mtone

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by mtone 10y ago
As a lazy user, I often copy paste the document title as the filename. Windows generously trims any disallowed character, but if it didn't, lots of my files would contain colons. I actually wish colons were supported, since it's s
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by mtone 10y ago
If you the GMO products are consistently 15% cheaper (thanks to better yields and lower waste they are promising) and routinely labeled organic (thanks to the promised reduction in pesticides requirements), consumers will be attracted to it
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by mtone 10y ago
Reading a TOS provides no indication of what a software will do, just what it might do. Most of clauses quoted by OP appear in almost every TOS out there. Online documentation provides no assurance of being complete and accurate either.
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by mtone 11y ago
I like the CRA's ( http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/gncy/lrt/vvw-eng.html ) categories: - Tax planning: within the spirit of the law - Tax avoidance: within the letter of the law - Tax evasion: unlawful
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by mtone 11y ago
I think in that case I would somehow expect part of the money go towards the authors. By giving to Wikipedia as whole, it's easier to accept that I'm supporting the infrastructure and not the content.
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by mtone 11y ago
I'm a big fan of flux, but brightness adjustment is another story. On my iPad, I quickly turned it off. The auto-brightness never hit the spot I wanted, and switched too strongly and too late. Reading on the bus, the brightness basical
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by mtone 11y ago
I don't own a car and instead use a ZipCar-like along public transit and cycling. My conclusion is that car sharing services are quite expensive. I can do no more than 3 or 4 short rentals a month before the cost start to resemble that
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by mtone 11y ago
Howerver, in NTFS at least, attributes/metadata is a pretty flexible database-like storage, yet are not the same thing as alternate streams (a.k.a. resource forks) which are also supported.
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by mtone 11y ago
Say you want to test how a program fares when strings are malformed, or the disk is full, etc. It can be hard to simulate this if the code refers to variables and results from functions from all over the place. Making code into reusable mod
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by mtone 11y ago
Comparing music complexity with audio data compressibility sounds like a big stretch. Music made of random notes doesn't sound anything like random noise, and a simple lullaby where the instument would be a random noise flute would sti
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by mtone 11y ago
Fair enough. And I agree that progressive/hybrid approaches to teaching don't all translate/scale online well -- I'm thinking for example of programs built on being highly project-oriented in applied engineering or vocat
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by mtone 11y ago
A few years ago I abandonned the project of studying part-time while working, I hated it. Today, I'm well into a distance program and remain motivated. This is at a local uni, not a Mooc, with some live chat/interaction during lec
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by mtone 11y ago
In my opinion, the names and URLs in a password manager are data, not metadata. I personally typed or copy-pasted all the entries in my keepass vault, it's primary information associated with the passwords, highly personal, and that it
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by mtone 11y ago
I do this directly on my router running Tomato firmware. The initial setup is a bit more involved, but it applies equally to all browsers and mobile devices in the home. The script I use is http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.p
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by mtone 12y ago
I've had good productive sessions by using Skype video screen sharing with headsets for talking. Some benefits over doing this at the office on a workstation include: - less disruptive to others in an open space - both have a good full
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by mtone 12y ago
Web archive link, with pictures: http://web.archive.org/web/20130220094600/http://www.christi...
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by mtone 12y ago
Another way to address the original problem is jailbreaking and using the Activator app to assign the home button to "unlock", which effectively auto-unlocks the device to whatever app you had open. I find it quite a usability imp