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by nikster 12y ago
Your argument sounds semi-reasonable. It's not though. Everyone hates the USA by now, and that's because they're spying on everyone (even allies), they think they can tell everyone what to do, else they use their military to
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by nikster 12y ago
That's a great model
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by nikster 12y ago
Agree - that's amazing. Never thought of it. But back in high school when I was copying software a lot, I actually did not have any money. I'd have jumped on the opportunity to get a legal copy free, and I'd have promoted the
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by nikster 12y ago
Fantastic writeup, it's inspiring. Thank you.
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by nikster 12y ago
My sweet spot too. $49 for a pro product is a price where I don't think about it, just get it. If it helps, it's incredible value. AppCode is like that - there's Xcode and it's free, but AppCode is just way better, and s
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by nikster 12y ago
First of all you have to understand that your post will be shown to very few people initially, and if it doesn't get any likes from these few people - let's say it's 10 - immediately, then it won't be shown to anyone els
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by nikster 12y ago
Spot on. I've since forgotten about this, but at that age I do remember caring way too much about being liked and what others thought. It was not that I was so vain - it just seemed like a reality to me. Reality seemed to be, you have
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by nikster 12y ago
I'm 40. Shocking I know. But to all those who think this is just ancient (the younger they are the older that seems) I have only one response: There's nothing you can do to avoid the same fate! Except a premature death, but that w
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by nikster 12y ago
Those links no longer work. Tweets deleted?
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by nikster 12y ago
Spot on. FB news feed is completely broken, and the only reason is that they're constantly tinkering with it - I guess to optimize for views, for staying time, for click throughs - whatever it is. They need to show posts from people I
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by nikster 12y ago
I'm an adult and I don't understand Twitter either. It's not that there's anything wrong with the basic idea - it's just that Twitter, the company, constantly wants to make it into something it isn't. And invar
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by nikster 12y ago
Yes, Facebook tries to be everything to everyone. It kinda has to, more or less, for the sheer number of users. Nilay Patel recently argued that Facebook is the new AOL, it's the portal of the 2010s. I think that is an apt description.
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by nikster 12y ago
Usually this is just a sign of a society with no middle class. Lots of poor, a fair number of truly rich, and not much in-between. Expensive cars are all over Phnom Penh too, even though the country is dirt poor. They belong to the rich eli
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by nikster 12y ago
You must have been to the wrong places, dude. The "sexpat" scene here is very small really - you'd have to go to Pattaya or Phuket for that. And also these people don't exactly follow you around, you find them in certain
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by nikster 12y ago
peter - it's pointless to "worry" about the visa situation. There have been numerous "crackdowns" for numerous things over the year in Thailand; the one thing they all have in common is that a month or two later, ev
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by nikster 12y ago
I live in Chiang Mai, which is listed #1 on the list - and yeah I'm here because I love it. But the picture you included is the White Temple in Chiang Rai. It's not in Chiang Mai. Might as well put a picture of Chiang Mai there, p
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by nikster 12y ago
First, this was news to me. Second it is cool. And third, the message is to go through life with open eyes, and to wonder about things.
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by nikster 12y ago
Common Sense Summary: The same reason humans would not do well if we remained wet at all times. Plants can't towel themselves dry so they are superhydrophobic instead.
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by nikster 12y ago
Wait... I thought the browser wars were over?
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by nikster 12y ago
I don't watch that channel obviously but he's having fun and entertaining lots of people. I can't find anything wrong with that to be honest. It's not about making money for me, it's about how you make money. He&#x2
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by nikster 12y ago
I have a 7 year old son who loves nothing more than youtube videos of a guy playing Zombies vs. Plants and commenting on it. Of course being a kid his video time is strictly limited. But the fact that he would choose that activity on his iP
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by nikster 12y ago
I am wondering if PaintCode would allow my designer to draw up a complete UI - e.g. all screens so I could just use that. What I do now is I get the designs in some sort of intermediary format, e.g. InVision or whatever, then I have to go a
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by nikster 13y ago
I think in the end we just need an entirely different infrastructure for all this stuff. Email should never be stored on servers unencrypted. I have used PGP/GPG but it's not good enough. It fails the mom test (as in my mom couldn
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by nikster 13y ago
You're making a good argument. I hope it will be tested in court.
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by nikster 13y ago
I don't think the reason is relevant at all. Just because XY says there's probable cause doesn't make it so. That's why we have the judiciary system. Microsoft has no legal authority to make that call.
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by nikster 13y ago
Sure, but a policy doesn't change the law. If laws were broken - and I am hoping there were in accessing private communications of one of their users - then the policy is irrelevant.
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by nikster 13y ago
I hope he can sue them and win. What Microsoft should have done is obvious: Get the case before a judge and get a search warrant. Use the search warrant to access the communications. Just because you own the email servers doesn't mean
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by nikster 13y ago
22 minutes is a really long time for a drone. As for $900 - it survived getting way too close to an active volcano... this is good stuff.
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by nikster 13y ago
Experienced programmers refuse to take the job. We once tried to contract this really fancy team to take over some code. They asked if we had unit tests. "No". "Then we can't do it, sorry, bye." And I agree with the
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by nikster 13y ago
The naming thing is huge. Give things good names. One can also factor out some specialized code into its own method / class - but because you want to re-use it necessarily but because you want to describe what it is doing. Divide et im

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