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by wanorris 19y ago
> don't snack I have often heard the exact opposite advice: eat smaller meals and have more between meal snacks, though obviously with a focus on healthy snacks. Why do you find this to be a more effective approach?
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by wanorris 19y ago
It's one of the all-time classic text adventure games. It's not supposed to be GTA -- it is what it is.
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by wanorris 19y ago
I used to have cdl aliased to that, and lost track of it during a long sojourn in Windows. I'm still in the process of building out a really kickass bash again. Thanks for the reminder of that alias!
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by wanorris 19y ago
Slashdot is too noisy for me. Aside from Hacker News, I still find some useful things on Programming Reddit, and I keep up with other tech news on Techmeme.
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by wanorris 19y ago
In particular in the web industry, there's a lot of programmers who have "done all the hard stuff" and now just need a designer to "make it look pretty,"despite the fact that good design with a focus on usability is likely to change the str
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by wanorris 19y ago
Exchange options I know of for a Mac: * Microsoft Entourage * Outlook Web Access * The open source Gnome email client Evolution now runs on a Mac, and it can connect to Exchange (actually, it scrapes Outlook Web Access) * I believe you can
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by wanorris 19y ago
Another vote for Pandora. I'd be willing to pay for Hacker News, but deeply suspicious that it would start dying as a paid site. Yahoo Mail charges me for POP access, and I'd probably pay gmail similarly. I happily subscribe to Emusic.com.
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by wanorris 19y ago
> At least they did it by having the best product (unlike MS). Microsoft fell into the DOS monopoly because they were effective at business and Digital Research (the more obvious vendor) wasn't. Windows won because Apple (by choice or b
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by wanorris 19y ago
I can believe they stuck their admin at /admin, but it's hard to believe they didn't create an admin bit as part of the users table and check it to access /admin. That takes about 2 minutes if you do it when you create the system. Oh well,
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by wanorris 19y ago
Good question. I don't follow Cisco closely, but it may simply be the EULA (and the team of legal attack dogs behind it). It may also be the implicit expectation that computers are made to run other software while switches are closed-case b
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by wanorris 19y ago
Fair point, but with this kind of opportunity, I'd let the fulfillment fall behind for a couple of days to pursue it.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Actually, my impression is that restricting third-party software isn't illegal in general either. If Tivo cuts a deal for Samsung to make Samsung-branded Tivo boxes, Tivo can still include a clause in the contract that stops them from loadi
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by wanorris 19y ago
If I'm the Psystar marketing department, I'm trying to make hay while the sun is shining. If they can't pursue the Mac thing, they have a small window to try to shift interest to something they can actually sell.
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by wanorris 19y ago
I'm not saying that Apple doesn't have a case, but I think the approach you're suggesting is a bit dicey. If Apple were afraid of having cheap RAM used in their systems, why would they allow end-user-upgradable RAM compatible with third-par
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by wanorris 19y ago
What is Amazon's strategy regarding digital media sales? Their MP3 store is built around open standards, but Unbox video is tightly DRMed and doesn't even run on Macs, and their Kindle books only work on a single, closed device. Is this all
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by wanorris 19y ago
Well, I think the IPv6 switch is finally going to have to happen anyway within a few years. So hopefully, you'll get your wish.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Well, yes. But that isn't always the most useful paradigm for thinking about some of those businesses, and it doesn't always apply. When I go buy an iPod at an Apple store, what customer makes money off the purchase? When Safeway sells me a
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by wanorris 19y ago
How on earth could you write an article on the Internet in 1993 and never mention Usenet?
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by wanorris 19y ago
Some reasonable points, especially if you're already committed to Django as a platform. BTW, I meant back end as in data store, not computation. From what I understand, using BigTable differs markedly from using MySQL or Postgres, and you w
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by wanorris 19y ago
> The only people who are really squealing are the hardware/software vendors (Tim works for Sun) and ISP's who have effectively taken a pay cut. That's not my impression. I've seen some concern from service consumers, as well. When you
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by wanorris 19y ago
In the hacker world, there have always been people who try to make things that they think ought to exist, regardless of whether they can figure out how people will pay them to do it. On one end of the continuum, you have projects like Linux
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by wanorris 19y ago
"Pop an XP disk in any system made in the last 5 years and you're up and running in no time." Actually, I had enormous problems when my wife got an unformatted replacement drive for her laptop and I tried to do just that. It was easier to w
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by wanorris 19y ago
"But the good thing with AWS is that it's easy to port your apps to run on their platform." Once you have mountable volumes, you can pretty much run the LAMP-style stack of your choice unmodified, right?
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by wanorris 19y ago
Others have already mentioned the benefits of seeing smaller local artists. I'd like to put in a plug for one other kind of show that can be a blast: jam bands. Yeah, there are generally huge throngs of people, and yeah, lots of people are
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by wanorris 19y ago
Steve Yegge generally makes unfiltered work for him. PG treats his essays like oil paintings, and keeps working on them over time until he's satisfied with the results. Yegge's "drunken blog rants" are more like sketches -- when they work,
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by wanorris 19y ago
If you had neither evidence nor analysis to support your prediction, then it's hard to distinguish it from being right in a "stopped clock" sense.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Talking about a large-scale financial crisis that you have long foreseen unlike everyone else and failing to provide any supporting evidence (or even analysis) makes you indistinguishable from a crank. If you are not a crank, you're going t
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by wanorris 19y ago
The lack of emphasis on usability in a CS degree program isn't surprising at all. In a software engineering program, it would be entirely appropriate, but in computer science, the focus is intended to be, well, the science of computer softw
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by wanorris 19y ago
> That's awesome. I keep my Mac up to date by... wait, how do I keep it up to date? Let me check, am I up to date? Well, shit, I am! How'd that happen? Cool. Did it just update itself from Tiger to Leopard too? That's pretty awesome!
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by wanorris 19y ago
In the controlled lighting of a store, glossy screens look awesome . Especially for watching movies and things like that. I wasn't with my wife when she got a replacement laptop for one that crapped out under a Best Buy warranty, and she t

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