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by frankus 19y ago
It seems like that would be pretty straightforward to add to any filesystem that already supports metadata. I'm sure Windows has something similar, but on MacOS X.5 (a feature borrowed from BeOS, IIRC), you can create a Smart Folder that's
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by frankus 19y ago
Any idea if the claims of silver and bismuth being more harmful than lead (!) have any truth to them? Silver is used in cake toppings and bismuth is what turns Pepto-Bismol pink. I realize ubiquitous != safe, but c'mon.
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by frankus 19y ago
Ah, the old Carpet Bowling fallacy: “I think a new, different kind of bowling should be ‘carpet bowling.’ It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don't know why we should do this, but my God, we've got t
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by frankus 19y ago
I need about 9 hours, more if I've skimped lately and less if I haven't. I have an alarm set for 8AM but that's only because my work time is not entirely flexible. I'd probably wake up between 9 and 10 if I could set my own schedule. I coul
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by frankus 19y ago
Not as high-tech, but I once got caught writing a column of "I"s, a column of "will"s, a column of "not"s, etc.
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by frankus 19y ago
It's a very intelligently-designed framework built on top of a very expressive (even fun) language. But some web apps are too trivial to justify the overhead, and some may be too vast to want to run in a somewhat pokey interpreted language
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by frankus 19y ago
It's called the "educational discount." Or else "Mom and Dad are paying for it."
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by frankus 19y ago
Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the information purification directives...
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by frankus 19y ago
Can you give more details on getting a visa to start a startup in Canada? I have a potential co-founder just across the border in Vancouver, but I was under the impression that you need a whole heap of money to get in as an entrepreneur. Or