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by phuff 15y ago
Yeah, we got rid of that process at least 3 years ago when I was still there. There's some after the fact attempt to not allow spam projects, but you can get started right away now (thankfully, that was a super slow process).
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by phuff 15y ago
Having worked at sf.net for a few years as github was gaining ascendancy, I would say that we thought about this a lot. And while a lot of the things that he says are true, they're symptoms of why sf.net lost, not the real reason. The real
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by phuff 15y ago
Instapaper's killer-est feature for me is "Send to my kindle." I don't think Apple could get away with that anytime in the near future without some legal troubles with Amazon. Features like that are things that will continue to make apps
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by phuff 15y ago
Hah. I had read an article previously maybe a day or two earlier, maybe even from HN, and was just looking at the comments on this one since I already knew the gist of the story :) That's what I get for silly and not frequenting the comme
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by phuff 15y ago
One article I read about this mentioned that it takes several passwords and a significant time investment just to _open the camera_ to change the 3-d lenses. So yeah. I'd say it's draconian piracy prevention at work :)
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by phuff 15y ago
Nate Oostendorp who does open source computer vision over at ingenuitas.com pointed out that from a computer vision perspective you really want the "not so pretty" QR code since it's much easier to recognize algorithmically over on twitter
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by phuff 16y ago
It's probably not the best place to ask, but I really liked Pushing Daisies and thought the opposite of you :) The premise, eh, the narration okay, the writing really good, and the characters rich and faceted :) Guess there's no accountin
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by phuff 16y ago
This kind of story does a lot to assuage the sort of misanthropic "it's-end-of-the-world-and-people-don't-care-about-each-other" feeling I normally get when often dealing with big corporations. It's awesome to know that people still do the
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by phuff 16y ago
My understanding has always been that <- is the way that S did it, so that's the way R originally did it but = is almost always equivalent. I haven't found a place in my modest R hacking yet that = hasn't worked the way I expected it t
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by phuff 16y ago
From the press release: 'In the last year, Groupon has been called “the fastest growing company ever” by Forbes Magazine and “America’s best website” by one of Groupon’s television commercials.' Are they saying that tongue in cheek? I am a
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by phuff 16y ago
The "dynamic stuff" appears to all be included. Just not eval(), which is probably a bad thing for most JS code anyway...
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by phuff 16y ago
They have at least the class of 2016-2017 given the 12 and 13 year-olds I know that have accounts...
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by phuff 16y ago
Honestly, I think a lot of borders' problems are mismanagement, not related to Amazon as much as to other things. For a long time their online presence _was_ amazon, just branded with a borders logo, which means that they weren't competing
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by phuff 16y ago
Yeah, I'm really interested in how those guys are strategizing around e-books these days. I'd imagine it's somewhat like the music industry, trying to hold on to an old-fashioned market, but it's also different than the music industry, sin
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by phuff 16y ago
Yeah, I agree. I got an amazon gift card for christmas and probably will buy a couple of books with it. Probably Neal Stephenson ones that are huge and will take me a long time to go through, so they're less effective as library checkouts
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by phuff 16y ago
Yeah, that's true, though most of the e-books available for lending at libraries that I've seen so far are like d-list novels that aren't so great. I think the publishers are trying to put a kibosh on the library e-book lending.
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by phuff 16y ago
Yeah, part of the reason I don't buy so many books anymore is because my wife said we don't have physical space for them. That, and having the ebooks all on the kindle is nice. I read the wizard of oz to my son over the last few weeks, an
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by phuff 16y ago
The news media keeps saying that Borders is going out of business in large part due to e-books. But I have a hard time buying that. I got a kindle six weeks ago and I love it. I think I've made one purchase and it as $2.50 for scrabble fr
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by phuff 16y ago
I worked under the same corporate umbrella as the thinkgeek guys before :) If I'm not mistaken, all of their production is outsourced. In this case, though I think the design is partially outsourced, too, since it's a little more complex
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by phuff 16y ago
This is big news here locally in the SLC area. They've had huge contractor open houses at the site for people who want to bid on the projects and stuff. I hope it brings with it an uptick in the local tech sector, too. Not that things are
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by phuff 16y ago
The sad part is that there are people who can keep confidences. There are counselors who would keep his confidence. There are friends who would keep his confidence. I'm convinced there's probably even a girl out there who could love him
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by phuff 16y ago
package.el is slick stuff. Those guys convinced me to make some of my packages ELPA-compatible when it was first starting out. It's super easy to use as a user, super easy to use as a developer, and makes it really nice to install and use
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by phuff 16y ago
I wonder if old school publishers will ever understand that stuff like this doesn't mean what they think it does... "No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording
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by phuff 16y ago
Telehash is being proposed and bootstrapped by Jeremie Miller the guy who originally did XMPP. I think it has some good potential to allow better decentralized communication between things like mobile devices, etc.
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by phuff 16y ago
Having worked for a computer forensic software company I can tell you that these days they most likely don't have to contract it out even... It's cheap enough that a lot of departments have people on staff who can recover data easily from
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by phuff 16y ago
"If the candidate uses up all of the interview time trying to obtain perfect requirements, we have a problem. In the software development I do, the requirements are never perfect. I don’t demand that a candidate try to create an agile, iter
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by phuff 16y ago
That has happened to me all the time, too, though, not after the most recent OTA (I'm not on gingerbread yet, I don't think).
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by phuff 16y ago
I've been reading the 21st Century Physics one. It's a very readable explanation of some of the things I never got to in College. I think it's great that more and more educators are doing things like this and releasing them for all to rea
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by phuff 16y ago
2 quick responses and then I'll bow out. First, nobody is told they're not allowed to attend church. In fact, people who are excommunicated from the Mormon church are in fact _encouraged_ to keep attending so that they can come back into
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by phuff 16y ago
babalicious, you know those statements from the book of mormon are about Lamanites which are American Indians, right? Not Africans? Just checking to make sure you didn't read them out of context..

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