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by sprout 16y ago
The longer I live in the "real world" the more cutting carrots while watching bad television has become a part of my routine. I can really eat them faster than I have the patience to shell them. And if we want to make them junk food, all we
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by sprout 16y ago
I'd go with the people to be sure. I don't really know what I'd be willing to sacrifice. It seems like most of the things I would be willing to sacrifice (my personal Social Security, Medicare, a high-paying job) have already been helpfully
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by sprout 16y ago
Specifically they're patenting graceful shutdown of a graphical windowing environment, with a series of prompts to ask the user if they are sure that they want to terminate processes that cannot be gracefully stopped. All of it seems blindi
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Mark Waid is Right(pvponline.com)
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by sprout 16y ago
>If the US does resort to protectionism, it would put at stake the massive revenues that american companies are getting from foreign markets. For many of the Fortune 500 companies, the foreign markets are the fastest growing markets and
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by sprout 16y ago
The real issue to me is their apparent zero tolerance policy. Unless I'm misreading something, if there are two incidents where your site is used for phishing, you will lose your Rackspace account. I understand that Rackspace doesn't want t
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by sprout 16y ago
What search engine does WebOS ship with as default? Also, as a followup, what mapping program does WebOS ship with?
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by sprout 16y ago
I think it's impressive they actually managed to fit a real word in there, even if it's a hacker neologism.
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by sprout 16y ago
It would be a great start if Gruber would read it.
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by sprout 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/325/ Alt text mainly.
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't think you're at all correct that they are less traceable than yellow cab drivers. The government bureaucracy makes it much more difficult to fake credentials and make yourself untraceable. With UberCab, it looks like anyone could st
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by sprout 16y ago
People aren't stupid. They can distinguish between Froyo and Cupcake. It's even got a clear analogue in the XP/Vista/7 debacle. Or for those who lived through it, Cupcake is the Windows 3.11 to Froyo's Windows XP, or something like that. Pe
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by sprout 16y ago
The problem is the graph is beyond misleading, it is false. It purports to show a decline in web traffic, when what it really shows is a decline in web traffic relative to other protocols (including video, which is a further mistake since a
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by sprout 16y ago
Would be good to retitle it. This is a really excellent article and I suspect there are a lot of people who will skim past any link with Clojure in the title.
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by sprout 16y ago
Offline access will be the killer app. If Facebook let me download an XML dump of all my data, I wouldn't feel the need to switch. Open data is vital. Source is less important.
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by sprout 16y ago
I think a substantial part of it is also parents missing the importance of their expectations. If you're aggressively trying to be 'neutral,' you've got some extreme in your mind you're trying to avoid steering your child towards, and your
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by sprout 16y ago
Okay, I think I was confusing Mono with Moonlight, which as I see it is not covered by that document. (And Silverlight is an increasingly important piece of the .NET pie.) Also, given Microsoft's business model and track record, it seems un
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by sprout 16y ago
YouTube has a social network behind it. That's what Google bought, because to date they have yet to build one of their own. What a startup can create that a large company cannot steal would loosely be defined as a social network; mind-share
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by sprout 16y ago
Techies take nobody seriously by default. But when it comes to non-technical management types, I think what he says is very true. As a clean-cut, twenty-something male who speaks articulately, simply me saying "I'm a computer guy" gives me
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by sprout 16y ago
Frankly, pg should not be dismissing his detractors' arguments as 'mere linkbait' if he wants to maintain a civil atmosphere on this forum. Not to say your direct parent was justified in his flaming, but our curator should have known better
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by sprout 16y ago
Actually, it faces even bigger issues, since you essentially have to be using a version of Mono that is paid for. Java at least has a solid grant of patents so long as you're using the GPL version. Microsoft has intentionally worded their l
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by sprout 16y ago
I have yet to link up my credit card to the Android app store. I'm definitely not going to trust Facebook with that information. (And especially among Facebook's first users, I don't think you'll find many willing to trust Facebook as a mon
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by sprout 16y ago
The powers that be have to be optimistic. That is a prerequisite for growth. In fact, the real powers (CEO's and boards of the big corporations) are pessimistic, and therefore the economy is in danger of dying. The whole thing is largely ps
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by sprout 16y ago
Welcome to Web 3.0.
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by sprout 16y ago
Package managers are an unassailable benefit over proprietary software. That shop I worked in hasn't updated their servers in half a decade because it's too much work to handle dependencies without a robust manager (and even then it's a sig
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by sprout 16y ago
Yeah, India never really did get over illegal immigration from Britain.
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm just saying you have to be able to hold down a job well enough that food is not the primary cost driver for your living expenses. You don't have to be at a HN-level of intelligence/industriousness to do that either, but you do have to b
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by sprout 16y ago
I have to wonder if that ever would have held up in court. It seems pretty clear that for all the devices that record in H.264, the vendors did not do their due diligence to explain that the user did not have a license to distribute that vi
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by sprout 16y ago
I would go so far as to say Sun never did enough open source. I had the misfortune of doing some work in a mixed shop where most of the Unix servers were running Solaris 8/9 recently. A couple things that led to its downfall: 1. No package
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by sprout 16y ago
You have to be smart and fairly industrious to cook. If you can't hold down a job, odds are you can't cook well enough to make it a serious value proposition over pre-packaged and restaurant fare.

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