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by mmagin 16y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Authenticity-Hoax-Lost-Finding-Ourselv...
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by mmagin 16y ago
This is one of the problems with how TLS/SSL (as implemented in web browsers) conflates the seperate issues of authentication/trust and encryption.
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by mmagin 16y ago
"James Clerk Maxwell might be spinning in his grave. But is he rotating around his long axis, or flipping endwise?!!!"
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by mmagin 16y ago
So, I guess this is the USA's side of compliance to the new copyright treaty that was being cooked up in secret? It's so tiresome seeing copyright infringement conflated with the counterfeit physical goods which may cause their users physic
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by mmagin 16y ago
I get bored of games remarkably easily compared to the average person or the average programmer, it seems. Games that have managed to keep my interest enough to play most of the game, in reverse chronological order: Portal, No One Lives For
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by mmagin 16y ago
I bought a LaserJet 6MP on ebay about 5 years ago and upgraded the memory to the maximum. It's served me well since for general text printing.
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by mmagin 16y ago
Their FAQ states: Durability: VoltDB provides both replication of partitions (known as K-safety) and periodic database snapshots to ensure the availability of the data. I suppose it depends on your definition of "D". Seems like this might
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by mmagin 17y ago
I'm assuming that they didn't put the better processor in the 13" due to thermal or battery requirements. Sad, I would really have liked that config.
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by mmagin 17y ago
It seems like the downsides of the "work computer" as he's characterizing it are the fact that it encourages multitasking behavior. On the other hand, with the iPad/iPhone/iTouch platform multitasking is severely restricted, applications a
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by mmagin 17y ago
All my old phones had stupid features which caused them to accidentally dial 911 about once a year while bouncing around my pocket. One of the greatest things about the iPhone is that it doesn't seem to have this propensity.
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by mmagin 17y ago
Sounds like a good practical explanation why in some cultures (French, for example), it's practically mandatory to say the equivalent of "Hello" and other pleasantries before getting to the actual content of the conversation.
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by mmagin 17y ago
On the other hand, the stock photo on that page is a good example of somewhere the French don't make eye contact -- on the Metro. I am told it has something to do with the fact that you don't have a choice in being there, so people want the
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by mmagin 17y ago
As a random datapoint: Back when I used bloglines, I had subscribed to some searches with them, and after a few weeks, it stopped working. Craigslist seems to block anyone who hits a given rss feed much.
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by mmagin 17y ago
I seriously gotta wonder how the iPhone of some random person (which has various third party apps on it, etc.) is going to meet the kind of security requirements the card issuer cares about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Indust
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by mmagin 17y ago
Actually, OS X includes "cu" -- not that feature-rich, but it's been sufficient for me.
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by mmagin 17y ago
Good thing I put my shredded paper in my worm compost bin. (Well, actually I do that because it's beneficial to mix some lower-nitrogen waste in with the higher-nitrogen waste (vegetable scraps). But it really does destroy the shreds nicel
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by mmagin 18y ago
I would agree that pen and paper or a single textfile you keep open all the time is the easy way to keep external memory of what you're doing without getting bogged down in a complicated tool. However, I'd also advocate focusing by multitas
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by mmagin 18y ago
This is the way things are. Everything was better in the good old days before everyone else discovered it.
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by mmagin 18y ago
First, I assume this is for the same reason that most viruses are for Windows -- WordPress is one of the most common species in the ecosystem. Also, If I understand the architecture of Movable Type correctly, it renders much of the site int