jcurbo

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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   I don't think Marco is too arrogant, just highly opinionated (like the way he doesn't want to support Android - he just isn't interested in that environment, and really like Apple), but I wish they'd talk more about Building and Analyzing a
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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   Yes, you do - in one of the Build and Analyze podcasts, Marco mentioned that he didn't support that behavior and probably wasn't going to anytime soon. I think it was in a discussion about Readability (which will do that), but I don't reme
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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   Actually I've read in several places that Steve Jobs actively admired and wanted to emulate Sony, so the uniform thing is not surprising. There's some info in this interview with John Sculley: http://www.cultofmac.com/63295/john-sculley-o
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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   Is there anything like alterslash.org for HN in an RSS feed? A link to the article plus the top 5 comments or so would be great to pull in an RSS reader for on-the-go reading.
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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   I moved to an xmonad based environment but I still keep a gnome-panel on screen, so it's kind of a hybrid environment.
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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   I was going to look up most of them anyway, so I went ahead and made a list. No affiliate link though, but I don't mind. http://amzn.com/w/1PVAVBE9JOW4Z I am open to suggestions for changes, since some of the books are older there are mu
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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   He's got another novel that deals with a unique world - Matter ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Matter_%28nov... ) takes place on/in a shellworld.
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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   Indeed, I entered college for CS in 1998 and Slashdot was my main source of tech news for many years. (userid #132!) The comments would actually have more info on the story, or even someone related to the story itself posting (e.g. Carmac
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   by jcurbo 15y ago

   Felt in Montgomery County, MD. (just north of DC) House started shaking, I thought it was a train passing at first, until it didn't stop... and got stronger. I was on the phone with my wife, an hour away in MD driving this way, and she f
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    by jcurbo 15y ago

    Maybe Weather Underground? http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML looks decent. I use their regular pages all the time.
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    by jcurbo 15y ago

    I've only lived in the DC area for 6 mo. or so, but I've been to the Borders in Silver Spring, North Bethesda, Bethesda, and downtown and thought they were horrible, at least on price and probably on selection too. The B&N near Metro Ce
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    I was hoping this would be about Blizzard or battle.net, oh well. My own network machines are all named after space probes: pioneer, skylab, mercury, surveyor, gemini, apollo, voyager, etc. The university I went to (www.hsu.edu) named al
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Yeah, I've seen two launches from Tampa (including the last night launch), and you can see things pretty well. This video blows it away though, I would have loved to be on that plane.
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Too bad really, at first I wondered if it was versioning built into the filesystem, like VMS used to do, but more transparent. We'll just have to wait for apps to take advantage of the functionality.
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    I held out for several months but broke down in July and picked one up as a reward to myself for getting a job :) I'm jumping right on the iPad 2 when it comes out though. I'll just sell my old iPad, thanks to the good resale value of Appl
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Was Borders as widespread as B&N? I've lived in Arkansas, Ohio and DC and I've only seen a Borders in DC, while I've seen and shopped at a lot of B&Ns.
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Went into the Borders in North Bethesda, MD today to see what they had on sale. Lots of STORE CLOSING! signs and various sections of the store were on sale from 20-40% that I saw. However, every book I thought interesting, I compared to A
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Kindle magazine subscriptions are only available for the Kindle hardware itself, IIRC.
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    I loved my 770. Still have it in a box somewhere. It had a great browser for its time and made a good ebook reader. Vastly foreshadowed my use of an iPhone today. That's all I used it for though and at some point I shelved it.
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    There was a good discussion in the Hypercritical podcast by John Siracusa and Dan Benajamin about Spaces possibly being dead in 10.7. It was in episode 3: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/3
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    At least one story I know of that uses this plot device, at least in its backstory, is David Weber's Honor Harrington books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Kingdom_of_Manticore#Histo...
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Well, "amazon" is from Greek mythology and wasn't really invented recently, but the rest of your point still stands.
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Pretty sure it's just the normal "works only with IE" stance of most Microsoft stuff. I did some testing with Firefox and Sharepoint for work to see what doesn't work and it's fairly extensive. The worst issue stopping non-techies is that
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Music on iTunes no longer has DRM.
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Same here. I was in Goonfleet for 2 years, it was a blast :)
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    Thanks a lot, this was bugging me the other day and I was starting to brainstorm how I could filter things. This is perfect!
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    by jcurbo 16y ago

    No custom server support that I can see, alas.