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by zafiro17 9y ago
There are a lot of people who call this "due diligence." Receiving permission to visit a country is a privilege, not a right. This trend of wanting better data before making decisions is the natural result of there being better
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by zafiro17 9y ago
These stories of failure, but skew the reader simply because there are very few companies that can bid on and attempt to manage projects of this scale. This article could easily be written to focus on the failure of sweeping, enormous, poo
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I find myself using JOE (Joe's Own Editor) more and more. I changed to it as a mental exercise to force myself to use it, but the movement keys make a lot of sense to me (I use Jstar mode, so it's the W-S-D-X cross) and it's
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by zafiro17 9y ago
you have to sign up for an account! :)
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I'm so happy to see a post about Usenet. In some ways, Usenet is doing just fine, thank you very much. It's been forgotten by most of the world, and even as a method of sharing illegal binaries it was surpassed by bittorrent yea
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by zafiro17 9y ago
You've gotten a lot of recommendations for K9, which I also like. But I went with Aquamail on Android, which has worked really well for me and I'm very happy with it. Actively developed and maintained, and very slick interface.
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I've spent a lot of time looking into this and am as frustrated as you. I'm building out a small consulting company based on Linux, and the basis of it all - email, contacts, calendars - is a fiasco. I went to Evolution as a cli
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by zafiro17 9y ago
Ideally, it's best practice to create two things: the powerpoint presentation that allows you to exhibit diagrams and charts that illustrate what you are saying, but then secondly a handout that puts in text what you've said, and
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by zafiro17 9y ago
It wasn't too many years ago that the best minds of our generation were engaged in trying to reverse engineer a popular text document format (that remains ubiquitous to this day). In each case, it's a shame we haven't built
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I disagree: if it's a site I can't access, that's my problem. I am in favor of more news services instituting paywalls. The problem is related to the failure of advert-driven news sites to survive, and the ongoing advert-blo
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I love the concept. But functionally - and especially because hyperlinks aren't clickable - you've recreated gopherspace. (Congrats - I love gopherspace). Driving the world toward a simpler web is a good thing, no matter how you
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by zafiro17 9y ago
Good article, but the title is misleading. The article itself shows that new leadership made poor decisions, "had an addiction to real estate in prime locations, and top tier consultants." Those are poor choices in a dwindling m
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I just reposted this article to comp.misc, where we've been keeping up a parallel discussion for years. Usenet doesn't have the sheer numbers it used to, but anyone still there is there because we love it. Usenet's flaws re
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I'm late to this conversation: happy to see such a robust discussion on mutt, but sad to see so many hardcore techies preferring gmail instead. To each their own, of course, but mutt is one of the things I love most about *nix platfor
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I'm the author of the second book. Happy to offer Hacker News readers the epub/mobi/pdf at no charge. zafiro17@gmail.com
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by zafiro17 10y ago
This is parenthetical to the discussion, but reading this article made me deeply nostalgic for 15 years ago, when we still had Freshmeat and Slashdot was decent and Mozilla was fresh and the web was largely full of information, not javascri
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by zafiro17 10y ago
I came here expecting someone to recommend 'make' - and some others to link to interesting make resources. I'm kind of surprised no one has. Make is a utility that's seemed super useful to put into use for non-programmi
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by zafiro17 10y ago
I agree the fact that an explicit user interaction is required doesn't necessarily constitute a safeguard. How many times has my Android phone updated an app, which inexplicably now requires additional permissions. Formerly it only n
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by zafiro17 10y ago
Yes, I've written for 27+ years now [1]. It's a significant source of my personal serenity/peace of mind. Advice: find pens and paper that you like. Write if you feel like writing, don't write if you don't. Be h
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by zafiro17 10y ago
I look at these screenshots and think to myself, this desktop is feature complete, or awfully close to it. What have we been doing since then? That's a little facetious of course, and we've made desktops more usable in countless
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by zafiro17 10y ago
Respectfully, I disagree, but everyone has their favorite tools and procedures. I wrote a 350 page book [1] of mostly text with 500 references, initial quotations at the front of chapters, and illustrations. LaTeX was exactly what I neede
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by zafiro17 10y ago
Not sure how you'd visit gopher sites in Windows. Add the Overbite Firefox plugin available at Floodgap, I suppose. On Unix/Linux "forg" is really nice on the GUI side, and lynx is your best bet at the CLI. Although y
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by zafiro17 10y ago
The article says there are just over a hundred gopher sites in existence. Yay - mine is one of them! I've got 200 or so articles on my website and one day I decided to make them all available as well over gopher. It's easy to d
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by zafiro17 10y ago
There's benefit that comes with the family account. I use one with wife and kids. You get shared address books and easy read/write access to others' folders you can configure as needed. So I have a folder in my IMAP tree t
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by zafiro17 10y ago
I'm not a programmer, I'm a manager that spends far too many hours a day glued to Microsoft Outlook (kill me, please). I found the macros useful simply to repeat often typed phrases or keystrokes. So for example, I bound F3 to t
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by zafiro17 10y ago
I bought the Advantage1 in 2008 and it's been one of my best keyboards ever since then. It's extremely comfortable. I wrote up a few paragraphs about my impressions here: http://therandymon.com/index.php?/ar
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by zafiro17 12y ago
Big fan of Fastmail and have been a customer for ten years now, with no complaints. An example of the cool team behind it, too: I once hacked up a Perl script that would access my Fastmail addressbook over their LDAP interface. It was gi
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by zafiro17 12y ago
Not trying to be snarky or unhelpful here, but it is actually possible to live off of dial up, if you change your habits and expectations. And no, I'm not /that/ old. I wrote this about my experience living on dial-up while
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by zafiro17 12y ago
Cool! This is my cup of tea. However, the "piping articles from HN to Usenet" thing is already sort of happening, albeit manually. Have a look at http://compmisc.wikia.com/wiki/Piping_articles_to_Usenet_how
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by zafiro17 12y ago
I agree with you. I just yesterday wrote this over at SoylentNews.org (the community spin-off of Slashdot that split when Slashdot imposed its new interface on us): http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=4458&cid=10823

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