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by zyxley 11y ago
> places that offer free wifi With the expectation that you'll be buying things (and the implied threat of making you leave if you don't). Not suitable for job seeking. > most public libraries in the US offer computer access
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'd consider internet access a vital service at this point, given the sheer number of entry-level jobs that now only take applications online.
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> How would you keep people from self-segregating --- especially when parents want to live in the best school-district neighborhoods they can afford. An early step would probably be some sort of federal scheme for more evenly funding sch
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by zyxley 11y ago
The malware version was signed with the Transmission developer key.
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> I think we're going to start seeing "jailbroken" Teslas soon after they start falling out of their warranty period. This seems particularly likely for the Model 3, given the likely "everyday supernerd" demograp
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by zyxley 11y ago
On the topic about scaling, I'd give serious thought to a "Spotify model" for it if there was such a service that included enough sites.
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by zyxley 11y ago
This is crazy - which is to say, if the quotes are reasonably accurate, I would literally doubt the sanity of the person who said them. "I can teach a three-year-old immigration law sufficient to represent themselves in court" is
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by zyxley 11y ago
> 1. I know the game won't dump save and log files in my Documents folder (that place is mine, GTFO). It's infuriating how many games do this, on both Windows and OS X.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Many new FOSS projects are now using Slack instead of IRC, with a variety of methods for auto-inviting members of the public instead of Slack's intent of manually managing users. Another popular one now is Discord, which is Slack-like
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> If the price was front and center from the get-go, I wouldn't have ever known of numerous users who showed interest. On the other hand, hiding the price also drives away people (like me) who feel tricked by that practice.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> According to the Medya A.Ş., .istanbul will improve awareness on İstanbul's historical heritage and help economic growth by allowing unlimited and open registration of the names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by zyxley 11y ago
http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/ist/ http://www.wordfind.com/ends-with/ist/
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Nowhere in any documentation does it say that .appimages are executable out of the box. Sure, but literally the first thing on the landing page is... > As a user, I want to download an application from the original author, and run i
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by zyxley 11y ago
I have no internal monologue unless I'm internally assembling bits of language for speech or writing (for example, putting my thoughts together for this sentence). If I get into a deep "flow state" while writing, or I'm
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by zyxley 11y ago
I look at this, and then I look at people wondering why non-coders don't use version control, and I laugh and laugh.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Presumably because it would cost more to pay the delivery drivers for small orders than they would gain in profit from the orders.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Signing a modified copy of iOS that will only ever load on a specific phone is technically feasible, but isn't practical as precedent. This is because said signing generally takes a whole complicated physical process of assembling phys
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by zyxley 11y ago
I still haven't really been able to make the jump from Civ 5 to Civ:BE. BE's civ and tech choices somehow manage to feel painfully samey and confusingly unorganized all at the same time.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Have you tried it with Wine? Wineskin ( http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/ ) lets you package Wine installs as self-contained Mac apps, which takes most of the hassle out of it.
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by zyxley 11y ago
TeX, at least from MacTeX, now installs in /Library/TeX.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'm reminded of the language Nim, where x.f(y) and f(x,y) are both the same thing with different syntactic sugar.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I think you're missing the forest for the trees for here. It may technically be a pull, but the thought process involved is most typically "I want to send my code over to _____".
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by zyxley 11y ago
> It's only missing critical mass As somebody who loves Gitlab... no, what it's missing is Github's reputation of lasting uptime reliability. If they get it to the point where people trust it to always be up to the same ex
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by zyxley 11y ago
> BROOKE: OMG!! 30?? Only NARPs have less than 150. > ME: What the hell is a NARP? > BROOKE: Nonathletic Regular Person. NARP. Wow, I feel old.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Patreon also has an $X/update model (which you can cap at $Y/mo as a patron if you want), which fits rather nicely for niche products as long as the creator can avoid the perception of padding out updates.
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> He hit on strawberry milk mixed with green food colouring and essential oil. Its bright colour and overwhelming lavender flavour creates a bewildering mix of sensory cues, like drinking a violent, bittersweet battle between green and p
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by zyxley 11y ago
So... what is Parse? Neither the blog post nor the repo give any idea what you'd actually use the parse-server package for.
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by zyxley 11y ago
"To use our version of Twitter, first set up your own server" is even worse user experience than picking between seven preexisting servers.
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This seems like the kind of thing that might draw more interest via Patreon than purchases, especially with the promise of semi-regular updates to keep some buzz going around about "the Excel XCOM guy".
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by zyxley 11y ago
It's worth keeping in mind that the particular hormones being referenced delay puberty, rather than causing a permanent transition. The whole reason they're the accepted course of treatment is that, if the child changes their mind

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