jamesbkel

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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Definitely agree that it's easy to burn through the good streaming material and hit a roadblock where it's only worth checking news additions. I think in addition to that, there are certain people that still go online on Sunday/Monday to or
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Back in High School I wanted to get a bit of IS experience, so I volunteered in the IS dept of a nearby hospital. Turned out, my job was to format all 10-20K of the old Windows95 installation floppies they had sitting around (this was 2000-
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Mostly agreed (just speaking for myself) on your #1. Could not agree more on #2-4. Still, I'm a bit uncertain how Circles will pan out once G+ gains traction, but it's without a doubt more manageable than FB.
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Not in a web device/timeframe combination to give this a proper look, but definitely like what I briefly had a chance to read. Already saved to revisit later. For anyone else that enjoyed this and is not aware of Parallel Sets: http://eage
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Agreed. I've more or less stopped buying any new iOS apps. Having had an iPhone for just under three years now, I've basically found a solution for anything I care about using my phone for. However, I've noticed that I regularly hear about
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
My only-slightly-educated guess based off what I've read on this (read a few mentions of this story over the past week) is that while the child-sized trachea wouldn't just stop working/become disconnected, most likely there would be a later
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Not to be a jerk, but if you're going to start offering opinions on evolution, at least get it right and not refer to the "Homo sapien" species.... it's the "Homo sapiens" species. Again, not trying to give you hard time, but at least for m
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Agreed. I definitely have more than 1GB of email, but asking one would need/use that amount of storage is a perfectly legit question.
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
I'm not sure if it's simply coincidence, but I've noticed that while most new ATMs (in the US) are swipe only, it seems that on ATMs that allow deposits the machine retains the card. I'm not sure if there's a reason the card is retained for
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
I was OK with the MS deal, but now I am seriously reconsidering paying for my Sype #. I still use facebook on occasion for purely trivial/social reasons: birthday parties, holidays, checking to see if there are any random friends who serend
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Taza chocolate, perhaps? Great stuff.
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
While I agree with your general sentiment (I love living in Cambridge, right between MIT and Harvard), it would be a mistake to get too wrapped up in tech and ignore what has historically and still is arguably Boston's greatest resource: te
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
>"I do agree that it's important not to fetishize leadership and never to forget the team gets much credit too, but over the years my estimation of the importance of true leadership has been going consistently up, not down." Agreed. I'v
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
I agree that it reeks of BS, but I had never heard of this. Thanks for the link.
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Indeed, this is exactly my case: 10-100's GB of data distilled down to 1GB output at most, including extra diagnostics which are not always needed. One possible advantage for Amazon could be, at least in my use case, that I may be inclined
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Well, technically you (the consumer) should be recording your Amazon purchases and paying the state your self-calculated sales tax. So, the rate does not change, only the responsibility for ensuring it is paid. That said, almost no one both
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
I agree, it seems silly not to pull the local stuff immediately. Of course, that doesn't exactly align with Google's goal of getting you to their site.
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
I'm not a regular Safari user, so I'm not 100% if this is true. But if I recall Safari doesn't return search results alongside the "most frequented sites" in autocomplete. Maybe pulling up likely searches from Google adds some time than the
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
One thing to bear in mind is that energy production is MUCH more efficient when done at scale (i.e. power plant) than having lots of little power plants (i.e. internal combustion engines). There's still the issue of transporting the energy,
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
That is a truly ridiculous chart. Another sign that it's complete BS is they describe the growth as "exponential" yet the trendline appears linear and the axis is not logarithmic. I think the author is conflating "exponential" with "really
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
The article makes a decent (if rather convoluted) point. However, the advertisements and "buy our clothing" section really push it over the edge for me. (in case you haven't seen the site, I'm referring to the content of what is listed abov
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
I believe he's referring to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Of course, wouldn't that also mean that on days that you commute to work you're paying income tax in MA plus the above-average NH property tax?
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
This is very good for learning (and then using) knowledge quickly/in a short time frame. This is basically how I worked when at university. However, my siblings don't work this way... they take a long time and work quite hard when it comes
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
It would be helpful to have an actual GPA. I'm really not sure what a GPA between A and A+ even means. At my university there was no +/- distinction.
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Not directly related to jailbreaking, but this link on the sidebar of the OP is interesting. Published 2 days prior to iOS5 announcement. Depending on how you look at it 6-8 of the "must download first" apps are now part of iOS5. http://ww
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Same here, also used PkgBackup to sync to Dropbox. Although I expect that will still be around since it also supports syncing non-App Store applications and settings.
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-upda...
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I had been using this a few months ago, but I kept running into formatting issues when the article arrived on the kindle. Particularly with advertisements. I don't necessarily need ads removed (but that's nice), but often an ad would be com
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by jamesbkel 15y ago
Interesting take, hadn't thought of that at all. Something along those lines would definitely be boon to AAPL or others penetrating that sort of market. However, we all know the software on smartphones are if not trivially, at least often m

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