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by relaxatorium 11y ago
To be slightly clearer, what I mean is that in, say, the mid to late 2000s, most of the spam email I saw was inducements to buy fake or generic or otherwise illegal prescription drugs. Nowadays, by volume most of the spam I see seems to be
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by relaxatorium 11y ago
Is there any good information out there on what's happened recently with the garbage end of the Forex market? I feel like I noticed the existence of this sector of finance primarily a few years ago because my spam folder stopped being
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by relaxatorium 11y ago
This is not an argument that applies much to, say, the mighty Carnegie Mellon Tartans.
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
They've well and truly inherited the 90s Microsoft banner of being the tech company that wants to be in every line of business at all times.
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
I was not, and for that matter, am not really participating in this one either except as an observer. I wonder if there's a difference based on how many of those companies were selling mostly actual hardware infrastructure, which has j
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
Thinking about New Relic vis a vis a potential startup bubble makes me think about the old saw about the gold rush where most of the people who got rich were the ones selling pickaxes rather than gold miners. On the other hand, in the curre
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
It's a very Microsoft move to drop the word which is what the product is and keep the word which is a UX element the product does not have. I get it as a pure branding exercise if you just think about what Microsoft brands have equity
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
A few friends of mine were actually talking about this last week. Apparently some folks in our social network (literal, friend based social network, not software-based) were using Secret to trash-talk (as is its purpose). It was immediately
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
"Progress comes from monopoly, not competition." Seems rich coming from the guy who founded Paypal, which was widely loathed and seen as pretty stagnant in the payments space after it achieved dominance over that market.
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
"What about iCloud Sync of my sites? iCloud requires the App Store, so that’s out. But we have great news. We never want to short-change our paying customers, so we’ve spent many months working on Panic Sync, our own super-easy, super-
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
Does it have "issue release date"? That's what you'd need to make a timeline that made any sense at all. An in-universe "event date" doesn't really make sense because of the whole sliding timescale thing w
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by relaxatorium 12y ago
This seems pretty fantastic, I am excited to upgrade and think the SSD storage is going to be really helpful for improving the performance of my applications hosted there. That said, I am not an expert on CPU virtualization but I did notice
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by relaxatorium 13y ago
The people who are probably shitting right now are the local comic shops and Diamond Distributors. Comixology, whether due to temperament or just due to size and leverage, was playing fairly nice with the existing comics ecosystem. Now, the
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by relaxatorium 13y ago
I have a Ford with the older, speech only Sync system (2009), and I've been pretty happy with it. Has is quirks, but does what it needs to do for the most part. Am I correct in my history that it's really with the touchscreen ver
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by relaxatorium 13y ago
This should get more upvotes as it is pretty important to understanding why they did this. The earliest De La Soul albums were jam packed with samples that wound up getting them hit with a few lawsuits/out-of court settlements that sev
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by relaxatorium 13y ago
$130 is a tough sell when comparison shopping for alarms, but it's probably a much more interesting value proposition when your damn smoke alarm goes off when you're sleeping/cooking/taking a hot shower, you try to deal
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by relaxatorium 13y ago
"Fake it 'till you make it" embeds the assumption that you are going to make it, which is a thing you need to constantly and actively work on doing. Otherwise, it's just faking it.
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by relaxatorium 14y ago
Regardless of the rest of this nightmarish mess, I find the idea that tech company individual hirings/firings could or should be influenced by the troglodytic dregs of the script kiddie community to be chilling. If she has been fired becaus
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by relaxatorium 14y ago
Using Drupal as an app platform is a definitely trying to solve the problem with the wrong tool. My experience with this kind of thing is that these tools are flexible enough that people can stretch them beyond their intended purposes, bu
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by relaxatorium 14y ago
"wildly" might be overstating it, but I find it gross. Same way some people just don't like the word "moist", I guess. I was curious where the word came from. Anyhow, back to our regular discussions of what Fondleslabs are going to conquer
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by relaxatorium 14y ago
What's up with the repeated use of the term "fondleslab" here? Is that actual UK slang, or is the author just a weirdo? I could not concentrate on any points made in this article because the repeated use of that term was wildly offputting.
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by relaxatorium 14y ago
It's right in the third paragraph: "In a long and successful career, Mr. Brubeck helped repopularize jazz at a time when younger listeners had been trained to the sonic dimensions of the three-minute pop single. His quartet’s 1959 recording
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by relaxatorium 14y ago
It's less that money magically changes minds, and more a few other more important factors: 1) Awareness raising. A lot of people are partially or completely unaware of what laws are on the ballot, what initiatives actually mean and what the