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by jfb 12y ago
That's a perfectly reasonable stance. Then again, one of those terrible plastic-wrapped pastries at Starbucks isn't that much cheaper, and walking down there on Saturday morning to get a toast and a coffee and then going over to t
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by jfb 12y ago
I enjoyed Dr Ordersky's course (of course, it's based largely on SICP, which I also enjoyed), but there's a world of difference between the code you write for those exercises and the code you write in the real world. I'm
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by jfb 12y ago
It's my local coffee place when I'm in San Francisco, and I have to say the coffee and toast are excellent.
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by jfb 12y ago
It's a crying shame that the Museum Of Questionable Medical Devices [1] closed; it was one of my favorite places to take friends visiting when I lived in Minneapolis. You could sit in THE ORIGINAL ORGONE ACCUMULATOR! You could get your
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by jfb 12y ago
More turtles.
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by jfb 12y ago
Yes, exactly. I'm sure that there are more forms, but those are the two that Herzog traffics in.
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by jfb 12y ago
Herzog has this concept of the ecstatic truth, which means his documentaries are rarely as simple as they can seem; it's almost a third form of film. I'm an unabashed fanboy, but in any event, Lessons Of Darkness is highly, high
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by jfb 12y ago
This puts me mind of Herzog's fantastic documentary, Lessons Of Darkness [1], about the crews putting out the oil well fires in Kuwait. Also, the Door To Hell [2] in Turkmenistan. [1] http://www.fandor.com/films/
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by jfb 12y ago
I dropped Dropbox because I no longer found it useful. The composition of a company's pro-forma board of directors is quite possibly the last on my list of decision procedures when making choices about what technologies I use.
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by jfb 12y ago
Attached via the 25-pin parallel port, no doubt?
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by jfb 12y ago
Or Lost Weekend, which is still a going concern, and I can guarantee has a copy of Sweet Sweetback .
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by jfb 12y ago
Back catalog is likely even more expensive to clear than new releases are.
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by jfb 12y ago
"Really nothing infuriates me more than when CanIStream.it tells me that the movie I want to watch is unavailable to stream for purchase or subscription on any service." It's probably in window for in-flight service only. Ha
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For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option(ww2.kqed.org)
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by jfb 12y ago
An old joke, but a good one.
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by jfb 12y ago
I am hoping that the work that was put in to make Reeder backend agnostic would be sufficient to survive another RSS aggregation service extinction event. Of the applications I pay for on my Mac, Reeder is my favorite, with 1Password close
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by jfb 12y ago
I'm not sure I would want Twitter/FB/G+/et al updates via my RSS reader, and I certainly wouldn't want to have to sort through all the stuff on the social networks to get good longform content (or pictures of baby a
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by jfb 12y ago
I think path dependence and software affordances are sufficient to explain why bad ideas seem to mutate and grow; no need to reach for Sapir-Whorf. It is a lovely metaphor, however.
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by jfb 12y ago
I use Reeder [1], backed by Feed Wrangler [2]. I have a few hundred feeds, many of which rarely update. I find it an invaluable way to keep up with interesting and important news; I use RSS the way many people use Twitter, apparently. [1]
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by jfb 12y ago
e.g., "You can write COBOL in any language".
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by jfb 12y ago
I'm waiting with bated breath for the knee-jerk contrarian "sendmail survived therefore it is great" comment.
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by jfb 12y ago
Also on the watch.
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by jfb 12y ago
There's a reason that sendmail exists, and that the sendmail book was so gigantic. Because it was terrible software, yes, but also because it was routing mail across a variety of different systems with different addressing rules and wh
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by jfb 12y ago
I guess Hedy Lamarr is also dead. Might as well punch Rubin.
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by jfb 12y ago
The thing about revising a standard is that it's a social task and not a technical one, and the cost of getting everybody on board is accommodating differing opinions. See the sibling about nil vs '() vs #f. All this is to say, if
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by jfb 12y ago
How do you make money as a message bus? I'm not saying I disagree (I take no position on the merits of Twitter-as-a-servce, as I am not a user), but clearly the Best Minds have decided that the attention economy (read: ads) is the way
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by jfb 12y ago
The idea of a public intellectual is troublematic enough without grouping a banking goon like Thiel in with, e.g. Susan Sontag or Hannah Arendt. This is navel-gazing back-patting horseshit of the first water.
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by jfb 12y ago
"They also mention that it would have had to spend almost the entirety of it's life eating, rarely even sleeping, and that simply falling over could have greatly harmed it." I know that feeling.
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by jfb 12y ago
I know you didn't say this, but it's important to remember that dinosaurs aren't reptiles. They're dinosaurs. EDIT: Well blow me over. They most certainly were. My five year old self is hanging his head in shame.
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by jfb 12y ago
In this context, it's a chunk of equity.

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