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by phillmv 15y ago
Horseshit! That's what APIs are for :P. You could have accomplished all of this just fine but left the config in yaml and I would have personally been a happier person for it.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Dude, what non technical users? We're talking about Linux window managers. I'm a technical user. I program for a living. I don't care to learn Haskell in order to use a window manager :P. This is all I'm saying.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I love how a "customizable tiling window manager" somehow requires the user to learn an unusual programming language and a dozen of inscrutable keyboard shortcuts. It made my 24inch screen at the time far more manageable but it was supremel
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by phillmv 15y ago
It's a secondary internet connection. I just don't watch that many youtube videos during my morning coffeeshop rounds; I've yet to go past 4gb, and I stream an hour or two of video off the cbc website during the election.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Hang on. There are many aspects which the government should regulate (common carrier status for internet, anyone?) but I think that in this aspect our biggest problem is that the barrier for entry in the Canadian market is too high, and so
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by phillmv 15y ago
Public insurance has a leg up: because the risk pool is greater it can hedge the risks more efficiently.
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by phillmv 15y ago
+1 Live demo, or at least screenshots of the whole thing. Not gonna sign up just to kick the tires.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Has anyone built something cool with this yet?
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by phillmv 15y ago
I listened to the podcast over the weekend. In a nuthsell, Isaacson doesn't understand computing, or the computing industry, and so he let a lot of errors in (OS X contains no NEXT code) and spends a lot of time focussing on things that don
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by phillmv 15y ago
Open letter to dipshits: Stop being a dipshit, you dipshit. Love,
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by phillmv 15y ago
Am I the only person to think that this is a patently ridiculous line of thinking?
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by phillmv 15y ago
They both provide crummy experiences, but the for Windows version manages to be crummier.
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Wasn't there some "art" project of some guy guy who recently scraped millions of (public) profiles? Oh, it's amazing - http://openbook.org/
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by phillmv 15y ago
This is extremely cute, but a little ridiculous as a pay service :P.
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Unless it's supported by a legal framework, racism is a self-defeating phenomenon. It's more complicated than that. Substitute legal framework with 'cultural normative behaviour' and we end up at a different position. I just highly dou
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by phillmv 15y ago
KEEPING IN MIND that I generally hate people who whine every time every thing changes, as someone who is fairly invested in Google Reader, it pains me that this has been a UI step backwards. It's lot less usable; defaulting every link to bl
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by phillmv 15y ago
If anything that rider clearly and loudly signals "I am eccentric and have a faulty amount of social awareness, please be advised". So, it seems to do the job it's meant for :P.
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by phillmv 15y ago
The part that bothers me is that I once went and saw an rms talk and within five minutes one thing was overwhelmingly clear to me. The dude clearly suffers from some kind of high functioning autism. Aspergers, whatever, it's just clear he d
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by phillmv 15y ago
(Are you instilling an entrepreneurial spirit in your children?)
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by phillmv 15y ago
Unlike the circle jerk that goes on in this forum, right?
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by phillmv 15y ago
Uhm, I would wager that there are a lot of smart engineers who don't live in California.
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by phillmv 15y ago
The concept of a 'honeypot' article is a little ridiculous. The best you can hope for is "this preferred population of people overwhelmingly dislikes this article". The problem at hand is that you want foster the interests and tastes for th
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by phillmv 15y ago
Why aren't we taking the bayesian approach?
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Uh... installing free software is forbidden by the GPL, not Apple. Since GPL forbids further restrictions on distributions, there's no way to legally install them in an Apple device. Talk about cognitive dissonance. The whole issue at
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by phillmv 15y ago
Basically, you want that rarest of birds - shy sparks who aren't nestled in a large company yet. Too introverted to be really aware of their market value and have a life and smart enough that they're going to be obsessed with the work and w
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by phillmv 15y ago
>There's a lot of evidence that there's no longer genetic selection acting on the human population Sure there is. The fitness function is just different from what you or I consider 'optimal' or 'superior'. We're still becoming more resi
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by phillmv 15y ago
We think differently as we age. Have you spent any amount of time arguing with old people? You can't teach an old dog new tricks, etc. Ideas tend to propagate in generations - it's often necessary for the old guard to die off before a new i
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by phillmv 15y ago
It's how any species gets to iterate. The old have to die off to make room for the young.
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by phillmv 15y ago
It's relatively easy for us to be in the top 10-5% of earners. We don't get doctor-respect, nor lawyer-money but… I'd say medium-high prestige.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Oh stop whining. My jest at the top of my post obscured my seriousness at the bottom. My point largely was, "I can't tell if you're being satirical or not". You're meshing three extremely new and very fancy technology stacks together and in

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