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by sj4nz 14y ago
I focus on non-radio solutions because I'm looking to see how we can do it without radio, period. So, there is no "live" connection for aggregators to download from. News is perhaps a bad name for the kind of content, think about it more in
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This only presumes that you have line-of-sight or uncanny luck to have a reliable Fresnel zone to bounce signal through---but this is still constrained by distance. I used a "Portland, ME to Portland, OR" example to emphasize that these li
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This is why I labeled the quote "(apocraphal)". :) I first remember hearing it during the early days of Netflix---and I think it was Reed Hastings who said something similar to that effect as a quote of someone I can't remember now. I went
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Reanimating UUCP(hypernets.wordpress.com)
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I'm confused. BDD !== Acceptance Testing, right? It seems like its just a matter of scope. At the lowest level, "unit testing", medium level, "feature/behavior" testing, and at the highest level "acceptance testing." Or am I just being den
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While prefixing your "favorite" passwords helps, it's still exploitable. If someone can see your password in the "clear" they'll be able to tell if you're using a strategy like this. I have too many accounts---and what happens when you ha
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I think the Go language people are trying for this: > Go is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language. It also aim
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I think the problem with bank transfers is they don't provide protection from misuse. Credit cards at least provide a layer of protection as a proxy to your bank account. Some credit cards even go an extra level of protection and provide th
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You posted this to the Internet? Really?
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Eight Aspects of Software Development(sj4nz.wordpress.com)
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I can remember the time I used bloglines and had over 1000+ feeds. It got to be a chore—at the time I believed that I needed to read everything and set myself up for failure. Now I treat them as periodic inspiration and brain-fodder on-dema
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by sj4nz 14y ago
Thanks to this article I discovered Buffer. Installed the Chrome extension and discovered HN snap-evolved an "add to buffer" organ that creeped me out a little bit. I think I like it.
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Tim Ferris blogged a guide to those sentences here: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/11/07/how-to-learn...
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I guess this makes sense: if your skin makes Vitamin D from sunlight exposure, your body being flooded with Vitamin D at night is going to confuse it—the body must be thinking "Why am I getting so much sun right now? I must not be sleepy."
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by sj4nz 15y ago
Something inspired by an IV-drip of Red Bull with an espresso chaser. Possibly also PCP. Or, more simply SEO people are crazy about optimization. I couldn't make heads or tails of it either.
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by sj4nz 15y ago
The end of the article does mention this: > SELinux is not its own distribution. It is a subsystem of plain-vanilla Linux. SELinux is included in all kinds of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, he said.
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'Corcoran also shares her number one power tool "which no one should have to live without"--and it's not an app.' Umm... what is her power-tool? I'm not watching a video when it could have been mentioned in the text. This is why I read--vid
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I find it is mostly luck, but you can engineer luck if you are receptive to it. That means being prepared to capture your ideas anywhere you are and it means having your mind relaxed enough to imagine and model solutions on any kind of prob
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So, no one noticed the crushed grass in the shape of tire tracks along the path of flight? Looks fake.
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{{citation needed}}
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Nine different products = massive confusion for users. Apple certainly made more money when they simplified their computer offerings so that users didn't have to do extreme mental exercises to compare features and buy.
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I have no idea what your library is supposed to provide from your front page. What's the elevator pitch?
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http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/SnakeOil.html
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Just see this made me think about The Well. On the Well new users get access to a forum for their first year, after which it's archived, just for those users. (Going by memory, it was a long time since I had a well.com account.) What if you
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I appreciate that Dan's able to "retire" shows that aren't working or lose interest, but he keeps them online and available for those who are interested. TWiT did get repetitive and too much like a personality-cult circle-jerk and... too lo
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(I added explanation of my indexing in previous comment.) Ditch cursive if you're still writing in it. Pick up a $4 copy of "The Italic Way to Beautiful Handwriting." Remind yourself that the purpose of the notes is to off-load the work of
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I do like paper, its very reliable with WiFi signals and very efficient with battery life. Pencils are nice because they provide undo. If I just need to find the answers for a one-off change or fix, I'll use plain white printer paper (date
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Read the source with a question in mind. For example, how does some software create a particular kind of file? (I did this recently for Pandoc's EPUB writer-- while this software is in Haskell and not Python, the same rules apply.) Do lots