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by carmen 14y ago
with a trivial script to setup bindmounts and such, you can easily run a full linux distro on android's kernel, concurrent with the main Android OS. Debian Kit for Android is just one example. gcc, emacs, ghc, whatever you need is an apt-ge
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by carmen 14y ago
emotional responses by weird aspies is not particularly surprising to me
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by carmen 14y ago
a blank page even after enabling javascript on every host - google, googleapis, blogger, blogblog, streak - suspect cookies are required on some of the hosts too
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by carmen 14y ago
NBC aired a race from Newport a month ago, and a similar round of articles circulated. does anybody remember all the 3D racecourses and SGI logos everywhere in 1992 america's cup? or all the wild Quokka webcoverage of the 95-98 stuff?
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by carmen 14y ago
up until OSX DP1 the x86 builds were regularly shipped to ADC members with a familiar Mac UI. it seemed like "Classic" aka OS7/8/9 binaries running with minimal emulation was the main reason x86 builds temporarily disappeared from the publi
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by carmen 14y ago
i had that happen in SF, sent an email, got a phone call about 7 mins later, they said they were downtown, i said i was at Van Ness, 10 mins later i found their subletted unlabeled space. we chatted a bit, then they said "hey a RedHat upgra
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by carmen 14y ago
for now.. Taibbi wrote about a new law that exempts reporting for 5 years
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by carmen 14y ago
aliexpress,taobao,ebay,amazon-stores,paypal button,bitcoin,square in a busy location. lots of competition on the ad-hoc sale tip. tightly coupling this with a particular kind of item is not my cup of tea either
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by carmen 14y ago
stop-script dialogs on GMaps + Twitter also (2x2ghz Atom, 850MHz ARM, webkit/firefox). its easier to ctrl-W than bother manually rewriting www to m on twitter and hoping it still works (with hashbang craziness often not). ive just given up
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by carmen 15y ago
mozplugger has long played every media format ever by hooking into system ffmpeg/mplayer tooling, on firefox/iceweasel. likewise most minimalist webkit wrapers (midori, surf) just seem to use gstreamer/ffmpeg too, which has clean-roomed fre
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by carmen 15y ago
ive had mechanical issues with every headphone ever. V6 has a flimsy folding hinge mechanism with tiny plastic tabs that break off, Beyer 770's cable has split in half and frayed open several times, and earbuds 3.5mm connectors with crap st
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by carmen 15y ago
it doesnt matter where, once i tell people i wont sign NDAs or work on closed-source code, theyre no longer interested. i'm sticking with boston though, at least it has seasons
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by carmen 15y ago
ive been unable to get Craigslist's phone-token thing to call my VOIP DID without throwig errors. title there and here is misleading, i need a username/pasword to login to both VOIP and EMail accounts to fiddle with all of CL's post-approva
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by carmen 15y ago
i didnt want to write new code each time my data-model changed: migrations, model code, new controllers/views. this meant a Resource class, a uniform controller request/response cycle following web-arch/linked-data standards. at this point,
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by carmen 15y ago
this is in the parser files in puma: * Copyright (c) 2005 Zed A. Shaw puma's README wording make it seem like the Ragel parser is some new thing unique to Puma, and doesnt mention Zed. no wonder he hatest rubyists also, thin has had a --th
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by carmen 15y ago
when i moved to SF i walked around the TL and rang building managers of nicer buildings and asked to see what was available. in Boston the most up-to-date info was not online but in a steno book of a guy in a subbasement in the Fenway that
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by carmen 15y ago
Vaio X has a standard DC barrel pot, ive powered it on anything from junk-heap printer wall-warts to 20-cent car-adaptors to lab bench-supplies without hassles. other things it has over the air are half the weight owing to carbon fiber vs a
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by carmen 15y ago
sure, SSH to your iOS device and add/edit a .plist entry in your editor of choice
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by carmen 15y ago
can't' see it either - in Chrome or Firefox. i think it is a <noscript> and CSS interplay of some sort. if i switch to a really old browser with neither scripting or CSS like Lynx i can read the content
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by carmen 15y ago
why should each city have the same skillset and specializations? that sounds pretty boring. is SF leading the way in bio and health-care innovations? what about open-source data-y stuff like Cornell's DuraSpace, MIT's SIMILE, Encyclopedia o
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by carmen 15y ago
he could throw a maximized webkit and editor in ~/.xinitrc but he wouldnt have anything to complain about
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by carmen 15y ago
a structure of a thread is informative in itself http://joey.kitenet.net/blog/entry/thread_patterns/ or a somewhat modernized take http://blog.whats-your.name/post/2011/06/02/pas-de-titre
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by carmen 15y ago
because it's closed source "The reason GitHub isn't open source is the same reason we started GitHub" - Chris Wanstrath.
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by carmen 15y ago
SONY is fantastic. a Vaio X and Vim, Chromium and Xmonad is a perfect dev box. their shortwave recievers are a cut above the competition in selectivity and build quality. im still using some video monitor of theirs from the late 70s to catc
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by carmen 15y ago
CSS is actually a complicated thing. have you read PBrowser's papers on it and checked out their formalized subset BSS?
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by carmen 15y ago
why should indexer/searcher be coupled to email files in particular, instead of dispatching on MIME types? why should the datamodel be something ad-hoc instead of RDF? http://blog.whats-your.name/post/2011/02/14/sifting-thru-you...
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by carmen 15y ago
HP should take on android head-on by uploading WebOS to GitHub and promoting it to handset manufacturers. HP has a sizable chunk of the PC space without an OS of their own
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by carmen 15y ago
in boston, an annual influx of so many students, an amount staying due to bio and healthcare jobs or with no reason to leave their circle of friends from college and move back to Peoria, coupled with this group renting rather than buying at
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by carmen 15y ago
NFS and Git are exactly why i don't need dropbox. agglomerating large chunks of free space on all devices into universally-accessible paths without wasting any bytes on duplication or synch daemons, and a proper VCS for stuff that i want su
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by carmen 15y ago
actually one time du -s was surprising - i'd committed a 700 mb iso without realizing it since no unusual delays occured. the 'append only' nature of git makes it unsuitable for this application imo. a sliding expiration/history window size

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