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1051.
by culturestate 16y ago
At work, dual 27" iMacs (one with the Core i7 option + 16GB of RAM, and the other a base 27" model in Target Display Mode) as my workstation, and several XServes and custom Fedora boxes in 3 racks. At home, a first-generation 15" unibody Ma
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by culturestate 16y ago
Completely agree. The only issue I've run into with rackspace is that they are sometimes too proactive - they locked a subcontractor out of one of our development boxes a couple weeks ago because they didn't recognize the user.
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by culturestate 16y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, everyone. I don't have a math-heavy background, so Econ has always seemed formidable and daunting to study. I'm sensitive to the political agendas of name-brand economists and theories and just never really k
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Ask HN: Best book(s) to learn about the basics of economics?
61 points by culturestate 16y ago|76 comments
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by culturestate 16y ago
I don't think Americans dislike nokia as much as we misunderstand nokia. Since they aren't marketed very well here, our idea of what nokia is as a brand was shaped by a cheap nokia candybar that was our first cell phone. That impression of
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by culturestate 16y ago
The validity (or compellingness) of that list aside, the copywriting is atrocious. It makes me feel like Dell (or at least their marketing department) is only paying lip service to Linux - I could never imagine that quality of writing showi
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by culturestate 16y ago
The option/apple keys are the alt key - until a couple years ago, there was no 'alt' and the option/apple key was called 'open apple option' by most people.
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by culturestate 17y ago
This isn't actually an uncommon practice for large corporations - the outside law firms charged with protecting IP and trademarks do so vigorously, and in many cases, autonomously. I don't think 'surprised' is the word, but I'd be...startle
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by culturestate 17y ago
Right there with you. DI vocal trance has ushered me through many a tight deadline.
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by culturestate 17y ago
I agree with the premise that 'citizen journalism' isn't the dagger to the heart of the news media that some make it out to be; that said, maybe PC should've let this particular article marinate for a while longer. It's difficult to get pas
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by culturestate 17y ago
In all honesty, everyone in corporate IT knew damn well that iPhones did not support hardware encryption until the 3GS. Why do you think Schiller made such a big deal out of it during the keynote ("The #1 request from business users has bee
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by culturestate 17y ago
The "contents are hot" label was added as a result of that lawsuit, AFAIK.
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by culturestate 19y ago
CentOS 5.1 - we started on a hosted LiquidWeb box (they were installing CentOS4 at the time), and since it worked near-flawlessly for us, decided to standardize on it as we grew.