TFrancis

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by TFrancis 6y ago
Why can't you remember any voting during the primaries?
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by TFrancis 17y ago
I never buy meat at Wal-mart. They don't have any local butchers. The story I heard was that one store's meat cutters were attempting to unionize so Wal-mart fired all of it's meat cutters nationwide and consolidated it's meat cutting and
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GWT 2.0(code.google.com)
52 points by TFrancis 17y ago|33 comments
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by TFrancis 17y ago
It has other uses like verifying file integrity.
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Right. It's almost as if F5 forgot that the infrastructure isn't a means to it's own end for application owners.
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by TFrancis 17y ago
"The fake bogeyman lets people avoid talking about the real issues." Oh good. I'm glad we can avoid addressing who we actually are and can instead continue pretending the world works the way we like. Don't get me wrong. I think the scien
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Make sure to read up on Robert Anton Wilson, the guy who defined it as such. His books are especially enlightening. Prometheus Rising and Quantum Psychology are my favorites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Wow, AdBlock makes Google better. I didn't know this was going on.
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Apple rejects iSinglePayer iPhone App(lambdajive.wordpress.com)
24 points by TFrancis 17y ago|35 comments
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by TFrancis 17y ago
What if higher education were free?
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Practicing yoga is the only requirement to be a yogi. Hacking is much the same way. We all share similar goals but our practices are always intensely personal. If you're practiced enough you know that what you consider important and what
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Whoa whoa... The solvency issues of Social Security are primarily due to the Government of my parents "borrowing" money from the system that they paid into it. There are of course the exacerbating burden of of longer life expectancy that t
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by TFrancis 17y ago
How about using GUID as another namespace on top of registry's key value?
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Start with Wubi http://wubi-installer.org/
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by TFrancis 17y ago
I think that the benefits of price (free) and availability (theater comes to you) are only likely to increase movies watched via YouTube. Once a movie does have 165M page views in an opening weekend (and one will), which will be a better m
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by TFrancis 17y ago
I like Bill Hicks take on Marijuana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSH6ofHbeUw
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Hmm...I think eating five or six times a day is generally considered good advice because it assumes you've selected food that are whole grain/have a low glycemic index so that your insulin levels remain level throughout the day.
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by TFrancis 17y ago
I haven't had a chance to use this library but I have used boto: http://code.google.com/p/boto/wiki/SimpleDbIntro I had some unicode issues the last time I used it and since replaced SimpleDB with something else.
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by TFrancis 17y ago
I'll post the same comment here as I did at the article: Excusing reporting sources (newspaper or otherwise) from taxes isn't the right thing to do. Non-profit organizations are already gearing up and filling the void that for-profit organi
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Agreed. Additionally, I found meditation was useful for increasing my self-control. Many types of yoga are focused on meditative practices but not all. I think these are just mind tricks (hacks?) and this jives with the research the arti
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Jef doesn't think you should have to save. It should be automatic. I've been thinking about a system that version controlled a file after every keystroke. It would be a little heavy but, consider that you could undo anything forever.
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Everyone should read Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface. He expresses many of his interface ideas used with the Canon Cat and Archy in the book. I now consider thoughtful interface design a moral decision. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
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by TFrancis 17y ago
I have found few things more pleasurable than learning only for my personal enlightenment
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Is this the first swipe at Wolfram Alpha?
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by TFrancis 17y ago
Does it include the Trac hosting as well? I couldn't tell with certainty.
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by TFrancis 17y ago
If it has/can use a pressure sensitive pen, it's the end of the road for Wacom tablets.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
If your architecture is designed such that changing the web layer is hell, you probably should reconsider the architecture. Your other points stand. The channels of communication around nginx are not as clear and robust as Apache.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I think you and I are in agreement. The feedback mechanism of the republic is broken because there is no punishment. You are correct when you say, "most people over the age of 30 know better." However, I believe that people under 30 unde
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I don't think that's fair. Exposing government data in general will allow people (citizens, consumers, whatever...) to see _systemic_ corruption. Often when we hear of corruption, it is represented as a single point (politician X, company
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I began taking a daily multivitamin and fish oil (sometimes flax seed) because I felt that my diet wasn't healthy during my college years. Placebo effect or not, I felt better and in general my life improved. Even if it isn't a direct eff

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