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by jdludlow 15y ago
Beautiful typesetting isn't what people are looking for when they use Office. They are looking for a program that will read that god-awful .doc file that their coworker created. OpenOffice is great, but it fails way too often at this task.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
If you read the Bruce Schneier article instead of the linked blog post you get this: EDITED TO ADD (4/12): Seems that the BBC article misstated the law. Companies have to retain information they already collect for a year after it is no lo
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Yes, thank you. I knew there was a term for what I was trying to say, but I couldn't remember what it was called.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Of course it's not a human right. Neither are water or food, so his analogy is pointless. This is "you have a right to free speech; you don't have a right to a printing press" for the modern age. You still have the right to free speech, and
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by jdludlow 16y ago
I'm not sure that I understand you correctly. Are you saying that you wish you could downvote someone simply because he has more karma than you do?
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by jdludlow 16y ago
I left AT&T for T-Mobile years ago, because AT&T's customer service is terrible while T-Mobile's is excellent. I won't give AT&T my money ever again, but my choices keep narrowing. I doubt that I'm alone, which means that Verizo
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by jdludlow 16y ago
You can tell a lot about a person by the way that he treats waiters, waitresses, janitors, clerks, and other lower paying service jobs.
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by jdludlow 16y ago
One-page printer version: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9214796/Elgan_W...
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by jdludlow 16y ago
A pronoun in a comparison is nominative if it is the subject of a stated or understood verb. Sandy writes better than I. (Than I write.) -- Strunk & White, 4th Edition, section 10. I realize that grammar discussions are as bor
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by jdludlow 16y ago
The rule of thumb would be to fill in the implied verb and see which one makes sense. "So nobody could be more surprised than I was that a Lisp dialect ..." "So nobody could be more surprised than me was that a Lisp dialect ..." Then it bec
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by jdludlow 16y ago
At the risk of sounding like a broken record on this topic, I will state again that "Joy of Clojure" is a very good book. (I'm a Clojure newbie, so I can't judge its technical content, just that it is well written.) The Manning early-access
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by jdludlow 16y ago
Yes, you're absolutely right. That's indeed what I'm doing in most cases.
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by jdludlow 16y ago
I use 1Password to generate a 50-character random "answer" for these nonsense security questions. Then I store the question and the answer in a note tied to the 1Password record. If they really wanted to get clever, 1Password should offer a
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by jdludlow 16y ago
The PragProg books are great. Can anyone comment on the quality of their classes?
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by jdludlow 16y ago
Indeed. When I clicked the article link, I expected to find something from ~2007.
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by jdludlow 16y ago
Hopefully this means that a new PDF is being released soon. The book is great, but I've been disappointed with Manning's early access program. The last update was released in August 2010. Then we jump to March 2011, where we still don't hav
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by jdludlow 16y ago
"Send me an email and I'll check it out. First of all, NO; You should email them, apologize, perhaps offer a discount and send them roses;" When xXVikingsRuleXx tweets about my product sucking wind, exactly who am I going to email? I have
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by jdludlow 16y ago
I have a relative with a fire proof gun safe in another state. This is a good place for crypto keys, master passwords, etc. For the cost of overnight Fed Ex, I can recover from a disaster.
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by jdludlow 16y ago
Was she forcing them to write articles for her? If they agreed to do it for free, then where is the exploitation?
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by jdludlow 16y ago
$12/year is an annual pricing model. It's also a small enough number to be an impulse purchase. At $1000, people are going to stop and think longer about it, so it might not have the same effect. (I would still prefer $1000 to $999.99 tho
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by jdludlow 16y ago
There was an interesting HN story a week ago that covered A/B price testing. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143554
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by jdludlow 16y ago
I regularly upvote older questions and answers that I find interesting or helpful. It's also fun to have my own old answers upvoted or commented on, which prompts me to go back and reread them.
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by jdludlow 16y ago
@sorted = map { $_->[0] } sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } map { [$_, foo($_)] } @unsorted; Sometimes boring isn't as good as awesome. My first reaction to the Schwartzian Transform
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by jdludlow 16y ago
Children should be assigned to schools If you mean by their parents, then yes. If you mean by our nanny overlords in their never ending quest to maximize the teachers unions' deathgrip on the system, then no thanks. I'm currently paying f
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by jdludlow 16y ago
"Disappearing off into the wilderness" is something that babies born in 2011 will never know.
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by jdludlow 16y ago
Before this devolves into a git versus hg holy war by people who never read the linked blog post, I'll point out that they chose hg over svn. It's mainly a cheerleader piece for DVCS with the git versus hg choice being a minor point.
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by jdludlow 16y ago
Font faces and color in email can join top-posting in the bin of terrible ideas.
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Why don't people understand the urgency of colonizing other planets?(io9.com)
8 points by jdludlow 16y ago|21 comments
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by jdludlow 16y ago
"Pire does not have any Perlish conditional regexps, lookaheads & backtrackings, greedy/nongreedy matches; neither has it any capturing facilities." Well that rules out nearly every use case I have for needing a regex in the first place
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by jdludlow 16y ago
Back in 2005, I did something similar for a while after this [1] was posted to /. Eventually it became too annoying, and I switched to Password Safe and then to 1Password. Both are, in all ways, better than that slip of paper. [1] http://a

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