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by patja 11y ago
This makes me think I should pick one of these up for my daughter to carry around. She can't rotate her hands to a palm-up position, which causes no end of hassle and confusion when getting change from retail transactions.
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by patja 11y ago
I started "working" a few hours a week teaching programming at my kids' school. When they put me on the payroll I was astounded by the number of forms I had to fill out. I counted 15 forms requiring my signature, no less th
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by patja 11y ago
The information available on the website and github is pretty sparse. Will it play blu-ray iso's or folders? Support for DTS-MA? TV tuner support documentation just says "most work", which really doesn't answer the qu
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by patja 11y ago
They are a nice transitional crutch for students just getting started. I teach html, css, and javascript to 13 year olds using Adobe Brackets. The color name code completion is a big assist early on when introducing the basics of CSS befo
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by patja 11y ago
I am struck by the irony of juxtaposing this with the fact that Azure Websites still charges the (in my opinion outrageously steep) price of $39 per month per certificate for non-SNI cert support. Maybe it's not that ironic, but it is
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by patja 12y ago
There is a lot of crap out there but on the other hand many consider it to be a new Golden Age of Television. Granted I think the sans-advertisements HBO has as much to do with this as its ad-driven counterparts. Breaking Bad and Mad Men?
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by patja 12y ago
I have watched very few TV ads in the last 10 years or so thanks to the SageTV DVR software and the Comskip commercial detection and skipping plugin. It isn't perfect, but it is pretty close. Despite being acquired by Google, the foun
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by patja 12y ago
Windows Update patched this yesterday, right? At least I see KB 3042553 listed in my update history from yesterday.
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by patja 12y ago
I have a theory that the use of "so..." to prefix a statement serves two purposes for the speaker: gives them a few more seconds to form their statement, and it also creates a rhetorical beachhead, allowing them to stake a claim
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by patja 12y ago
This is great...I am currently teaching 3 classes of 8th graders an intro to html, css, and javascript and am going to show this to them!
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by patja 12y ago
What's puzzling is that in the "what's in the box" section of the product page, which is where I look for this kind of "gotcha", there is no mention or photo of the stylus being included. I'm sure it is,
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by patja 12y ago
Will this work after the required migration to Facebook API v2+ that is coming on April 30? My understanding of one of the many changes this will drive is it will only be possible for apps to see your friends who also use the app. Apps wo
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by patja 12y ago
I can see the argument making sense that with a strong safety net folks are more willing to take risk. I know for me and my family needing to shoulder the full burden of health care expenses, even with the ACA changes, was one of the major
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by patja 12y ago
Is "breastfeeding good, formula evil" really a political view? It is not hard to find cases of formula being promoted over breastfeeding to the detriment of infant health and development. Case in point: http://en.wiki
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by patja 12y ago
As with any MS licensing press release it is necessary to read the fine print: this is only for upgrades, so first you need to install something and then upgrade it, and only upgrades from Windows 7 and up as opposed to the more easily acq
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by patja 12y ago
I don't know if it is still true, but Chinese OEMs used to be a "pay what they will" business model for Windows licensing from Lenovo on down. There was simply no way to audit/enforce the OEM licensing agreements.
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by patja 12y ago
Think of the education market. So many schools in the US are full of Macs. You won't see that in China as Apple hardware is cost-prohibitive for them. Getting the mindshare and comfort with Windows pays dividends long term
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by patja 12y ago
Surely some mothers cannot produce enough milk, but this is the rallying cry justifying reverting to formula, much as "the baby was too big" is the rationalization for cesarean delivery. Surely it is true in some very small perce
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Google will release SageTV as open source(forums.sagetv.com)
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by patja 12y ago
I could see the cross-platform capability being a draw for coding for mono. I would love to have a free for education use cross-platform minimalist IDE for C# that I could use for middle school programming classes I teach.
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by patja 12y ago
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance alone will have significant impacts on development and operations processes.
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by patja 12y ago
Ben can you shed any light on the EULA terms on the Microsoft site? To get access to this program you must accept the EULA which states that you will only be allowed one single install of pre-release software and the license is only good f
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by patja 12y ago
When you read the terms of the program, you only get one single copy of prerelease software, and the license is only good for 60 days.
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by patja 12y ago
The just announced supercharged pi model should handle it.
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by patja 12y ago
The devil is in the details of the licensing terms. Just like the "Windows 10 upgrades done in the first year will be free for the supported lifetime of your device" leaves a lot of wiggle room around who gets to decide what cons
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by patja 12y ago
I agree that the language "This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device – at no additional charge." found on Te
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by patja 12y ago
Stating all of the prices as "per 30 days" has a bad smell to it. Why not state them as monthly if that was the intent? Or why not state it as hourly or annually if the intent is to slice it that way? The only reasons I can think
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by patja 12y ago
The Kindle does so many things right but like many of Amazon's products leaves me shaking my head and asking "what are they thinking?" Case in point is the Special Offers, or ads shown on the Kindle. Initially I kind of lik
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by patja 12y ago
I paid for a VPN specifically to improve my terms-compliant Netflix streaming performance when Comcast was throttling it.
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by patja 12y ago
The instructions seem to be missing step zero, "Buy a Mac" OK, I get that I could probably run it in a Debian VM too I am sure. Just a pet peeve of the assumptions around operating system monoculture.

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