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by mindstab 13y ago
This is the same scare tactic they always tout to take away your rights with. The Canadian government said the exact same thing last year while promoting their internet spying bill. It's garbage.
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Google Reinstates Federated Jabber/XMPP Instant Messaging(tech.slashdot.org)
11 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
Kind of a hard comparison. the rest are just hardware where as Mac is a hardware/software company and also sell other form factors than pc like phones and other portables. So its not a fair comparison at all. Apple to oranges like. Should t
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by mindstab 13y ago
From Valve's Steam stats Linux has been between 2-2.5% in its first opening few months where as OSX is only 3.5%. If a Mac port is assumed, one might wonder if that should be extended to Linux. and it's not impossible we'll see Linux over t
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by mindstab 13y ago
... "Ignorance is bliss" Happiness maybe isn't always the optimal end state.
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Lawyer Charles Carreon to pay $46,100(arstechnica.com)
15 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
You have anything to back that up? Don't they have an interview process that purports to determine actual candidate viability? are you saying merely being from the US AND having not a big name uni degree precludes you from even getting tha
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5 quotes by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf(axonflux.com)
1 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
A blog called "Dom's laptop is in Iran" with two entries, one a picture lauding "hidden app" and the other a long form showing off hidden app. No social links to this person's main site or social presence. No indication there is a Dom who e
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by mindstab 14y ago
Well if nothing it's a slight hack in the experiment she pulled except she didn't appear to end up with a job out of it. But she did seem to prove that monster is lying when they say the "diversity" options won't hurt you. Also be aware in
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by mindstab 14y ago
like most models? many advertising agencies use minors on their "sexy" ads that are specifically targeted to arouse men of all ages. You just don't see it but men are all over younger girls.
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by mindstab 14y ago
He's a one trick pony and clearly out of touch. He doesn't really seem to have any grasp of the market JC Penny was actually in or that discount cheap clothes is a pretty radically different market then high end premium electronics. (furthe
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by mindstab 14y ago
He basically said he uses a text editor for X subset of text editor features and can't see why Y set (where Y > X) would be of any more use to any one. That's classic Blub. Until you learn them and use them you can't really "envision" w
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by mindstab 14y ago
Sounds like a classic case of pg's "Blub paradox" http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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So your teenager tells you they want to 'make video games' for a living(codesuppository.blogspot.com)
75 points by mindstab 14y ago|76 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
fantastic, thanks!
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by mindstab 14y ago
Whats a simple way to confirm by test your DNS server isn't doing recursion?
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by mindstab 14y ago
So nothing surprising, iOS and Android us OpenGL while Windows phone uses DirectX. It's just funny to note that Microsoft's APIs, once used for lock in are now acting to cause lockout. Oh irony.
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Window's Phone app problem(wired.com)
3 points by mindstab 14y ago|1 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
D: huh, kinda looks cool but I think I'd get tired of holding my hands up all day :P D: s'what keyboards, palm rests and elbow rests are for S: yeah, i hear you S: i played around with it for about 20 minutes and my arm was aching So yeah.
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by mindstab 14y ago
It's a pretty tricky business buying an open source company. You have to work with the community and existing people to maintain "master" of it. Oracle of course is not that company and so their subacquisition of mysql via Sun is now being
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by mindstab 14y ago
Warren Ellis: Dear Google: why launch Google Keep when you've just proven you'll shut off productivity services when you get bored with maintaining them? https://twitter.com/warrenellis/status/314493398138630145
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by mindstab 14y ago
Author Warren Ellis on twitter: "Google shuts down Google Reader, probably the most effective tool I have." https://twitter.com/warrenellis/status/311992329181478912
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by mindstab 14y ago
This is good! Parts of Microsoft continuing to embrace the future (and open source). Because the situation I see now is that enthusiasts love the connect. They buy this great piece of Microsoft hardware and then run to Linux to us it....
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by mindstab 14y ago
Clearly as demonstrated by this mess. What is your point exactly? They are doing it wrong, however they are doing it. OP suggested they use AWS (which alone as stated doesn't solve the problem). Then first commenter said they are using AWS
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by mindstab 14y ago
So your theory is that problems with friends list are keeping people in 30+ minute queues to play the game? Because otherwise you are straw manning me. I agree, just throwing AWS at the problem doesn't solve it, as demonstrated by this cata
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by mindstab 14y ago
Ok so then they appear to be "misusing" AWS. It's built for exactly the kind of problem they are having. Kudos for getting on it but they appear to have mis-designed their architecture then or something else. I'm not sure what's worse, as t
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by mindstab 14y ago
Nooo. some of these games (simcity 2?) aren't even online. It looks like they shutdown the always online DRM server. you can't even play single player on it anymore. EDIT: sims 2 (auto typed city given the article as context) whoops
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by mindstab 14y ago
So there's a weird gap. I can still pay games I bought in the 90s... but apparently EA games I bought >5 years ago I can no longer play...
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EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban On All Online Pornography(yro.slashdot.org)
3 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments

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