joblessjunkie

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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Sure, using more RAM to make things faster is a fine thing. But I think you give developers too much credit: many apps use lots of RAM for no other reason than lack of care. Which of course can also be to the benefit of consumers: better a
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
But why do our computers have to come with 4GB+ of RAM, when 1GB might suffice? It's an circular argument to claim that it's OK to use lots of RAM simply because the computer comes with lots of RAM. After a manufacturer begrudgingly provi
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
I suspect this is all about novelty . Users haven't seen an ad like this one a thousand times before. Some might not even think this is an ad. Some will be curious enough to actually click. The MS Paint banner ad is not inherently more eff
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
I don't think this is rediscovery. These things just take time to implement. Ruby hasn't been around all that long.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
This is completely off topic, but does anyone know how to prevent extreme tech from redirecting my iPad to their awful mobile version every time?
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
This happened to me twice while trying to read this post. It's frustrating how often a website will provide a client-specific rendering which is much worse than the default. (I'm looking at you, Wordpress).
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
The author points a finger at police for leering over an attractive woman's photos -- then needlessly posts bikini photos. The photos add no substantive content to the story; they're just there for gawking at. The ostensible point of this a
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Dropbox takes something hard and makes it easy. A to-do list is already easy.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
What's the business upside? Once you've got millions of people uploading photos of their junk mail along with their names and home addresses, how is this monetized? EDIT: I ask, because this is where the privacy paranoia comes in.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
I like Apple products _in spite of_ that smug voice, not because of it. Yes, the voice is clear and simple -- just like the products -- but I curdle when I read Apple's copy, and have empathy for the brand haters.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
If the old media businesses could have their way, Amazon and Hulu and Netflix wouldn't be available in the US, either.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
As an employee, I collect salary from Day One. I also don't have to invest any of my personal savings in the company. Thus, my risk is much lower than a founder's.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Fair enough. Being employed by a startup is akin to taking a vow of poverty. But it's not about getting "utterly screwed". It's about making a rational decision that some things in life are worth more than financial reward. Working at a sta
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
This online tutorial grossly overestimates how much the layperson understands about computer languages. For the complete beginner, far too much is left unexplained. No one actually codes using a REPL in a browser. Yet the site makes no atte
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
It should be possible to build a bot that automatically generates patches and pull requests for these kinds of typos.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Can anyone explain why software developed by a government agency would not be in the public domain, once open? And given that NASA has chosen to use a specific open source license, why a custom license and not one that is familiar to the co
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
So instead of paying for my television programs, I should pirate them? Are there any media sellers who do not support SOPA?
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
No, he specifically said at the start that he doesn't recommend it to Khan Academy. To me, it reads as if he is simply supporting John Resig's decisions about what parts of JavaScript to teach -- by virtue of having made those same decision
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
...especially since a .plan file is a plain text file, and John Carmack's are readily browsable as HTML files on any number of web sites. http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/carmack/plan.html
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Which is all the more tragic given how hard they've worked to make the iPad version specifically awful, even when it doesn't crash.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
To be honest the "before" names look just as Enterprise-y as the "after" names.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Yes, I'm not aware of any reason why my sex and country of birth are required here.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
This isn't so much a celebration as a public shaming. We all know you're not supposed to be "that guy", right? These commits aren't "funny" in the sense that they're clever, but it can be consoling to recognize the frustration that leads to
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Stanislaw Lem ( Solaris , The Cyberiad ) is amazing, and some of the English translations are so full of puns and clever turns of phrase it's hard to believe it was originally written in Polish.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Don't assume you're getting downvoted through simple fanboyism. Your comment is thin and unproductive, and flies in the face of the experiences of many. We've been using ImageMagick in our product for about 6 years. Across 4 new Mac laptops
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
You're either trolling, or you've completely missed the point. This is not an article about trivial word counting. This an article about mathematical abstractions behind all batch data processing (unix pipes included). Just because we alr
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
I'll scan that QR code from your poster right after I get done opening this unsolicited Excel spreadsheet you emailed to me.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
http://www.ohloh.net/p/rproject/analyses/latest
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
I find it curious that most users on this poll would not pay more than $100 for Google fiber speed. I already pay about $100 for my OK-but-not-great 7Mbit DSL service. The DSL service itself is only $50, but I also have to pay $50 for a lan
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
The shell will attempt to expand '*' into arguments before it spawns the 'echo' process. The shell cannot handle long argument lists, so this will fail rather quickly.

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