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   by pragmatic 15y ago

   Is this magnet powerful enough to damage magnetic media (HDDs, Tapes, etc)?
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   by pragmatic 15y ago

   Kindle Fire? $200 android tablet with decent web browsing. One drawback, no Google Android Market err umm Google Play market unless your root it. One of my five year old's favorite toys...I get it back after he's asleep.
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   by pragmatic 15y ago

   I have a Droid Bionic with 4G LTE. I bought the extended battery right away. However, I am considering going back to the regular one. This phone has the best battery life of any I've used to this point. I come home at night with plenty of b
4. 544.▲
   by pragmatic 15y ago

   Cue comments about how obviously this problem could be avoided and this person is doing something wrong. Never mind her explanation of how this happened and how it's a real problem and how real users (far less technical than the author) cou
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   by pragmatic 15y ago

   I think what most of you are missing is that many cellular providers provide only a fixed number of bits every month. If you go over you face a large penalty. So, this isn't such a big deal for those with the wifi version and virtually unli
6. 546.▲
   by pragmatic 15y ago

   Unless you have AT&T or any other provider which limits your total download MBits per month. You will use up your allowed bits quite a bit faster.
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   by pragmatic 15y ago

   When she says "IT Workers" what she should say is those involved in Software Development or Systems Analysis. IT Workers implies help desk, phone techs, etc. Doesn't appear to affect these folks. And that's the most important as these jobs
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   by pragmatic 15y ago

   Please add "For Mac" to the title. You had me all excited.
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   by pragmatic 15y ago

   Steve Yegge and pg are more on-topic for HN.
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    The problem is these articles are low signal to noise. You get the info on the subjects childhood, house, car, wife/husband, children, upbringing, college, style of dress, appearance, office, eccentricities, pets, etc, etc. There's a lot of
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    It's an analogy for "the super latest greatest startup web site" and how it's risky using it (aka moving in). You don't pay for it, so you don't have any claim as a tenant when they decide to cash out.
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    ^ this. G+ is a worse Facebook (and not in the worse is better sense). Gmail is getting slow and the recent changes haven't been for the better. In fact it's hurt usability for common users for the (dubious) benefit of "power" users. The un
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    Given your experiences/history, I for one would like to know what you think is driving the G+ crusade. What disappoints me is how much it has failed. I used to love Google products, but lately...not so much.
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    Yes, those services were cool (at the time). Google+ is only cool for geeks, if even that. I'm not sure what to do with Google+. The technical folks I work with aren't sure. The non-technical people barely know it exists.
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    Trust. If you invest time/money in something, you want to have a good feeling about it. I want to know I'm not going to get screwed down the road. I think of if like a relationship with person. Do you want to be friends/lovers with a thief/
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    There seems to be a lot of subtext here that I'd love to see more about. I'm only an occasional python hacker and I'd love to know more about this. One question, is there a web testing framework for python that they do like/recommend?
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    John Carter: the movie(esr.ibiblio.org)

    2 points by pragmatic 15y ago|0 comments
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    Too bad. My 5 year old son loves Battleheart. I _bought_ it for the Kindle Fire. It's actually my son's preferred gaming platform (compared to Wii, 3ds and Leapster Explorer) probably because the game are so accessible/easy to use. I've of
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    It doesn't have the 37signals hype machine behind it. For example Ryan Dahl hasn't appeared on any magizine (that I am aware of). (note: "hype machine" is either a compliment or an insult based on your point of view, however they were very
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    The wording is confusing and I had to do a double take and then click on the help to figure out what its' really wanting to let me know. "Allow Gmail to open all email links" is terrible wording. It would seem to the average user that gmail
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    Edit: Mea Culpa. I see this is for desktop links. I clicked the help last night when this popped up and must have read it incorrectly. However, this can still cause problems if you have 2 email clients, say Outlook for my corporate mail and
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    The Shrinking Expanding World of CI(drdobbs.com)

    2 points by pragmatic 15y ago|0 comments
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    I really don't like Oracle software, we are forced to use it at work and it's a horrible horrible mess...from the crusty Oracle database to the crappy enterprise software it powers. However, we pay a lot of money to Oracle. There are very f
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    Isn't this really about the dichotomy between owner/manager and worker? Many systems we built are specified by the managers of the workers. And of course they want lots metrics and fail safes and all kinds of extras the result in a really c
25. 565.▲
    by pragmatic 15y ago

    "a while" is usually years not weeks. repair cost != $40,000 (again usually).
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    Good grief...get thyself to Reddit foul linkbait.
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    I'm super curious also.
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    >> Please go check out StackOverflow's source code before bandwagoning on this topic. Please read the article before replying.
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    How does this ( http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to... ) get to be number one, while this http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-... goes nowhere? Are we upvoting simply by name recognition?
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    by pragmatic 15y ago

    This linked article is good: the Performance Golden Rule http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-... (submitted days ago but got no traction) For years we have been told that we will have to wait on the database so it