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by graue 14y ago
No, they seem to be saying that a Craigslist poster may, if they choose, license their own post under CC-BY-SA. Why anyone would bother to do that is beyond me. And I'm not convinced it's true given that the terms of use, last updated in Fe
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by graue 14y ago
Amusingly, there is a business called Jamcracker: http://www.jamcracker.com/ and, what's more, the copyright at the bottom of their website says 1999-2012. I wonder if the naming firm still sold the name after this article!
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by graue 14y ago
I'm completely confused by the second sentence here: "Unfortunately, for one reason and another, despite a delay for a fourth release candidate, there are still some circumstances where an upgrade will not re-register some built-in extensio
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by graue 14y ago
I'm sorry, I've really tried and even said this out loud a couple times, but I don't get the pun. Explain?
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by graue 14y ago
They don't do delayed payments, only immediate purchases. So that doesn't work with a crowdfunding "pledge" model.
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by graue 14y ago
Weird, I might have to try it again sometime. I definitely remember thinking Unity's performance was horrible, but some of that may be confirmation bias (I expected going in that XFCE would be lighter than other options). And I was unaware
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by graue 14y ago
I love the idea of Facebook being "just an XMPP server". Even though I knew they use XMPP for Facebook chat, I never thought about it that way.
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by graue 14y ago
You might have a different definition of "completely unusable" from mine, but have you ever compared XFCE and Unity on the same machine? I'm accustomed to a snappy DE. I don't expect to wait 30 seconds+ for the most basic desktop to show up
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by graue 14y ago
Thanks for the reply. I see what you mean and agree there is some difference. Let me put it this way: I would feel confident my Wuala backup is secure from my boss or ex-girlfriend, but not from a hostile government. If I were an activist
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by graue 14y ago
On the other hand, if you're NOT installing from a single CD (which, by your hypothesis, most people aren't), then it really makes no difference what's the default desktop on Debian. It's easy to install whatever you want.
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by graue 14y ago
Absolutely. I've been on Xubuntu (Ubuntu with XFCE) for several years, but I tried out stock Ubuntu on my netbook a few months ago — just to see the Unity desktop firsthand. This is a cheapo Dell netbook from 2009, 1024x600 resolution. Unit
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by graue 14y ago
I think ToS;DR is less nerdy. "Grok" makes me visualize gray-bearded Unix programmers, but young internet-savvy people of all stripes know what TL;DR means. Didn't 4chan popularize that abbreviation?
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by graue 14y ago
No. I'd love to try out Diaspora but I signed up for an invite months ago and haven't heard anything from them. So it's not just a marketing problem, they're clearly not ready for mass use yet.
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by graue 14y ago
Looked into Wuala. I like this part: "Wuala is completely private and secure. When you store a file in Wuala, the file [..]gets encrypted before it leaves your computer. [..]Your own password is very important here: it never leaves your com
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by graue 14y ago
Remember, if you're selling ad space, the advertiser is the customer. The user is the product. Nitpicky, but important. Your explanation works if you replace "customers" with "users".
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by graue 14y ago
Only available in Seattle.
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by graue 14y ago
I'm confused. In the features list: "Prism forces you to use the correct element for marking up code: <code>." But the site's index.html is using only a pre tag: <p>The Prism source, highlighted with Prism (don’t you jus
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by graue 14y ago
Wow, with the "exclusive"s, that is extremely anticompetitive language; they are forbidding you from posting the same job ad (your own ad that you wrote!) on both Craigslist and a competing site. I hope it's not enforceable, but I'm still s
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by graue 14y ago
PadMapper seems to be on relatively solid legal ground here. They are only copying facts (address, price, contact info) and the post title (which is likely too short to qualify for copyright). And as they aren't accessing Craigslist directl
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by graue 14y ago
This is very cool, but I was surprised to see what seems like an obvious bug in your code. In the buzzer() function, it looks like you were trying to use "buzz_prev" to optimize away extra writes of 0 when no magnetic field is detected. How
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by graue 14y ago
It's not binary - look at the argument to buzzer() in the code. It's clearly programmed to vibrate the buzzer more when a stronger magnetic field is detected.
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by graue 14y ago
There are plenty of positives in the film — the cool flightsim, the lack of need for a physical TV, help with cooking... heck, the dating app was even helping improve the dude's love life up until he revealed he used it at the end. I think
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by graue 14y ago
Do you have a good citation for "Too little fat in the diet causes depression"? I did a quick search, and turned up a study in PLoS ONE[1] which found trans fatty acids correlate with increased depression, while there is a weak inverse rela
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by graue 14y ago
You're missing that if an exception gets thrown, the files are still guaranteed to be closed as soon as you exit that 'with' block. Imagine you open 'infile', but then opening 'outfile' fails. To prevent a resource leak, now you need to clo
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by graue 14y ago
Judging by WeatherSpark's history and averages for Berlin, the winter temps basically hover around freezing at worst, while summers are very mild. That's a strictly better climate than New York, which has comparable winters, but hot, humid
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by graue 14y ago
The title misleads by emphasizing a particular fact, chosen for sounding dramatic, without context that would put that fact into perspective.
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by graue 14y ago
If anyone uses Windows here, note that this font is going to look much worse for you than it does on Mac or Linux. I use the Inconsolata-g variant[1] on Xubuntu and love it, but to my chagrin, it looked wretched on the Windows machine at wo
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by graue 14y ago
With their (partly) nonprofit status and history of open development, Mozilla is maybe the only player in tech that I _would_ trust with my information. That's why I find Firefox OS really exciting. They have an interesting setup with a for
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by graue 14y ago
I was confused by this statement, which I think you're referring to: "Firefox add-ons are free and those for Firefox OS will certainly be free also." I'm not sure if that means there will be no paid apps for Firefox OS, or that Mozilla won'
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by graue 14y ago
I believe WebOS has its own development stack, whereas Firefox OS is pure HTML5 with some extension APIs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI Furthermore, quoting the above link: "Once we have an API that we feel that we are satisfied with, w

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