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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Coupled with the eventual shift to Wayland, a default install of Debian should be a lot slimmer and internally less chaotic.
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Find a comparison of all the tiling window managers here -- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_Tiling_Wi... The Arch community is great for support with these types of WMs.
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Note that Upstart is currently only reviewing applications from students at "Arizona State University, Dartmouth, University of Michigan, University of Washington, and Rhode Island School of Design who are expecting to graduate in 2013 or w
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
For 10 years, at a maximum of 14.99% of annual return.
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Google allows free calls => Providers lose revenue. Then you open a whole can of worms. Providers provide the 3G and 4G access. The providers could drop packaged deals with Android phones, or obscure usage of Google Voice through cust
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
-- "Display a different number to protect yourself or pull a prank on a friend . It’s easy to use and works on any phone!" Just because we can do things, and others do, means we shouldn't discuss the different use-cases and implications? I
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
I would think that the majority of the overall usage of kitchen knives would be true to the designer's intention. Given that this app is available on the iPhone App Store, which every immoral spur-of-the-moment teenager has access to, and
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Running around in public, repeatedly using different payphones is a little different to sitting in your bedroom creating "temporary phone numbers at the touch of a button."
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
"You can use a Burner for dating, Craigslist, short-term projects, side businesses, bands, and other times when you need to be in touch but want to maintain a little privacy." -- Such as when I want to be a royal pain in the ass towards ex-
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Yep, looks like it. Be pragmatic about it, send them an email -- gregg@envylabs.com , or tweet them @codeschool .
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
It would be more interesting if the author generally stated his method of weighting the word frequencies, and the results to WIN/LOSE. I wonder if his method takes into account the year of the election, I would think that a speech from the
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Few things. Personally, I'd much prefer a PDF version of your resume (loading LibreOffice takes a lot more time than evince does on my netbook). Create a GitHub account, or some other way of allowing me to see your coding skills. Talk more
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
This article is discussing a class that Fred will be holding, which stemmed from another article of his, which he wrote last year - http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/11/sustainability.html . At first I considered that planning for sustainabili
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
My advice is stop looking at him as an involved "nontechnical person", and start looking at him as a friend again, only one who is currently not helping you, and maybe even leeching off of you, to some extent; cut him loose.
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
I use Mint ( http://haveamint.com/ ) for most of my client work. Clients like the pretty interface and easy to read graphs. The real bonus, for me, is that it is extensible.
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Here's the abstract to Bresenham's Algorithm from Wikipedia, if anyone wants to know a little more about it, generally: "The Bresenham line algorithm is an algorithm which determines which points in an n-dimensional raster should be plotted
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Was all-caps really necessary for the title?
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
I mailed them based on a number of reasons: 1. Critiquing is an essential step of the design process, 2. They provided an email address at the end of the post, 3. I wanted to ensure that they weren't reinforcing their design biases that had
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Sent this email to them: " Absolutely terrible; increasing the signal/noise ratio, in addition to increasing unnecessary white space were extremely bad design choices. The purpose of Wikipedia is to share information. The changes that you p
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
I think any updates to the UI would be appreciated at this stage. The rest of the app seems to be working just fine, now all that's missing is a nice interface.
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Although some aspects of Category Theory will apply to Programming, it seems to me to be a slight abuse of language in that the majority of the theory does not correspond to physical and/or digital systems. More importantly, Category Theory
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Most likely a combination. In addition to analyzing the user's navigational path, exit points, IP ranges, etc...
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by patrickmclaren 14y ago
Has anyone else analyzed their referrals and also seen a significant proportion of bots?
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by patrickmclaren 16y ago
Is charging for a token seriously a comparative option? C'mon, when did authentication become so difficult?
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by patrickmclaren 16y ago
FarmVille.
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by patrickmclaren 16y ago
Your post is lacking clarity in its intended meaning. Also, regarding the sentences "The traditional approach for small businesses is to register a very long domain name..." and "The problem is, small businesses end up with very long domain
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by patrickmclaren 16y ago
Can you disable editing by anonymous users? jvargas, I just restored your email and product url, someone replaced it with gibberish.
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by patrickmclaren 16y ago
Obviously this would be something that would mean a lot more work, but how about.. Tracking a users's blog feed, parsing each post and see how their writing style evolves over time? This would certainly increase the longevity of your app.
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by patrickmclaren 16y ago
6:15am Wake Up 6:30am Treadmill 7:00am Breakfast 7:30am Bus to Work 8:30am Start Work 9:00am Stand-up Meeting/Task allocation 9:30am-4:30pm Continue Work 5:30am-6:30pm Weights Training 6:30pm-7:45pm Check body stats and change diet accordin
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by patrickmclaren 16y ago
Very nice, looks clean. One suggestion for the home page, the styling for the text link accompanying the ad looks out of place. Perhaps remove the underline unless hovered, change to italics (it's a quote/statement of the ad client) and bre

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