drinian

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by drinian 18y ago
Bear in mind that the US is almost as large (population-wise) as the EU, is a collection of Europe-size states, and we don't have to get work permits when moving between states. Unfortunately we haven't extended that courtesy across the Atl
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by drinian 18y ago
Ironic, considering that Jobs was himself asked to leave Apple a few years later. (And, of course, came back to re-conquer Apple from NeXT).
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If the jellyfish is reverting to its immature state, calling it "immortality" sounds like a Ship of Theseus problem. Although it's still a remarkable trick for a higher-order organism.
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Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake(qconlondon.com)
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BA History/Computer Science, 2006
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The reseller price for the Intel X-25M solid state disk seemed to be in line with what Newegg was charging, and there is a huge difference in write performance between the Intel MLC disks and everything else on the market right now. Some of
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by drinian 18y ago
I just picked up a Sager NP7350 a few weeks ago, in part because Sager resellers like PC Torque or Xotic PC will sell you a laptop without a Windows license (and I'm going to use it entirely with Linux). $1750 including 13" screen with LED
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by drinian 18y ago
BackupPC http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ is probably what you're looking for, although I can't tell you about the encryption part. I am just starting to look into serious backup solutions myself.
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The problem that I have with your examples is that it requires all actors, including consumers, to have nearly perfect information access, and to be able to act on that. In the car example, I think we have a difference of philosophy. I thin
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I have serious trouble believing that "the market" would have led to Citi keeping larger amounts of reserve capital around. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it was the banks pressuring the government to let them hold less in reserve. I am regi
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by drinian 18y ago
The kind of consuming he's talking about here, the continuous soaking up of information, news, current events, on subjects that interest you, is something I'm pretty familiar with personally, and I can tell you that it can be a cognitive dr
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by drinian 18y ago
Live with less, but don't forget that time has inherent value as well. Opportunity cost. Ask yourself if your purchases are giving you less or more time to do what you actually want. I also find that the best limiter for me is having a rest
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by drinian 18y ago
Someone else has already mentioned installing compiz-config-manager. This is crucial if you want to do any kind of customization with Compiz; a lot of little annoyances I've found with it can be fixed.
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by drinian 18y ago
* To install: These should be in the repository; use synaptic for keyword search. GNOME Do: http://do.davebsd.com/ It's like Quicksilver for OS X, only more so. Glipper: Clipboard history manager. A pale imitation of the old Klipper for K
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by drinian 18y ago
Colleges and universities obtained fewer than 250 patents a year before 1980, when the Bayh-Dole Act gave them ownership of inventions developed through federally financed research. I'm torn about when this should be considered a good thi
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I have to say, Android's sandboxed environment could be a big step up from the home-grown Linux sandboxes that Asus et al. currently ship with their netbooks.
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More Linux on the desktop, mostly via netbooks. Solid-state disks will probably make average load and response times for desktop-based applications significantly drop for the first time since the introduction of the GUI. By the end of 2009,
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Yeah, but some silicone sister (with a manager, mister) told me I got what it takes.
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by drinian 18y ago
What if OpenID became the default option to log in, rather than hidden behind a tab, as it often is? From a technical perspective, I don't think it's possible to ask folks to input a username and password combination into an untrusted third
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On the other hand, there was an article on YC a few weeks ago that suggested people will be much more willing to help you, through donation of time or money, when you make it clear that your project needs it. Not everyone is going to be Red
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by drinian 18y ago
The important conclusion, at least from this summary, is that the users saw the utility of OpenID once it was explained to them. I suspect that before the mid-1990s most people would be confused by the concept of "username" and "password,"
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by drinian 18y ago
There will always be new uses for more power, ones that we can't see today. It's silly to say you'd be happy to see that go away. And, yes, I think a lot of the gains in future computing power will be in parallelization, but that wasn't the