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by dwe3000 10y ago
Thinking about WordStar always gets my ire up, not about WordStar but by comparing a word processor that fit on a single 3 1/2" floppy and comparing that to the size of modern word processors that easily eat multiple Mb. I know th
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by dwe3000 10y ago
I [think I] understand the annoyance with indicating Pi Day based on the US order for month/day (though, I normally use ISO 8601 as my first choice, also), but I think some people may be missing the point. In the United States, with po
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by dwe3000 10y ago
I don't mean to start a flame war, but I find it interesting that a site talking about CSS layout forces a horizontal scroll bar on my laptop's highest resolution (1366x768) because of the image size and layout.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
Yes, this type of minimalism does exist, but the author seems to be discounting the possibility of a genuine focus on what matters to a person regardless of financial status.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
> Small towns seem like another world after midnight. ... there's no sound in your immediate area, there's no life. What I loved about growing up in a town with less than 300.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
George Burns? (kidding - Morgan Freeman does a great job too).
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by dwe3000 10y ago
One of my favorites from eighth grade was Isaac Asimov's Realm of Algebra - I read that before any of his other books.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
Thanks for the link! Wikipedia says in brief "radical authoritarian nationalism." [1] I think I remember hearing in high school that it was, by example, anyone that believe "Love it or Leave it" in regard to a country, b
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by dwe3000 10y ago
Very well written. Thanks.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
Guilty. Even in a digital age, there is just something about paper. But I have the same issue with digital reading, as well.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
> Budgetary reasons. Why would the FBI spend their own money and resources to enforce FDA regulations? That's money coming out of their budget. Businesses have been charging internal departments budgetary expenses for ages. That&#x2
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by dwe3000 10y ago
The problem I had when I first read this article and still do today is the terminology. I am probably being overly picky, but I remember reading a categorization that differentiated between geeks, nerds, and dweebs. I still think it is poss
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by dwe3000 10y ago
+1
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by dwe3000 10y ago
Having someone else's opinion on something that works for them can be helpful if you need a place to start, but it will work best when you develop your own style or techniques. But one suggestion to avoid a common danger - after review
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by dwe3000 10y ago
CSS System Colors support[1] in Windows/IE makes this harder to stop than you many realize. I don't see it very much anymore, but when it first came out, I saw quite a bit of this. [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cs
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by dwe3000 10y ago
The RUSH 12 from 5.11: http://www.511tactical.com/rush-12-backpack.html
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by dwe3000 10y ago
I think they could solve this with a "librarian's choice" factor in the algorithm. It should be reviewed regularly, but it could allow the library to hold on to older "classics" of merit while devaluing so called &q
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by dwe3000 10y ago
Outside the set of integers, the only reals left are either only fractionally interesting or crazy </end stupid pun>
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by dwe3000 10y ago
Capitalism? Did you read the article? > In 1987, .... We reached a simple conclusion: When farmers could bring foodstuffs to points of sale — when the roads were clear of army checkpoints, when markets were held at night to reduce the ri
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by dwe3000 10y ago
> It's up to the professionals (ie. us) to make decisions on behalf of those who can't, don't, and won't be able to understand ... I wouldn't stand for this in a politician, so I can't be surprised when peop
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by dwe3000 10y ago
http://userfriendly.org/
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by dwe3000 10y ago
I think many of the problems he lists are because, as he properly notes, a great many people believe "ALL" or "NEVER" are appropriate words to use when considering CSV files (most of his points use one or the other). But
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by dwe3000 10y ago
> Sixty-five percent of your calories must come from fat and the other 25 percent from protein. It's an interesting read, but inaccurate silliness like this just made me laugh.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
I think the answer is rather simple and straight forward: just as there are many people who have created different GNU/Linux distributions because they thought changing a particular aspect would be an improvement, people want to improv
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by dwe3000 10y ago
I tried mirror writing when I was young because my mom could do it. The muscle strain was the reason I didn't keep up with it (right handed). That, and having to think more when trying to read it ;-)
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by dwe3000 10y ago
> Under a Clinton administration, my list would have looked much the same. And the political polarization and bantering continue. But at least there is some truth in there.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
I prefer sites that should work without JavaScript, but I don't always worry about disabling it. There a number of situations where I do appreciate the enhanced experience - image galleries, client-side form validation to reduce serv
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by dwe3000 10y ago
This is probably reading way too much into things, but the videos made me wonder what viewing modern battles might be like with drone flights with cameras, ground troops with cameras, and everyone with the occasional tracer round, or some s
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by dwe3000 10y ago
I still look at most of the modern, themed Lego sets with a sense of sadness. They seem to inspire the "you have to follow the instructions" mentality so apply demonstrated in the father in the Lego movie. The older sets did inclu
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Purple Team Pentests Mean You're Failing at Red and Blue(danielmiessler.com)
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