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by gills 16y ago
We learned just about the same lesson (maybe not so far as ditching the insurance...) while backpacking the globe a year ago. Amazing the kind of junk we've shed that used to be 'important' or 'valuable.'
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by gills 16y ago
Does anyone else wonder if Facebook churns their policies just to get disinterested and annoyed users to sign in one more time to fix their settings?
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by gills 16y ago
Yes, my boss did thank me. Thank you, self.
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by gills 16y ago
Agreement between private parties != legislation. Why is this simple notion mentioned nowhere in the EFF letter?
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by gills 16y ago
Well I liked your comment but the droid screen isn't as accurate as i'd like on those tiny voting arrows. Sorry about that.
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by gills 16y ago
As in "see, look! VAT is waaaaay simpler than this tax system. argh.
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by gills 16y ago
An important topic to keep in mind. We...or a distant future generation...will probably need to develop alternatives and agressive recycling. I wonder when we will reach "peak peak-resource stories"?
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by gills 16y ago
I did 4 months coding on the eeepc while traveling. Most working time was on transportation which usually meant no internet. I got used to the small keyboard, and ubuntu/bash/emacs was a solid environment. The only notable downsides were
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by gills 17y ago
These agreements are pretty normal. As others have already pointed out, suggest your friend talk to a lawyer. And don't sign any fresh agreements prior to that conversation. Quite a few states have laws limiting the scope in both time a
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by gills 17y ago
Step 1. Make private investment difficult and costly. Step 2. Save the day with gov small business investment. 3. Pick winners based on political agenda. There's more than one way to build a command economy...
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by gills 17y ago
Or, are they opening the door for you to profit from selling access to a utility map reduce cluster focused on their data set?
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by gills 17y ago
git diff-and-fix-hubris-and-corruption-but-oh-wait-not-really government/legislation/intentional_obfuscator.rb ?
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by gills 17y ago
Oh to be content climbing the ladders built by others.
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by gills 17y ago
You mean mall cops and parking nazis are going to be floating around in these things? Great...
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by gills 17y ago
Narrowest scope seems to be pretty standard practice, as long as that jibes with the language (ex. javascript's function scope). But...there are probably more important battles to choose to fight during your project.
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by gills 17y ago
That quote seems to amount to "download the damn ads anyway, even though it'll be a cold day in hell that you find one useful, so we can get paid." Am I the only person to whom that seems arbitrarily close to coercing users into participat
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by gills 17y ago
"Circumventing payment" really is not in this case. It's the other half of the price-finding mechanism in the marketplace for content, which is suspiciously missing from option 1 above. Every price is negotiable, and in this case some sma
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by gills 17y ago
I guess all [ illegitimate ] governments [ murder their own citizens ] (and worse) on a routine basis. There. Fixed it for ya.
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by gills 17y ago
I recently opted to swap jqplot for google vis for some reporting functionality. Losing the annotated timeline was painful, but I think, in the end, workable (jqplot can link the zoom together on two charts so that one of them is the thumb
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by gills 17y ago
Labeling him a terrorist draws attention to his message.
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by gills 17y ago
Robot of the future == the ghost of java programs past? :p
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by gills 17y ago
"spider pig, spider pig, doin' whatever a spider pig does"...:)
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by gills 17y ago
I have yet to meet an individual who has, in the last 10 years, both remodeled a kitchen and adopted an austere entertainment budget (in which I include restaurants and movies).
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by gills 17y ago
Doesn't matter when you're talking about sustainable debt-to-income ratios. Can't afford it == Can't afford it, no matter the quality.
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by gills 17y ago
And...queue Amazon publishing house in 3...2...1...?
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by gills 17y ago
quiet, peasant!
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by gills 17y ago
Indeed, mine as well.
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by gills 17y ago
The ergonomics are still going to be horrible crouching over that thing for hours on end. It may be possible but it sounds painful.
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by gills 17y ago
This seems tautological in the mainstream thought? Degrees of these behaviors are often used to identify geeks in the first place.
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by gills 17y ago
Population ponzi a sustainable productive economy does not make.

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