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by jgfoot 18y ago
If magenta ain't a color, then what does GR : COLOR=1 : PLOT 20,20 get you, hmmm?
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Yes; I think Mark Pilgrim said it best: "I don’t understand this continuing obsession with buying things that you need to break before they do what you want." http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/10/04/if-wishes-were-i...
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What blind users think of your web site design(yuiblog.com)
6 points by jgfoot 18y ago|0 comments
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Bespin says it lets you self-host, which considerably alleviates "fuck the cloud" concerns. (See http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717 )
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by jgfoot 18y ago
This is horrible. I have been a Palm fan since 1999, and I will remain a Palm user after then. O mighty Palm! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well. I know not
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by jgfoot 18y ago
My pick would be the Flash plugin.
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by jgfoot 18y ago
I completely agree, but I will be more entertained intellectually by more noble programming pursuits, such as continuing to study Haskell or assisting on an open source project. The only reason for me to turn my back on my Linux desktop, b
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"Mad Money" Jim Cramer's stock picks "underperform the market by most measures"(online.barrons.com)
1 points by jgfoot 18y ago|1 comments
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by jgfoot 18y ago
I'd like to see a breakdown of how many apps never make the $100 back for the developer (or $100+ if you bought a Mac just to write iPhone apps).
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by jgfoot 18y ago
But watch out for the many security problems associated with Ubiquity's system for installing and updating plugins. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10053044-46.html
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Watch a live video, share your PC with CNN(windowssecrets.com)
2 points by jgfoot 18y ago|2 comments
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by jgfoot 18y ago
"Giorgio, I'm not aware of any particular issues, but no one has released bug-free code yet, and I'll bet my career that NoScript is no different. Every security protection product falls under the same security threats and problems as any o
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Interesting and a worthwhile effort.
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by jgfoot 18y ago
> Majoring in subjects that lead to careers with more job seekers than jobs and taking out student loans is are bad ideas. Too many people think of college as just career preparation. But an education can be useful during the hours of
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Particularly when it is available online for free at http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
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by jgfoot 18y ago
In my line of work (law), people can be offended or grow suspicious if they are left off of an e-mail. They don't want the feeling that a discussion is happening behind their back, or without their having the chance to give input. It's of
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by jgfoot 18y ago
this is awesome. Automating the first 50-80%? Try some very simple natural language processing, with a human being acting as a sanity check. If the PHP documentation for a function is "upper case" and the Python documentation for somethin
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Yes -- it is a common rookie mistake to confuse the specification with the claims. The claims define the invention and the scope of the patent; the specification helps interpret the claims. Saying this, I have no opinion on whether Palm mi
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by jgfoot 18y ago
This is almost nine years old. http://www.politechbot.com/p-01394.html
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by jgfoot 18y ago
I started a project like this once, but never finished. Contact me if you want my incomplete "Perl to Python phrasebook." My goal was to help unfortunate Perl programmers migrate to Python. One thing to look out for: things that are funct
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Yeah, if this law professor were at all confident in his pronouncements he would publish his views somewhere where other law professors could see and critique them--not on some layman's Facebook page.
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by jgfoot 18y ago
I have a low opinion of pirates, and an ever lower opinion of lazy pirates.
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by jgfoot 18y ago
JavaScript 1.6 added seven new array methods (indexOf, lastIndexOf, every, filter, forEach, map, and some). If only backward compatibility weren't a problem, the warring JavaScript libraries could just use these (or implement them into the
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by jgfoot 18y ago
The problem here isn't the users; the problem is an e-mail server that allows "reply all" to have this effect. Modify the server to prevent an employee from sending one e-mail to more than X other employees. You will always have dumb user
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Apparently not. Last indexed by the Wayback Machine January 15, 2008, and then only the first few pages; actual blogs seem to be missing. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hometown.aol.com
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Yeah, it's a weird blog post -- I don't know whether the author is a lawyer, but this isn't how most lawyers would go about writing a blog post about whether "look and feel" is copyrighted. The guy treats the Copyright Office web site as g
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by jgfoot 18y ago
Play along yourself at http://tools.google.com/gapminder/
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by jgfoot 18y ago
I agree. Slashdot is not an adequate substitute for people who know what they are talking about.
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by jgfoot 18y ago
"Adapted from "Remix" by Lawrence Lessig, to be published by The Penguin Press on Oct. 16, 2008. <i>Copyright by Lawrence Lessig, 2008. Printed by arrangement with The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.</i>"
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by jgfoot 18y ago
It is very useful for research-type queries. I like it better than hakia. Thanks very much for this.

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