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by maw 16y ago
Watch out for messages that ask for your username and/or password. Gmail will never ask for this information. While it's obvious what they're trying to say, this is oddly worded: of course it asks for your username and password when you l
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by maw 16y ago
I'm not saying that many people have too much stuff -- I certainly do, and I'm not entirely happy about it -- but throwing out stuff you haven't used within the last week is easily one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Which is real
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by maw 16y ago
Where I live (not along the Mediterranean) a dinner invitation for 8 means people starting to arrive at 9:45. An appointment with the dentist, half an hour away, at 11 means leaving at 11:05. To say more is to be horribly politically incor
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The Immigrant Paradox (schott.blogs.nytimes.com)
28 points by maw 16y ago|28 comments
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by maw 16y ago
If anyone releases a full-sized e-ink monitor, I'll splurge for it. Just a little bit faster and just a few more colors are all I'd need.
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by maw 16y ago
It may be hard to tell if a book will good after only reading a few pages, but it's often easy to spot bad ones right away.
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by maw 16y ago
Removing bash using rm would probably be a bad idea. Although I think using the filesystem for this purpose is a good idea -- you get parallel-installed versions for free, and it's more reliable and transparent than what you get from rpm --
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by maw 16y ago
It's similar to how under-educated people will use reflexive pronouns and words they don't understand in order to sound educated or important. You and myself (and I wonder whom else) accord that this is the penultimate instance that pheno
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by maw 16y ago
Definitely agreed. I think physical books are a losing proposition for a variety of reasons, but for me, there's nowhere better than a good bookstore -- be it a large chain or a knowledgeably-staffed local -- to unwind for an hour or three
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by maw 16y ago
Only very loosely related, but this is one of the cooler bicycle hacks I've heard about: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/bichain-fixed-free.html .
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by maw 16y ago
Grey mixes well with neither black nor white. Please stop!
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by maw 16y ago
Once it had a big government who looked after its citizens When?
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by maw 16y ago
__sync_fetch_and_add, __sync_add_and_fetch, __sync_val_compare_and_swap, and friends provide a full barrier so “no memory operand will be moved across the operation, either forward or backward.” These operations are the basis for most (all
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by maw 16y ago
Too right. And not only that, but some of the goods and services we enjoy today didn't even exist not all that long ago.
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by maw 16y ago
dogs people bully bully cats Aha! It finally makes sense. Thanks. You should edit the wikipedia article, because your explanation is way better than the one contained therein.
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by maw 16y ago
If we remove the adjectives formed from proper nouns, turn the nouns into "people", turn the verbs into "bully", and add a pronoun and an adjective, we get people whom other people bully bully people. This makes sense. But when we
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by maw 16y ago
Stop this shi7 before it gets out of hand.
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by maw 16y ago
You can set things up so that easy_install installs into a special root. And you nearly always should. The closest to an exception I can come up with is when you rely on image-based installs instead of package-by-package upgrades. And eve
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by maw 16y ago
It gives you a different set of ridiculous warnings about things that have nothing to do with your code's correctness. Ha ha, only serious But for real there are many warnings that pretty plainly seem to be about enforcing somebody's prefer
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by maw 16y ago
The installation instructions tell you to run "easy_install http://closure-linter.googlecode.com/files/closure_linter-la... . All well and good, but install instructions that don't reference specific version numbers freak me out. I might
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by maw 16y ago
Do you realize that most of those "made-up words" in Anathem were just lightly mangled Latin? I'm due for a reread of the Baroque Cycle before too long, so I won't pass judgement on it here, but I'd happily welcome another Anathem.
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by maw 16y ago
Saying that a technology scales is (should be?) just shorthand for saying that a technology can be made to scale using only a reasonable amount of effort.
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by maw 16y ago
Yes, many probably could. But that doesn't mean that the column's message was primarily about running workshops.
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by maw 16y ago
Facebook and farmville are the ghettos of the social media world, playing to the same audience feelings that Jerry Springer did in the 90's. Remember, we all watched that show back then. No, we did not.
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The Gender-Neutral Pronoun: 150 Years Later, Still an Epic Fail(blog.oup.com)
3 points by maw 16y ago|0 comments
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by maw 16y ago
The one isn't necessarily mutually exclusive with the other: media has been held back, but that won't necessarily stop the FTC (or some other part of the government) from getting involved in other media. I hope you're right that the FTC won
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by maw 16y ago
From the US, currently living in Mexico. So I voted for USA and other.
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by maw 16y ago
The ones I'm familiar with are the New Yorker (respectable, and I was a subscriber when I lived in the US) and Wired (not so much, and no effin way), but I have a hard time imagining typical readers of either getting bent out of shape by ma
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by maw 16y ago
But in Arabic and Somali is it possible to talk about people who live nearby while obscuring whether they're male or female?
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by maw 16y ago
The bit about specifying the gender of one's neighbor sounds like the work of somebody who knows just enough to be really wrong. My French and German are weak, but Spanish has vecino/vecina, and you can equivocate easily enough by saying th

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