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by jfb 13y ago
I've been a Fastmail user for ages now. As I abhor and abjure web applications, my personal calculus is different than that of someone seeking to flee the UI changes that Google is implementing. Their IMAP service is rock solid and ver
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by jfb 13y ago
Disagree. Why are those CMS so god-awful? What're the incentives that they're designed to achieve? Badness in tooling is usually a symptom , not a cause.
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, this. Android hasn't been around long enough for people to develop the sort of attachment that some have with Apple. Nobody's grown up with Android (yet), nobody's gone through their spotty-faced advocacy phase shouting
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by jfb 13y ago
That's what the term "railroaded" means in this context: that a person is not being subject to due process.
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by jfb 13y ago
Regardless, it seems that they're railroading a guilty person.
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by jfb 13y ago
I don't think it's so much "hypocritical" as "ineffective". I would have said "pointless", but venting spleen can be a healthy and enjoyable pastime.
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by jfb 13y ago
I have one of the foot pedals, and I use it sometimes, but mostly to shock my coworkers. I never really got into the hang of using it in my day to day life.
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by jfb 13y ago
It depends. I've used a lot in the ~20 years or so I've been programming; and I've come over the last decade or so to rely on the Kinesis Advantage. The big reason I chose it when I did is because it doesn't force your w
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by jfb 13y ago
I'm pickier than the average bear w/r/t displays, and I have zero confidence in the marginal performance of OEM display electronics and panels. That this is targeted at the TV market just means that there's a bunch of ga
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by jfb 13y ago
Paul can be terse, and sometimes you don't want to hear what he has to say, and he can be wrong; but he's never a bully.
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by jfb 13y ago
This is great.
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by jfb 13y ago
I can't imagine how ghastly that screen will be.
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by jfb 13y ago
I don't, currently, because I don't have to monitor services, but if I did, I think I'd likely use daemontools, based on the fact that djb really, really understands how to write Unix software.
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by jfb 13y ago
AirBNB Users: we can't afford for EBay to buy them, either.
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by jfb 13y ago
My gut feeling is that someone running Linux as their desktop OS has had to opt in; this means that the pool of potential desktop Linux game purchasers is more likely to be made up of people who are motivated by Linux itself; and that these
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by jfb 13y ago
Oh, absolutely. I want to carry my data around with me, and access it via whatever the best interface at the moment is -- when I'm driving, when I'm walking around, when I'm at my desk. This phone isn't for me, but I can
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by jfb 13y ago
A little hyperbole never hurt anybody. But they are off by at least one order of magnitude in terms of cost if they're thinking of doing really new things with a mobile device. Actually, upon reflection, the comparison to F1 is compl
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by jfb 13y ago
It's an interesting project (not for me, personally, but hey, let a hundred flowers bloom and all that), but I think that they're overestimating the state of phone hardware commoditization, if they expect that they can pick and ch
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by jfb 13y ago
I don't like to think about what I'd do for a good shaobing in Toronto.
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by jfb 13y ago
I started with an Apple II, then spent a bunch of time on Sun and IBM RT machines; then got to university and a Macintosh and a Next station; then Linux; then back to Macintosh where I've been for the last 15 years.
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by jfb 13y ago
No, actually.
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by jfb 13y ago
I just prefer flat six to a V6. Smoother power delivery.
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, it's going nowhere until there's something that people actually want to print. When somebody figures this out, though, it is potentially truly disruptive, not in the Clay Christensen sense but in the "whoa Nelly there g
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by jfb 13y ago
One thing I've wanted for years is a small, pocket-sized and battery operated blob of storage with a well-defined API, where all of my data lives. Not the cloud, because no, thank you; and not an external drive. I want something that m
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by jfb 13y ago
And why Unix tools?
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by jfb 13y ago
Not true; I personally know of a couple.
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by jfb 13y ago
Yes. Absolutely.
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by jfb 13y ago
NULLs are (NULL is?) the way they are in SQL (terrible) because SQL is, in fact, terrible. I never allow nullable columns in my tables, but have to deal with null semantics because of e.g. outer joins. It is to weep.
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by jfb 13y ago
This makes me long for a djb vs. Linus flamewar. Well, no, not really, because that would be counter-productive, but man, it'd sure be epic.
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by jfb 13y ago
I'm not even sure that "everything is a file" is particularly appealing as a philosophical position.

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