matthewn

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by matthewn 11y ago
Synecdoche, New York made me think more about why we are here and how we should spend our time than anything else I've ever seen on a screen.
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by matthewn 12y ago
> Not snarky I see you've never read Anthony Lane's film reviews. :)
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Battle of the Ecosystems(danielmiessler.com)
1 points by matthewn 12y ago|0 comments
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by matthewn 12y ago
> you can't ''View Source'' from compose email editor The EditHtml extension fixes that: https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/edithtml-en.html
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by matthewn 13y ago
No, it doesn't: Californians passed a proposition that violated people's rights. The courts, playing their proper role in our system, said, "Nope, you can't do that." That's what happened; that's reality.
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by matthewn 13y ago
No, rights are manifestly NOT subject to a vote. That is why they are called rights .
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by matthewn 13y ago
Frontier has been reborn. Dave Winer's outline editor is now GPLed and runs in a browser: http://scripting.com/2013/09/16/concordOurGplOutliner There's a forked version that can save to the local fi
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by matthewn 13y ago
TextSecure is a fantastic, free replacement for the built-in SMS app on Android, even if you don't use any of its encryption features.
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Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement(tirania.org)
621 points by matthewn 13y ago|274 comments
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by matthewn 14y ago
At the risk of sounding like a grouchy old fart: I still mourn the loss of the old Electronic Arts -- the company that Trip Hawkins founded in order to let the imagination of artists run wild through the nascent world of personal computin
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by matthewn 14y ago
Tiny Tiny RSS attempts something like newsreader-style scoring: http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki/Scoring
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by matthewn 14y ago
The geographic group listings on groups.drupal.org can be a great resource for finding local Drupal talent.
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Revision Control and Unit Tests Considered Harmful(netsplit.com)
3 points by matthewn 14y ago|0 comments
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by matthewn 15y ago
Can you point to anything in Adobe's history that would indicate it is a company that has any clue how to "fuel the growth" of a "free open source project"?
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by matthewn 15y ago
> It doesn't matter if the developer uses polite wording, I'm still insulted. The drama you generate inside your own head is not the developer's responsibility. Closing a bug as "NOTABUG" is not an insult. Closing a bug as "NOTABUG" mea
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by matthewn 15y ago
I get the black bar on the secure version too. :(
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by matthewn 15y ago
Alameda is the city next door to Oakland. Aside from being reported in the Oakland Tribune, what does this story have to do with Oakland?
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by matthewn 15y ago
With technology from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation! (Share and enjoy!)
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by matthewn 16y ago
> I expect better researched articles from ZDNet. I cannot think of a single good reason why you would.
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by matthewn 16y ago
If you don't mind installing an extension, "Personal Menu" will let you add the View menu and its children to the upper-left menu.
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by matthewn 16y ago
Lemmini ( http://lemmini.de/ ) is a fantastic way to play Lemmings on modern hardware. (The data files you'll need are easily torrentable.)
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by matthewn 16y ago
for those who ain't seen it, an obligatory link to Fallows on "Living With a Computer" from July 1982: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/07/living-w... (what fun he was having!)
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by matthewn 16y ago
I was just thinking the same thing. I love Boxee, but it's difficult to see where there will be room for them in this space once Apple and Google have carved it up between themselves.
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by matthewn 16y ago
Here is a long, recent article about introversion that helped me (a definite introvert) feel more at peace with my tendencies: http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/46944 Bottom line: 50% of us are introverts, but in American society it's
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by matthewn 16y ago
"By way of comparison, on my home PC I used a third-party command shell called 4DOS [...] It had a wonderful command line history mechanism: type part of a command, then press up-arrow." Want in bash? Add to ~/.inputrc: # up and down arrows
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by matthewn 17y ago
Towards what?