cmars232

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by cmars232 15y ago
I've simply come to accept that Unity is not for 'us', in the way that ipad is not for 'us'. I install xubuntu instead.
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by cmars232 15y ago
My worst on-call pager duty IT lackey job still beat the hell out of convenience store clerk and buffet-steakhouse dishwasher.
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by cmars232 15y ago
As a BBQ loving Texan, I find this fascinating. On the one hand, it does seem kind of creepy, on the other, this could be some cool resilient community-building technology to create a real alternative to the current food economy. I don't th
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by cmars232 15y ago
False dichotomy. You can't "pay $20/mo to stream as many as you want". The available selection from services like Netflix and Hulu is extremely limited. Many in the "15-25 set" pay about $20/mo to download through an offshore VPS, private t
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by cmars232 16y ago
A nice kick in the ass to remember my C & C++ roots. I've been too hung up on "perfect" languages and "beautiful" frameworks. Thanks for this.
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by cmars232 16y ago
I would not have a hard time saying no to this at all. There are limits which you can assert without being rude or coming across as paranoid. What's next, access to all your private emails? Some private content like facebook could add to th
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by cmars232 16y ago
Down.
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by cmars232 16y ago
Makes me want to restart my 5th attempt at a Clojure project.
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by cmars232 16y ago
As one who has dabbled with Haskell a bit here and there, "programmable semicolon" is the most apt metaphor I've seen. Every time I have to break up a chain of method calls in Java with several lines of ternary null checks, I think about th
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by cmars232 16y ago
I want that font.
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by cmars232 16y ago
Nice chart. How did you make it?
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by cmars232 16y ago
There is no hacker news problem if you realize that all sites up to this point in internet history are either heavily curated for quality and limited in scope or self-moderated with a one-dimensional, imperfect karma game, and thus chaotic
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by cmars232 16y ago
Never listened to The Streets before. Downloading to see what they sound like.
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by cmars232 16y ago
Come on, some credit is due.. XMPP protocol is in production all over the place.
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by cmars232 16y ago
Yeah, but I would download a loaf of organic bread if I could. And I'd copy that loaf whenever I needed more for a sandwich, and I'd upload that bread pattern to all my friends, and give away free slices to any hungry people I came across.
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by cmars232 16y ago
That's funny, I consider DDG's lack of "Instant" a feature.
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by cmars232 16y ago
Reject here. Pretty discouraging at the time, but in retrospect, best thing that could have happened to me. A year later, I landed a great job at a local startup, and the Google branch closed up shop. All in all, it was decent self-learning
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by cmars232 16y ago
I found a better solution: set your browser to forget all its cookies when you shut it down. Use different providers for webmail, feed reading and search. No opt-out cookie required!
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by cmars232 16y ago
I use them, but I don't trust them. They've got my email and feedreader (for now), but not much of my search. I hate instant search, and I don't want to authenticate myself to them just to turn it off. My browser is forgetful of cookies, an
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by cmars232 16y ago
More importantly, why? If governments are doing their jobs and serving whom they are meant to serve, people as a collective group are well cared for and have no reason to do such harm to themselves. The few who would threaten it are the odd
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by cmars232 16y ago
Why should a nation involve physical borders anymore? Perhaps there is no territory that captures how some of us are feeling? What then?
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by cmars232 16y ago
Back in '95 when my wife and I were dating, we didn't have a lol. Most of the campus was vt220s hooked up to a VAX, local chat was done with a DCL command called 'phone'. To simulate laughter we would mash random characters from the home ke
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by cmars232 16y ago
Or, just factor in performance bonus programs, unvested stock, other benefits, merit raise schedules, etc. Estimate optimistically.
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by cmars232 16y ago
This is impacting a friend of mine. Suddenly disabled with no explanation. I told her to submit a login/password bug, if only to get it read by a human over there. And to decline sending a photo ID if asked.
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by cmars232 16y ago
I don't think it's paranoia at all. It doesn't even take bad motives, just a lapse of judgment or faulty assumption to ruin privacy -- like Google Buzz integration into GMail. I think the solution requires more than feel-good policy stateme
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by cmars232 16y ago
Maybe I'm going to the wrong theaters. Maybe I'm just that much closer to grumpy old man. Lately my theater experience is crying babies (not just at kid's movies), mouth-breathers incessantly pawing at the bottom of their feed buckets, fidd
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by cmars232 16y ago
1st rule
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by cmars232 16y ago
Fascinated with the practicality of this. How do you keep such a balloon at a stable altitude and position? And what about power generation? Or radiation hardening?
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by cmars232 16y ago
Interesting. In my case they seem to latch on to dead accounts or accounts with fake info. If you're worried about services like Rapleaf, mix fake info into your public profiles. Most sites have no business knowing your birthdate, city of r
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by cmars232 16y ago
Ebooks may be more useful, but they are also much more ephemeral and fragile than a physical copy. They are subject to accidental deletion, file corruption and future obsolescence due to closed formats, DRM and technological innovation over

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