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   by tjr 10y ago

   Yep, just caught that myself. Sorry, it was two large screenshots up and I missed it. :-) Thanks!
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   by tjr 10y ago

   Once a story is flagged, it can’t be made into an ad and promoted, either. After a single flag from a single user?
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   Amazon's new grocery stores(stallman.org)

   6 points by tjr 10y ago|0 comments
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   by tjr 10y ago

   During college, I worked for about 6 or 7 months in a local supermarket. Seventeen years later, some of my former coworkers are still there.
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   Programmers then and now(blogs.harvard.edu)

   3 points by tjr 10y ago|0 comments
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   by tjr 10y ago

   Agreed, and I sometimes give gift cards with that in mind. Though I try to make it a gift card at a store that I feel certain the recipient will appreciate.
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   Fantasia Apocalyptica(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

   2 points by tjr 10y ago|0 comments
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   by tjr 10y ago

   Or bottled water. Find a busy place that works for you. E.g., the people who sell bottled water to the tour bus riders in Manhattan for $2/bottle, when a whole case of 24 bottles is something like $5.
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   by tjr 10y ago

   Don Knuth has said that he prefers writing on paper instead of writing on the computer because he types much faster than he thinks; handwriting is closer to the speed of his thoughts.
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    by tjr 10y ago

    I never owned one, but I used one briefly. I had some other brands of genlock, video capture, & video editing software, and used Imagine 3D and Brilliance for 2D graphics. It's been so long now, I don't remember the details of
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    by tjr 10y ago

    I use ␛ as the Meta key in Emacs. I just tried using C-[ instead. It works, but you have to press down both CTRL and [ at the same time; you can't flam CTRL and then [. I am reminded also of one time trying to write C code on an IBM
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    by tjr 10y ago

    I've been happily using Macs for 14 years. I routinely do things like burn DVDs, plug in USB and FireWire devices, use external displays, transfer photographs from cameras, etc. I may be content with a current Mac, but it seems to me t
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    by tjr 10y ago

    I usually make pencil marks (a star, underlining, boxes, etc.) in a book as I read it, to notate things I found especially interesting. Generally I will then also write a summary of the book, rewriting what I learned in a mixture of my own
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    by tjr 10y ago

    All of their strings are fairly mellow sounding. If Rotosound/Yes is your style, you might not like the Thomastik sound. But they are very low-tension and flexible!
15. 735.▲
    by tjr 10y ago

    If electric bass (or maybe even if not) try Thomastik-Infeld strings, especially the flatwound strings.
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    by tjr 10y ago

    I've worked with people in their aerospace division on several occasions. I honestly didn't know they did anything besides aerospace... :-/
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    by tjr 10y ago

    3. A company agrees to hire you and gives you a start date. The Friday before you're supposed to start, you send a quick email to confirm which of their several buildings you should show up at on Monday morning, and they reply, "O
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    Judge Mayer provides a strong case against software patents(fsf.org)

    3 points by tjr 10y ago|0 comments
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    by tjr 10y ago

    Might not be exciting to everyone, and I understand you might not want to release only this, but I think it would be nice if you could release a free-software-only variant of Fedora: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-d
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    by tjr 10y ago

    Bundle all of those points up into some sort of standard level of acceptance and let conforming products have a big shiny sticker saying so on the front of the package? As a bit of an analogy, while I may enjoy poring over computer system s
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    NSA Day of Cyber(nsadayofcyber.com)

    1 points by tjr 10y ago|0 comments
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    by tjr 10y ago

    Perhaps the best course I had in high school -- and it was an elective that I sort of fell into -- was a personal finance course, covering things like balancing a checkbook, filing income taxes, keeping a personal budget, etc. In The Child
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    by tjr 10y ago

    Not directly related, but I am reminded of this fun classic: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/po...
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    by tjr 10y ago

    If that worked at all, it could be applied before the comment was even posted. Warn the user that their comment looks inordinately negative, and ask if they would like to revise before submitting.
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    FSF stresses necessity of full user control over Internet-connected devices(fsf.org)

    5 points by tjr 10y ago|0 comments
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    by tjr 10y ago

    Louis Slobodkin's Spaceship Under the Apple Tree series. (Sadly out of print!)
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    by tjr 10y ago

    https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...
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    by tjr 10y ago

    Also check out The Children's Machine . Some similar content to what's in Mindstorms , but it was written years later, based on further research. A favorite quote: [O]n my reckoning, the fraction of human knowledge that is in t
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    by tjr 10y ago

    I rather liked Stein & DeMuth's Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life : https://www.amazon.com/Yes-You-Can-Financial-Life-ebook/dp/1...
30. 750.▲
    by tjr 10y ago

    Help somebody else learn C.