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by icesoldier 13y ago
Excellent! Thanks for the information; to be honest, I hadn't looked and made an erroneous assumption. I had let the HN bubble affect my perspective, too, so now that I think about it I had an awkward view of the scale of cities across
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by icesoldier 13y ago
Very true. That the roads between these cities mostly go through sparsely-populated rural areas helps. EDIT: Though, the point I wanted to make was that it was an abstraction over the longer distances between the cities. To rephrase my exam
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by icesoldier 13y ago
Any time I see stories of how crazy the situation surrounding the SF housing market is, I compare it to my own city (Amarillo, TX), which has the opposite situation. A much smaller population over a larger area with plenty of land to sprawl
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by icesoldier 13y ago
To me the article treads frightfully close to conflating "push email" (being notified immediately when a message hits the inbox instead of polling at regular intervals) and "push notifications" (the medium of the actual
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by icesoldier 13y ago
What I imagine for the mobile clients is that it would be a window to the files in your Plug. You can stream whatever you like from your Plug with internet access, and download whatever you have room to store for offline use.
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by icesoldier 13y ago
> I want to speak to an important question, though: why DO we continue? To add my own perspective, I'm not really driven by contributing to the betterment of humanity as a whole. Humanity in the small in the form of a community an
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by icesoldier 13y ago
This is why I added an Adblock exception rule to allow ads from Project Wonderful. From what I can tell, PW's network only "targets" by matching sites to ads by category, which is decided by both the site and the advertiser.
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by icesoldier 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun
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by icesoldier 13y ago
From the article: "I will not, in this post, be talking about many of the new VS 2013 features that are unrelated to the Application Lifecycle workflows." It seems that the OP talked about what the blog's focus was first, then will come i
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by icesoldier 13y ago
I've seen it both ways. There's also the possibility of the lowercase form changing to uppercase with even more programmer assumptions about surnames always starting with a capital.
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by icesoldier 13y ago
Is there a relation to Google Talk for those outside of Android/Gmail web? I was under the impression that every XMPP app on iOS just stopped working properly a year or so ago. (In fact, this was a primary reason my sister went from iPhone
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by icesoldier 13y ago
I really like this, but I'll have to give it another try in a few hours after work when the HN rush subsides and gives the server some time to breathe/compile the challenges.
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by icesoldier 13y ago
I love this idea and have this bookmarked. The only things that make me hesitant to sign up are: (1) I'm definitely not conversational in any language other than English. (I'm very slowly working on Japanese, but I haven't really built up m
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by icesoldier 13y ago
Same in IE9. The language list is nicer, but the instructional text is just as hard to read.
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by icesoldier 14y ago
I can't help but think that statement is similar to saying, "Letters are a perfectly valid means of communication; I don't see the use of these telephones."
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by icesoldier 14y ago
Fair enough, but what about other people's actiona regarding you? I might not say a thing about that sweet party I was at the other night, but what if my friend snaps a photo and tags me, like in the story here? I haven't delved into the se
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by icesoldier 14y ago
I was under the impression that these were the user-facing side of Promoted Posts that go to friends of friends. So I see that one of my friends liked the GRE several times. But I also see "Sponsored Story" under that line, so I ignore it a
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by icesoldier 14y ago
I had put some thought in that direction, and thought about finding companies that made DAWs. However, this space turned up dead ends, at least when I was looking. The other thought I had was indie game dev, which I thought needed a bit mor
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by icesoldier 14y ago
That's the idea I have at this point. There are parts of software I enjoy - why the hell else would I stay in a degree program with a ~20% retention rate? - but it's not something I find quite inspiring at this point. But another thing the
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by icesoldier 14y ago
The issue I have with seeing life advice posts is that I've begun to see this dichotomy between "follow your heart" advice and "follow your head" advice. And I personally have a split between the two: my degree is in CS and my current job i
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by icesoldier 14y ago
More cities show up if you click to zoom in. Some cities may take a few zoom levels to show up, though, like my native Amarillo.
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by icesoldier 14y ago
It seems that that's what he's trying to figure out, as explained on the linked introductory post.[0] He's figuring out what is and isn't necessary in building and distributing a digital magazine. [0]: http://the-magazine.org/1/foreword
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by icesoldier 14y ago
The site gave me fits about needing a newer Silverlight version. I closed the tab.