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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Oh. I actually wasn't saying that the guy "blinked." I was trying to evoke the image of a relatively powerless person staring at an army who had just given an order; the guy would of course have no response available except OK. Wasn't derid
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Army of Facebook Lawyers: "Their contention was robots.txt had no legal force and they could sue anyone for accessing their site ..." Lone data collector dude: <blink> <blink> It turns out the lawyers are right. Huh.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Nobody can really believe the US wants to CONQUER Iraq in the sense that they want to stay there indefinitely for control." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States_in... "A new embassy, which has been described as the l
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I disagree with "pretentious," but you are correct that not everyone sees Google data collection as potential trouble. I do see it as potential trouble, not because they're Google but because they're in the data collection and correlation b
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"... how long would it really take [] to release one ...?" Not too long. "... how long would it really take Microsoft to release one ...?" Lemme check the Gantt chart ... somewhat longer.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"As long as I'm up-voted then I'll keep doing it." I'm not sure this is a good trigger. I think you should keep doing it as long as you like doing it, regardless of upvotes. I would think your server logs would be enough of an indicator of
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I've been using it for a week, I like it. Health food features: (features that are generally good for you but which you don't notice specifically at each use) - Access via https, if you want. - Logs deleted quickly - Less data about
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
In the parent to my comment was this sentence: "New users have no idea how powerful it is." That reminded me of this quote from Star Wars Episode VI: "You don't know the power of the Dark Side." Which reminded me of the bumper sticker or T
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
People should just post the google search for NYT and WSJ locked articles and be done with it.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
You have to come at it from google. Go here and click on the WSJ article from there: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Wal-Mart%27s%20G...
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
You're soaking in it.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Over two-thirds, amigo!" Ah, so he didn't actually want to engage Dodd and persuade him. "Why are we moving fucking backwards?" Bailing ... now.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"... climbing shoes or hiking boots for more challenging terrain then just going off the sidewalk will have other vectors of importance." Yes, but still, who are the majority of people who are buying those specialized shoes? Normal people
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Possibly a startup or even established company whose focus is related to your mechanical engineering knowledge. You might be more valuable as a subject matter expert who programs, than as a beginning programmer. If not an ME-focused company
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Yes exactly. I would put it similarly, "Life is a game. The objective is to design and implement your own game. Whoever dies playing closest to their own rules wins."
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Ah, my mistake. I meant registers, not buffers. :help registers As to your "I'm curious" question, I use both. Mostly arglist, and I resort to buffers when the arglist has gone squirrely (editing an additional file after starting with a num
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
What makes me happy, short term: - Laughing with my son (12 years old). - Seeing my son happy and positive. - Being "in flow," engrossed in a task and making progress. Long term goals: - To see my son's independent life unfol
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Come to the Dark Side. We have buffers.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
This is a good example of how to do a simple tutorial. The tutorial video itself is well done. Following the video is a concise recap of what was covered in the video. At the end is a short, relevant list of "learn more" resources. Well don
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Lots of good suggestions in here, depending on the answer to "ask her." I'll just add that at 13 she's old enough to start in with something more "real" than squeak or scratch. While they do teach logic, she'll be able to build on something
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Number one distro, maybe, but no Linux distro will ever be the number one OS. It's not Mac, for those people. It doesn't run Outlook or MS Office, for those people. OpenOffice is not MS Office, no matter how good it is. Anything run within
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"It would be nice if you could work on your own projects at work in the open as long as you weren't accessing internal company servers." That sounds like a job description for working at home as a freelancer or remote employee. On the inter
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"He went into the project figuring that he wouldn't find any vulnerabilities with the dumb fuzzer. "But I found bugs, lots of bugs. That was both surprising and disappointing." And it also made him ask why vendors like Microsoft, Apple and
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
When you have a set of 1-1 data pairs that you want to be able to look up both ways, and you don't want to maintain two dicts, as described in the article's HTMLEntities example.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The privacy policy mentions an exception, in several place, along the lines of "except by court order/legal requirement." Would bankruptcy proceedings, where you're required to sell/auction "everything," be considered a court order or simil
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Yes, because: a) The privacy of anything that comes to me via USPS is legally protected, and there is no such legal protection on the net. No ISP admin will go to jail for opening and reading my mail just because he felt like it. b) You can
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Gopher. Usenet (whatever client). Stacker. HP made some replacement desktop for Windows that I really liked, not New Wave. Tapcis addon for Compuserve.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I can't have any sympathy for them in a case like this. If Microsoft felt it was a victim of software patents, then it would be lobbying Congress and industry to abolish software patents. Instead they make rumbly noises at Linux over suppos
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
- What problem does Dodd say this is going to solve? Is he trying to reduce the workload of the SEC? - Whatever the problem is, is it a problem? - Does this solve it? - Who is paying/lobbying Dodd to do this? I imagine it wasn't on his ra

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