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by lurker19 15y ago
Do you also get kind of sick when you notice that food and clothing and flowers and education and entertainment cost money also? If no, why is housing different? If yes, what do you think income should be used for?
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by lurker19 15y ago
How do you perform that measurement using practically bounded computing and networking resources?
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by lurker19 15y ago
De-editorializing. Reddit /r/programming was not impressed either.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Right, that is why We the People create regulations to protect the society that We own. General welfare and common defense and all that jazz.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Don Knuth has not used a checkbook in years.
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by lurker19 15y ago
TV? GV?
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by lurker19 15y ago
That is basically Google's mission statement as laid out in their IPO docs : to organize all the world's information. We wrongly thought that was just a fancy phrase for webcrawling.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Arnold Kim got his MD and even practiced for a while before retiring from medicine to work on Macrumors.com full time.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Skype 2.8 for Mac exists and is from better user experience than any Windows or Linux version.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Mac is not a PC. Apple will hesitate a long while before bringing Facetime to the PC, because Facetime promotes all-important lock-in to the Apple ecosystem and sells Apple hardware.
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by lurker19 15y ago
What version of Skype and Linux do you have that doesn't have the giant interface and a dozen windows open at once to show a dozen chats?
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by lurker19 15y ago
Capisce.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Ivy League students get massive financial aid if they cannot pay out of pocket. No massive debt. Out of state tuition in The UW system is much more expensive.
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by lurker19 16y ago
Networking is extremely flaky in my home LAN. Since I set up a new box with natty, my box had been crashing my actontec DSL modem. There are some workarohbds online for disabling ipv6 and restarting wifi when he module crashes and the indic
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by lurker19 16y ago
On Sandy Bridge graphics,X server freezes or flickers everytime anything interesting happens, like screensaver or suspend or console switching. New graphics bugs are reported daily. My X has frozen hard 6 times in 2 days. Nvidia drivers hav
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by lurker19 16y ago
A camera is significantly easier to handle than a laptop, when filming anything other than the seated user position in front of the laptop.
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by lurker19 16y ago
I think you are unfairly contrasting he flaws of something that exists against he perfection of something you want to exist. In-house IT fails plenty of the time also, and plenty of organization cannot afford to fix some failures. One must
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by lurker19 16y ago
Personal responsibility can never be outsourced. If one does not want to lose something, one makes an independent backup. Google or whoever offers a probabilistically reliable system at a certain price. If one does not like the odds, pay a
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by lurker19 16y ago
Monetization will always interfere with user experience in a system whose value is amplified by network effects.
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by lurker19 16y ago
Wow. I did not get the pun in AirBnB until I saw it spellers out widhelm he lowercase b in airbed. The capital B is either a branding miss or an intentional branding effort to look more upscale than Airbed.
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by lurker19 16y ago
I have difficulty imagining a person with the mindset "Violence is not the answer, excepting of course that I will fight to the death to defend a man's freedom to throw his trash in another person's car"
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by lurker19 16y ago
1. The murder in that news story was not triggered by the anti-litter. It seems highly likely that he murderer was already out for blood. 2. Litter travels beyond the boundary of the litterer's clothing, so I do not see the consistency of y
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by lurker19 16y ago
Sadly, custom triggers seem to not work in Quicksilver on Snow Leopard. One can create a shortcut hotkey and check some options, but the UI fails when one tries to define the Action.
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by lurker19 16y ago
It git or it github?
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by lurker19 16y ago
Could you share some more info on the hackintoah. The amount of info I have read about hardware compatibility fickleness and dsmos security code has terrified me.
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by lurker19 16y ago
Ah. A hibernate-to-EBS feature would be nice, so that an idle EC2 instance could be concerted from $/day to $/month when idle, for use cases (like mine) where I have installed a bunch of scripts and data on a single host that I would like t
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by lurker19 16y ago
Does stopping then resizing then starting an instance preserve local non-EBS data? Is it like a "portable hibernate image" of the system?
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by lurker19 16y ago
Parent is the TurboTax of comments.
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by lurker19 16y ago
Well, TechChrunch, did you ever find out if people were dying as soon as possible?
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by lurker19 16y ago
I assume that Places will be used for Foursquare-style or Facebook --uh, Places-- -style checkins. It is patently absurd to grant a trademark for a common English word for use in an area of application that is the word's normal meaning.

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