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by jff 13y ago
Not military, just service. Any kind of public service. As they said in the book, they'll have you count caterpillar hairs if there's nothing else to do--anyone can get franchise.
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by jff 13y ago
"And you thought getting support for your distro was hard now , we've provided n! combinations of software for you"
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by jff 13y ago
For example, if you would like your system to be mostly stable and unchanging, like Debian or a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, but would like access to cutting-edge packages from Arch, Bedrock Linux can provide this simultaneously and tra
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by jff 13y ago
Hmm, yes perhaps after verifying a buyer's credibility, you could issue him a card with a number on it and a magnetic strip. He could then use this card to draw upon his purchasing credit. I'm not sure what to call this system, th
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by jff 13y ago
If you're referring to historical ages, then this pretty much applies to all other continents including Asia, Europe, America etc. Wasn't it pretty common for kingdoms to wage wars against each other? The original poster said &q
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by jff 13y ago
That was my thought, too. I handled Hackaday using a PIII laptop, running Plan 9, over a residential cable link. It's just not that challenging.
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by jff 13y ago
I use git on bitbucket for all my personal stuff, because by signing up with a .edu email account, they gave me free unlimited private repositories. Sold. My only concern would be that people are finding my mostly-bare github profile instea
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by jff 13y ago
And the barge should... toss down a fishing line to it?
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by jff 13y ago
I'd hate to have 6 million visitors a month if they're viewing pictures (high bandwidth) and I'm not actually making any money from them.
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by jff 13y ago
Well, that actually makes more sense to me, I was wondering how exactly they planned to get a datacenter's worth of bandwidth out to a ship. Sure, you could run a cable when you're in port, but the rest of the time your datacenter
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by jff 13y ago
I would report your facebook posts as abuse if I saw them on my newsfeed, most likely. "I joined a bunch of groups so I could advertise to them." Scummy.
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by jff 13y ago
Once you go over 100 minutes, it simply starts charging from whatever balance you have on your account. You'll get a recorded message warning you, then I think it's $0.10/minute thereafter. I usually stay under 100 minutes or
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by jff 13y ago
LibreOffice is goddamn awful. They should just scrap the whole thing and start over, because I have never not been screwed by LibreOffice. Make a presentation within L.O., save it to the native L.O. format, then when I open it again later
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by jff 13y ago
Sounds like somebody likes to sit in the left lane at 65, "because it's the legal maximum!"
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by jff 13y ago
Doesn't scroll very well.
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by jff 13y ago
So I want to point out that I wasn't thinking of hiring some outside company to make you look good, I was talking about Bob in PR putting in a link to the press release when they retire product X. There's no bias in "On Janua
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by jff 13y ago
Related: http://buttcoin.org/whoa-what-just-happened-here
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by jff 13y ago
I'm not a wikipedia editor, so they may think of things differently, but when I see a news story about a company, I generally think, "Interesting." I don't think, "Ooh, I better check if this is in their Wikipedia a
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by jff 13y ago
I know nothing about Clinkle, but I think it's a great word for the act of passing a kidney stone.
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by jff 13y ago
People went to school to learn how to be engineers and other technical careers back to the 1800s. Sure, maybe you couldn't get a degree is "office administration", but to pretend the old university experience was all Virgil a
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by jff 13y ago
Is it unethical for, say, a company's "media guy" to update Wikipedia if his company releases a major new project? "On October 1, 2013, Initech released version 2.0 of its flagship product IniIDE Pro(tm)" I think th
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by jff 13y ago
"Let's disrupt the homeless problem by offering free HTML classes in shelters!" (I have seen basically this exact sentence posted here)
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by jff 13y ago
AKA how to ensure the hivemind remains strong
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by jff 13y ago
I've often thought that while everyone complains about how hard transit is in the bay area, we're kind of screwed by geography. The Bay is this big asshole sitting right in the middle of everyone. All of our development is spread
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by jff 13y ago
The Tri-Valley is quite nice, but don't tell or everyone will want to move here.
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by jff 13y ago
I'm just countering the claim that people won't sit on ass forever; not everyone is as motivated as angersock.
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by jff 13y ago
I've met plenty of people who have been happily sitting around, smoking weed and playing video games all the time, and showing no sign of stopping as they barrel into their 40s.
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by jff 13y ago
"My God! That review I posted publicly on G+, the one associated with my real name G+ profile, is visible on the Internet!" If you write a review, then someone searches for that place on Google Maps, your review will come up on th
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by jff 13y ago
Why? It's absolutely true. If you disable the setting, your reviews for products will not show up in your friends' results. Presumably some people would be interested to know that one of their friends purchased such-and-such a thi
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by jff 13y ago
So the people who are unknowingly using G+... aren't really generating anything for Google to use, are they? They want to show your reviews alongside ads. Well, if you're making reviews on Google+, that's not really "unk

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