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by metageek 16y ago
> Another workaround would be creating a third-party service for importing contacts from Google. http://www.goosync.com/
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by metageek 16y ago
It's the difference between the freedom of a bill of rights and the freedom of anarchy. Both ways make sense, they just don't get along together.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Window management is largely pushed to the clients, they draw their own decorations and move and resize themselves, typically implemented in a toolkit library. Well, there's a bad idea. I suppose I could see an X replacement which
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by metageek 16y ago
I liked this part: > Batteries are included (they last about 45 minutes but are rechargeable).
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by metageek 16y ago
Isn't the general term "flash crowd"?
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by metageek 16y ago
Nullification is the idea that states can override federal laws.
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by metageek 16y ago
Just points to this Slate article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868782
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by metageek 16y ago
OK, so it's an emulator for VIC-20 BASIC, but not for the VIC-20.
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by metageek 16y ago
Agreed. The whole war on drugs needs to be stopped. But nullification is not the right tactic--not least because it just doesn't work.
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by metageek 16y ago
> A final problem with Prop 19 is that it would only have legalized marijuana under state law, since federal law also bans marijuana. That was always my problem with this (and with Prop 215, medical marijuana, in 1996): they completely
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by metageek 16y ago
Thanks!
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by metageek 16y ago
Yes, I know. My point is that MS wouldn't have anywhere near that much trouble, since they exert more control over the PC vendors.
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by metageek 16y ago
Because forcing me to open a new tab is evil. If I want a new tab, I'll middle-click.
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by metageek 16y ago
> And then losing them entirely Oh, yeah. I remember one day my dad typed in a long program from Color Computer Magazine, which did 3D images (very sparse wireframe). I played with it for a while, finished, pressed Reset...then, wh
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by metageek 16y ago
Consider that 20% of Facebook is 1.6% of Google.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Contrast that with Android, which Google continually updates, and which is then automatically updated on consumer's phones. I thought this was weak, given how long it can take for an Android update to reach some phones. My wife has
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by metageek 16y ago
These were great. I remember thinking the ones in the sequel were better, though: More BASIC Computer Games http://www.atariarchives.org/morebasicgames/ Eliza and Wumpus come to mind.
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by metageek 16y ago
> and the incentives at the company are perverse. Can you expand on that?
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by metageek 16y ago
I'm still leery of location checkins. It'd have to be a pretty good deal to be worth it.
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by metageek 16y ago
Or, in GNOME, it's Compose, +, -.
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by metageek 16y ago
> I guess you could possibly launch one satellite and see if people would subscribe For that, though, you'd need to put the satellite in geosync ( nobody is going to subscribe to a phone service that's usable only every 100 minutes),
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by metageek 16y ago
So what's the common superclass? (Personally, I'd say that robbers are a subclass of thieves.)
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by metageek 16y ago
"He doesn't produce much, and all of it's crap, but at least he's sweating."?
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by metageek 16y ago
The real difference is that they aren't going to keep the same phones numbers forever. With FB, and whatever eventually replaces it, they have a shot at keeping in touch all their lives.
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by metageek 16y ago
> I think him having "exam anxiety" hardly counts for health-related. I tend to agree, but apparently the university believes in it, and requires a doctor's note. Given that, I can't really be surprised that they treat it as health in
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by metageek 16y ago
> turn over your personal information to bill collectors The spokesman pointed out that this was health-related information (since the student had a doctor diagnose his test anxiety); it'd be reasonable to treat that more carefully.
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by metageek 16y ago
Layers. Layers seemed easier than DOM...until you encountered the bug in Netscape 4 where you couldn't have two layers loading at the same time. I worked on Netcaster for a while, and we had to have a queue of (layer,url) pairs; when eac
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by metageek 16y ago
That's the sort of strategy that works when you're a dominant player. WP7 needs to go the other way, making it possible to write cross-platform apps, so that devs will say, "Ooh, here's a better to make my next app!" instead of, "Eww, do I
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by metageek 16y ago
Personally, that's the approach I'd prefer, because then all my data is on the drive, which I can take out of the system when the power supply fails, to recover my data. If the OS has silently migrated some of my data onto an invisible chu
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by metageek 16y ago
The problem is that "elite" doesn't just mean "best", and never did. Look at the etymology [1]: it just means "chosen", which is exactly what it means when referring to the Ivy League. [1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=elite

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