firefoxman1

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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Never heard the term "chemophobic" before, but now that I think about it I have some chemophobic friends. Their argument is always something like this: "Humans evolved consuming only organic material from their very beginnings up until abou
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
That's a good point. Almost none actually owned one. But public perception is often what decides if a product is successful.
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Even if the reviews are positive, I've spoken to many people about the Surface (techies and not) and very few spoke well of Windows 8/Surface.
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
The people who switch to linux will do it regardless of office being available. Why not make $200 off of them?
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Seinfeld advice: GEORGE: They always make me take stock of my life. And how I’ve pretty much wasted all of it, and how I plan to continue wasting it. JERRY: I know, and then you say to yourself, “From this moment on, I’m not gonna waste any
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Right, that's why "You really think you have it worse than somebody born into slavery?" is a ridiculous statement. Would being a slave in the past be any worse than being a slave today?
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
> You really think you have it worse than somebody born into slavery? You really think we have it better than someone who owned a few dozen slaves, living leisurely on a huge plantation? History has treated some well, and some not s
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius are perfect examples of how universally Stoicism can apply to people. One is a roman emperor, one is a freed slave. I'd also recommend Epicurus's writings. Not exactly stoic, but they go hand-in-hand. See: htt
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
> "[Mayer] said she wants Yahoo, [...] to become a force in mobile-device software for consumers and to provide "customized" content for people based on their interests, background and location." I know that's vague, but isn't that th
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
What strikes me as more odd is how backward some of our laws are. Looking at the comments on that page I was amazed to read this one: > "lol.. In Australia it's illegal to sell them locked (if they're factory locked then consumers only
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
> That's how rotary phones used to work, right? Haven't LOL'd at an online comment in a long time. In all seriousness, he grew up in the era where AT&T owned the phone line all the way into your house AND the phone itself ! I gues
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
So tl;dr is basically "Most big, popular, respectable sites already implement 'Almost Flat Design'"
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Well, you load up your account with $10, and you can use them on text, data, minutes, etc. It's 5c per text.
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Aww come on! I just ordered an N9 so I could run Firefox OS (and several other phone OSes coming out this year) and now this comes out?
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
I use a combination of Google Voice (free) and H2O wireless ($10/month for 200 minutes). H2O uses AT&T towers, so your existing GSM phones should work fine. I give people my Voice number, which I set to forward calls but not SMS, so tex
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=test
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
"the "taking phone out of pocket" motion is inhibitive enough to be a barrier for a successful app." I think the same goes for any wearable tech. I find the idea of watch phones awesome, but all of them right now (like on aliexpress or So
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Side note: caching at a fixed interval is a great way to save CPU cycles. If you're serving 100req/s and you had to grab the current time within 1sec accuracy for them, you could have 1/100th the amount of Date calls by getting the time eac
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
I agree. Using touch apps with a mouse is worse than using mouse apps with a touchscreen.
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
As someone looking to move to San Francisco, I was amazed the author said it was ever cheap . Any chances it will return to affordable-to-live as a college grad in the near future?
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
I agree, Richmond is a great city and Charlottesville in my opinion is more tolerable than northern VA.
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Amazing article. The most powerful method of marketing I've seen is that which blurs the line between "want" and "need", or between pain and discomfort. Then they put their product on the "need" side, or categorise your discomfort as real p
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
I only enjoy infinite scroll on touch screens. I think the perfect solution would be paginated results, but if the user ontouchstart pulls the page past the bottom, it would automatically load the next page (like reverse of the facebook app
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Does anyone else wish that Redis had a disk-based version? Other key/value stores like Riak are nice, but I want the simplicity, commands, and raw data types of Redis in a version that could handle terabytes of data. But maybe I'm the only
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Wow, I'm impressed even though it is just a demo video. One thing that doesn't feel intuitive to me is the left/right edge choices. It's the same problem with Windows 8, I feel like if I pull an app in from one side, I should be able to swi
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Machines don't need either :) I'm guessing that's not his schedule 7 days a week. I think that's just the ideal productivity schedule.
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
The biggest fallacy in this way of thinking is the notion that your idea is "original" in the first place. Maybe you're the first to market, but that doesn't mean there weren't 10 guys a month behind you, and it doesn't mean that your idea
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
What a great pattern! I have to disagree though, (err, data) seems much more popular. Until now I'd never seen this (fantastic) style.
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
What's the browser support situation for PATCH? And yes please for Events.once support.
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by firefoxman1 14y ago
Oh, that's a good point. Didn't consider that.

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