samlevine

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   by samlevine 15y ago

   I don't know about you, but I've never imagined myself talking to god while drinking tea.
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   by samlevine 15y ago

   fwiw the Heartland incident involved 130,000,000 records: http://datalossdb.org/ Not to lessen the extent of this, but it's not nearly the biggest dataloss incident ever.
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   by samlevine 15y ago

   Which are all vastly easier to supply and develop than the moon. So are the north and south poles, the middle of the pacific ocean and the himalayas. I get that putting meat on the ground can have benefits that probes don't provide. I also
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   by samlevine 15y ago

   For what it's worth I lived in LA for several years after graduating college. Dispite playing in bands and being knee deep in the music industry I found that almost all of the new music I was introduced to as being "great" really sucked, no
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   by samlevine 16y ago

   There are guis for git. And in my experience teaching someone (in customer service) how to check in and check out files in an SCM takes about 20 minutes.
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   by samlevine 16y ago

   The difference is that they think they can get paid when Amazon sells the song to you and when Amazon rents the hard drive space to you and when you stream the song from Amazon and when you send a friend a link to listen to a song and when
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   by samlevine 16y ago

   Obligatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
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   by samlevine 16y ago

   The parent post isn't describing form over function (there is no loss of functionality by adding a dropshadow to a box). You need the design to hurt the actual functionality of the device in some way before you have that. When your computer
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   by samlevine 16y ago

   From my comment on the post on Thingist: >I don't think you can fight human nature, only work around it. Ignore the haters that don't get $x. Ignore the haters that think what you've made sucks, or doesn't do $x and is therefore useless
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    >So, ignore the independent media and get all of your information from pro-nuclear lobbies? The msm usually doesn't have any idea what they're talking about when they report on computer related issues, why do you expect them to be any b
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    Irony: using a web app to suggest that web apps haven't displaced any native apps.
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    I use Password Safe and Dropbox. I got the idea a few years ago from a blog post Joel Spolsky wrote: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html
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    Ask HN: Review my ETA app

    2 points by samlevine 16y ago|0 comments
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    This is what most people I know talk about. Why would they be any different online than in person?
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    A better investment (for most people) would be in a mutual fund or index that is tied to the Chinese economy.
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    I'm sure they'll do that after Adobe sends an invoice to the Gnash project.
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    I've been using Pixelmator for a few months now (GIMP works great in Linux but I've found it's performance in OS X to be rather poor). It's still closed source software like PS (even if it does use open source libraries), but it's fast enou
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    >It would suck. Not for most users. They simply reuse the same login credentials at all the sites they use. Other sites make apps that allow data to flow into Facebook easily. Soon all Facebook users will be able to maintain their conta
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    FWIW ramen isn't fatty (hot pockets are, however).
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    Forums, message boards, IRC, etc. ;)
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    In my experience you can find good people anywhere (even LA), but I wouldn't trade a mortgage and a car for the tiny studio I live in in Seattle. I feel more alive, connected, inspired, healthy, happy and ready to experience new things on a
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    I'm a fan of irssi myself, I've found that the defaults are pretty sane and the few things I've wanted to customize could be.
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    by samlevine 16y ago

    Not that this is limited to Microsoft, but the poster suggested condescension and not malice. For example: >>Does it work on my ubuntu laptop? Dear iamnotobama - You may be surprised to hear that it actually does work on your laptop