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by tjr 12y ago
Listening to the audio of the interview... the author describes visiting the MIT biology class in person. He sat in the back, felt distracted by someone else goofing around with his phone, and couldn't pause the lecture. He left feelin
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Thank you, to Reddit and the Reddit community(fsf.org)
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by tjr 12y ago
http://alienvoices.net/audio-dramas/
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by tjr 12y ago
I make a slow-cooker vegetable soup: low-sodium V8 juice with whatever chopped vegetables and beans I feel like / have on hand, typically kidney beans, carrot, onion, mushroom, bok choy, garlic ... It takes me about a half-hour to chop
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by tjr 12y ago
I'm not sure it makes sense to have your second non-GPL license be BSD/MIT; wouldn't it be better to make it some proprietary license, licensing it specifically to the customer who pays for it? But anyway; in my limited anecd
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by tjr 12y ago
When was this added? Very nice, and thanks for the tip.
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CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0 added to our list of free licenses(fsf.org)
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by tjr 12y ago
https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html I've never heard him flat-out say "why", but it sure appears to be in order to maximize anonymity / privacy on the web.
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by tjr 12y ago
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
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by tjr 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but on a personal level, this article has always resonated with me: http://philip.greenspun.com/politics/litigation/philosophy.h...
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by tjr 12y ago
For the laptop anyway, you might take a look at: http://www.kidsoncomputers.org/needed
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by tjr 12y ago
Buy stock in Apple instead of that 12" iBook.
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by tjr 12y ago
The article shares though that she originally wrote the book around the same time as To Kill a Mockingbird , or more precisely, she wrote this book first, and was advised by her editor to expound upon some segments of it to write To Kill
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by tjr 12y ago
It is easy to use. I've not reviewed v3 yet, but based on my experience with v2, my question remains, why would I select MongoDB over a relational database for (as they seem to be suggesting) any and all database applications? For some
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by tjr 12y ago
In college, I made cassette tape recordings of myself reciting various mathematical formulas, and listened to the tape on my way to class. That would have been a ridiculous way to learn the material the first time, but it was helpful for re
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by tjr 12y ago
Looks almost exactly like what was being recommended to know circa 2005. And not very far off from the ideal list to know circa 1995!
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by tjr 12y ago
Not knowing all of the details, I'm not sure how reasonable this would be, but another possibility is to keep ownership of it, and pay someone else to fix bugs. The key question there is how much that would cost (in both your dollars a
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by tjr 12y ago
I enjoy also the Alan Perlis line, "You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program." I have been endeavoring to get in the habit of writing about
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by tjr 12y ago
I've not read it, but the author's other books have been well-regarded for years: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Modern-Specific-Ways-Improve...
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by tjr 12y ago
they'll never do anything with it unless there's this enormous infrastructure designed to remedy issues of motivation and planning. That's an interesting thought. What might infrastructure to remedy issues of motivation and
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by tjr 12y ago
Yes, I use Finder, since Puma. I also put in considerable hours using Windows Explorer. I personally find neither significantly better or worse than the other.
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by tjr 12y ago
It's increasingly outdated as an actually useful resource, but The Hacker's Dictionary has long been one of my favorites, and should still be fun and educational from a historical perspective: http://www.amazon.com&#x
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by tjr 12y ago
That's commercial use (with a different meaning of commercial than we're talking here) In what way is it different? While I'm sure individual opinions may vary, I get the impression that there are ample people both creating
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by tjr 12y ago
As a hobbyist photographer on Flickr, I use non-commercial CC mainly to avoid any pictures of people being used for marketing without the person's consent, and to avoid any pictures being used to advertise something that I wouldn'
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by tjr 12y ago
Did you get any qualified applicants?
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by tjr 12y ago
Other languages are much easier to work with for the sorts of programming tasks useful in web development (e.g., string handling), and the things that C is good for (e.g., direct memory access, extreme optimization) are not terribly useful
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by tjr 12y ago
My understanding is that the traditional U.S. "Thanksgiving meal" isn't historically accurate either.
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by tjr 12y ago
I found it much easier to get into the groove of real work when internet access was either not possible or prohibitively slow/expensive to use much. On the other hand, once I do get into the groove of real work, having instant access t
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by tjr 12y ago
I used Facebook for a few years, and deleted my account last summer. What I have observed is that, while indeed I have other means of contacting nearly everyone that I was connected with on Facebook, Facebook was (and I presume still is) t

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