dedward

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by dedward 14y ago
This. While it's true many people buy Apple gear because of branding and image, well, that's marketing for you. That's how retail works. As a well seasoned computer guy, I've chosen every single mac I've purchased over the last number of
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by dedward 14y ago
Given I'm sure many people here have anecdotes about little snippets they wrote in a short amount of time that ended up in use for a decades, even though the code was crappy (someone tell me I'm not alone here...) - I'd be willing to bet s
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by dedward 14y ago
Have to agree... Further - it's been said before - when it comes to time -vs- money - you can always find a way to make more money if you need it - but what you can't do is make more time - time goes by whether you use it or not. If I have
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by dedward 14y ago
It's always okay to politey and professionaly not waste people's time. Don't come across as judgemental, angry, or anything similar or you risk burning bridges you may not even realize you have. From the brief description, it sounds like t
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by dedward 14y ago
unless I'm mistaken, that's a misinterpretation - private parties can conduct business in any way they mutually agree upon, including straight up barter. 31 U.S.C Sec 5103 only states what is legal tender - and that only comes into force if
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by dedward 14y ago
Us 115wpm qwerty guys aren't "reasonably fast" - we're way up there - and to be sure, the only reason I have to improve my speed is because it's a sort of hobby.... it won't help me code better. Being able to type with my left hand faster t
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by dedward 14y ago
As much as Im' a fan of studio monitors - they're built for the sound engineer to do his work, not blow his hearing, and hear the details he needs to hear. He's not producing music to be listened on those speakers, though - he's producing
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by dedward 14y ago
But is it not true that the tools necesary for decent recording are only getting cheaper and more accessible? I'm not suggesting a crappy mic and no brains is all it takes to produce a record, but your home PC these days can handle the mixi
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by dedward 14y ago
Yup - and to be fair, there were, especially earlier on, some CDs that were mastered beautifully, and sound just fantastic on a half decent setup (no crazy stuff... just decent speakes and a plain old amp). I recall hearing some Pink Floyd
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by dedward 14y ago
On the upside - now I know where to find an actual record store, even if it's across town...
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by dedward 14y ago
It's not like banks get a choice - more like lawmakers have yet to force paypal into regulation.
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by dedward 14y ago
EasyMotion is really only good for getting to something you are staring right at on the screen.... I want to go THERE.. not meant as a general search or anything like that... and doesn't help get off the screen, for sure.
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by dedward 14y ago
It really depends on the type of tick and the area you live in.. in some places they are harmless, others they are known to carry things that absolutely need treatment...
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by dedward 14y ago
in principle, yes. In fact, that's not how things really work...
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by dedward 14y ago
IF you are the author you are free to license your work under as many licenses as you want, and not bound by the GPL at all - you inherently have that right. The rest - agreed.
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by dedward 14y ago
A good fact to keep in mind is that ZFS is meant to run on adequate hardware. ECC Ram (ZFS is more prone to corruption from random memory errors than most other filesystems, it assumes your ram is reliable), drives that don't lie about wri
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by dedward 14y ago
As a tourist, NYC was pretty awesome, far better than I expected. Then again, it's awfully hard to generalize about a city that has the population of my country.
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by dedward 14y ago
It shouldn't - but it being NYC, and being a veteran reporter for the NYT, with your classic credentials just drives the point home even harder as there's no room to debate whether it was journalism or not....
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by dedward 14y ago
the same tools that would trivialize creating such a virus would also trivialize a cure.
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by dedward 14y ago
Dig around - the 16 gig aftermarket upgrade may have been confined to some early 2011 mbp's - the 13" for sure (mine's on the way)
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by dedward 14y ago
Odd - I've been using an 8 gig mbp with swap disabled and I've yet to crash due to running out of ram. That's running a few browsers, editors, VM instances, possibly photoshop for some tweaking. Beachballs are very rare and would be due t
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by dedward 14y ago
you sure it's the page file? page file or hibernation (safe sleep) file? Memory swaps to /var/vm/pagefile0 etc.... unless you disabled it deliberately through a 3rd party tool or command line, your macbook will dump all of RAM to disk as s
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by dedward 14y ago
It's sad that we have to assume the worst, isn't it? I expect honesty in business dealings, large or small. That doesn't preclude me from having some mean lawyers on my side to ensure I'm covered, but the up-front negotiations aren't driv
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by dedward 14y ago
Doesn't come near unfair practices though - nobody is being muscled out. They aren't using their market position to force anyone out - unless you want to pretend that deciding who can and can't use their services for whatever purpose is som
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by dedward 14y ago
Does it need ot be copyrightable in order for you to agree to contractual terms about something?
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by dedward 14y ago
Seems to me that would only apply to the specific instance of content you posted on CL. If you create another post somewhere else, just make it different - it's not a work derived from that content.. it's derived from facts that you already
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by dedward 14y ago
You have no voting rights, but if someone wants to buy the company, you do own a piece of it. it's not much different than, say, a 2 person company where one person has the majority vote. The second person's vote is worthless anyhow - but
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by dedward 14y ago
This situation is far more common than most people may realize, and has been for a long time. Lots of us have been potential future millionaires only to watch stock prices fall before we could, or did, exercise stock options.
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by dedward 14y ago
Does this not set things up for a hash collision? They do exist, after all... if this scales to global proportions using SHA256 without verification for deduplication (if I read this correctly) is a risk.
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by dedward 14y ago
Companies that rely on a third-party API that they isn't contracted and paid for aren't sustainable.... if it's free, it can be taken away. Unless I'm missing something and he was paying twitter for this.....

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