talkingtab

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   by talkingtab 10y ago

   alias demo='vim "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"/demo.txt' I have a bunch of these aliases for files I use for specific purposes. "demo.txt" holds a description of my next waypoint- I call it demo becaus
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   by talkingtab 11y ago

   does it capture wifi, assuming there is a wifi dongle of course?
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   by talkingtab 11y ago

   John Holland, "Hidden Order". Really. What is money? A message bus in a complex adaptive system. Lots of other stuff out there on complexity but this has a unique perspective. If you really want to go crazy find "Signs of Lif
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   by talkingtab 11y ago

   Not to forget a Berkeley company from long ago called Mt Xinu. (Unix TM backwards). They made one of the funniest *nix related calendars ever among other good things.
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   by talkingtab 11y ago

   Thanks. Just say no to sourceforge.
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   by talkingtab 11y ago

   And if you look at the growth in Apple iPhone business much of it is coming from China. (Read that yesterday somewhere).
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   by talkingtab 11y ago

   I think the issue is permissions. Since the browser is creating and writing to files. I was having this problem and changing the permissions on the target directory to 777 fixed the problem.
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   by talkingtab 12y ago

   an unfortunate title. Ha ha "flames" ha ha "Node.js" but the article is really about express. Not so "ha ha"
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   by talkingtab 12y ago

   I use my own git repo. I have a very small digitalocean server as well as a mac. I rsync the repos for backup. I have used github a bit but in my admittedly limited experience I see no benefit and therefore no need for anything else. Really
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    by talkingtab 14y ago

    You are confused by the smoke. A law was recently passed with little discussion that protects Monsanto. This law has nothing to do with district-by-district, Davy Crockett, ideology, good intentions, Australia or any of the other issues you
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    by talkingtab 14y ago

    How do these rules get enacted with no public discussion and no public debate. The effect of this ruling is to make criminals of thousands or tens of thousands of US citizens who purchased a phone. This should not happen without transparenc
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    by talkingtab 15y ago

    Thinking is hard. It seems like the cycle is a) someone thinks b) people follow without thinking c) someone realizes that unthinkingly following some process doesn't work so they debunk the theory without thinking. So the question you have
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    Go Daddy down, Disney Next

    4 points by talkingtab 15y ago|3 comments
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    by talkingtab 15y ago

    An organization such as a bank is a self-consistent entity. And the culture is the organization. Organization === culture. If you don't believe it, look at Microsoft - they cannot change for the life of them. You want to try to change par
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    by talkingtab 16y ago

    Not a book, but a great source of information beyond basic syntax is http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/
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    by talkingtab 20y ago

    I agree with everything you said, but there is one crucial bit more. MS is like the Soviet economic model competing against the "free trade" model. One is adaptive and the other isn't. Here it is the collaborative, adaptive model of softwar