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by funkah 15y ago
Considering the medium, couldn't the author just have pasted the base-64 encoded data on pastebin?
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by funkah 15y ago
Yeah, I'm hoping that one continues to fly under the radar.
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by funkah 15y ago
Oh, come on .
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by funkah 15y ago
"Let's have a chat about how you're drinking too much Coke" has to be the most reliable indicator of company performance I've ever heard.
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by funkah 15y ago
Wow, no thanks. I'd prefer they skip the bi-weekly trip to Whole Foods and I'll keep the $20k.
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by funkah 15y ago
I tend to think they will get what they want, eventually. Congress is bought and paid for, and if they keep trying to pass bills like SOPA, issue fatigue will set in at some point among common folks. Blacking out Wikipedia can only work so
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by funkah 15y ago
You use Adblock, yes? That's kinda the whole point.
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by funkah 15y ago
Yeah, this is awfully rich considering where G's money comes from.
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by funkah 15y ago
His bedrock assumption is that MPAA companies hate their customers, and that is why he suggests a boycott. But if you asked him the same thing about Apple, he would say that they like their customers, and want to delight them. You might not
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by funkah 15y ago
Confession of the binge drinker who wrote this article: I don't understand statistics, or why anecdotes aren't the same thing as data. Up next from this genius: "I smoke but I don't have cancer, so suck it, ALA!"
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by funkah 15y ago
This is great! I am in the used market at the moment. But, I am not looking for one specific make and model of car. I am trying to spend 4k or less and I have some parameters like mileage, must have a clean title, etc. So, the search experi
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by funkah 15y ago
I agree. It seems folks have dug in and staked out their positions, much as they have with abortion, and are now just screaming at each other from across the chasm. Awfully stale indeed.
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by funkah 15y ago
I would say you are being equally lazy as a reader. Do you stop reading when someone writes "ain't", or uses a slang term, or something else that doesn't conform precisely to Strunk & White? I'm not exactly willing to die on this hill,
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by funkah 15y ago
Right, the customer is the one in the wrong here, not the company requiring him to jump through these hoops.
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by funkah 15y ago
Short-sighted.
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by funkah 15y ago
Oh, I guess all the JS devs who work in the language every day didn't get the memo. But in all seriousness, who couldn't have guessed that there would be some Flash/Actionscript dead-enders? Incredibly unsurprising that this was posted on a
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by funkah 15y ago
I think it looks great. And, it's in my interest for websites to cost as much as possible, so I have no problem with this. I don't understand that thing nerds do where they brag about how they could have done it in a weekend for $15 and som
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by funkah 15y ago
What are you talking about?
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by funkah 15y ago
I'm sure they will just keep pushing back the vote until people on the Internet are tired of hearing about it, or have forgotten. I expect it to work.
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by funkah 15y ago
I remember reading this in Freakonomics but with a bit more embellishment. I remember that when the payment rates started to sag, he would put a picture of eyes by the money box, and that often helped the rate rise again. A bored office wor
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by funkah 15y ago
I noticed there is quite a bit of speeding in this article which is concerned with small crimes. Presumably that's OK because there isn't victim involved.
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by funkah 15y ago
But... Twitter did take themselves out of the search results. I agree with your general comment that these firms have been making disingenuous comments in public and competing for leverage, but it is possible for one to be right and one t
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by funkah 15y ago
While you're waiting for the ocean to boil, use Readable or Readability or Safari's reader feature or...
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by funkah 15y ago
Try changing "atoms" to "molecules".
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by funkah 15y ago
Interesting. After years of paying through the nose for a Google search appliance that actually wasn't very good, my company decided to replace it with Solr, and it was a really fun project. We hired the Solr project's main committer to con
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by funkah 15y ago
This author is partially refuting the original, though. It's not just saying "I give away my photos", it's also saying that it is unrealistic to expect to make money from photography because so many people have a camera and the tools to pub
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by funkah 15y ago
I have similar thoughts. But also, it bothers me that the imbalances in tech are considered to be somehow more pathological or worse than the imbalances that exist in all kinds of other professions. We seem to be the only profession floggin
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by funkah 15y ago
> A diverse group is usually more effective. Does this mean the problem will take care of itself? That is, if it is true that a diverse group is usually more effective, the products and startups that succeed should have teams which tend
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by funkah 15y ago
SOPA is actually a perfect example of how programmers have very little clout at all. Basically the entire internet industry has relentlessly and loudly pointed out what a terrible idea it is on so many levels, and yet the people in Congress
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by funkah 15y ago
Well, all I can do is wish you luck with all that. I'm an amateur photographer who could never take a photo that beautiful, but I get people hitting me up to use my photos for free sometimes. I just say no (my photos are CC licensed, but no

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