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   by vollmond 11y ago

   I don't think he finds paying for digital services unethical, but he chooses not to since that payment is always personally identifiable (since you have to have an account, use a credit card, etc). He has 2 major stances outlined here
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   by vollmond 11y ago

   The search bubble may benefit you on occasion (such as your programming example), but it will affect you on every search, showing you mostly results with similar politics, etc, to the sources you already read. http://dontbubble.u
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   by vollmond 11y ago

   I think he was being facetious (pointing out that "resize your browser window" isn't really an option on most mobile devices).
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   by vollmond 11y ago

   Could the airship configuration be a recovery mechanism? IE, instead of having a parachute or airbag to soften the landing, have compressed helium release into an airship and then continue powered flight with whichever motors remain?
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   by vollmond 11y ago

   I think people can make lack of whiteboards work. The issue I have seen is when your team is partially co-located and partially remote -- the co-located people do the whiteboarding without bothering to involve the remote people, or the remo
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   by vollmond 11y ago

   Not a whole lot. When walking around the office, I try to avoid staring at my phone or the floor; I look around or up. I've tried to set up my desk ergonomically (right angle knees/elbos, eye-level at the top third of the monitor,
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   by vollmond 11y ago

   I'd love to see a .deb or Ubuntu repo packages. Don't really want to install half a gig of Haskell Platform just to build this. 16GB Chromebook SSD here :-)
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   by vollmond 12y ago

   It apparently requires a browser extension. Is that actually better? I'd rather direct my customers to a third-party site I have a relationship with than ask them to install a plugin. (Disclaimer: I have no product or customers to worr
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   by vollmond 12y ago

   I don't understand what you're getting at. What is the problem?
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    IIRC, Groklaw was created specifically to archive/translate/simplify the SCO litigation, right?
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    Plus there's the fact that in at least some US cases, the displacement is to allow space for a large business which will provide more tax revenue than the displaced could.
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    I remember when I got going, I actually installed Dreamweaver just for the snippets and help files. I'd code in Notepad++, but dive into Dreamweaver for help with anything I didn't understand. It was nice.
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    Wait, really? I had no idea! Off to check it out...
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    I never cared about Flash, but I absolutely loved developing in Flex. Was always sad that getting rid of Flash meant losing Flex, too.
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    Given they know about it, they should just add a custom Google search widget to the sidebar.
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    I would think something like LastPass would be a good solution for you. Sure, it syncs across browsers and is stored remotely (on LastPass's servers), but at least it's encrypted and allows you to easily have very different passwo
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    I'd definitely be interested in reading this. Do you have a mailing list or anything so I can find out when it's available?
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    Just finished Ryk Brown's "A Show of Force" [1]. It's the 13th book in his Kindle scifi series, which I'm basically addicted to. Also working through "Bold" by Peter Diamandis [2]. Discussing how to levera
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    I telework two days a week. I VPN into work, then RDP into a Windows server and start up Eclipse. It works.
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    "Sort by price, please, Amazon." "Sure, here's a $10 item and a $5 item and a $50 item! Yay sorting!"
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    I confess I'm not very familiar with CloudFlare -- in what way are they making it easier to carry out a DDoS?
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    by vollmond 12y ago

    That's like saying bodyguards are a protection racket because muggers and assassins exist. Yes, it sucks to have to pay for defense, but that doesn't mean the problem is your defense vendor's fault, or that said vendor has do
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    by vollmond 13y ago

    I'm still seeing this on the car-description part.
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    by vollmond 13y ago

    Phones... and long, agenda-less, ad-hoc meetings. And sometimes XMPP.
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    by vollmond 13y ago

    I just clicked the OP link, then clicked "Download this paper" and I had it. I have no account and have never visited SSRN before... EDIT: On clicking "download" a second time, I do get a login page -- but it still has a
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    Feed Wrangler, The First Month (david-smith.org)

    1 points by vollmond 13y ago|0 comments
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    by vollmond 15y ago

    Paywalled. Here's the summary: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6078/147.short
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    by vollmond 15y ago

    If upvotes were public (or at least available to you when logged in), it could just trawl HN's history at some set interval (one year past?) and feed you anything you upvoted that day. edit: or rather, a few intervals to allow for reposts e
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    by vollmond 15y ago

    I know personally I keep copies of every letter I send, simply to refer back to if and when the recipient responds to me; it's useful to know what questions I asked when the answers come in.
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    by vollmond 15y ago

    Well, perhaps if someone were able to get an offer in writing of what Fox would accept, then start the Kickstarter to raise the funds? Seems like it would work fine...