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by jslabovitz 7y ago
I don’t want to argue about magazines (or newspapers) in general, since it seems you have quite a cynical view there. I’d advise that you research common standards of journalism, including the concept of the editorial/advertising wall.
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
From the article: > The very beginning of ad blocking is the 90s, just when the ads appeared. In 1993, GNN, the very first web advertising service, was launched. Then in 1994, the first-ever banner was sold. In the blink of an eye, the o
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
Sony CDP-705ESD, Sony CDP-707ESD. Ogle here: http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-CDP-557ESD.html
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
> ... how choosing a song requires clicking stupid buttons, the delay after inserting CDs, the high pitched whine of the motor, the sound of the stepper motor as it moves the laser... Some of the earliest CD players are superbly construc
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
Does no one here actually go out to see live music? I’ve found much of my favorite music through going to shows of bands I liked, and discovering some amazing opening band.
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
I don’t know of any residencies/colonies that are specifically oriented towards programmers. Many (like VCCA & McDowell, mentioned in the article) are focused towards fine art, and often aren’t interested in technological projects.
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
I enjoy and appreciate Venkatesh’s Ribbonfarm writings, and other writings like his. While the cultural situations he’s writing about may be obvious, I appreciate his discovery and naming (‘jargon’) of the patterns he finds. You could look
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
What’s groundbreaking here is not really the technology but rather the marketing: Clearview is selling a relatively cheap product to law enforcement agencies who are desperate to solve cases at the lowest cost. I think we (both here at HN a
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
What’s up with Git’s peculiar usage of ‘learned’ in their release notes? For example: > Git learned the ability to execute a “partial” clone... > ..In Git 2.25, --format learned the verb l/L... I’ve never run across another piece
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
No. There were plenty of us there who were accidental visitors, curious kids who found ourselves in this interesting world. Kleinrock mentions this briefly in the original article, but there was a high degree of trust and optimism on the ea
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
Bandcamp heartily seconded. I like listening to their Bandcamp Weekly, a pseudo-radio show that highlights new releases. It's not as diverse as Bandcamp itself, as the DJ seems to be mostly into hybrid jazz/ambient/hiphop&#x2
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
Still using mine. It's great. I'm gonna be really sad when it falls out of the supported lineup.
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
Not everyone. I've always had a horrible sense of direction. I can follow a road or a map, but if I take a wrong turn or otherwise get off track, I get completely disoriented, and it's extremely stressful to me. I also seem to h
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
I did a little research, and it doesn't appear that the complex is owned by either Whole Foods or Amazon, but rather a Colorado-based developer (non-local, haha). https://www.statepress.com/article/2019/02&#x2
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
> There’s actually an amazon owned apartment complex being built almost across the street from my house (in Tempe, Az), and I had been wondering if they’d do stuff like this. What? Are you serious? It's one thing for Amazon to par
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
The USPS likely would charge you more, if they weren't already in the business of selling both address lists and access (carrier route deliveries of bulk mail). So they might not be sniffing your mail, but from what it seems the post
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
It's also a common tool for non-designers who maintain their own websites. I heard about Canva through my girlfriend who used it on her Android phone to build banners, buttons, and other graphics for her Wordpress site.
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
You can't make them safe, any more than you can give them a car and make them safe on, say, a freeway. I think a better attitude is to teach them that the internet is a dangerous place, and they should 'drive' defensively. Ge
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
I'll probably regret stirring the pot here, but I've never understood or been comfortable with group chats. I grew up in the era of Usenet groups and email (and later, forums & blogs), where conversations were slow and threade
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
For typical single-based pop/top-40 that could be true. But for the long tail of most album-oriented music (including the fairly obscure stuff I listen to), its the producer and musician(s) working together to create a coherent artisti
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
I've been collecting CDs for a few years now. I rip them for archiving and for easy playing (iPhone, etc.), but also enjoy handling the real object. I like the experience of simply listening to album the way it was originally intended
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
Ah, I did not explain clearly. My mistake. I wasn't talking about binary-only shareware distribution, but rather source code (primarily Unix/C-based on comp.sources.*). I'm thinking about the Usenet software itself (B News, C
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by jslabovitz 7y ago
Perhaps... But if you do that, it would also be interesting to trace free software back to the point where the GPL became popular. (GPL was published in 1983, but in my recollection it wasn't until the early/mid-90s that it surged
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by jslabovitz 8y ago
Apple TV is about 1000% better when you ditch the supplied remote and instead pair a normal querty-style Bluetooth keyboard. Nearly everything in the UI works with the combo of arrow keys + return key, and you can actually type text for sea
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by jslabovitz 8y ago
No disrespect taken. Thanks for raising this point — one that I’m often frustrated by. (Yes, I’m over 50.) I’ve resorted to using Safari’s Reader mode on the vast majority of the sites I visit because the respective designer’s idea of type
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by jslabovitz 8y ago
I have an iPhone, so Apple Maps is right there as an alternative (and better, since it's more integrated into things like the Contacts app and auto-recognized addresses). I find its design to be much calmer and smoother, which makes me
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by jslabovitz 8y ago
> You don't use Google maps because it looks nice, you use it because it tells you where to go to get good tacos. You don't use Facebook because the UI is nice, you use it to talk to your friends and share photos. I actually d
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by jslabovitz 8y ago
I like the spirit of this idea. I'm glad to see existing technologies being leveraged. However, it still seems quite a dog's breakfast of parts and pieces that don't all seem to be necessary. I'd like to see this split o
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by jslabovitz 8y ago
I'll go out on a personal limb here and say that I mostly failed in my guesses, with perhaps 80% incorrect. I have some degree of faceblindness (often can't recognize someone I know well if they've changed something like make
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by jslabovitz 8y ago
Turns out this is actually documented in the manpage for wordexp()! (And refers to the mentioned fact that it now calls 'sh' directly.) > BUGS > Do not pass untrusted user data to wordexp(), regardless of whether the WRDE_NO

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