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by pdwetz 14y ago
He was very much inspired by Ayn Rand for that book; I can't find the article that quotes him on it, but the wikipedia article at least mentions the connection. Similar to Ayn Rand, I thought he was a bit over the top and heavy handed with
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by pdwetz 14y ago
I care; people with a variety of interests are more fun to talk to and work with. Those interests need not align with my own. If anything, some variance makes for pleasant unplanned learning. Of course, I'm speaking of real interests that o
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by pdwetz 14y ago
I wish I had a link handy, but the massive lawsuits firing back and forth between phone tech companies (apple, google, samsung, etc.) would argue against the Mutually Assured Destruction cold war theory for patents.
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by pdwetz 14y ago
So long as there's an option available that doesn't require a smart phone (or worse, a specific OS), I agree completely. As a quick example, Blizzard has had an inexpensive device [1] in addition to phone apps. [1] http://us.blizzard.com/s
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by pdwetz 14y ago
Of course, separation of concerns can lead to swear words if not well thought out.
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by pdwetz 14y ago
I think your best bet is to contact your representatives in the House and Senate and push for change (whether it's an overhaul of the current system or to try to throw it out entirely). It also doesn't hurt to talk to friends and family, pa
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by pdwetz 14y ago
There's no shortage of life-sucking ways a bad fit can ruin you. Unfortunately, it can be rather subtle, a la the metaphor of putting a live frog in a pot and bringing it to boil.
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by pdwetz 14y ago
A common technique is to use a single image to limit the number of connections needed to grab them. If you want to pull them out (say, you only need one or two) any image program will let you crop (Paint.Net, Gimp, Photoshop, etc.) Related
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by pdwetz 14y ago
Similar thing happened to me; it turns out someone else had somehow setup an account a couple years ago with my domain (I've owned it since 2000 or so). I was able to get control of the google apps settings for it (they give a couple option
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by pdwetz 14y ago
But not everything can be in open view of the public; it'd be nice to mention closed source projects you've worked on as well.
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by pdwetz 14y ago
On Windows, Foobar2000 handles my 77+ GB collection with no problems. It's very lightweight and has many add-on/UI tweaking options.
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by pdwetz 14y ago
No, it's not just you. I've had an unhappy experience with the spam filters (with a normal Thunderbird install) for years now. It seems to miss things that are obviously spam (to a human); thankfully I haven't had too many false-positives..
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by pdwetz 15y ago
"Patent law like Copyright law has become completely impractical in its current form" While I agree patents for software are impractical (to put it lightly), I don't follow what that has to do with copyright. They're two very different thin
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by pdwetz 15y ago
Sort of funny; as soon as I hit a new site that requires javascript, I often run away! But of course that's my problem; I get why user preference would get in the way of your clean implementation. :)
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by pdwetz 15y ago
The image in the link sums it up ("...all without writing a single line of code!", which I've heard personally in Microsoft events). It's not that the languages or the framework lack advanced features, it's that Microsoft/MVP's constantly t