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by holyjaw 13y ago
The comment didn't say "I wish I could dictate the profit model for this market", it said "I wish artists earned more money when I consumed their product."
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Brett Terpstra [1] has a good series of posts RE: DefaultKeyBinding.dict. I always refer back to this one when I want to start playing with it again: [1]: http://brettterpstra.com/2011/08/13/keybinding-madness
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by holyjaw 13y ago
You can request a refund through Knock. I saw a link on their twitter IIRC. @knocktounlock
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by holyjaw 13y ago
I'd assume the accelerometer is able to differentiate between the sharp staccato of a rapping of the knuckles vs. the steady circular motion of rolling.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
I tried to install PIL the other day via `pip` I believe, and a warning appeared basically saying PIL is not being maintained (is dead), use an alternative.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
It all sounds good, until you get to the barcodes: > "Prisoners each have a bar code they can scan, ..." > "When an inmate’s bar code is scanned, prison officials would be alerted that they should receive a diabetic mea
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by holyjaw 13y ago
I thought this was interesting so I googled it. "Oh, that's cool", I thought, "I don't understand anything in the titles of the first 10 results." https://www.google.com/search?q=sphere+subset+i
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by holyjaw 13y ago
They're still there. Literally, on the street at the foot of the building. I was there a month or so ago. It's... astonishing to see to say the least.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Cosmo is one of the best streamers to watch for those who question the legitimacy of watching gaming as a form of entertainment. He is an entertaining and interactive host, and you can see very tangible effects of his countless hours of eff
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by holyjaw 13y ago
I like that this was technical and informative, but still talked down to people like me who aren't at all knowledgable with how infosec works. Great read; wish I could find more like it.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
> - The most important part of the Dvorak keyboard is that the most frequent English letters are on the home row with the vowels pushed to the left. This means that you're less likely to move your fingers from the home row and more
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by holyjaw 13y ago
> "You agree to register with Sizem and receive the Sizem newsletter." This sounds ominous; what sort of email have you received? Annoying, spammy, buy-our-stuff stuff, or actually useful?
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by holyjaw 13y ago
I had a nice pleasant surprise when reading this on a mobile device, I ignored the banner as to download the app, and halfway down the article, I was suddenly taken to a download page with no means of dismissing. This happened three times.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Nah, you're projecting too much.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
As always: 1. Look at the URL 2. Read the headline; surprise: it's a question. 3. Sigh heavily, mouth "no!", and move on.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Rather relevantly, this article [1] was posted a few days ago. “In improvisational acting there is this great rule that I’ve used in my life: ‘Act As If’. Act as if this is completely normal. Of course I’m supposed to be interviewing Barack
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Why is the Executive Editor of VentureBeat posting on LinkedIn about linkbaity Apple-doomsday things? Oh, wait. Got it.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
> "UPDATE: It appears I got #rekt, petition closed." What does it mean to be '#rekt'? Is it the phonetic spelling of "wrecked"?
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by holyjaw 13y ago
From the author: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/ (See the first part about hardware)
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Quite the opposite - I've always wanted to replicate that part of his site.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Following @garybernhardt (the presenter) on Twitter is the best decision I've made.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
> Why not put special keys for things programmers use, eg: Build, Debug, Step In, Step Over, Step Out, and a special key between Ctrl and Alt just dedicated for ‘Auto Complete’ so we don’t have to hit Ctrl+Space ever again! Because those
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Actually, it's the only line in the piece that isn't pretentious. It's a basic truth: if you're unhappy where you are, seek happiness elsewhere. It has double meaning of course; get out of my city because you're spr
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by holyjaw 13y ago
In practice, most people hear "Mike, your Grande Triple-Shot Vanilla Latte is ready!" and immediately someone picks up the drink, studies it, and asks "Is the a Caramel Frappuccino for Dan? I don't see the Whipped Cream!
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by holyjaw 13y ago
The only reason I was able to start with Vim was these videos by Derek Wyatt: http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Can't reply to the child to this comment, so I'll add this as a new child: Here's how to set multiple remotes. (See answer 2). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/849308/pull-push-from-mul...
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by holyjaw 13y ago
There's a meta conversation to be had here about how this 13-year old girl had a well written op-ed piece posted on Mashable. Her bio there links to hellogiggles[1] where she is apparently a regular contributer. Arguably not the most p
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Rule 1 - Never air your dirty laundry in public.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Not sure how the title has anything to do with Atlas Shrugged or John Galt rallying the world's thought-leaders and getting them all to take their respective balls and go home.
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by holyjaw 13y ago
Amendment: 'Extremely uninteresting' -TO YOU-. As someone who has had difficulty picking up real programming languages, and has only found some marginal success due to Obj-C's ARC feature, I can tell you this puts everything I've read in to

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