rdouble

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by rdouble 13y ago
fastmail.fm is great. I've used them for a decade. The downside to me is their spam filter is not as good as gmail. I read my email in a local client so I can't comment on the web interface. That said, far less of my communication
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by rdouble 13y ago
WWI is more like a Neal Stephenson novel. I'll admit I never read the Difference Engine, though.
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by rdouble 13y ago
People do not wear the same gray robes and do not live in an apartment with bare concrete walls. When I lived in the bay area I'd say 50% of my co workers lived in apartments with bare walls and wore the same outfit everyday.
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by rdouble 13y ago
WWI history doesn't seem as much like the plot of a William Gibson novel as the international incident under discussion does.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It is a terrible way to look at it, even if you're white, because you can always be the wrong kind of white person. Where I grew up, kids on the hockey team, or whose dad owned the car dealership, would repeatedly get away with drunk d
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by rdouble 13y ago
We've entered into a weird postmodern dystopia epoch in world history when our number one trading partner is also "the enemy."
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by rdouble 13y ago
He's only a traitor if the American public is now the enemy.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Oh. Well, then.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Your taxes don't pay for students going to Johns Hopkins.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The "dribble crowd" isn't going to like the new iOS because it's going to make their role in app development mostly obsolete. Developing apps is going to require much more programatic design, instead of chopping up photo
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by rdouble 13y ago
$100/hr is not uncommon for contract sysadmins.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The Stasi weren't involved with that, as they did not exist until 1950.
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by rdouble 13y ago
A lot of other people need to be doing it, though. Without the crowdsourced info there's no point in using it instead of Google Maps.
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by rdouble 13y ago
HR departments just use Google...
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by rdouble 13y ago
The USCIS reviews Facebook for those applying for long term visas, to prevent fraud. It doesn't have anything to do with the NSA.
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by rdouble 13y ago
After a morning playing with it, it doesn't really look or feel anything like Windows phone to me. I don't have enough experience with Android to offer much in useful commentary, but it doesn't seem like the Nexus 7 I once us
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by rdouble 13y ago
It brings up the control panel.
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by rdouble 13y ago
They are almost gone (down to an estimated 10K) but they were almost wiped out by disease once before and the population bounced back.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Not in Sunnyvale.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Tax data is public in Finland, Sweden and Norway.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It doesn't sound like you have a real startup if neither one of you are doing any work and he has another job. Maybe just give up?
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by rdouble 13y ago
For myself, there are a few criteria. First is the visitor test. If my family members comes to visit me, can I give them a week's worth of stuff to do that is nearby, or are we driving over an hour each way to find something to do? Wou
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by rdouble 13y ago
a well-known Linux developer switched to a MacBook because Linux didn't play well on his laptops You mean well known linux inventor Linus Torvalds?
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by rdouble 13y ago
I lived in the area for years. I know what there is to do in the Bay Area in general. None of the stuff to do is in Sunnyvale. It's nice (sorta), but it's boring. That's sort of the point of the suburbs. The skatepark is pret
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by rdouble 13y ago
Can you name five things to do in Sunnyvale when you're bored?
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by rdouble 13y ago
Following the lead of corporate America, the CIA has largely given up on having Americans do actual work. CIA agents are managers, and they source local people to do the dirty work. If there's one thing professional managers love more
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by rdouble 13y ago
There's not anything else worth doing in Sunnyvale besides working. Being in a part of the country that seems super nice, but is actually very dull, is part of the Silicon Valley economic miracle.
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by rdouble 13y ago
$200K as a contractor is pretty easy. It's $100/hr. Fifteen years ago every 19 year old contract sysadmin I knew was making that much in Chicago. It's more a factor of how long you can stomach being a sysadmin for a bank, ins
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by rdouble 13y ago
Now think about that in the context of a theoretical "internet and mobile phone profile check". If you're a marketer you can already buy this data from various vendors. The way it works is since everyone signs up for variou
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by rdouble 13y ago
Seems like a bogus review, since the same review is posted for each book, there is nothing specific mentioned about the details of the books, and the user doesn't have any other reviews.

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