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by cschmidt 13y ago
I did exactly the same. I had a nice D700 setup with lots of nice glass. I sold it all, and used the proceeds to by an OM-D EM-5 and a full set of primes. (Free camera!) My D700 was great when my kids were very small, and my photos were m
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by cschmidt 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/356/
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by cschmidt 13y ago
He said yesterday he's not "doing" it at all. He's just throwing an idea out there, but not actually building it. In that case, I guess he can just use one of his companies websites.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Companies and products like Xerox, Kleenex, Hoover, Jell-O, that are used generically have the most twitchy trademark lawyers. They need to actively defend them to keep them from becoming generic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Nice site. I like how it suggests xerox.io. I imagine all you'd get for your $49 there would be a nice letter from a lawyer. (Reminds me about the famous Wired article from 1994 pointing out how many big companies, like McDonalds, did
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I'm sure they would argue that you weren't supposed to reveal that you were under an NSL, and that your inaction did reveal it, so you violated the terms. As the grandparent says, it probably just a cute legal trick that wouldn
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by cschmidt 13y ago
As I understand things, Kaplan was the big money spinner that subsidized the newspapers. It is interesting they kept that part.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I'm sure it will come, but I'd appreciate a layman's terms explanation of this. What is the threat, and how do you go about fixing things in Django?
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by cschmidt 13y ago
You can always rent a Leica M-Monochrom from LensRentals. In stock now... http://www.lensrentals.com/rent/leica/cameras/leica-m-monoch... They don't do Mamiya, but they do rent the medium format Pentax 6
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Hmm, it says: Which Programming Language should I choose? on a site called One Month Rails. I wonder what language they'll suggest?
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Really? Do you have a reference for that?
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I do remember a case on a mail list that shall go unnamed, where an "experienced" member of the list sarcastically told a newbie that typing "rm -rf /" would "solve her problem". Unfortunately, she dutiful
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That reminds me of another Economist article about GPS jamming from 2011: http://www.economist.com/node/18304246 That article was inspired by a trucker who drove by Newark Airport every day, disrupting GPS service ther
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if they still use it in a hundred years. It just fits thinking in math. By then TeX will be on version number 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 :-).
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That wouldn't fly in Boston. I imagine the listing agent is also making 2.5%, giving a total of 5%.
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Inspiring Music Video Debunks the ‘Fake Geek Girl’ Stereotype(wired.com)
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Don't feel dumb, you're one of the 10,000... http://xkcd.com/1053/
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I feel kind of bad for them. They really should convert these people with poor reading skills to the $600 price.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
He's the social media editor for qz.com. https://twitter.com/hermanywong
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That's a bit harsh. The article was by Virginia Hughes, who seems a reasonable science writer, who has written for Nature, etc. Fundamentally, that's what science writers do. They learn about new discoveries, figure out what they
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I like this line: Publishers Little, Brown have since issued a reprint after sales rose 415,000 per cent when the real author was unmasked.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Well, France seems to be doing quite well, according to LeMonde http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/07/04/revelations...
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by cschmidt 13y ago
If you're going to read "The Elements of Style", you might as well get the "The Elements of Style Illustrated", with very pretty illustrations. http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Illustrated-Willia
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Fastmail has always been an Australian company. Then they were bought by the Norwegian company Opera, who seem to have left them largely to their own devices. I haven't really noticed any changes from the acquisition. And yes the ser
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I did find Knuth's "Mathematical Writing" to be helpful when writing my thesis, and that's on this list. (Even a free .pdf link on that one.)
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by cschmidt 13y ago
The problem is that "domain-joining support" means nothing to me (and probably 99.9% of the world). It may be a really cool syncing solution, but I'd never get that out of the name.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I also enjoyed that book. Tom Standage (@tomstandage) is an interesting guy. He's the editor of the 'back half' of the Economist, the non-news part.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I think that as well. If I knew I were going to go on the run and be in custody in unknown countries, I wouldn't want to be traveling with anything secret on my person. Get the data all distributed however you want before you go, and j
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Your comments remind me a bit of the interface for the Canon Cat designed by Jeff Raskin. You may be familiar with his classic book... http://www.amazon.com/The-Humane-Interface-Directions-Intera...
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by cschmidt 13y ago
In case you miss the link in the upper right, his EWD manuscript archive is here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/welcome.html

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