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by larrik 16y ago
It's easy to think that everyone accepting (or even demanding) bribes just decided one day that they wanted to be evil. In reality, they may very well have been pressured into it by their environment, or from fears that their peers will rat
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by larrik 16y ago
I don't believe the author meant "free as in speech" software when he was using the term. It seems he didn't consider the existing terms at all, really.
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by larrik 16y ago
This is why a lot of subscription websites (which this was, apparently), don't display ads to logged in users. A small dedicated audience looks like click-fraud. Adsense and the like is best for drive-by visitors. I did that even with my ow
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by larrik 16y ago
I agree. Simply writing my own scripting language once taught me a lot more than I would have expected. Now I use Lua, though.
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by larrik 16y ago
I always wondered why a box flashes around the ducks whenever I took a shot. Now I know. Although I certainly perceived it every time, not just when there were multiple targets (which is what the article claims). I don't recall perceiving t
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by larrik 16y ago
Except that this isn't journalism. It's an essay written by comedian Patton Oswalt, presumably to publicize his upcoming book.
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by larrik 16y ago
I've only really started using it recently, and I can watch an entire Doctor Who episode at full quality with only 4 bars of service (iPhone 4). At weaker signals the quality drops before it buffers (I'd honestly rather it buffered). Of cou
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by larrik 16y ago
"He could also rectify the Newton's single biggest shortcoming: the device's inability to communicate easily with the Macintosh desktop computer. Apple has already begun offering Bluetooth local wireless networking technology for peripheral
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by larrik 16y ago
I guess I misunderstood the part that said "(let's imagine for a moment that Netflix is watchable over 3G)"...
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by larrik 16y ago
For the record, I watch Netflix over AT&T 3G all the time, and it works very well for me.
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by larrik 16y ago
Marking a newsletter you signed up for as "spam" seems pretty harsh.
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by larrik 16y ago
There were a ton of websites trying to be Facebook, and really only Facebook succeeded. Give them a little credit, jeez.
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by larrik 16y ago
Definitely true, but you need to determine if the blog post is adding value to the discussion, or just sensationalizing it. The world is full of people who can borrow a few lines and blow them out of proportion, but we should (and do) expec
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by larrik 16y ago
Fair enough, but the official guideline is as follows: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." I think PG sacrifices a lot of clarity for some cleverness here,
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by larrik 16y ago
I always assumed it was a concession to AT&T when the data plans were unlimited.
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by larrik 16y ago
The official policy is to go to the original source of the story, not the original source YOU read.
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by larrik 16y ago
In my experience, customers generally expect new rates to start with your fiscal year, and Jan 1 is an obvious start to a fiscal year. YMMV
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by larrik 16y ago
So, putting a row of pictures makes it a "copy"? That's a bit of a stretch.
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by larrik 16y ago
True, looking back I forgot to include the part where they obsessively delete each email from their device after reading it. The "Leave Mail" option is very important as well, especially when they really just want to leave the mail on the s
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by larrik 16y ago
As a consultant, I ran into a LOT of people who preferred POP3 on their phones and non-main devices. They just wanted to have as little email on their phone as possible (which also gives you decent security if the phone is lost). Combine th
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by larrik 16y ago
I agree that the headline is a bit over the top. When I saw that they mentioned ActiveSync, all I could think of was "I'd have to plug my phone into my computer to get email???" I didn't know that's what they call their push service now.
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by larrik 16y ago
I believe that Microsoft is still insisting that IE6 and Windows are inseparable, due to that being their defense in the DOJ trial.
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by larrik 16y ago
To summarize, they are moving to a new office that is a coffee shop (complete with free wifi), library, and news room. People are invited to come in and take part in the whole newspaper process. This is also a newspaper that recognizes the
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Newspaper moves into coffee shop, invites citizens to contribute.(registercitizen.com)
1 points by larrik 16y ago|1 comments