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by deerpig 11y ago
Damn good observation -- but it begs the question, why can't federated be as frictionless as centralized? Is this a matter of effort, funding and organization, or something more fundamental?
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by deerpig 11y ago
Mine is 64K or so, signed up six months after I had been reading the site when I owned an ISP in Hong Kong. I still read the headlines every day but I haven't looked at a comment thread in years. I'm still quite fond of /. d
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by deerpig 11y ago
I never understood this before reading this post, that the Real secret behind IKEA is the same as Betty Crocker. For those of you from outside of the States or those inside and too young, or have never baked a cake; Betty Crocker was a com
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by deerpig 11y ago
I wouldn't have down voted you. You stated Hancock's position and your post should have been treated as a point of debate. But I agree that Hancock's arguments are pretty much refuted. Occams's Razor -- the archaeologi
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by deerpig 11y ago
> non-reciprocal love Very true... same thing happened to me in Thailand -- 16 years there and finally got tired of the government's xenophobia and relentless efforts to push foreigners out of the country. I am an American citizen,
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by deerpig 11y ago
I have two large blackboards in my own office in Phnom Penh. I couldn't live without them. There is a shop that makes them out of wood. They aren't nearly as nice as a proper ceramic coated steel chalkboard (they still make thes
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by deerpig 11y ago
We're working on a project to use open compute racks and servers in a 20' shipping container on one end and a swamp cooler using evaporative media instead of a mister on the other end. It's similar to SGI's discontinued
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by deerpig 11y ago
Org-mode has very good support for plain text tables -- which can be converted into multiple formats. Org-mode tables are pretty cool, bordering on being a spreadsheet... It's worth watching a demo, even if you never use it. https:&#
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by deerpig 12y ago
I run into this problem quite often. Has anyone proposed creating an alias for each character that indicated that it was chinese, japanese, or korean? In this way you could mix words within documents and when it is rendered each language c
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by deerpig 12y ago
> THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS JUST US That quote was used in the Discworld novel Mort in 1986, when death was talking to his apprentice. According to Wikipedia, Ruthless Rap Assassins' first album was in 1990 and Reaper Man came
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by deerpig 12y ago
Isn't this just a new twist on time sharing, but in places that people who haven't lived abroad think are "cool"? $1,600 is more than a little pricey....
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by deerpig 12y ago
I've been doing 80hrs a week a lot longer than you. It can be done, it's not always possible to cut down your hours. But do get out of pressure cookers like SF. I did it for 10 years in Hong Kong, it will kill you. Move to a pl
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by deerpig 12y ago
I wonder why so many commenters seem to think that abolishing time zones requires a totalitarian government. The United States or Canada could do exactly the same thing, if they had the political will to do it.... afaik there is nothing in
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by deerpig 12y ago
AFAIK this is not a government program, it's being done by an NGO. I've seen this story pop up a few times in the last months, but after four years in Cambodia I've yet to see one, probably because it's a rural program.
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by deerpig 12y ago
I understand the he used the term foreign as a literary device. But it's a very broad brush to use to paint a very complex concept. I permanently left the states in my mid-20's. I've now lived in east asia for 30 years. I a
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by deerpig 12y ago
Check out Pilog which is a query language DSL for working with picolisp's built-in databases.... I'd be interested in hearing from people with more knowledge of SQL than I do to see how they compare.
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by deerpig 12y ago
There are a many places in the world where this approach would work and where regulation is not so onerous. Not everyone lives in the United States. And, as your comment seems to indicate, that is a good thing :)
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by deerpig 12y ago
The last time I visited the States I forgot that I had a half eaten tuna sandwhch that I'd bought in the departure lounge in Bangkok. I was detained for an hour and threatened with fines and jail time! An sweet elderly woman from Hon
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by deerpig 12y ago
A browser interface for reading can easily be done by exporting to html. There is an option to output in a texinfo-like interface,with prev next and up navigation. Latex equations, charts, images and graphs (if you want to learn a little
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by deerpig 12y ago
You obviously have thought about this and care about the subject deeply. But you haven't challenged the assumptions behind the system. It's not that the system is broken, it's that the system can't handle the rate of ch
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by deerpig 12y ago
I lived in HK during this period, and the only three times I visited KWC was for dental work.... intense place... like mongkok or samshuipo on on crystal meth... I've been in places worse, but it was not a place for the feint of hear
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by deerpig 12y ago
Yup, following the herd is the best way to go. Especially if it means that everyone bigger than you can afford to hire the best and brightest at salaries you can't even dream of matching....
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by deerpig 12y ago
There is something really perverse about the assumptions behind this post. Is success only a metric? It reminded me of the line in the Movie Amadeus, "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's q
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by deerpig 12y ago
>I know you're being sarcastic So you say, but then you go on as if it had been serious. The comment was meant to be more satirical than sarcastic. The point being, that trying to cash in on the collapse of a city that had been on
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by deerpig 12y ago
US$1500 for something that we cobble together here in Cambodia from rubbish because we don't have any money? You have rubbish from an industrial collapse? We have rubbish from a fucking genocide! Now THAT is furniture with a story! W
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by deerpig 13y ago
Why is everyone looking at VR in terms of what exists? VR is not gaming, though it shares many aspects of gaming. VR is not social, though it will overlap with a lot of how we use social today. It also won't be the Web, though, if i
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by deerpig 13y ago
But a lot of technologies that could be used for VR, are free, VRML and Web3D, OpenGl etc.
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by deerpig 13y ago
Conformity and non-conformity are just two sides of the same coin, they are both marketing statements. Einstein was the opposite, he had 5 sets of the same suit so that he didn't have to waste time thinking about his wardrobe. He woul
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by deerpig 13y ago
Weird, I just get plain text. This links work, but no color.

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