furbearntrout

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by furbearntrout 11y ago
The graphics are amazing, but it's a bit grindy. :)
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
You can't invest in the product -- not if it's really new, never seen before. You have no way to evaluate it, so you invest in the team. The team at Color has a proven track record; if the product is bogus, the will be able to pivot. Colo
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
But plinth is a perfectly cromulent word.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1KBPZDSC3NVNF Warren Buffet-- The Snowball : the Business of Life I see why URL shorteners are banned.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Moving to El Paso.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
It seems that the peak on the map is always one(arbitrary unit). The use of a logarithmic scale from one thousandth to one thousand; yet only using half of the scale seems disingenuous at best.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Seed corn is tasty, it also has more protein.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
You don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the other guy. (and the other guy is a billion-strong bureaucracy.)
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Make it a game: * 1 point for each number * 2 point for each letter * 3 points for each symbol * first of each class counts for five (caps count as a separate class) "your password score is 32 points, which places you in the top 10 percent
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
-- Burdick ... can't recall the exact circumstances around which the gin-and-tonic laser was built... I suspect the actual circumstances and the fact he doesn't remember are related.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
XML is like violence. If you see too much of it early on, you will start to think it's normal. It will scar you for life.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Happens in Android browser, too. Whose bright idea was it that I didn't need to be able to read my phone without holding to my face, or stretch the screen so I can hit that tiny checkbox?
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Pulls the same crap on Android. "Use desktop user agent" ftw.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
The 3d effect doesn't work on my nexus one. I am a very sad octocat. :-(
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Remember that life is not a race, neither is investing.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Sweet. https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=500x500&cht=qr&#3...
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Not really. The nice folks at Adobe would have you believe otherwise, but at low color depths, low image sizes, low skill levels; the difference isn't worth 5$, much less (googles) 999$ (before 100$ rebate. Unless you are making a lot of i
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
Actually, this IS what I read for fun. (instead of Getting Things Done) So bring on the Tech links! I don't have to be anywhere till Sunday.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
I just skip over the repeats. I'm still new here so I probably haven't read all of them. And, after all some things bear repeating.
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
I have my NoScript set to allow %site.com and *.%site.com by default. It leaves most sites usable, but blocks most of the bs. I only have to white list somethinsomethingCDN.com rarely. (less than five sites) That and googleapis, jquery, not
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by furbearntrout 16y ago
There is no parody of over-security sufficiently over the top and paranoid that it cannot be mistaken for the real thing.
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by furbearntrout 18y ago
i think creativity increases as you have more experiences (plural) to draw inspiration from.