crunchlibrarian

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Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt(dailycamera.com)
379 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|200 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
How many more decades of abuse do we have to endure before we realize the DMCA sucks?
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I like this idea of a "company's written language", I have known many people who are great communicators who nonetheless didn't write using the correct corporate cultural terms and were viewed as "poor communicators
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Yeah like the article says, if you have a following online you are treated quite differently than those who don't. I can still reproduce a major bug in Google search at will, it's a nice party trick.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
The United States is now a massive oil exporter, most of the news stories you read about pipelines or other new facilities involve getting this oil out of the country and selling it. "Energy independence" is one of those buzzphras
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Demonstrators block tech buses with piles of scooters(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I have faced similar paths when reporting vulnerabilities in major web applications, namely just getting ignored completely by the company, even by the Facebooks and Googles and other such companies you'd expect to be on top of valid d
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
The only really interesting part is finding and keeping OS bugs secret. I wonder how many more the NSA is sitting on?
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Classic HN, how is the scientific equipment holding up? Dust in nooks and crannies? Why I can't even imagine! Hmm there are humans on the island as well?
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I wonder if the backlash against advertising and social and the web more generally will lead to more people buying these sorts of devices to try and own their own networks and information again. Surely the cloud providers and the platforms
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
The other side of the coin (having grown up dirt poor, nearly starved to death as a child) is that by the time I hit 45 about half my high school class was already dead. Mostly alcohol and the sorts of accidents that come from working dange
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I don't understand your complaint, especially since the OC register article you seem to like for whatever reason is not the first to publish and is itself just a cribbed knockoff. Are we expected to research every URL and find the firs
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I like how this page's auto-hiding header keeps jumping around and rescrolling the page making it impossible to read the first two paragraphs. How did the web get this bad?
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
As the article itself says, you're unlikely to write correct code if you use these language features. :)
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This is possibly the worst use of the term "pyramid scheme" I have ever seen used in print, and that's really saying something with how often it's abused nowadays.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Colorado
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I'm not criticizing charity I'm criticizing tech millionaires. The world is coming unglued and they seem to care very little about the "scum" around them who make less than six figures.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Lots of successful exits recently, many new millionaires and billionaires. Not a lot of causes changing things, at least not that I've been seeing. I did see a homeless encampment get bulldozed the other day. The day before that I watc
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Really? I haven't done web dev in many years but these were all skills I had mastered before even attempting to define what type of development I wanted to do. If web developers don't already all know this then what knowledge do t
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
There's something deeply wrong with a society when everytime someone gets diagnosed there is a call for money to be sent via patreon/gofundme I'm not opposed to the concept really but you get that dumping more money to a midd
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
These sorts of disagreements and exits happen all the time, but they are usually kept quiet and excuses are made. It's unusual to see this done quite publicly, apparently hand in hand with a journalist. I'm guessing he wanted to s
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Seems like every web page pings all the social networks nowadays. The app world is worse, much more difficult to see who is phoning whom. You need to install three extensions just to battle all this abuse. Getting a browser ready to surf th