dfranke

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691.
by dfranke 18y ago
> 7) if an area is just less densely settled does that make it just as unappealing as suburbia in your view? If you'd seen Paul's west coast home, you'd know the answer to that :-)
692.
by dfranke 18y ago
Facebook has 500 employees. They haven't been a startup for a long time.
693.
by dfranke 18y ago
I'd like in. Email address is accessible from my profile page and I just submitted it to your waiting list.
694.
by dfranke 18y ago
I'll bet Tipjoy would appreciate it if they did.
695.
by dfranke 18y ago
Sun Type 6.
696.
by dfranke 18y ago
Aside from the last clause, I'd have gone ahead and said it.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Please tell me that "community" was just a typo of "communicate" and that you didn't really use it as a verb.
698.
by dfranke 18y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the origin of the 80-character width in computers is actually from the width of the first punch cards. AFAIK it was just an arbitrary decision not related to typesetting. The optimal width generally quo
699.
by dfranke 19y ago
Yeah, I just couldn't resist the snark and he was the first soft target that came to mind :-)
700.
by dfranke 19y ago
Nope. Cringely gets submitted here with some regularity, for example.
701.
by dfranke 19y ago
They've taken $5M in funding, which probably means they took it at at least a $10M valuation. Furthermore they're already a mature, established company, probably moreso than any other YC company besides Loopt.
702.
by dfranke 19y ago
W.r.t. to simply becoming a feature of Outlook, I can't imagine what else they could possibly have expected. But $20M is a pretty weak offer.
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by dfranke 19y ago
.dmgs threw me for a loop the first time I tried a Mac, as well. If somebody had just told me "they're compressed loopback devices" I would have understood (I was coming from Linux), but I was expecting them to be like tarballs and spent a
704.
by dfranke 19y ago
The remarkable thing about humans is that we're even vaguely concerned about environmental destruction. Out of millions of species, we're the only one that is. So what makes you think that extraterrestrial species we encounter are likely
705.
by dfranke 19y ago
He was at the reception the night before.
706.
by dfranke 19y ago
Haven't used a Mac in a couple years, but when I did: XCode for writing native programs, Aquamacs for everything else.
707.
by dfranke 19y ago
Yeah, I tried KDE4 and quickly reverted it. Support seems very preliminary. KDE3 seems solid, though.
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by dfranke 19y ago
The assumption that generally fails to get communicated is that the host will always give you an option to switch. You can only do proper statistical analysis of the situation if know what the host will do under any given set of conditions
709.
by dfranke 19y ago
It's a general data transfer price cut. It applies to both S3 and EC2.
710.
by dfranke 19y ago
Saturday I bitch at Bezos about EC2 prices, Wednesday they announce a price cut. I'll let my ego think that it isn't a coincidence :-)
711.
by dfranke 19y ago
By the time you slapped him down I had completely tuned the guy out. It wasn't until after the applause that I realized he had even gotten up.
712.
by dfranke 19y ago
Bertrand Russell Thomas Paine Giordano Bruno Norman Borlaug
713.
by dfranke 19y ago
I thought for a while about how you could monetize this, but I came up totally empty.
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A Plan for Scams: A proposal to put 419 scammers out of business for good (dfranke.us)
34 points by dfranke 19y ago|9 comments
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by dfranke 19y ago
and invented Scheme.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Just do whatever makes sense economically and socially. I don't think you should have any moral hangups about stealing the idea (ideas are worthless, and they aren't property so you can't steal them), but you also don't want to piss off an
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Fortress is released(projectfortress.sun.com)
16 points by dfranke 19y ago|14 comments
718.
by dfranke 19y ago
Except for the bit about taking two weeks to get a new EEPROM fabricated.
719.
by dfranke 19y ago
Try it on a 1920x1200 laptop screen :-(
720.
by dfranke 19y ago
register4less.com, on recommendation from the userfriendly.org folks. I've been happy with them.

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