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by torpor 17y ago
This just in: University Professor discovers MOBBING. Entire World sighs in relief, can finally put down the pitchforks, give each other hugs.
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by torpor 17y ago
Personality: its infectious. There is such a thing as contagious psychology. Hang around at Apple long enough and you, too, will start to appear Guru'ified. Hell, Apple have made a fortune on this fact alone.
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by torpor 17y ago
In my experience, the thing that sets true genius apart from the contentious kind, is the willingness to listen. If you don't have that, then you're not really as smart as you - or others - think you are. The capability a person has for li
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by torpor 17y ago
I've been using Linux since the day Linus posted to minix-list about it.. Yggdrasil was my first non-hand-built Linux config, then Debian, and now .. Ubuntu. Which, on my particular hardware, I am finding is very, very stable, very useful,
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by torpor 17y ago
>Not only is it their business to retain customers, I think they are also trying to retain your personal data. No question about it: THEY KEEP YOUR DATA.
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by torpor 17y ago
Wut?
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by torpor 17y ago
>Those are orthogonal. Nope.
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by torpor 17y ago
I find StackOverflow very boring as well .. but I don't need to use it much. I've only visited the few times in interest because I always like to find nice technological discussions, but .. so far .. its been pretty "meh". There haven't be
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by torpor 17y ago
This is going to be great for those of us who want to use the Android platform to develop synthesizers and other music-processing applications. I for one am going to be checking this out over the weekend and porting some synth code to see
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by torpor 17y ago
This fuss over the Great Leaders Health is a tacit admission that Apple is a cult.
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by torpor 17y ago
Its classist thinking like this that produces the most despotic societies yet.
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by torpor 17y ago
Thats a good point. Stay tuned ..
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by torpor 17y ago
I walk to work, bicycle when necessary. I could run my household off two of these, and be done with the whole problem: http://windgeneratorstoday.com/go/portable-wind-generators
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by torpor 17y ago
I've been in surgery a couple times, and I don't remember the knotted-stomach feeling, or any pain either, really, other than in the area where I was cut up .. What I do remember is how quickly everything went by .. apparently my operation
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by torpor 17y ago
Rubbish. We could all, individually, convert to wind power right now and do it quite successfully. Your problem only exists if we all have to be lumped into a group, together, so someone can sell us shit and control the whole thing. In sho
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by torpor 17y ago
To some degree, but the more voracious kind is based on honey made by bees feasting on Australian Tea Tree .. which is, itself, a pretty wonderful source of all kinds of protective substances. <-- grew up in Australia, was constantly he
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by torpor 17y ago
add "-site:expertsexchange.com" in your google query to exclude results from that site ..
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by torpor 17y ago
Words are not steam shovels. Steam shovels require a great deal of energy and effort to use properly. Words, on the other hand, require very, very little energy to be useful. That is the point - the effort and energy required to learn w
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by torpor 17y ago
Words are not steam shovels. Steam shovels require a great deal of energy and effort to use properly. Words, on the other hand, require very, very little energy to be useful. That is the point - the effort and energy required to learn w
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by torpor 17y ago
I think I've read those essays, but the fact I can't remember explicitly doing so indicates that, frankly, they didn't do too well in terms of convincing me .. my position is based on 30 years of working day and night as a professional prog
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by torpor 17y ago
That in terms of 'effort -> usefulness', they are all 'flat' - i.e. generally equal in terms of usefulness and the effort required to attain some form of use. There are no single words that are more powerful or more significant than ot
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by torpor 17y ago
The critter-guitari Pocket Piano is a great shield for Arduino, and it has the advantage that it gives you a lot of hardware to play with as well .. http://www.critterandguitari.com/home/store/arduino-piano.ph... I built one for fun, and
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by torpor 18y ago
Find a place like MetaLab.at and go there, often. Its great to have people around you who are Getting Things Done and its highly motivating to have a lot of such activity occurring on a daily basis on the periphery of your view while you h
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by torpor 18y ago
Get a Freerunner, Dave. Its a great podcast device.
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by torpor 18y ago
I've been a programmer since I was 12 years old, and have over 30 years experience with technology companies - and yes, startups too .. I helped get a few major 90's-era dotcoms up and running and many of them are still at it today. My expe