sixtofour

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by sixtofour 15y ago
Manupedia.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"If you need custom software development, and your business is going to depend on the result, outsourcing that effort to another country, especially across cultural and maybe language barriers, can be a disaster." For now. Yes, today it oft
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Not to disagree with you, but ... It astounds me that there are still jobs for developers. I'm not talking about SV stars, I mean the hundreds of thousands of programmers writing CRUD apps around the country. That is eminently moveable, and
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Ah. I'm going to get my son up early tomorrow, talk him out of college and in to Android development. Or basketball star, I'm not sure which.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
There's a link to EFF's "contact your rep" page relating to this bill, where you can send a message to your rep. I sent that message. You should too.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I've wanted that for years from the post office: one address, your stuff follows you wherever, you never change your "address" you just update your location with the post office. I explained the idea to my first wife in the late seventies,
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I'm sorry, I've dried out to a hard, cynical husk in my old age. Yes, he did say those things, but I still say he didn't care jack about internet freedom, these were convenient rocks to throw at China. Any rock would have sufficed. And if t
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by sixtofour 15y ago
He wasn't defending the internet, he was fighting a hearts and minds campaign against China.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Interesting take on advertising and presence, especially if you follow through to his Counterparties http://counterparties.com/ , and thence to Percolate http://www.percolate.com/ .
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The oil change people do that when they put the little see through sticky on the top of your windshield.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I'm fine with it, but only if they reveal the information to the rest of us. We should be able to trade on the same information. Very roughly based on the idea that government information is public domain. <harumph />
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Some people make money from friction.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I believe the graphic you link comes from here: http://www.eudebtwriteoff.com/ That is a site put up by one of the authors of a report exploring the idea that the PIIGS should write off their mutual net balance debt: if I owe you $10, and
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by sixtofour 15y ago
You're exactly right. But it could be a gentler introduction to Debian for some.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"In Linux Mint 12 and upcoming releases we’re hoping to provide users with the following commercial search engines: Ask.com, Google, Amazon, eBay, and the non-commercial Wikipedia." And I was all set to install Mint tonight. I don't begrudg
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Mint has a version that uses LXDE rather than Gnome.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
And yet, Mint has a version that's directly downstream from Debian, not based on Ubuntu at all.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"being immediately productive is how the desktop UI/UX enters the background and becomes a facilitator rather than something that the user struggles with." Yes, exactly. I want my interaction with the desktop to be like that with a prostitu
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Their power comes from money.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"That didn't really say anything." Actually it did. He mentioned that "leveling up" is part of the culture, which I read as a passive/aggressive way for him to both mention and justify the clawbacks. "Those people just weren't able to level
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Maybe they forgot step 0 in Perry's case: have an actual plan that you're actually working on, rather than speaking from memorized bullet points.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
If there were, wouldn't you be liable for the capital gains post-IPO?
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by sixtofour 15y ago
When typing "united ...", the United States shows up in the list. When typing "america ..." the United States does not show up in the list. Yet "United States of America" is the, or one of the official/common names of the United States, acc
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by sixtofour 15y ago
So, this is "not a tax," according to the administration. OK, fine. But taxes are being used to operate the program. And, as the article points out, what business does the government have in promoting the fresh tree industry over the artifi
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by sixtofour 15y ago
If there's legitimate suspicion of criminal activity, a police force should have no trouble obtaining a warrant. We have warrants so that the police do not operate without over-site and legitimacy. If requiring warrants lets some criminals
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Compqrap laptop, linux browser, terminal/shell/ssh. Work and browse on desktop 1, minimal monitoring on desktop 2.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Exactly what I thought. They'll sue because government, through its public employee teachers, are competing with business.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
A patent is a kind of monopoly. ATT had a monopoly, and they were partitioned to break that monopoly. If ATT had kept their monopoly they would not have had much pressure to compete through price or innovation. What might we not have today
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Indeed, the idea of patents on software alarmed Bill Gates, who wrote in 1991 (when Microsoft was already older than Google is now) that "the industry would be at a complete standstill" if software had been eligible for patent protection i
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by sixtofour 15y ago
When my kid was three or four, I called the sheriff's business number, asked to talk to the 911 office, and asked them if I could have my son dial 911 and talk to them, for training (his). They checked if they were busy, then said OK. It pu

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