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by ralphc 16y ago
I mitigate this by doing my main browsing in Firefox but always doing Facebook in Chrome, in Incognito mode. No cookie cross-pollination.
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by ralphc 16y ago
You should try popping in a recent Ubuntu disk. Older (circa 2008) distributions had trouble with the hardware, but I have a 2006 MacBook Pro that "just works" with 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04. I even Bootcamped the hard disk and dual boot Snow Leo
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by ralphc 16y ago
Clojure. I've been a professional Java programmer for 10 years, and in that time I've dabbled in Haskell, OCaml, Python, and Common Lisp, being happiest with Common Lisp but irritated with the lack of standard modern libraries, the usual co
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by ralphc 16y ago
Realtek and JMricron were in the same building, maybe the third company is as well?
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by ralphc 16y ago
Anyone else here remember The Three Investigators? Anyone else here now afraid to go back and look at them again?
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by ralphc 16y ago
Blade Runner holds up well EXCEPT...phone booths? That really makes me pause when I've watched it in recent years, no one has a phone. The one thing Blade Runner got wrong, but understandable considering when it came out.
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by ralphc 16y ago
Karmic was such a disaster, and Lucid has been so stable, I like the theme, and I've just gotten Lucid all my machines. I don't see anything here that makes me want to leave a LTS release any time soon.
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by ralphc 16y ago
Hear hear. I looked at Haskell years ago, liked the functional aspects, recursion, lists, etc., but monads for I/O, database, was like hitting a wall. Switched to ocaml, it had enough imperativeness for that, but I got turned off when I got
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by ralphc 16y ago
I can't honestly accept the terms of submission, but this picture definitely belongs on http://devteamorindieband.tumblr.com/
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by ralphc 16y ago
I saw it for one friend, for about half a day, then it stopped. Probably just a bug they fixed.
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by ralphc 16y ago
Like many of you, I have several browsers installed (I'm on a Mac). What I started doing is not log into Facebook on my "main" browser, Firefox, instead logging in with Safari, where I don't do much else. Flipping to Facebook is now a Comma
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by ralphc 17y ago
For you minimalists: http://checkip.dyndns.org/
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by ralphc 17y ago
What I haven't seen answered is can I develop my own apps for my own Kindle for free? A big factor for me losing interest in iPhone development is having to pay 99$ a year to make apps for myself, that expire in a year.
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by ralphc 17y ago
For my personal projects my main consideration was price, I found fsckvps.com. For $12.95 a month I get 512MB memory, 30GB disk and 400GB transfers a month.
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by ralphc 17y ago
OK, got it from http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/how-to-run-chrome-os-as-a... Ctrl+Alt+t opens up a terminal, sudo password is chronos
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by ralphc 17y ago
I'm playing with it, how do you change the root password?
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by ralphc 17y ago
I'm thinking it goes something like this. The TI calculators have something called "press-to-test", where a teacher can hit a combination of keys to disable functionality on the calculator. When in this mode, a LED flashes on the calculator
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by ralphc 17y ago
It all seems to be about Windows. I run a bunch of Linuxes in VMs, and it would be nice to have the Compiz desktop stuff to work in a VM.
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by ralphc 17y ago
"the number of people who purchased backup CDs and then proceeded to only use the webapp is downright distressing to me" If the web site goes away (the "you're hit by a bus" problem) then people still have the software. Not so much for a on
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by ralphc 17y ago
Does Maemo have a JRE? I'm currently a Clojure fanboy...
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by ralphc 17y ago
I don't think they should plan on too many premium subscriptions in the U.S., Napster does this now, and they even recently went to $5 a month, and you don't hear too much about them. I think anything "youth-oriented" (music, Facebook) will
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by ralphc 18y ago
The networking dialogs in control panel, especially setting up wireless, were a nightmare worse than any phone tree. Also, my wife's laptop locked up so bad that she had to take the battery out to shut it down. After a week of doing this ev
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by ralphc 18y ago
No. I don't know percentages, but I'm guessing a majority of their users, especially the ones hitting it a lot, are college students, who are generally poor, and high-schoolers, which don't have credit cards and won't get money out of their
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by ralphc 18y ago
Farley wins the Internet as envisioned by the elderly, Randall wins String Theory and 1999, and it's a tie on your favorite animal eating your favorite food. It's Randall by a nose.
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by ralphc 18y ago
Perhaps we could get her one of the "I failed the Turing Test" t-shirts from ThinkGeek.
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by ralphc 18y ago
This still sticks in my mind. Three phones ago I had a Samsung, and was looking for how to get ringtones on it. I was served up ads for people selling USB cables for my model of phone, and someone I never heard of, on the other side of the
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by ralphc 18y ago
Perhaps not bandwidth per se, but how much of your income you spend on it, taking your money away from spending it on other things. Add up your cable, cell, internet bills. Do you make choices to not do or buy other things in order to pay
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by ralphc 18y ago
Not true, at least not recently. With just an Apple ID (the same one I use for iTunes, etc.) I was able to download the iPhone SDK, look at tutorials, build apps and run them on the simulator. I haven't tried to put anything on an actual de
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by ralphc 19y ago
It's just you. I would love to be asked that during an interview. At this point in my life I want to "aggressively grow my skill set". I DON'T want to be a CEO. If that guy asked me the question, and we decide that he couldn't help me, we'd
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by ralphc 19y ago
I'll throw in my 2 cents... Up until recently, one "flaw" that Lisp had that other languages didn't was one obvious best implementation. If you want to work in Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, etc. you knew where to get them, and you know they wou

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