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by whazzmaster 15y ago
Many of my closest friends adhere to the "A2K" philosophy (Amish 2000) where they try not to use any tech released more recently than 2000. They fail as often as they succeed, but social networking is one area that they have largely succee
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Data Access Performance Comparison in .NET(luisrocha.net)
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
That is true, understanding what makes Wikipedia susceptible to biased thinking, scamming, or propaganda widens your view to understand that newspaper articles, government press releases, and technology journalism (to name only a few) are a
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
I personally find Wikipedia semi-useful as an ultra-high level view of topics I want to refresh myself on or get interest in. I wouldn't cite it in any remotely academic or meaningful forum, but it's an amazingly broad repository of inform
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
When I think about branding a generation, which is always done by a member of a previous generation and with not a little whiff of "kids these days' syndrome, it occurs to me that there might be a feedback loop involved. If you're firmly pa
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
(Hopefully very slight) tangent: The article describes the Millenial Generation as "born between the late ’70s and the mid-’90s." Yikes. I suppose when attempting to reduce such a group to a simple catchphrase ("post-emotional"), no additio
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
Ruby does indeed have continuous testing for major (and even not-so-major) gems at http://travis-ci.org/ . I'm not quibbling with the rest of your response; just wanted to shout-out Travis since I learned of it myself recently.
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
I really wanted to purchase but would rather not send CC info over non-SSL connections. Are you going to be putting the store on SSL at some point? Or maybe it is supposed to be but there are some fallbacks being used under the current hea
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
I attended a git workshop by Scott Chacon and was surprised to learn that github's production site can be deployed by many folks on the development team, and at any time during the day. In fact, he mentioned that github.com can be updated
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
How can a cartel be disrupted? While this article makes me angry (especially as a consumer, where the limiting of choice has a definite impact) I don't see a way for anyone to 'disrupt' this behavior. Tech- and entrepreneurial-minded folk l
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
The first 100 pages or so of Anathem seemed like such a chore to get through, mainly because of the tons of exposition required to build the world. It was one of those books, however (Frank Norris' The Octopus being the other for me person
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
I've been down on Slashdot for the last few years, even going so far as to remove it from my RSS reader and bookmarks bar. I check back sometimes here and there but devote most of my time to HN/reddit now. Taco's farewell (and Hemos' reply
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Looking for a technical co-founder? Partner up instead.(builtinchicago.org)
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing re: google influence. Also, was it any wonder that at a photowalk attended by a ton of Google people, Google+ would be talked about more than Flickr? He makes some good points about the interface stagnation an
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
I've been using twitter since very early in its life, and I have to admit I never conceived of it in such an awful, high-school-popularity way. I use it as a mini-RSS feed to follow people and technologies I find interesting. Honest Questi
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by whazzmaster 15y ago
I would support his position if only because, in this day and age, should a Linux power user have to do hours and hours of research to avoid purchasing the 'wrong' hardware? To me, his opinion boils down to: bad support for cutting edge (o