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by spb 12y ago
FX = Foreign Exchange here. Not obvious from the context; for all I know "FX market" could refer to wage-fixing collusion in the special effects industry (with the "chat room traders" trading hiring rates).
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by spb 12y ago
TL;DR sometimes people try to visit .onion domains and forget they don't have a .onion resolver installed locally.
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by spb 12y ago
It would be better if I could set red or blue with one click rather than having to cycle through. Some UI like this, where X is Red and O is blue: _______ | \X| | \| |\ | |O\_____| ``````` Tappin
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by spb 12y ago
It seems to me there are two components involved in being a successful disruptor: 1. Be competent at what you do. 2. Have your main competitor be grossly incompetent. What this article and its successor indicate is that Netflix satisfied bo
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by spb 12y ago
I'm not sure if this is a Dunning-Kruger effect or not, but it sure feels like it.
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by spb 12y ago
The inaccuracies found in this article (pertaining mostly to quotes about MIT's Building 20) are mentioned in an editorial note at the end of the article.
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Groupthink – The brainstorming myth (2012)(newyorker.com)
5 points by spb 12y ago|4 comments
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by spb 12y ago
Google Wallet launches as soon as you tap your phone to the NFC reader.
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by spb 12y ago
> He said he was sorry I felt uncomfortable with his choice of swag, but also appeared genuinely surprised at my discomfort. He didn’t want to offend me, but also didn’t understand why I would be offended in the first place. Francis didn
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by spb 12y ago
> The Bravo text editor was the first WYSIWYG editor with fonts. Amusingly, this was also the programmer's editor. That explains why the Smalltalk Spacewar source in the Rolling Stone Spacewar article (I'm linking to my own ver
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by spb 12y ago
"Serial Entrepreneur" is far too generous a label.
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by spb 12y ago
This is some Agents of SHIELD shit.
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by spb 12y ago
> "So when I'm logging into some website, I'm not going to have access to myspace?" Which is even less likely.
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by spb 12y ago
What is everything that isn't C written in? (inb4 someone says "assembly/ELF")
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by spb 12y ago
> It read like it was asking people to pressure Debian to follow the authors' agendas, with a threat (?) of making a fork if it didn't. This. The point of this site seems to be the author begging Debian not to make him fork,
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by spb 12y ago
Without doing any further investigation: does the type of service you're setting in your user file match the way you're starting up the daemon? For a "normal" service, you need to start the service as "normal"
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by spb 12y ago
> Am I the only person who prefers systemd? No: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority
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by spb 12y ago
> Yet the oddly amusing part is how systemd isn't difficult to learn. The only valid complaint against systemd IMO is its departure from Unix philosophy, but for some parts of the \*nix ecosystem, I can't help but think that bo
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by spb 12y ago
Personally, Arch has been really unstable for me, although I have a newer ATI graphics card and am trying to go it with the open-source drivers, so that's my problem. In general, what people mean about Arch's flakeyness is the gen
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by spb 12y ago
> and to some degree Family Guy had a revival "Some degree?" Family Guy came back after being cancelled for two years . That's pretty much the hardest degree a revival can have .
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by spb 12y ago
The article ends a lot more abruptly than I was expecting. It says what the failure points were, and then it completely stops. By what I've come across, I think this site has the best in-depth analysis of the rise and fall of the Sprin
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by spb 12y ago
So, reading up a little on the premise, has anybody ever tried running a game of Diplomacy where each territory has spectator "citizens" that the players have to answer to, ie. holding a press conference between each turn to give
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by spb 12y ago
So I guess this would be that "catch" we were all expecting with LED lightbulbs, huh?
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by spb 12y ago
> A test is already running, please wait and try again in a few minutes what
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by spb 12y ago
"No"
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by spb 12y ago
This really bugs me. It seems like they should be leaving the retransmission to TCP.
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by spb 12y ago
That's pretty long for a tweet.
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by spb 12y ago
I don't see how Reddit's interface is any more complicated than Hacker News, except maybe for the "expando" buttons to display images in-page.
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Gay community not gay enough to win new gTLD(domainincite.com)
2 points by spb 12y ago|1 comments
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by spb 12y ago
> there's an unprofessional amount of grammatical and typographical errors in your copy You mean "an unprofessional number of grammatical and typographical errors"

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