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by nathanb 15y ago
You are coming from the position that you would like to share articles on Google plus. Is it so inconceivable to you that any other position exists? I have no desire to share articles on G+, and in fact many of the people I share with do no
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by nathanb 15y ago
You want to win in a way that doesn't diminish you as a person. Corporations are not just beholden to their shareholders, they are beholden to their sense of values and to the values of their leaders and employees. Google, of all companies,
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This is horrifyingly frustrating. It's like when they started adding people from my email contacts to my Google Talk friends list or when they thought my gtalk friends list needed to be all up in my Google Reader friends list. Google don't
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by nathanb 15y ago
If you click on "Other accounts" at the top then you can point it at an mbox folder, if that's what you mean by "local offline".
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How ironic would it be if the catalyst for an actual decent Linux Skype client is Skype being bought by Microsoft! ...not that I'm holding my breath.
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I find myself willing to spend more time/thought crafting a response to an article which I think will be read by more people. For example, I'm just pounding this out stream-of-consciousness style since I know it will only be read by those i
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by nathanb 15y ago
If Amazon understand APIs and platforms so well, why doesn't Amazon Cloud Drive have an API?
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by nathanb 15y ago
I have found the gamification of Hacker News to be detrimental to my experience. Insightful but unpopular comments end up getting buried by retreads of the status quo. It's the tragedy of the commons: if every single person can upvote, the
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by nathanb 15y ago
> I am flabbergasted that a bunch of techies are going wild and posting facepalm pictures over a perfectly normal technical situation Have you actually met any techies lately?
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Hopefully the command line for the C compiler invocation is a typo, because "gcc contestx.c -o contestx.c" will overwrite your source with the executable--which (while catastrophic if done at home with no backup) is probably not a big deal,
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I have a nonprofit I'm passionate about, so I work my 9-5 to get money and pour my energy into my passion. Could I get rich if I redirected that passion to something profitable? Possibly. But to what end?
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These days it seems like much of a language's benefit to developers comes from its libraries rather than from the elegance of its syntax or the ease of implementing an algorithm. The big question is, how much of the "standard" libraries are
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It blew my mind when I wondered how many femtoseconds it had been since the start of the Roman Empire, and it obligingly told me: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=now+-+founding+of+the+r... . It also told me how many ergs are in a jell
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Potential problem: I suspect many patent troll companies are small (<25 people), and the patent pledge could potentially prevent companies from taking preemptive action against these trolls. I don't think this is a dealbreaker, but it's
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It would be interesting to see how much of the time savings come from more efficient boarding order versus just forcing people to all be lined up and ready to go. If passengers can board faster but it takes an extra ten minutes to get every
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by nathanb 15y ago
> That's great news - next time I fly Continental, I'll be sure to be the last person in line, I love the aisle seat. You don't get to choose your seat at boarding time. You are pre-assigned a seat or pre-choose your seat (aisle, center
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by nathanb 15y ago
My homedir sits on a fast RAID-backed NAS which is backed up nightly. All the programs I use are installed in ~/opt on this homedir, and all my window manager settings, program settings, etc are also in my homedir. If my local drive fails,
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by nathanb 15y ago
I agree with everything you say here. I wasn't trying to claim that people skills are actually meaningless or somehow imply that these socially abrasive engineers operate on a higher plane of enlightenment where they have transcended our po
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by nathanb 15y ago
I can't agree. My professional experience involves enough interaction with extraordinarily talented engineers who have extremely abrasive personalities. Often, that abrasiveness is a side effect of their talent: the same ability which allow
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I think in general the premium goes to pay for support contracts and service as much as for the atoms and bits. Of course, it can always be argued whether those contracts and services are worth the premium, but many enterprise customers (Go
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If you mess up your data retention, though, you can get in big legal trouble. Sometimes you have to ask yourself whether you want to be the one who's liable for that.
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"ZFS makes SANs and other expensive, redundant storage systems obsolete" Yes, because clearly what enterprise-level storage customers really want is to roll their own storage solutions using open source technology.
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I personally will not even consider a keyboard which is not split (i.e. "ergonomic"), simply because after typing on one for the past decade I cannot go back to regular square grid keyboards without feeling as though something is horribly,
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AirBnB are on record saying one of their principles is that people are generally good. They have to believe this at some level or else their entire business model would be untenable. They cannot on one side claim that AirBnB is a safe propo
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by nathanb 15y ago
IMO the fact that Opera Mini doesn't try to grab a GPS signal and integrate itself with my phone is a feature.
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I tried to get into Opera Mini. I liked it because it is speedier than the stock Android browser, it handles tabs well, and the interface does pretty much what I expect most of the time. But I found that on a weak wireless signal it would j
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by nathanb 15y ago
That may be so, but I suspect it's in more direct reference to the LulzSec/Anon open letter to the FBI posted at http://pastebin.com/RA15ix7S
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To me, that's the definition of hypocrisy. They pretend to be acting from a moral (or at least societal) high ground and roundly condemn the actions of anonymous. However, both are engaging in the exact same behavior. Now that's hypocritica
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The scary part isn't that scofflaws and pranksters exist, which (as you say) is practically inevitable. But what if we as a society may some day depend on them to preserve our freedom? Viewing my world in terms of black and white has always
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by nathanb 15y ago
"it's entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts" This is quite the hypocritical statement coming from the FBI. As far as I can tell, the only difference between Anonymous, Lulzsec, and the FBI is that the FBI act

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