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by loudandskittish 10y ago
I've always enjoyed some of the juxtapositions, like some article about sexism with one of those things suggesting readers might also like "Top 10 smoking hot celebrities who got UGLY!" And they I have to wonder, do those thi
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by loudandskittish 10y ago
But people paying for a newspaper barely covered the cost of printing it, and even then, plenty were taking losses on the cover price.
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by loudandskittish 10y ago
I was in journalism school in 2004 and almost all the older journalists I met lamented the fact that high end publications were paying $1.00 per word and had been since the 1970s. There had never been any kind of adjustment for inflation.
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by loudandskittish 10y ago
I was shocked to see $0.08 for Businessweek, but read the additional details -- that was a kill fee. I'm actually not sure why they included it.
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by loudandskittish 11y ago
Unfortunately, for fans of Amarok 1.4, that's a feature, not a bug.
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by loudandskittish 11y ago
I've found myself intrigued by the idea of "antique computing," though I'm not sure why someone would advocate the Amiga specifically. I have considered a project that involves getting an older, though not ancient, PC, i
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by loudandskittish 11y ago
Lost its vision? LinkedIn has felt useless for years. It's that "social network" that clogs up my inbox no matter how many times I changed the notification settings and nothing more to me. The worst part is, those e-mails are
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by loudandskittish 11y ago
I loved this game, but I have one major objection to the design, something that afflicts even AAA titles; Getting the "good" ending pretty much requires a walkthrough, since the actions the player must take to achieve it are so ar
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by loudandskittish 11y ago
Also; Options -> Use CUA Keys Options -> Save Options
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by loudandskittish 11y ago
I'm a freelance writer. What little money I make is usually connected to advertising in some way. So, I've generally been against ad blockers. But lately, I've been considering it. More and more I'm coming across web sit
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by loudandskittish 13y ago
I've been playing with a lot of blogging platforms lately and they're all bad in some way. Having more options is good.
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by loudandskittish 13y ago
That's something I've always wondered about. It seems like at some point it became trendy to hate on Bose - hence almost every online discussion about them having a dozen people show up to say they're overpriced and sound lik
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by loudandskittish 13y ago
I wish it didn't block videos.
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by loudandskittish 13y ago
So...can anyone who has worked on CMS projects explain how the costs for such things could run up to $150 million? I honestly want to understand.
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by loudandskittish 13y ago
This one, along with other blog hosts, bug me the most. I'm toying around with various blogging sites, looking to get back into the practice seriously and when I go to see how a theme looks on mobile and get the "INSTALL OUR APP!!!" pop-up,
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by loudandskittish 14y ago
And how, may I ask, do those trusted friends become informed?
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by loudandskittish 14y ago
I think the biggest barrier to ordinary users using a static site generator lies right here: >Installation >Install pyinotify. bash pip install pyinotify I mean, considering the ordinary user we're talking about doesn't code and on
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by loudandskittish 14y ago
And all I can do is be surprised that SodaStream is still around. My parents had one in the 90's but it became harder and harder to get CO2 canisters to refill it with.
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by loudandskittish 14y ago
Exactly. I really want something like this, but that allows me to use whatever word processor or text editor I want (offline!) to do the actual writing.
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by loudandskittish 14y ago
But...her grandfather clones dinosaurs. Why is so beyond belief that she'd have used Unix at some point?
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by loudandskittish 14y ago
And yet, it still doesn't say outright that random people hitting the download page aren't allowed to use it. Just: "While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers."