jasonkolb

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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Why not just keep your files in git? Use a git GUI if the command line is intimidating to writers. That way you don't have to create a brand new writing tool. I keep scrivener files in git, it works great.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Well let's start doing something about this. I created a whitehouse.gov petition, let's start spreading it around: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-antibiotic-us... Hopefully we'll be able
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
If you guys can somehow enable transferring between bitcoin and regular fiat that would be a game changer. Right now that's a laborious process and the closest thing to it is buying BTC in person. But this system with BTC as an option
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This intrigues me. I'm fascinated by storytelling and the psychological impact of it, and data science/analytics is what I'm doing for a startup. I had never really considered the intersection of the two, I'm curious whe
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I've been thinking about a surface, anyone have any anecdotes about how their kids responded to that? I selfishly want the Wacom stylus functionality for myself.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Eclipse and sometimes IntelliJ Idea. No problems with either on Windows. And if you use an alternative shell or powershell you can use all the unix commands we know and love.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I'm using 8 on my primary desktop right now, haven't upgraded to 8.1 yet. Typing this comment on my Macbook Pro. After using 8 for a while, I honestly don't see why people hate it so much. I don't use the Metro stuff, an
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
He's created a Woodward and Bernstein-ish reputation for himself due to the courage he's shown reporting these stories. I suspect that he'll be the first stop for anyone who has a potentially dangerous story to publish. Those
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Just create a bootstrap shell script that can be run on any machine. At a high level here's what mine does: 1) Install git 2) Clone a repo with all of the dockerfiles in it (each dockerfile corresponds to a container) 3) Install Docker
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
What a myopic view. I think Joseph Stalin had the perfect response to your argument: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. When one dies, it is a tragedy. When a million die, it is a statistic."
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
So assuming we can one day mimick this feat of engineering, can I look forward to my car literally dying on me in traffic?
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I have to respectfully disagree. They have unlimited financial resources, which translates into unlimited storage capacity etc. But NOT (IMO) unlimited technical resources in the sense of brainpower and creativity. When I say technical reso
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This is taking quite a scary turn, but not, I think, in the direction that the governments are intending. Rather than intimidate people into silence they are actively creating a movement of people who are abhorred and appalled by these tact
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
How about "I was having an argument with my friend John who is all paranoid about the government spying on him. Maybe he's a closet terrorist." Maybe your friends are more intelligent than average, but I wouldn't lump mo
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I think the phrase you're looking for is "ad hominem".
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Reasonable, but just a theory nonetheless.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This is the best comment I've seen in this thread. It illustrates the key point IMO, which is that pretending like you have all of the relevant information precludes you from understanding the real cause of the phenomenon you're o
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I'm sure they keep anyone who reponds to FOIA requests as far away from the real good tech as possible. There's probably a little boolean flag on each record that says "OK to send in response to FOIA requests" that hardl
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Thanks! You should put this on your site :)
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
How does everyone else set up their dev systems? I just rebuilt my dev machine and I'm using one SSD drive for the OS, one SDD for data (database, Cassandra stuff), and then a regular drive to hold code and builds since that gets rewri
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I'd like an example or something before I give out my email. I have no idea what I'm signing up for.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
The proper channel is the press. That's why we have free speech. What Bradley Manning did is much more questionable, Snowden gave the information over to the Fourth Estate and let professional journalists sound the whistle. You would r
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Yeah but Bush wasn't elected on a platform of shutting these programs down, Obama was.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Who was the first US president to speak out against slavery? (Hint: it wasn't Abe Lincoln.) I think this factoid will ultimately matter about as much to the average American after we've had 5 more black presidents.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I've long thought this as well. I think breaking up the cable monopoly and making large news sources compete against smaller independent ones is the only thing that will break the republicrat death grip on power. The debates have to no
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
That's what I'm saying. After I sell my company for over a billion dollars I'm starting a VR theme park :)
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
That's what I think as well. It's either null and void or my changes apply--I'm good either way.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This seems like great advice if your customers are paying you directly. Do you think the same dynamics apply with advertising models or businesses that create a market in something? For example if I can cause someone to spend $50 and a prod
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This is an awesome answer, thank you.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Is there a legal basis for this? I do this all the time, if I'm given a stock form to sign and I don't like it I just change it--it's much easier than trying to get it changed by them. Most employees don't care and don&#

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