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by jff 11y ago
Plan 9's Acme editor was influenced by Oberon, as I recall.
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by jff 11y ago
All those men want to talk to her. She decides if she wants to reply to them or just ignore them. I would find it odd to claim the men were holding the power in this situation. The neat thing about Tinder is that nobody has to assess thos
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by jff 11y ago
> why are they hanging out online with these people? hanging out, in some cases, for twenty hours a day , according to the article.
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by jff 11y ago
How could I have forgotten this! Definitely go to the testing museum, it's about 1 block from the strip and is super cool.
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by jff 11y ago
Definitely, but I always take Yelp complaints of rudeness with a grain of salt. I swear some of these reviewers sit in restaurants with a stopwatch timing how long the waiter takes to check up on them... too long and they were "inatten
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by jff 11y ago
I still recommend a rental car if you can afford it; walking around in the August heat is awful. Go check out the strip after dark, when it's cool enough to walk a lot without getting heatstroke.
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by jff 11y ago
> Acupuncturists, chiropractors [...] did far better, with average ratings of 4.5 to 4.6. Surprise, charlatans who promise that they'll make everything ok by poking you with needles/adjusting your spine get better reviews than
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by jff 11y ago
A lot of the paranoia is just that--paranoia. Still, there are a lot of people messing around on the wifi and some playing with cell stations, so some caution is justified. If you're going on the company dime and thus have a rental car
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by jff 11y ago
Salt water fish could possibly have made the trip via train from Seattle, packed on ice, although I'd expect it to be rather expensive. Smoked salmon also makes very tasty sushi if fresh isn't available. Tamago is an option that m
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by jff 11y ago
The GP didn't say anything about blocking or throttling, merely that you'd pay to have access to content you wouldn't get otherwise and that ISPs could offer subscription bundles to their customers--pay $5/month and get
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by jff 11y ago
I've hacked heavily with both; I've even compiled the Plan 9 kernel using Go's compiler+linker. The compilers are damn good. I went from no knowledge of 6[cl] (the amd64 compiler&linker) to pretty comfortable with the sou
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by jff 11y ago
People need to stop using "net neutrality" whenever the idea of paying for something on the Internet comes up.
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by jff 11y ago
I actually spotted that kid as the first possible point of trouble... but you have to wait until the "moments later" card to see him start doing something risky, and then like you said, even when he's tangled in the rope it w
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by jff 11y ago
Copper would too, just check out the wiring in any empty house in a county with meth problems.
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by jff 11y ago
> Then I started contacting my friends (computer engineering students) at college, but they were very reluctant to be part of a start-up cause majority of are looking to earn "quick money" to cover their debt for tuition fees.
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by jff 11y ago
They're really proud of filesystem tricks that Plan 9 was doing in 1994 (see the "transparent ftp" thing)
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by jff 11y ago
That's a pretty poor analogy since it's basically just the regular explanation with s/website/pub/ applied.
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by jff 11y ago
> Lots of other ones are vestigial organs of some long forgotten economy and would better disappear. In a big city with rising rents, people who already live somewhere ~have a right to be there~ and shouldn't have to go. In a small
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by jff 11y ago
> Besides I'm willing to bet Yelp could care less. Would you bet your own startup on it? I wouldn't.
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by jff 11y ago
You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It's worked for many people,
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by jff 11y ago
As the article explains, it grew to this size under very favorable circumstances: forest fires keep burning down competing conifers, and a shift in climate some 10,000 years ago made it so separate aspens couldn't really flourish. Also
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by jff 11y ago
You're right, it was silly of him to repeat himself
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by jff 11y ago
> y u no configure? Because autoconf is a huge disgusting mess and if you can generate your Makefiles as simply as that, for the love of God DO IT!
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by jff 11y ago
Interesting, Twiddler uses this technology to teach you how to type on their chording keyboard: http://twiddler.tekgear.com/tutor/twiddler.html
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by jff 11y ago
Maybe he should put that same content into a Twitter Bootstrap site
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by jff 11y ago
Why would anyone fly the boring San Francisco flag when they could instead put up the awesome California state flag?
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by jff 11y ago
I'd say he stuck to two standards: Old good. Japanese good.
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by jff 11y ago
I hitched across Maui once. I got a guy in a nice car & suit who was almost certainly high on coke (he was coke-chatty), a really nice local guy hauling glass to a construction site, a guy in an old van who had a lot to say about Jesus,
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by jff 11y ago
And in fact the performance of Plan 9 tended to be extremely poor when compared apples-to-apples with Linux. It's just that everything was so simple it felt fast, even if your filesystem throughput was crap.
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by jff 11y ago
Almost none of it would be pirate radio, since the most common one (RTL-SDR) is receive-only. You can use it to tune in 2m ham radio repeaters, or listen to broadcast FM, or pick up weather radio transmissions, or track which aircraft are f

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