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by dullroar 8y ago
Dunno - my thermostat is not a Nest. Works great without the internet.
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by dullroar 8y ago
This. I've even had an in-law say, "My brother works for the Defense Intelligence Agency, and he uses smart devices in his home, so they must be safe!", with no consideration that tech may not be his specialty, or he doesn&#x
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by dullroar 8y ago
Disclosure: I worked for various "startup" companies starting in 1991 through 2005. One got bought by a large company and made me some money, but not a life-changing amount. Some others variously went into "zombie" mode.
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by dullroar 8y ago
That's a classic, for sure!
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by dullroar 8y ago
Yup, I had the same reaction - a few seconds and I was out.
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by dullroar 8y ago
See also miki, a Makefile-based wiki, written by a friend of mine: https://github.com/a3n/miki
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by dullroar 8y ago
Exactly this. I have tons of weather bookmarks, all of them are from the gov't. No dancing ads. And their API is straightforward, as mentioned.
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by dullroar 8y ago
Seconded again. Fundamentally changed how I think about systems, and makes me smile every time someone says, "We need a new system for x!"
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by dullroar 9y ago
Hungarian pastries are phenomenal, too! Say what you will about the Austro-Hungarian empire, it must've been a great place to nosh. :)
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by dullroar 9y ago
I always think this quote has explained a related topic the most concisely: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair, "I, Candidate for Go
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by dullroar 10y ago
I wrote one last year. It started out as notes for a series of "lunch and learns" I was going to give at work. The notes just kept growing and growing, until over the course of a weekend I ended up sitting down and pounding out 20
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by dullroar 10y ago
I, too, want competition in this space. Unfortunately, Tizen got some bad press this week: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/samsungs-tizen-is-ri... . The past year has not been good for Samsung on so ma
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by dullroar 10y ago
> "Why do you want to turn that off anyway?!?" This. I can remember asking years ago, back when I had to work on OS X, asking how to turn off that freakin' annoying jumping icon in the system tray that leaped up and down a
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by dullroar 10y ago
It's all good. I just replicated all the work (setting up the account, my forked repo, the change, my pull request) the next day.
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by dullroar 10y ago
"IT...COULD...WORK!!!" - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein Cool idea. Especially not reinventing wheels but chaining them together instead. Good work.
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by dullroar 10y ago
Not quite. I coincidentally signed up for a GitLab account that very day, at that very time period, to make a minor change to someone else's project. I (1) set up my account, (2) forked their project, (3) made the change, and (4) issue
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by dullroar 10y ago
Am I the only one put off by the bad "s-t" ligatures as being too twee? It may or may not be a good approach, but I stopped reading literally ("Archer" literally) got too annoyed by the distraction of that font face. Edi
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by dullroar 10y ago
That's a great quote. Thanks for that.
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by dullroar 10y ago
"Perhaps a conscious effort to make one think a bit harder about how one writes?" Yes, this. That looks like one of their goals, and I would say it's a welcome addition. The world has enough platforms for short, terse meme wa
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by dullroar 10y ago
Yeah, I was thinking that, too. At the current price point I would gladly pay for about 10 people to get those important to me over to the service without having to count on them paying for it. That seems like one way to help build up the &
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by dullroar 10y ago
Home-rolled solution using Markdown, pandoc and make.
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by dullroar 11y ago
His "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth" is still once of the most moving (and cautionary) Sci-Fi short stories ever written. http://hermiene.net/short-stories/if_i_forget_thee.html
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by dullroar 11y ago
Later in the wiki article: "Wagner operates his various business interests from a holding company called Bright Station. Bright Station has revenues of $50 million and employs 450 staff." Am I the only one who thinks $111,111 in a
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by dullroar 13y ago
And now that comment seems to have disappeared behind an "awaiting moderation" message after it has already been out there four hours. Nice. But the above link still works (for now).
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by dullroar 13y ago
What a great way to stifle dissent - find the people most efficient at spreading it and neutralize them via arrest, National Security Letters or "other means." No wonder the military is funding this. They aren't interested in
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by dullroar 13y ago
Use a similar approach, except with Mercurial. It works. :)
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by dullroar 14y ago
Install isn't a link but a span, so you can't tell what it's doing/where it's going by hovering. Hmmm...Feels REALLY spammy, or is it just me?