tropicalmug

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"Sound does not play after network transitions from satellite to hard-wired"(devblogs.microsoft.com)
1 points by tropicalmug 7y ago|0 comments
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by tropicalmug 9y ago
Think it's funny that the person who drew the Pizza Hut logo for Domino's is considered more accurate than the person who drew a domino.
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by tropicalmug 10y ago
"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork." Seldom Smith, from The Monkey-Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
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by tropicalmug 10y ago
There are other needs for a shortened URL. Perhaps you have to hardcode a link in code and don't want to be tied to a page whose contents may break. If you control your URL shortener, you can hardcode your shortened one, and update t
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by tropicalmug 12y ago
I wish instead of a protocol improvement that focused solely on network resources, the next version will also include improvements for users such as encryption by default and doing away with cookies.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
What tools would you suggest for doing this? Or even what algorithms to implement for doing this sort of work?
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
Open your user key-bindings (in OSX this is Sublime Text -> Preferences -> Key Bindings - User), and put [ { "keys": ["ctrl+tab"], "command": "next_view" }, { "keys": [&quo
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
Newsblur[0] is a great open-source[1] feed-reader that not only beats Feedly in ease of use, but also has a bunch of great additional features over the standard RSS reader, with apps for both iOS and Android to complement the killer web-app
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
11 days? Two weeks? A month? Never? Not every company values this sort of feedback from their users. Some go out of their way to prosecute those that break their services this way.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
It doesn't say anything about her backtracking. It says she defends the program and that her "reform" bill maintains the status quo.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
Another great Bloom Filter library not mentioned in this article is Bitly's implementation on GitHub[0]. It has the best of both worlds: a C implementation and higher-level wrappers (Golang, PHP, Python, and Common Lisp). If you don&
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
"97% of people recommend One Month Rails" is also a little misleading. I'm willing to bet 97% of people don't know what One Month Rails is.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
Thanks for the quick response. I keep playing with this and it's very cool. I'm looking forward to being able to put those pictures back up. Congrats on the launch again.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
I'd love to be able to add the same photo to more than one album. This seems like the sort of thing that's a natural advantage of digital photos over regular ones. Let's say I was taking pictures of friends at a baseball gam
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
I am one of those programmers: I have no real idea how a compiler goes about its business, my university does not offer an accessible compiler class (only for grad students and very irregularly), and I have no idea where to start besides tr
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
This story is not relevant to the privacy issues at hand. This is distracting from the conversation we should be having.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
Right, but couldn't they expand the pane but leave the text at the same ratio? The way it is now, the right-hand scrollbar leaves the right side of the window[1], which is kind of weird. Adding whitespace on the sides might be a bett
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
Why does Quartz allow for their menu bar to resize for any window size but prevent the article pane from doing the same thing? I get large grey space on the right side of any story that I read on a large-enough monitor.
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David Simon uses Q&A style to create a nuanced stance on the NSA.(davidsimon.com)
2 points by tropicalmug 13y ago|0 comments
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
You're correct, it wouldn't apply. My naïveté had me a little carried away.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
Isn't this a bigger deal than just monitoring supposedly private Facebook communications? This would also violate attorney-client privilege too, right? EDIT: This is just naïveté on my part.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
I wish he hadn't come forward. There was no real reason for him to release his name or tell his story yet. This is going to distract us all from the real issues at hand.
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
"For society to function well, there have to be basic levels of trust and cooperation, a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. By deciding to unilaterally leak secret N.S.A. documents, Snowden has betrayed all o
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
As an undergrad making the choice of a coursework-based MS and simply graduating with my BS in the next few months, this could not be more timely. What makes me want to do get the MS is that my undergrad performance was not stellar. I stru
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Full text of Pres. Obama's speech on drone policy, oversight, and closing Gitmo(nytimes.com)
3 points by tropicalmug 13y ago|0 comments
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5745444
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
It also sounds as though he never discovered common keyboard shortcuts. He complains about command-tab behavior being different from Windows, but I've found that command-tab for switching between applications and command-` for window switc
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Taser's new tech for the police department.(theverge.com)
5 points by tropicalmug 13y ago|1 comments
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
For those interested, she expressed her rationale further on the Huffington Post[0]. [0]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-patton/why-i-told-female...
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by tropicalmug 13y ago
Unfortunately it is not. New Deal era laws such as this one existed to help prevent a flood of excess food ruin the market for farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. Unfortunately, nobody is keen to revisit any laws fro

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