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by scelerat 15y ago
A lot of this rang true for me. I'm an introvert, always have been. From a very early age I tended towards internal activities: reading, programming. Even the sport I ended up focusing on (running) is a very solitary activity. Social intera
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by scelerat 15y ago
IMO, if you want to affect people's everyday lives in meaningful (but possibly unglamorous) ways, take your wit and your problem solving abilities and your leadership skills to local government. City, county. School board, PTA coach a yout
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by scelerat 15y ago
I'm not saying Apple didn't blatantly rip off this guy's work. But. I'm having a hard time believing someone at Apple saw this submitted to the App Store in May and rushed to get it into the iOS 5 spec a month (or less) later. More likely
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by scelerat 16y ago
Has any one of these "don't link to us" clauses ever been enforced?
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by scelerat 16y ago
Cutting straight to the chase, there may be hidden opportunity costs as well. You might attract better engineers if your company were in San Francisco rather than Brisbane. Just sayin; ain't sayin it's so.
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by scelerat 16y ago
Hehe good association. A hilarious code name fiasco from Apple's PowerPC rollout. Parent is making a good-natured funny, folks.
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by scelerat 16y ago
Worth repeating: due process. It's important.
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by scelerat 16y ago
I agree with many of Norman's concerns. To the extent that connectivity and access are increasingly becoming essential to a modern way of life, commerce, education, etc. and considering the clear direction towards consolidation, oligopoliza
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by scelerat 16y ago
Microsoft BASIC on a 128k Macintosh. Learned some toolbox the hard way by looking through the source for a breakout/pong-type game that think was programmed by someone at Jet Propulsion Lab.
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by scelerat 16y ago
I'm no scientist, but do place a premium on inquiry, falsifiability, and rationality in most endeavors. IMO the Republican party is run by people who are openly theocratic, anti-intellectual, and anti-rational. It is no surprise to me that
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by scelerat 16y ago
Sadly no mention of the Montgolfier brothers, who really opened up the sky to a lot of people's imagination back in the 18th century. Manned flight at 900m in 1784!
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by scelerat 16y ago
Then call me hopelessly, curmudgeonly Western. I like people who say what they mean, including when they say they'll be somewhere at a certain time(+). Context is everything. Parties, many types of social situations are different. But if so
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by scelerat 16y ago
I appreciate it when people whom I am waiting for let me know that there will be a delay and that I have not been completely forgotten. Dentists, restaurant servers, girlfriends contemplating marriage proposals, etc.
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by scelerat 16y ago
Could be they're not threatened by marijuana so much as their other advertisers. It's not difficult to imagine an account with much deeper pockets and an opposing agenda making it clear that if CN takes money from "pro-drug" advertisers, th
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by scelerat 16y ago
Does anyone know of cases where photo-/videographers are facing charges for recording police officers performing their duty within the bounds of professionalism, or do all these cases involve some question of police conduct? This answer (ho
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by scelerat 16y ago
+1 agree, with caveats. exercise definitely. MJ isn't for everyone, I'd expand the prescription to doing something that allows your mind to wander. You get this anyway with any sort of solo endurance exercise. MJ definitely helped me get th
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by scelerat 16y ago
Just curious -- is there some context to this twelve-year-old story? I miss Hypercard too, but I had been building stuff on the web for four years by the time its demise became official.
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by scelerat 16y ago
Conventional advertising wisdom revolves around brand awareness. Old Spice just got millions of people to say "Old Spice" to their friends a hundred times a day each with a big happy smile on their face. If sales are down, I'd bet its anoma
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by scelerat 16y ago
The bottom has dropped out of everything since Napster, since Napster's rise coincided with the availability of high-speed internet access. The internet is an entertainment and information source, and all traditional entertainment and infor
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by scelerat 16y ago
I read this book several years ago when I was still doing a lot of straight-ahead PHP. Was a bit of a mind opener at the time and totally changed my approach and understanding of programming and programming languages. Much of the book is ap
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by scelerat 16y ago
Young earth and downplaying evolution is one thing. But this is downright CRAZY!
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by scelerat 16y ago
Easy language to read, write, and maintain. Big standard library and lots of tools. Win.
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by scelerat 16y ago
If you find something that doesn't belong to, you need to return it to the owner. If you can't find the owner, you must return it to the police. That didn't happen in this case. Therefore, theft.
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by scelerat 16y ago
Taking something that doesn't belong to you is stealing, any way you look at it.
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by scelerat 17y ago
People like Craigslist. People like Craig. Hard to hate on something useful, free, and fronted by likable people.
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by scelerat 17y ago
Perhaps it's as simple as CL has no way of determining who is on the other side of the pipe. In Craig's quoted statement about RSS feeds, it seems that they are concerned about commercial use of CL data. If Yahoo Pipes essentially masks the