eupharis

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by eupharis 4y ago
Interesting idea. I've been using Django for 10+ years and like all the choices you've made here. Not 100% what I personally prefer but close. And the decisions I differ on I'm curious about: "Hmm, should I be doing it t
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by eupharis 11y ago
Free Geek is a great organization. Like this guy, I knew very little about Linux or programming before volunteering there. Fast forward five years and I spend all day monkeying with Linux boxes at work. Free Geek was a perfect introduction
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by eupharis 13y ago
The cost of developing the Windows 3.1 OS in 1992 was $250 million.* Clearly, software development was expensive and difficult. In 1992 could an open-source OS on a shoestring budget contribute something of real value? *adjusted for inflati
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by eupharis 13y ago
Presumably this trade-in will be done by people who are thinking, "I'm not crazy about my iPad. I want to try something new." If Microsoft convinces these customers to try Surface versus something else (aka Android), it'
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by eupharis 13y ago
This is a good point, and the most positive interpretation of Zynga's actions. But I doubt one more competitor in the gaming industry would have a substantial impact on Zynga's long-term health. There are so many competitors alrea
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by eupharis 13y ago
Or at least something . If I were a shareholder, I'd be irate. Maybe Zynga has some grand master plan for Draw Something and whatnot. But as of now, this looks like executives taking a massive, unnecessary loss in order to cover their
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by eupharis 13y ago
Something I didn't know: "A very small part of your energy comes from breaking down your muscles — but you can avoid this by doing some resistance training, otherwise known as pumping iron. The majority of your energy comes from b
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by eupharis 13y ago
Looks like Snow isn't being extradited. Xinhua is the official press agency of the state. Editorial or no, this didn't get posted without the state's nod. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency
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by eupharis 13y ago
This is the perfect distillation of everything that is right and hopeful and beautiful about the internet.
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by eupharis 13y ago
Ah yes, I should've included the next sentence: > Wyden repeatedly asked the NSA to estimate the number of Americans whose communications had been incidentally collected, and the agency’s director, Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, insis
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by eupharis 13y ago
Washington Post did revise the story. And yes, they should have issued an explicit correction. But this is still a major story: > Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who had classified knowledge of the program as members o
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by eupharis 13y ago
/agreed This is one of the most breathtaking biased pieces I've seen in a very long time. This guy really, really doesn't like Google. Or maybe just Larry Page. Edit: By the same writer: In the same vein as this "story", a bizarre caption i
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by eupharis 13y ago
/nod
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by eupharis 13y ago
Using something said in the past to embarrass in the present is one thing. It is often justified, like with "mission accomplished" or the "the fundamentals of the economy are strong." Prosecuting for something that was legally done in the p
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by eupharis 13y ago
Well, in the specific case of using native selectors (document.querySelector), I'm sold. It's supported very widely: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api-testsuite/level1... Wish I'd known about this before. I've been using $('#mai
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by eupharis 13y ago
Nice! Just installed. I love the feature list. The fact that is was easier to install and has a nicer UI than Dropbox was a nice surprise :) Since AeroFS never stores the files, the upload speed must be determined by the upload speed of eve
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by eupharis 13y ago
This is different than the NEO X5 or its peers because it's bigger, slower [1], costs the same amount, and you won't actually receive it for six months or a year. It also has a custom piece of software. Which is really what is being sold he
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by eupharis 14y ago
The state of Oregon at least has programs specifically targeted at you. Basically, you get unemployment money while devoting yourself full-time to building your business. You don't have to apply for outside jobs. It's the "Self Employment A
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by eupharis 14y ago
Sargun, your point was, I think, why is it that we treat software modding differently than we treat hardware modding? The chorus of "The hardware is hardware, and we can do whatever we want!" misses the point. It is a good point sargun. One
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by eupharis 14y ago
Learning how to predict what stuff will and will not reduce risk is a learned skill. One should not be too hard on oneself while learning it. (The laptop hinges sitting in a box under my bed right now--perfectly good laptop hinges!--are pro
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by eupharis 14y ago
As one American once put it, "The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave." In the United States, over 200 years in, it is still very much so the American experiment . Its success dependent on all sorts of radical notions about h
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by eupharis 14y ago
The term has been appropriated. John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/iphone_os_too_closed Neven Mrgan: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/653708588/the-walled-garden
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by eupharis 14y ago
Why do we continue to accept the Apple euphemism that their ecosystem is a "walled garden"? There are much more accurate terms to describe the Apple ecosystem. When governments do this, prevent their users from looking at fine art that happ
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by eupharis 14y ago
Now I am as critical as anyone of frivolous public spending, but how in god's name did you get to $50,000 for this? At worst, this took one Friday afternoon of this government employee's time. Just how well do you think this guy is paid? On
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by eupharis 14y ago
Or hell: pay a team of 6,170 developers $100,000 for a year to make all their apps run beautifully under WINE and/or port the source to Linux outright.
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by eupharis 14y ago
This does not sound like Buffett's style at all, from what I have read in his collective essays: http://www.amazon.com/The-Essays-Warren-Buffett-Corporate/dp... He is incredibly passionate about capitalism. Especially smart capitalists re
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by eupharis 14y ago
Shareholders will be very happy if Intel remains dominant at the high-margin, high-performance end. And competitive everywhere else. AMD has been competing with Intel on price for the past two decades. I know which of these two stocks I'd h
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by eupharis 14y ago
Yes this is trading an anecdote. It is also sharing his own experience and perspective. And his hopes and dreams. Which differ from the journalist's take. The American Dream not so much fading as changing. Reciting the same grim statistics
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by eupharis 14y ago
Good. Now we are getting somewhere. I too would love it if OP (or I guess in this case OC) elaborated on these points. EDIT: Ok I see we are both editing the temper down some ;) I will refrain from my other comments, which were rather unhel

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