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by zedpm 13y ago
Given his sensationalist writing style, I'm not at all surprised to see that it was a Gawker piece he questioned Travis Collins about. Gawker is Yellow Journalism[1] and as such deserves no response. The larger issue makes for interest
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by zedpm 13y ago
That's copied straight from the Specs section[1]. [1] http://www.brck.com/specifications/
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by zedpm 13y ago
Yep, the Diskstations are super slick appliances. I'm also planning on using my Diskstation's offsite backup support, though I'm not sure if I'll be uploading to S3, Glacier, or Rsync.net. In the mean time I've plug
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by zedpm 13y ago
It is for me; if you want to wade in that particular cesspool, that's your choice. I go to Youtube to watch a video and leave.
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by zedpm 13y ago
Check out the beta for "lightweight" Youtube, dubbed Feather[1]. It's a streamlined layout without comments or other junk. I've found that the user experience with Youtube has been steadily declining for several years; t
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by zedpm 13y ago
Can anyone comment on the motivation for Dropbox to acquire a company that apparently helped people sell things? Is Dropbox interested in working in that domain or are they just picking up devs for their own product?
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by zedpm 13y ago
So you think that all the younger, healthy people who either didn't have insurance or had it but paid extremely low premiums aren't going to largely offset the added costs? It's a complex issue and it's hard to find the
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by zedpm 13y ago
Undoubtedly it's a hard problem, and as I noted, some people come out worse under ACA; some come out better. It's unfortunate that people who truly don't want insurance are obligated to purchase it, but it's not clear ho
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by zedpm 13y ago
Apparently addressing a quasi-free-rider issue with health insurance (those folks who pay almost nothing but still get coverage) is a bad thing. I mean, yeah, it's a bad thing for them, in the same way that it's bad whenever someo
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by zedpm 13y ago
Eventually you'll be able to their hosted service, but for now when you register you just get access to a source download for self-hosting and access to their forums.
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by zedpm 13y ago
>...change tact Ugh. Change tack[1], which is a sailing reference[2]. As for the actual content, I feel this analysis lacks nuance. Mobile is booming, of course, but the PC is not dead, nor will it be dead five years from now. There are
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by zedpm 13y ago
Way too much missing information in that article, unless you have a very clear agenda and don't want anything to get in the way. Undoubtedly most insurance premiums are going up this year, just like they've been going up since lon
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by zedpm 13y ago
The formatting of that page is truly wretched. It's nearly unreadable in that format.
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by zedpm 13y ago
I just got an email from them with a link to this; what's interesting is the garbled name in the To: field of the email. The mail was sent to ">, \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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by zedpm 13y ago
Seems like good advice, though a great many Americans are at a disadvantage because their employer doesn't offer a 401k. Even with no employer match, a 401k allows an individual to save much more money in a tax-advantaged account ($17,
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by zedpm 13y ago
In addition to the secular anti-vaccination folks like McCarthy, there is also significant evidence of religion-based anti-vaccination movements, most recently seen in the measles outbreak in Texas which was traced back to a megachurch[1].
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by zedpm 13y ago
Given that this is caused almost entirely by anti-vaccination hysteria, and that this in in turn caused mostly by a combination of ignorance and bizarre religious beliefs, it's hard to imagine an effective response. It's been said
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by zedpm 13y ago
Can you recommend some good ones, preferably ones that are available in the US? I've heard good things about North Shore's Sirène...
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Python's dir function is wrong(jedidjah.ch)
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by zedpm 13y ago
Well, the nature of routing is such that, for communication between two VPS in a given datacenter, the traffic wouldn't really "go over the internet", but it ought to still help to have the internal traffic separated from the
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by zedpm 13y ago
When people have multiple servers, often they need/want those servers to communicate. For example, I might have a web server and a separate database server. So anything on my web server that needs to make a database query would have to
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by zedpm 13y ago
Java/Tomcat is an unsavory prospect for many folks. The options for building the server side are numerous; Tomcat is a clunky, resource-hungry PITA that many folks, myself included, go out of their way to avoid. If the devs are Java gu
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by zedpm 13y ago
Eh, I'm just finishing a summer of porting our Windows product to Mac, and a fair bit of the code is shared between the two platforms. A decent portion of the code is C++, which took very little massaging to work on both platforms. The
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by zedpm 13y ago
Yep. My business recently ported (well, _I_ ported) our main product from Windows to OSX. After reading up a bit on the App Store and the Apple developer ecosystem, we decided to completely avoid all of it and distribute our software on our
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by zedpm 13y ago
I see one vote for Other without any comment explaining which other OS it is. I'd be interested to see what pops up: Android, ChromeOS and FirefoxOS are really Linux variants; I suppose iOS stands on its own. VMS is certainly in use bu
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by zedpm 13y ago
Is there any information or policy on third-party integration / API? There are other tools for legal writing and research that could benefit from integration with Casetext.
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by zedpm 13y ago
That link is something like blogspam, with a single sentence and a link that appears to be to an article on CNet but ends up dumping out on the front page. I think the correct link is http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-5759558
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by zedpm 13y ago
" If we create great work and send it out into the world using a delivery mechanism conducive to piracy, it’s no wonder we end up getting screwed." That's the most important point in this piece, IMHO. People who sell digital
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by zedpm 13y ago
From their Kickstarter: "With Plug, we invented a technology to transfer files instantly. No matter their size, no matter their number." I hate to see an interesting project make silly claims like that. Whatever the truth of the m
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by zedpm 13y ago
Could be WAFreenet ( http://www.wafreenet.org/ ).

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