julio_the_squid

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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
That's because the school system, and especially the social system embedded in it, fails us thoroughly. As far as I could tell, it's actually designed to discourage gifted children from realizing their potential.
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
I like this idea, but I'm not sure about the words upon a bit of reflection. It seems like clicking "Uninsightful/Agree" is agreeing that I believe things that are uninsightful? I imagine that would be the least used option. Insightful/Disa
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
Sure, sounds fine! Why not make a normal website that isn't under the control of some greedy corporation? That's what the internet is for, to me.
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
Yeah, I saw it uses a few new elements. Still, you could accomplish the same effect without them, right? So it doesn't really require HTML5?
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
I suppose you could say it's 'brave', though, in the same way that trying to swindle someone and hoping they don't notice is brave.
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
Some good examples there, but in all it's rather brief. Surely there's more to jQuery 1.4? I'm getting quite weary of hearing that this or that is HTML5, and then you view it and there's really nothing in particular that you couldn't do wit
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
That's funny, I often think of a similar maxim in the book "Groucho and Me" by Groucho Marx. Essentially, he said that in 1928-29, he knew it was time to get out of a certain stock once his taxi driver started talking about it. It's a grea
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
Well, that's no problem! Several executives from large companies in the business of selling my private information have recently informed us all that privacy is over-rated, doesn't exist anymore and if you even want it to exist, you're wron
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
As you may know, they send all of your contacts who aren't members messages saying '<person name> invited you to join their network on (linkedin|facebook|twitter)'. Sometimes they even mail to 'remind' you again a month or two late
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
My impression is that Jim Breyer has been running the show for a while.
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
Sure, this tactic is similar to my view of the situation in Arizona, or drug laws. The tactic is to hold up an example that people can't disagree with as being 'bad', and claim you need new powers to fight this scourge. Illegal immigration
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
I was referring to how Microsoft's own flagship sites has scripting errors in IE. I'm sure some part of MS still deals with IE6, and I understand why. Of course they encourage people to upgrade to IE8 when they can. And actually... yes, I w
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
I've noticed errors in IE 6 on Live.com and Bing, too. Silly that I spend all this time making our sites work with IE6, and Microsoft themselves have tossed it aside. As for the general point, I couldn't agree more. I do think Microsoft has
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
Well, to put it in the most extreme example - if you were drinking pure formaldehyde that had an additive that made it taste just like a delicious lemonade, would you feel taht you had been tricked into thinking it tastes good? Taste is sup
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
Given the amount of money that the agricultural corporations would be happy to throw in, and the public's demonstrated weakness for propaganda and inability to actually decide anything for themselves, I don't have much confidence in people
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
The differentiating factor for me is that it's just what I've used for 12 years and what I'm most productive in. Serious Linux users use it because it's the only thing that fits the way they work. Linux has all the interface and programs I'
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
A lot of people mention Dive into Python. I'm curious, what are the opinions out there regarding this online Python book? http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html
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by julio_the_squid 16y ago
I am relatively new to Python and wrote a Django app using string.format through and through. Then, I had to install it on our server... which apparently uses Python 2.4 and we can't upgrade at the moment. It all had to be changed to the pr
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
Agreed, I think anybody that has watched the history of major banks and their political chums for the past oh, 200 years or so, knows that this will amount to a slap on the hand, much less than they gained through their various activities o
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
I sure do hate it when people confuse shell environments such as Bash/ksh/etc with 'DOS'. I suppose people that don't want to use the command line at all don't understand, but there is a huge difference between a modern command line and on
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
By definition, 'what you wish the iPad to have that it does not have' equals 'what the iPad is missing'. If I expected it to operate as a razor and it could not while other similar devices did have that feature, then yes, I would say shavi
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
I tried that, too - QNX RTOS 4 or something like that. As an OS with a shell and a full GUI, it was quite impressive for the tiny binary!
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
I was surprised to see the woman that works for Microsoft Research talking about her iPhone, Mac and so on. Or is that not surprising?
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
It's not opt-in... At some point, every single outgoing article link you'd click on would come up in a frame with the Digg bar on top.
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
Sure, it's not as closed as Apple's systems. However, it's still not a real computer. I want a tablet that is just a laptop running a normal OS, with accommodations for a touch screen. There's no indication a ChromeOS tablet will be anythin
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
It's a strange world where this is the case, but Windows 7 is a lot more open than either ChromeOS or the iPad.7. hromeOS is similar to the iPad in that you're limited in your ability to install the software of your choice - does it even ha
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
This is the second or third article I've read explaining load average, and sad to say I still can't explain it. All I know is that when it's inexplicably over 3-4, you can't determine why as (no processes are using high CPU), and 1 in ten d
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
06. Until they got large enough to sell out, they looked the other way regarding blatant copyright infringement, the source of 85% of YouTube's videos and traffic for the first few years. (as noted in the recent trial proceedings with Viac
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
I approve, Duncan Idaho.
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by julio_the_squid 17y ago
While it might be stretched to fit, no, this doesn't match the commonly accepted use of pretentious at all.

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