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by groaner 17y ago
Couldn't help but recall this pic I saw a while ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thevoyagers/518750492/
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by groaner 17y ago
Do I hear a call for the Erlang defense mechanism to be activated?
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by groaner 17y ago
Honest question: what does it really take to get an affiliate account shut down? If I understood how this works, it simply replaces the URL of the affiliate link on the page I'm viewing. If that's all it takes to redirect the affiliate pay
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by groaner 17y ago
On the contrary, I think they understand exactly what this site is about and are happy to demonize it, possibly to the extent that they can get the powers that be to introduce restrictions on online video so that we can all go back to getti
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by groaner 17y ago
> If nerds become the dominant consumer of any given entertainment, it's fucking doomed . I'm not sure I understand this statement. I don't see the gaming industries (card-, board-, and video- varieties) going out of business. I'd ev
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by groaner 17y ago
I have to agree; I can sense the schadenfreude all over the place and it's getting annoying.
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by groaner 17y ago
Looks like Jason Fox is fated to go work for Big Blue in the future.
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by groaner 17y ago
Somewhat OT: is it just me or does anyone else find it utterly ironic that scribd, a site dedicated to helping people avoid dealing with the PDF browser plugin mess, is intentionally going through the trouble of converting their source docu
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by groaner 17y ago
Intentional or not, all that matters is the public perception of what Google has done here. If they make me feel betrayed, then it's as good as betrayal. That unpology that they posted certainly isn't helping, either.
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by groaner 17y ago
I find it particularly annoying that society in general, not just marketers, tends to pressure people into having stuff. Nobody respects the "miser" who is earning decent money and not spending it by buying things. I get a lot of flak fro
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by groaner 17y ago
Perhaps we can expect more of this in the future: "We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8237558.stm
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by groaner 17y ago
It's not surprising that there would be namespace collisions given the thousands of programming languages there are out there and the limited number of "cool" names available. I suspect someone at Google could have merely consulted http:/
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by groaner 17y ago
Quite a bit of vitriol in there, but it seems it would more appropriately be directed at lousy journalism rather than bemoaning the state of entrepreneurship. While the BusinessWeek article claims to evaluate on "potential for growth," the
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by groaner 17y ago
Interesting, though I would suspect another factor at work here: people who choose to continue working past retirement do so because they find their work fulfilling. That can work wonders for their emotional (and even physical) well-being.
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by groaner 17y ago
The update mechanism seems to imply a 4GB+ download each time. Surely there's a way to apply patches?