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by tdavis 18y ago
The thing I've always hated about eggs is that invariably something that uses an egg won't have the permissions to write to the default egg cache. It has gotten to the point now that if I know something is going to install an egg, I just do
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by tdavis 18y ago
Damn, I could get the whole Internet if I could just pick "have sex for procreation" but procreating would almost certainly be worse than losing the "fun" Internet. You've created the impossible question .
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by tdavis 18y ago
46% of women and 30% of men would give up sex for two weeks instead of giving up access to the Internet for the same period. That's slightly different than the implied, "Sex; Interwebs; choose one!" A more interesting question would have
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by tdavis 18y ago
Considering how low the intelligence level of TC commenters has sunk, I'm beginning to believe it's actually detrimental to be featured on the site. I thought Duck Duck Go was interesting last time I looked at it and it seems to still be so
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by tdavis 18y ago
Uhhh.. neither? Measuring it changes the outcome. Knowing when I'm going to die is as bad as believing I won't.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I kept reading because I'm not easily offended. Then the words "chica" and "bonk" offended me. Even out of context. Sorry :(
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by tdavis 18y ago
Ah, so you'd rather have one established technology to circumvent than numerous being worked on in parallel. Gotcha. I will stick with my irrational assumption that the Internet at large is safe from this shit, at least until I'm too old to
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by tdavis 18y ago
Not signing up for cryonics - what does that say? That you've lost hope in the future. That you've lost your will to live. That you've stopped believing that human life, and your own life, is something of value. No, it's because I valu
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by tdavis 18y ago
Herd mentality strikes again. I didn't think this was a big deal when he wrote the original post and I still don't think it's a big deal after this follow-up.
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by tdavis 18y ago
mailchimp.com
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by tdavis 18y ago
Uh... why should anyone be allowed, much less required, to censor the net?
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by tdavis 18y ago
When the entire economy tanks, sure, it's going to take some businesses with it. There's a difference, though, when your business is so reliant on the poor choices that got us into this mess that it goes out of business practically over nig
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by tdavis 18y ago
What were you expecting? Things were always going to get worse before they got better. This is the restructuring of a global economy that had become far too reliant on debt. More companies and industries will go under; more jobs will be los
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by tdavis 18y ago
Google then Freenode, pretty much exclusively. Edit: Also, friends smarter in whatever area it may be, if any are handy.
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by tdavis 18y ago
A certain part of me always hopes that people "get" my seemingly random headers. Bonus points if you tell me where the last one is from.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I wasn't exactly whining, but in the spirit of this idiotic argument, I'd say you got lucky. They didn't like you, so no need to like them. Now they're dead. You won.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Suppose I'd have to take time off to get one of them things first. I mean, I was dating someone not too long ago. How long ago was 2006? How time flies when you're fighting a war / building a business. If there's anything I hate more than
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by tdavis 18y ago
Luckily for my ego, I am also not how much money I have in the bank. Or the contents of my wallet.
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by tdavis 18y ago
That's incredible. Go has always fascinated me on principle, though I have yet to find the time to learn the game. Thanks for this.
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by tdavis 18y ago
It's not that Windows (XP SP2+) is bad per-se, it's just that the alternatives (OSX, Linux, BSD, etc.) are much better for nearly all use cases of the technically savvy. Unless you're doing Windows development, of course. Or own a Zune.
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by tdavis 18y ago
If you don't do any Mac development, don't use any "rare" apps that have no Linux counterparts, and don't mind some nagging compatibility issues (admittedly, driver support gets better every day and Ubuntu is really on top of this stuff) I
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by tdavis 18y ago
I've basically given up trying to really explain it. I just say I own a business that operates "on the Internet" and hope they stop asking questions after that. My favorite quotes: Dad: When you told me you were quitting school and moving
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by tdavis 18y ago
My favorite quote from Dan's Grandma: Dan: Where'd all the Margaritas go, Grandma? Grandma: I drank 'em all up!
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by tdavis 18y ago
1.5% FreeBSD?! I love this place. I bet Windows is still the majority since HN is probably a big work-time hangout for the corporate drones ;)
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by tdavis 18y ago
For someone who used a Mac for 3 months, I'm surprised you never figured out there is a right click... there's been a right click for a long time. I use it constantly. "If you spent a lot of time becoming proficient on your platform of choi
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by tdavis 18y ago
I switched from Windows to Mac about 2 years ago and never looked back. My main reason for going to OSX instead of Linux at the time was because Photoshop wasn't available on Linux and GIMP makes me cry. I used Photoshop a lot. Still, I'
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by tdavis 18y ago
This is something I've never understood. To sue for that amount of money, wouldn't they need to somehow prove that those 10 songs caused 2.5 million in damages or lost earnings or... something ?
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by tdavis 18y ago
Tell me you remember the timeless astalavista.box.sk ...
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by tdavis 18y ago
Right, which is completely preposterous and will never happen. The biggest problem, as outlined in the article, is that one way or another the security measures for such a protocol would eventually (probably quickly) be cracked which means
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by tdavis 18y ago
I've been looking for a plugin that does precisely this. Thank you Peteris, you've got another subscriber ;)

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