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by younata 16y ago
I think most of the reason why there is no facebook-style backlash is because the majority of users on twitter (those who actually post stuff) use separate clients to do so. I personally use twirssi [1] as my twitter client. YMMV. [1] http
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by younata 16y ago
Funny. I'm 18, college freshman, and have been facebookless since May. I got my account when I was 15, so I had two and a half years of addiction to fight. My experience without a facebook? I get the exact same experience as everybody else
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We're trying to create a hackerspace at my uni.(younata.posterous.com)
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by younata 16y ago
Having just left the US High School system, the problem is that we aren't teaching anything in high school. As PG said in his essay "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" [1], American high schools are popularity contests. The focus is not on actually l
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by younata 16y ago
Freshman undergrad. So, I'm young. I've been around computers my entire life. When my father was in college (in the 70s, he's an old fart), he majored in EE/CS (or rather, EE / Math with focus in CS, because CS didn't exist as a separate ma
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by younata 16y ago
I have a stack of print-outs of xkcd's tech support cheat-sheet [1], that I give to the person. On some occasions, they actually have an interesting problem, but, the other 99% of the time, I just save my time by handing them the cheat shee
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by younata 16y ago
In my experience, windows doesn't apply dvorak universally when I try to set it to. It's much more productive on my end to just bring my own computer.
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by younata 16y ago
suggest that the link is changed from the techcrunch article, to the one techcrunch leads to, that is: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/09/11/dont-waste-money-on-a-n... edit: on the actual content of the article: I've found in my experience
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by younata 16y ago
the idea is, you can't effectively stop what other people post about you. Sure, you can elect to not post anything showing your location, but other people can also elect to post stuff showing their location, as well as information indicatin
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by younata 16y ago
uh. no. Because, if I so wished, I could post on FB places that I'm "at the movies with <whoever>".
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by younata 16y ago
"Adobe will continue to work to bring full web browsing with Flash Player 10.1" So, according to Adobe, by browsing with flash disabled, I'm missing out on the full web experience? Funny, I don't notice anything missing except a crapton of
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by younata 16y ago
Sweet. We're covering Hello World in my software dev. class on wednesday.
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by younata 16y ago
Ah, right.
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by younata 16y ago
My suggestions: figure out a way to integrate it with xcode. The lack of git support is the main reason I still use vim for all of my non-cocoa development. If this is already done, then congrats, I'm one of your early adopters. Edit: reali
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by younata 16y ago
This is one of several reasons why I got rid of my facebook account. These type of things need to be opt-in, not opt-out.
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by younata 16y ago
well, the nexus one is still being sold online as a dev phone. You can get it for about $500 or so. If you want a dev phone, but cheaper, the dev phones 1 and 2 are still available online.
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by younata 16y ago
unix. but, that won't happen, so I'll stick with my bsd. edit: or linux, or hp-ux, whatever floats your boat.
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by younata 16y ago
the easiest way to not be dismissed is to be interesting. If your ideas are interesting ideas, I'll work for you for little or nothing, but if they're dull, then it's not worth the time or effort.
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by younata 16y ago
I love how it's talking about china being #2, with a $1.33 trillion gdp, then it drops US's $14 trillion gdp, as if it's an easy to achieve milestone. I have no fears that china will outpace the US, for a number of reasons.
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by younata 16y ago
the entire point of a credit score is to measure how likely the lender is to get a lot of money from you. It makes sense that deadbeats have low credit score, however, it also makes sense to lower the rating of someone who pays it off fast,
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by younata 16y ago
College freshman myself. As it was explained to me (in the format of getting you to join clubs), you have 15 hours of class a week, plus 30 hours of studying for said classes, 20 hours for a job, 8 * 7 hours for sleeping, 10 hours for eatin
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by younata 16y ago
"old sim cards"? There are people who go through those things enough to make even a stick figure? I've been using the same sim card for the past 4 or 5 years.
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by younata 16y ago
well, if you decide to drop the money to get a pilot's license, you can do a whole lot more, as you can now operate it under a different class of aircraft.
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by younata 16y ago
because it's an interesting question. It explains why WEP is bad to use, as opposed to the handwave of "it's easy to crack." Therefore, while it could have been better worded (perhaps "why exactly is wep bad to use?"), the question is, in m
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by younata 16y ago
I started using irc in january of 2008, about the time I started using linux. I'm on foonetic and subluminal (a new network, about 6 or 7 months old). foonetic is host to the various #xkcd-<whatever> channels, as well as the main #x
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by younata 16y ago
When I read the headline, my first thought was about the show.
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by younata 16y ago
a hacker.
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by younata 16y ago
Every company "believe['s] they know what is best for you and me." The entire point of a company is to create stuff that's best for the customer.
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by younata 16y ago
They aren't programmers, though.
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by younata 16y ago
or... you get the sdk and you re-implement it for the mac.

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