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by mdemare 16y ago
Looks nice - I'm personally interested in seeing a filtered frontpage based on my personal likes and dislikes.
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by mdemare 16y ago
I change the background of my terminal when I ssh into another server, works great! ( http://jeffmiller.github.com/2011/01/10/ssh-host-color )
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by mdemare 16y ago
Apple does not allow that.
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by mdemare 16y ago
By the time the situation in the U.S. deteriorates to that point, the president won't care about having legal authority to do something. It's as pointless as outlawing military coups.
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by mdemare 16y ago
I like to read Harry Potter in various languages - works great for learning to read well. Also, I created a website where you can practice vocabulary and verb conjugations: http://inglua.com
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Mind vs. Machine(theatlantic.com)
2 points by mdemare 16y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 16y ago
Define fluent, and define language. I can read novels in Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish, and Italian, but only hold a meaningful conversation in the first two, so I chose 2 languages in the poll. I can read without much pr
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by mdemare 16y ago
If these people would otherwise be unemployed, and if their wages are modest, then it doesn't destroy any wealth, and if what they do is even slightly useful, it creates wealth.
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by mdemare 16y ago
But not a new one: "Rocket Surgery Made Easy", by Steve Krug, http://amzn.com/0321657292
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by mdemare 16y ago
Especially to those people. I bought one, and the lack of memory is very annoying, particularly when browsing (constant reloads).
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by mdemare 16y ago
The Library of Congress is 10TB. Zipped, it would fit on a single 3TB hard drive.
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by mdemare 16y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Champions-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegu...
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by mdemare 16y ago
What I like about this novel that is not directly related to rationality, is that Eliezer pays a lot of attention to the motivation of the "villains". Why would anyone want to be a Death Eater? Why on earth do Malfoy or Crabbe & Goyle a
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by mdemare 16y ago
Sadly, because it is fan fiction, it will never be published.
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by mdemare 16y ago
Or send it to Instapaper. There are very few websites that I prefer reading in the original form, as opposed to in one of the above formats. I wonder what that says about the state of web design.
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by mdemare 16y ago
From Yes Prime Minister: "I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actual
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by mdemare 16y ago
tl;dr: Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. (Rob Pike).
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by mdemare 16y ago
I've found myself designing apps for iOS that should really be Mac apps, simply because of the commercial convenience of the app store. My hope is that this will lead to a renaissance of development for the desktop.
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by mdemare 16y ago
It's not really a drive anymore, just individual flash chips, not replaceable.
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by mdemare 16y ago
That is in fact a problem with the Air, the fans are simply not powerful enough to cool the CPU at full speed for more than 5 minutes. You're wise to wait (I'm not).
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by mdemare 16y ago
I learned to program on a C64, and later in Turbo Pascal on an XT with 256KB. Now I code on an Air, (rev. A) and it works fine. I miss a really big screen (but you can plug one in) and it's slow for some tasks such as running tests (but you
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by mdemare 16y ago
A golden pony is worth about $440M, maybe he should have offered a golden dragon.
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by mdemare 16y ago
What a load of nonsense in this thread! We're talking about localization, not proving P!=NP. It'll take 5% more work to use a localization library instead of hardcoded strings, and a bit of money for a contract with a good translation agenc
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by mdemare 16y ago
Sounds awesome, I've just registered! Hope to see more of you guys there. Any ideas that you're going to present?
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by mdemare 16y ago
Looks great! I'd like to see some demo orbs to see what's possible with the editor.
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The Future of Web Aggregation(russellbeattie.com)
3 points by mdemare 16y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 16y ago
More to the point, now that Google has reverted to normal, how do you remove the background image from Bing? It's a total dealbreaker for me.
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Brain Management(dilbert.com)
95 points by mdemare 16y ago|25 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
Wish it wouldn't mangle the formatting of the address, but that's probably the fault of Google.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I'd argue for the opposite, allow anonymous in the beginning (during "bootstrap mode"), to minimize hurdles for new users, and switch to users only when anonymous users become a nuisance.

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