rosalinekarr

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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
It's good to see a media startup getting some attention. Not every tech company has to be some cutting-edge, shiny research project to be successful. (In fact, most of them aren't.) There's nothing wrong building a business b
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
I'm surprised they weren't doing this already.
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
It's just a profile piece. It's not hard journalism nor is it trying to be. It's just a little picture of the life of a mildly interesting person. If you like, great. If you don't, you don't have to read it.
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
It's WordArt all over again
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
You're right. I didn't notice they had added that file. It looks like pretty comprehensive documentation too. I retract all my previous statements. They just need to update their README.
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
That was a reactionary. I've removed it.
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
I thought this project was really cool when I first came across it, but there was one thing that really offended me about it and made me refuse to ever use it: > How to Use It > ============= > Use the source, Luke ;) > Please n
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
Does the first chart account for inflation seeing as it's defined in terms of US dollars?
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
At this rate, in a hundred years, we're going to be naming spaceship parts silly things like 'blip-blooper' because all the cool names for things will have already been taken by tech start ups.
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
I'm no expert, but I believe this was created to deal with the massive delay in communications between Earth and Mars. The ISS is in low Earth orbit, so it has less than a second of delay in radio signals. Mars is 20 light minutes away
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
> “The valuation of $1 billion – not as insane as the [$15 billion] valuation placed by Microsoft on Facebook – was jaw dropping.” lol
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
I know this is largely anecdotal and not very scientific, but just listen to [what trans people have to say about it][]. There are some people who do regret transitioning, but usually the reason they give is the discrimination they experien
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
I'm a trans woman, and I can talk about this a little bit, but for more, I'd highly recommend you read [Whipping Girl by Julia Serano][]. Serano is a trans woman and biologist that has studied and written about transsexuality exte
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
> I'm in awe that some sales person was able to sell Walmart, Target, BestBuy, CVS and all these other stingy retailers on a payment system like CurrentC/MCX. It's not as hard as you'd think. I previously worked for a
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
> For the first year of a subscription Apple will maintain its 70 / 30 revenue share; after one year, the new 85 percent / 15 percent revenue share will kick in (applied per subscriber). This is the exact opposite of what Apple
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
Wow, as a long time RoR dev set in my ways, you may have finally given me the tool to overcome my laziness and check out this new fangled "server-side javascript" thing.
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
[80% of Americans have some form of debt.][1] The average total wealth for all Americans is actually positive. [It's a little over $300,000.][2] But that number is really the skewed one, as it's significantly shifted by the 0.1% o
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
> Some have meagre savings (like $5.000 - $10.000) and use all of them to fund the trip (like year-long). You really don't understand how bad it is these days. The average family does not have $2,000 in savings, much less 5 to 10. I
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
> Using floppy disks and old hardware and software doesn't sound like a problem if it still runs and does what it's supposed to do. It sounds like a problem to me for the simple fact that replacement parts are near impossible t
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
Yeah, as important and fascinating as the whole story is, every time I see "ClintonEmail.com," all I can think is that surely the Clintons of all people should have the influence and power to get a hold of just "Clinton.com.&
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Snowden Archive: The SIDtoday Files(github.com)
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
Rails isn't the fastest or the smartest framework. It has weird choices, confusing aspects and some downright terrible defaults, but for me at least, it is the best framework and it has been for years for one simple reason: DOCUMENTA
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
Come to Chattanooga. We have municipal fiber, cheap housing and no income tax. Our state government is so conservative businesses can get away with pretty much anything, and our city government is so liberal there are funds and grants for j
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by rosalinekarr 10y ago
> Apple should have no problem with this since they have control over their hardware, but they don't do anything to prevent fake scores from showing up in their leaderboards. Apple has leaderboards? For what?
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by rosalinekarr 11y ago
Ugh... here we go again... > Problem 1: Transportation will load the grid and generating capacity in rather nasty ways Electric cars are not a _complete_ solution on their own. They are _part_ of the solution, along side more renewable p
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by rosalinekarr 11y ago
Yeah, more database solutions that's what we need. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by rosalinekarr 11y ago
> GWBush style $1000 cheques Note that none of those checks went to the poor or middle class, at least not with a value as high as $1000. All the $1000 checks were reserved for the relatively wealthy. http://www.sfgate.com&#x2
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by rosalinekarr 11y ago
Glad to see everyone taking the title so literally, "_Bash_ on Windows."
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by rosalinekarr 11y ago
I like to call crab clows 'insert.'
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by rosalinekarr 11y ago
Cryptocat is one of those awesome projects I'd love to support, but I just don't have the time or expertise to help. I hope Kobeissi finds some good devs to help him keep the project going.

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