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by hieronymusN 16y ago
Personally, few things rile me up like a manager giving me directives to 'evangelize' products to my family & friends on my personal social accounts. I am currently in this situation. I have no problem evangelizing on social accounts ti
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
I foresee a lot of very uptight men in India's future, combined with a booming brothel industry staffed by women brought in from outside. Then there is the usual war with China angle which is facing the same demographic issues.
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
No it doesn't make sense, but its somehow culturally ingrained. Asia has a very different view, such as Japanese Onsen where everyone is naked in the big group pool, but you don't put your head underwater, no sir.
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
Very true - you can be walking through the Tiergarten in Berlin on a sunny day and stumble across a group of nude sunbathers. You know, just sunning.
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
There's this whole odd thing recently in New York where people in Manhattan want to do the French air kissing on the cheeks thing. You never quite know who is going to do it, and what the proper response is, and being from Texas its all rat
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
Off-topic: But I really do love this little gem found on DocumentCloud - http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/10404-chris-kick-ass-...
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
Basic question: where are the documents themselves? I see lots of 'analysis' and commentary, and some links to 'key documents' but where is the directory of 1,600 PDFs that this site alludes to? I'd like to make up my own mind.
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Book review: The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development(economist.com)
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
This in particular has tripped me up. I had a relationship with a client that took 45 - 60 days to pay, but they always paid. Things were great for over a year and a half, they had tons of work for me and I made good money. Then all of a su
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
I found it informative.. in an anthropological sense...
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
On a mac you might want to try cat /dev/urandom | openssl base64 | head -c 12; echo; Which can give you a nice random string.
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
You can see this in action almost every day in New York City. On a crowded subway car, if a pregnant woman or very old person gets on the car it is almost always a Hispanic male who jumps up to offer their seat, even if it means standing up
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
It's nice to know that the Sage of Omaha is/was just as prone to irrational behavior as every other CEO.
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Open letter to ASCAP concerning Creative Commons Misconceptions(bit.shifter.net)
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
They will need vastly more rugged versions for your average American. I say this being from Texas.
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by hieronymusN 16y ago
As noted in the blog post comments, using a CSS compressor for production will tighten everything down for deployment and you get to keep a nice, easy to read file for development by multiple people using different editors in a manner they
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by hieronymusN 17y ago
This is really tragic. I rely on VLC for all my video viewing needs. It loads video much faster than QuickTime w/ Perian and is much more responsive, not to mention the vast array of file formats it supports. I also like being able to tweak
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by hieronymusN 17y ago
Not an urban myth - that little joke was pulled more than once in US grammar schools in the 70/80's
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by hieronymusN 17y ago
CSS frameworks like this can be useful and harmful at the same time, depending on what your goals are. If you need to prototype something fast they can be invaluable. But they can also become a straight jacket and require littering your lay