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by mbrd 9y ago
The game I play most is Starcraft 2. It's really hard to get "good" (I've played on and off for 2-3 years and still don't feel competent!) but the matchmaking is good enough that you win about 50% of games. I like t
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by mbrd 9y ago
I've been trying to read more books in 2017, and it's been going well so far and I've read 24 books since January. The two things that have made the difference for me are: * use the library! I only paid for 1 of those 24 book
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Instapaper Extended Outage(blog.instapaper.com)
18 points by mbrd 10y ago|5 comments
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by mbrd 10y ago
There is also the Unix Humble bundle available at https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle Does anyone have recommendations for any O'Reilly books that are especially good?
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by mbrd 10y ago
I know you're joking, and I'm not agreeing with the headphone jack decision, but the dongle is $9. http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35-...
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by mbrd 10y ago
> Northern Ireland is even holding talks with the Republic of Ireland to unite the island. Protest Northern Ireland frantically scrambling to join the Catholic Republic of Ireland, and receiving a tepid response, is something I never tho
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by mbrd 10y ago
The cached version is here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iVkhl9b...
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by mbrd 10y ago
I did wonder whether there was some batch of "fake" Twitter accounts that all had the same password. That is the most plausible thing I can think of.
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by mbrd 10y ago
Does anyone know the significance of the date 9-11-1961? The password list has 10,444 matches for "9-11-1961" and 10,231 for "9111961". From Wikipedia, I see that Hurricane Carla hit Texas that day but that doesn't
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by mbrd 10y ago
You might be interested in this guy from my home town: http://onestep4ward.com/ He travels the world, but without the trust fund!
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by mbrd 11y ago
What happened to the API searches around mid-January? They seem to drop off from ~11m to ~7m over the space of a week.
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by mbrd 11y ago
I enjoyed doing this but I got a sore neck from reading diagonal text!
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by mbrd 11y ago
If you haven't already read it, "Getting Things Done" by David Allen is one of the best known productivity books. Some people I have spoken to say his method isn't for them but I've found it useful, even if I haven&
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by mbrd 11y ago
Anyone else get the impression that the head of PR at Apple was on vacation and returned this week to put out all the fires? Seriously though, this seems like a consumer-friendly decisions, as was the iOS backdoor/San Bernadino press r
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by mbrd 11y ago
> In Hearthstone, on the other hand, there's no practical reason that Blizzard couldn't keep selling its entire line of cards directly for as long as the game exists. There's no _technical_ reason why they can't conti
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by mbrd 11y ago
My wife is a medievalist and has been an attendee and session organizer at Kalamazoo multiple times. She has always enjoyed the variety at the conference, with academic topics during the day, and more "fun" topics in the evenings
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A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing [pdf](satisfice.com)
3 points by mbrd 11y ago|0 comments
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by mbrd 11y ago
I read it as implicitly approving of Snowden's capital but not wanting to lose the political points for calling him a hero. I agree, weak stance from a politician who appears to avoid that kind of thing more than others. At least that
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Angela Merkel named Time's first female Person of the Year since 1986(theguardian.com)
1 points by mbrd 11y ago|0 comments
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by mbrd 11y ago
My Fastmail web access is currently taking 60+ seconds to load. The DDOS in the blog was last month so I'm not sure if it's related.
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by mbrd 11y ago
"The program segfaulted. So it goes."
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The US inmates charged per night in jail(bbc.com)
1 points by mbrd 11y ago|2 comments
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Mobile phones: Data roaming charges will be abolished(bbc.com)
1 points by mbrd 11y ago|0 comments
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by mbrd 11y ago
Are you sure about that? http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/05/monument-valley-developer-...
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by mbrd 11y ago
It was always amusing to visit the Apple store and see a jailbroken iPhone on display when this vulnerability worked.
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by mbrd 12y ago
I had similar problems with a 2009 MBP about a month after AppleCare expired and they repaired it free of charge. They seem to be pretty good about that.
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by mbrd 12y ago
It has the same problem on Windows 7 + Chrome.
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by mbrd 13y ago
"Dr. Drang, a consulting engineer well known amongst nerds on the Internet" (from http://5by5.tv/systematic/57 )
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by mbrd 14y ago
It looks like the mockups, particularly the tablet one, were made in MS Paint. edit: Also, is the "tm" really necessary? Surely they can defend any future trademark infringement disputes successfully without it? Perhaps I'm being naive abou
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by mbrd 14y ago
I guess what I was trying to saw was not that Dan can/cannot control the amount of time his co-hosts spend orating, but that he gets them to come out of their shell and say what they truly think on topics. I think it's fair to say that the

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