snogglethorpe

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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
I don't think it's flippant at all, indeed, my impression is that it's widely considered the only practical approach to dealing with software patents if you're not an enormous company that can devote significant resource
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Gmail and Inbox are very different. The latter is not a replacement for the former, which many many people depend on, so the only way Gmail is going away is if Inbox evolves to be it...
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Yeah, whatever the problem here is, it's almost certainly very user-specific, depending on the mix of email they get, and Linus is probably somewhat atypical. I saw his original post on G+, and of course immediately went and checked my
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Smartphones weren't a "total game changer", they were a jump in CPU power and interface smoothness, but the trends were already there (maybe not in the U.S., I dunno).
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Yes. People moving to inner city apartments are dropping the car altogether, so for them what matters is what's most convenient for car-rental companies when they occasionally rent a car.... In an environment where people only use car
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
One problem is that the current kerfuffle is likely to have the opposite effect: they'll shed "good" users, and keep the douchenozzles... ><
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Here's the actual list: http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/indicators/number-boo... The Guardian article seems a bit exaggerated, e.g. (comparing Buenos Aires with 25 bookshops per 100,000 population): &quo
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Russia's general feelings were always reasonably clear, but there's an enormous gulf between "want to annex and complain a lot about the current situation" (lots of states have such positions on disputed territories) and
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
I got 23. I know I'm a typical "partially color blind" male, e.g. I always fail those tests where they show you an image made of a bunch of colored dots and ask what number you see, but on this test, I found I could find the
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
> Thus you also don't need such a strict screening process anymore Is that true? I'd think screening would be more for keeping out the nutters than anything else... and I suspect most people wouldn't want to host nutter
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
I think in most areas of Tokyo these things really aren't necessary, despite the high popularity of bicycle transport, because bicycle parking is fairly simple to cram in various nooks and crannies (lots of bike parking underneath trai
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Maybe the best long-term policy is drug decriminalization and treatment (etc), and maybe were that already the case, Ulbricht would not have been tempted into doing anything bad. Nonetheless, that has no bearing on this case. Once somebody
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Sure, but it's a different sort of protection, and although it's better in some ways (if you do things right, you can often get your money back for an existing transaction), it doesn't necessarily offer the same peace of mind
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
> Japanese people often tell me that Japanese don't like to use credit cards. But ask them, do they have one? (of course! they say), do they use it online? (of course! they say). So it's true in real life, not just in this rep
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
It seems nice, and has interesting points, but also kinda appears to have the same problem as e.g. Bookman has for me: it's trying so hard to be readable, moderate, and inoffensive that my eyes kind of glaze over.... the text sort of d
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
The problem with the UNIX Hater's Handbook is that it's 10% spot-on observations about real problems with Unix(-type) systems, and 90% pointless whining and regurgitating of ancient tribal positions. Unfortunately a lot of the pe
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
I expect the same is true of many "industrial" cities in developed countries... I live in Kawasaki, just outside of Tokyo, which is famous for its industry. The air now is lovely and clean, there are essentially no pollution issu
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
> banned the burning of sea-coal. Anyone caught burning or selling the stuff was to be tortured or executed. The first offender caught was summarily put to death This is very interesting... a somewhat longer description that google tur
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Heh; I have exactly the same model (got it unexpectedly for free!) and exactly the same feelings about it. Does need more memory, but super solid otherwise; it's a keeper!
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
The issue, as I understand it, is that pads don't seem to have the same sort of constant upgrade treadmill as phones. Many people seem to think their ipad (or whatever) is fine for what it does, and just don't have any reason to
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
> However after receiving one as a gift, I have to say that I am subtly impressed with it Despite all the criticism, I suspect most people wouldn't be annoyed to receive one as a gift (assuming they've already bought into the
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
I get the impression, e.g. from Ubuntu's "new package format", that NIH aside (always a big factor with Ubuntu), that many of these efforts are mostly targeting "simple apps", i.e. standalone applications that don&#
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Huh? The reason for attacking github seems completely obvious, given that the attacked projects were (1) a mirror of the nytimes Chinese edition (explicitly intended to counter Chinese government censorship), and (2) anti-great-firewall-of
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
One thing I've noticed about American universities compared with universities in other countries (Japan, Korea, UK), is that almost every decent American university I've seen seems to be really well-maintained, in that the campu
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
... and of course it will end up being spread around blag sites as if were universal... ><
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Lots of people do both in Japan, but like you, I'd say the majority seem to use chopsticks (based on my personal experience obviously!). I don't like eating sushi with my hands because I don't like the feeling of dirty hands,
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
What you say is true, and another factor is that "there's safety in numbers" -- it's more dangerous when cyclists are rare, and drivers aren't expecting them. If there are crowds of cyclists everywhere, drivers wi
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
As far as I can see, Unicode has mostly settled down into a sort of "good enough" state: characters that have sufficiently different renderings have gotten separate "variant" codepoints for each rendering, while characte
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
We're not "here" though. Elon Musk saying "it's a solved problem" and it actually being a "solved problem" are two extremely different things. Musk is a smart guy and a good engineering manager,
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Well, it's certainly the Sierpinski triangle page to end my browser.... ><

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