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by mdesq 13y ago
It sounds like NJ isn't encouraging conservation, but rather more consumption. This is backwards, IMHO.
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by mdesq 13y ago
A picture of consumer-grade fireworks posted on July 4??
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San Francisco cyclist guilty of manslaughter(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by mdesq 13y ago|0 comments
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by mdesq 13y ago
Correct. Anything that had some kind of open source license (particularly for acquired products in spaces where Oracle had little actual experience) required justification for why the license had to be that way to maximize the business va
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by mdesq 13y ago
I used to work for Oracle. Something I heard several times around different parts of the company was that Larry believed that open source was a good way to build products, not businesses. He was more than happy to take advantage of open sou
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by mdesq 13y ago
I've seen air vests for horseback riding as well. I wonder how horseback riding helmets compare to bicycle helmets.
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by mdesq 13y ago
You should add Yoleo[1] to your list. It looks quite promising. [1]: https://yoleoreader.com/
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by mdesq 13y ago
No JavaScript option?
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by mdesq 13y ago
We're actually working on that now.
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by mdesq 13y ago
I moved everything I had at Linode over to DigitalOcean as well and performance has been excellent. I loved Linode's stability but their response to the recent security incident really pissed me off. On DigitalOcean, I have seen briefl
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by mdesq 13y ago
I think the folks in the Middle East have pretty much demonstrated how this works.
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by mdesq 13y ago
"In the Off position it does absolutely nothing, allowing you to use your iOS device as usual, but twist it into the On position and it mutes all sounds coming from the device apart from alarms you have set manually." Those sound like excep
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by mdesq 13y ago
HN is great for getting exposure, provided you find the value of the exposure & feedback worth the cost of collecting & processing it. The author's point "Unless you’re selling something for which HN is going to be the main target m
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by mdesq 13y ago
And my expected shortcuts work out of the box. Brilliant. My import isn't even finished and I'm liking it.
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by mdesq 13y ago
I'm reluctantly probably to go with Feedly for now, even though the "slickness" of the experience really gets in the way, the preferences are limited, and the page-by-page flipping on Android is maddening. I skim in streams, not blocks. New
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by mdesq 13y ago
There's a fair amount of electronic bullying even here on HN, often shrouded in politically correct techie language. Tearing down is always easier than building up and, as others have pointed out, as a community gets larger, the negativity
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by mdesq 13y ago
You already make personal health care decisions based on price. Did you get a complete physical and blood test today? If yes, will you do the exact same thing tomorrow?
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by mdesq 13y ago
These issues are exactly what people refer to as "first world problems." On the one hand, we want everything regulated just so in order to have a nice, well-engineered society with minimal risk and clean consciences when we buy food from an
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by mdesq 13y ago
Ever since Oracle has taken hold of MySQL (I was at Oracle at the time, and saw their goals firsthand), they have been trying to extract as much money as possible from anyone using the database in a commercial way. Just the mention of MySQL
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by mdesq 13y ago
It seems that Yelp is turning into something like the BBB, ultimately holding the good name of organizations hostage, whether or not that was the original intent.
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by mdesq 13y ago
And every generation comes along and palms their faces at what abject idiots the previous generation so obviously was. It's a short hop from being with the large, popular group to being inside the gulags of the next mob to come along.
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by mdesq 13y ago
I see she accepts Square. I wonder if she accepts Bitcoin.
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by mdesq 14y ago
The Boston Marathon just issued a statement and used the word "bombs." Not sure if that's just a hasty description, but that is the word they used.
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by mdesq 14y ago
I spend more actual time in Reader than any other Google application including Gmail. This bites. I'm open to alternatives, but I haven't seen any I could really latch on to.
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by mdesq 14y ago
This slideshow is an advertisement. An advertisement for the book, the authors' personal recognition, and probably LinkedIn and other ventures the authors are involved with. After all, the book has been out for a year, so it's time for a ne
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by mdesq 14y ago
Mad props for creating one of the most recognized and discussed fonts.
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by mdesq 14y ago
Yes, it's called rent seeking.
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by mdesq 14y ago
At least it's not a hoodie.
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by mdesq 14y ago
The very nature of the legal system is built on adversary. Each side, in general, works to the maximum overall advantage of their client. There is a bit of discretion available, but in general, expect prosecutors to press for maximum overal
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Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs If They Lose(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
220 points by mdesq 14y ago|87 comments

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