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by hernan7 15y ago
Comment sparklines?
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by hernan7 15y ago
"I don't think we should feel obligated to suffer through their pathology" Some people seem to like following these type of undoubting & uncompromising leaders.
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by hernan7 15y ago
Lots of proprietary software in the music industry too. Even if you want to create music as a hobby on your computer, things like samples are all in proprietary formats.
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by hernan7 15y ago
You could install a brush seal. Some cable management solutions use them.
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by hernan7 15y ago
> Open source projects seem to succeed based more on the energy of their initial organizers But whomever starts a Lisp language is going to have the usual Lisp suspects looking over his/her shoulder. That's going to dampen most open sou
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by hernan7 16y ago
Am I the only one dismayed by how drab the resulting image looks?
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What disruption feels like: former pro musician has a revelation(acapella.harmony-central.com)
2 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
What it feels like being disrupted, when you are a musician: http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?2664517-W... This is the tale of an ex-pro cover band player finding himself out of work, and coming to grips with the realiza
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by hernan7 16y ago
"In retrospect, this was a sign of immaturity and self-aggrandizing." Or maybe it's your current self-aggrandizing now that you were given a smidgen of power.
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by hernan7 16y ago
"we know" ... "Fortean Times" ... does not compute
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by hernan7 16y ago
Sax also favors the C major scale [ ]. Back in the early 20th century, sax salespeople would take advantage of this to sell the sax as an "easy to play" instrument. You can hang a saxophone from your neck and in 5 minutes you are playing th
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by hernan7 16y ago
Argh! Top-posting!
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by hernan7 16y ago
Invented by Leo Theremin, no less.
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Mexico City, Trantor(i.imgur.com)
3 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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The Day the Movies Died (or, why Hollywood can't make good films anymore)(gq.com)
114 points by hernan7 16y ago|49 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
It's not surprising that piracy is becoming more acceptable, since for much of the world the opposite of "piracy" is "giving money to the US". (Independently of how much the numbers in this particular poll were manipulated.)
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by hernan7 16y ago
I'm with those that think these were supposed to be comical. BTW, related: the 1905 French time-warp house http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/18/france.timewa...
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by hernan7 16y ago
Well, it has a mouse, so it's more like an X terminal than a plain old serial terminal like a VT220. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal -- notice the mouse; working on one of these was "almost" indistinguishable from having a display
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Background on the current Libyan crisis -- now about that "Toyota war"...(strategypage.com)
8 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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A travel guide for African-Americans in the segregated South(m.cnn.com)
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by hernan7 16y ago
Anybody knows what the peak around 1977 means? Disco?
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by hernan7 16y ago
Some comments: 1) I don't think 3-D looking buttons are a bad thing per se. I was actually thrown for a loop by the iPhone contact screen where to make a call you have to click on a flat and non-button-like half of a wiget. 2) Some times,
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Acer Iconia, a slightly less vaporous version of Microsoft's "Courier" laptop(news.cnet.com)
1 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple shareholders demand Jobs succession plan(arstechnica.com)
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by hernan7 16y ago
If you don't mind me being a bit of a contrarian, I notice that apart from the green boxes and the biofuel ones, none of these companies seem to be "saving customers money". And many are selling straight novelty items (puzzles, racing car s
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Pitfalls to avoid when writing your next Science Fiction novel(critters.org)
2 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
"the catch is it has to be the size and shape of a hydrogen bomb" That dialog part of the article is hilarious. Too bad he forgot to add an "As you know, Bob, the government has spent $4 trillion..." http://www.critters.org/turkeycity.html
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by hernan7 16y ago
Maybe add a new (end user-friendly, preferably graphical) tool to report memory usage the user friendly way? Then vmstat can be left as is, and end users can be directed to use the new tool. By the way, this behavior is not Linux-specific.
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Francis Ford Coppola: who said art has to cost money?(the99percent.com)
8 points by hernan7 16y ago|1 comments
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An USB plug that goes both ways(yankodesign.com)
265 points by hernan7 16y ago|132 comments

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