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by jfruh 15y ago
One hack that I definitely find useful for saving money is to create different savings accounts for different purposes and putting a set amount in each on each month. For instance, I have a vacation savings account that I put $300 into eve
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by jfruh 15y ago
Well, there's debt and there's debt. Right now my wife and I have three major debts: mortgage (4%), student loans (4.5%), HELOC (1.75%) -- and those rates are all effectively lower because the interest is tax deductable. When you're talki
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HP's doomed tablet outsold Samsung's offerings(itworld.com)
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Predicting the future is harder than it looks(itworld.com)
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Linux syslog on the way out?(itworld.com)
26 points by jfruh 15y ago|45 comments
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by jfruh 15y ago
It's worth noting that the reason so many people routinely speed is that roads are engineered to be driven on faster than the speed limit. The best way to get people to drive 35 miles an hour in the city (say) is to build roads with narro
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by jfruh 15y ago
One aspect of the experience in the Apple Store that Johnson doesn't mention is that all the gadgets there are powered up and you can play with them. I've never understood how cell phone stores and electronics retailers who almost invariab
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Why do all the "Dirty Dozen" smartphones run Android? Negligence.(itworld.com)
4 points by jfruh 15y ago|0 comments
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Anti-virus to be built into Windows 8: Boon, or more monopolistic behavior?(itworld.com)
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China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
It's kind of amazing that the company that is finally standing up against insane, stupid patents is ... a bookstore. But perhaps it's because B&N doesn't have any mobile patents of its own to defend?
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by jfruh 15y ago
I do think that an important part of maintaining an exercise regimen is to trick yourself into making exercise a reward. Yes, the endorphin rush you get from working out can be a reward in and of itself but in my experience that doesn't al
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by jfruh 15y ago
Actually, pizza continues to count as a vegetable in US schools. The Obama Administration tried to change the FDA's classification system that determines the make up of federally subsidized school lunch programs, but the move was blocked
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Japanese developing robot fursuits(itworld.com)
2 points by jfruh 15y ago|0 comments
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EULAs don't have to suck(itworld.com)
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2012: The year of mobile malware(itworld.com)
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Microturbines provide both electricity and cooling for data center(itworld.com)
1 points by jfruh 15y ago|1 comments
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Anonymous lashing out in wake of OWS raid(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
"The debators of the rules are more interested in satisfying the group than in definition or algorithmic simplicity or purity of concept." This sentence is incredibly useful for understanding why modelling a process hammered out by more tha
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Steve Jobs wanted Apple to build its own wireless network(itworld.com)
3 points by jfruh 15y ago|1 comments
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Small tech companies that won big(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
The amount of entitlement on both sides of this debate is always pretty amazing/amusing to me. 1) Publishers (and I am a publisher with an ad-supported site): Nobody owes you an audience or a payday. If advertising is so annoying that peop
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5 great IT jobs for artists(itworld.com)
3 points by jfruh 15y ago|1 comments
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Has open source lost its idealism?(itworld.com)
2 points by jfruh 15y ago|1 comments
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by jfruh 15y ago
True enough at the moment but you'd be surprised how quickly (using "quickly" on a historical scale, we're still talking years or decades) that can change when economic forces start pushing. If you had told most Americans just 30 years ago
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by jfruh 15y ago
The thing that most bugs me about this is that the Google chef somehow needs to have his rights defended. He was made a promise when he was hired and Google cheerfully fulfilled its obligation to follow through with that. Ditto on whoever
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by jfruh 15y ago
Hmm, but if I understand correctly how this all works, even if you vote and pay taxes in Smalltown, if Bigtown is the default placename for 12345, the post office will still happily deliver mail to your address even if the envelope says "Bi
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Goodbye BIOS, hello UEFI(itworld.com)
4 points by jfruh 15y ago|0 comments
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Edward Naughton continues his "Android violates the GPL" crusade(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
On a similar note, I've always found it kind of amusing/frustrating that forms in the US make you fill out city, state, and zip code, when in fact the zip code indicates a specific city and state. I realize that's a huge database of geoloc

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