2.18, retroactively named R6 maybe. John Walker and I hacked up a p.d. thing called xlisp by David Betz, removing some of the best bits (the 'X' parts) and fitting it into its own 64k 'small model'
728.
by creeble 11y ago
So when will someone print a key-lock picker? More useful, methinks.
729.
by creeble 11y ago
Also 55, though didn't start programming until 1978. I love it, but I'm more apprehensive these days about being able to continue as the free-lancer I've been for the last ~15 years. I have a few biz ideas (and still riding
730.
by creeble 11y ago
I'm 55, and having a hard time figuring out what I should do for the next 10-20 years. Programming seems unlikely, though it's what I enjoy the most as a vocation. I am not as current as I should be, and that's probably a dea
731.
by creeble 11y ago
Only half the time? Yes, the author and proponent of this method of driving neglect this point entirely, and that it is clearly more dangerous (for the following drivers) to drive with "broken" brake lights. But perhaps he believe
732.
by creeble 12y ago
The exact title of the email I just sent my wife, with the url to the story.
733.
by creeble 12y ago
I don't think you need REST to access a static file.
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by creeble 12y ago
Go Green indeed! Amazingly enough, I programmed on the same CDC 6500 at MSU in the '70s. By the time I got there, the school had lost its EE credentials, and I was torn between a music degree at MSU and EE somewhere else. Technically,
735.
by creeble 12y ago
I’m not sure how much government has ever done to encourage innovation and investment at the local level. If one is a true believer in last-mile natural monopolies, then it is clear that the last mile should either be a) run by local gover
736.
by creeble 12y ago
A book he could never publish. Unless he got caught.
737.
by creeble 12y ago
If your router allows Internet access via admin password, you should get a new router not change your admin password.
738.
by creeble 12y ago
I'm curious about this as well. It would be good to know how groove sorted out whether the company was just kicking tires, or looking at potential competition, thinking about a partnereship, or considering an acquisition. At some key p
739.
by creeble 12y ago
OMG. I wonder if her comment about the dude losing his job was true.
740.
by creeble 12y ago
Back in 1976, my girlfriend's mother had a friend who worked for a map company and was a graduate of the University of Michigan. The company made very popular maps, everyone had one in their car. Ohio State University, near Columbus,
741.
by creeble 12y ago
Would you like to play Farmville?
742.
by creeble 12y ago
Fodder for a "Silicon Valley" episode? Whoops, sorry, you said "real-world"...
743.
by creeble 12y ago
'hc' might have made it successful, at least then it would have one benefit over curl.
744.
by creeble 13y ago
A +1 for Virtualmin. Does all that th OP's server does (I think) plus can do it for multiple domains and has a simple web ui. Free, and their support forum is helpful.
745.
by creeble 13y ago
I guess I missed the "strict dynamic range" argument. You can't adjust amplitude at all without affecting dynamic range, of course.
746.
by creeble 13y ago
Only if they're clipped after raising the level, which is often unavoidable but also often not noticeable for the brief transients that end up getting clipped. In the end, digital volume leveling can't be lossless. So you don&#x27
747.
by creeble 13y ago
That's why ReplayGain doesn't do that. It takes the quietest song in your library and makes it louder.
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by creeble 13y ago
A great article. But now maybe Eric Garland should look into the capital structure of Fender Musical Instrument Company. Then we can all get really depressed.
749.
by creeble 13y ago
"Of the 50 petabytes of data held on hard disk, however, it loses a few hundred terabytes in the same period." Wha? Loses?
750.
by creeble 13y ago
This is what x.com (aka payPal) did in the earliest days. You could submit a credit transaction to a credit card without an initial charge. It worked, but it was strictly against Visa/MC policy, and they had to stop. By that time they

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