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by fr0man 16y ago
This article could be titled '5 Reasons Why Every Person Should Get Married'. None of those benefits are specific to entrepreneurs. And marriage clearly isn't for every person, nor does every marriage offer all of those benefits. In fact
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by fr0man 16y ago
I tried both and have decided to go with the Kindle. My wife and I both thought the glitchy lag between page turns on the Nook was a deal breaker. It was far less noticeable on the Kindle, and we haven't even gotten our new gen Kindles y
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by fr0man 16y ago
The problem with this is reading a 400 page book on a tablet is a problem for those of use who experience eye strain. The refresh rate and the backlight really fatigue my eyes after more than a half hour or so. Also, the Kindle and Nook
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by fr0man 16y ago
Here are a couple of scientific articles from two of the more well respected science organizations in the world. There are a plethora more, though it's hard to wade through the opinion pieces, which are far more numerous. The general cons
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by fr0man 16y ago
You're right. I never noticed because I always use the mouse scroll wheel for that. My #1 biggest Bing image search gripe is middle click doesn't work in Chrome for opening in a new tab, yet right click->open in new tab does.
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by fr0man 16y ago
Not active for my Google yet, but looking at the article, it seems to be a set of changes they really had to make to keep up with Bing. Bing's UI for image searches is really hands down much better than Google's current way of doing it. I
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by fr0man 16y ago
Interesting list. It's clearly not trying to sensationalize, or the Brown Tree Snake would have been higher. The explanation of the methodology at the top is good. A little more detail for each of the entries would have been nice. I've n
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by fr0man 16y ago
Not quite. IE8 is making huge gains in market share, but almost entirely at the expense of IE6 and IE7. The overall IE marketshare is holding somewhat steady at 60%. I think what you're seeing is Windows users are perfectly happy to take a
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by fr0man 16y ago
I get a good deal of spam from any unfiltered accounts I post as name@domain.com. In fact the only Nigerian scams I ever received came from doing that. name[AT]domain.com is an easy way to prevent some of that for someone (e.g. a non-techn
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by fr0man 16y ago
You can be a youth member and be gay as long as you're willing to live as a second class citizen, i.e. not avow that you're homosexual or hold a youth leadership position. They don't specifically bar homosexuals: http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by fr0man 16y ago
I can't wait to see the Richard Stallman government files in 50 years. Would it be FBI or Homeland Security do you think?
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by fr0man 16y ago
One successful example of this he doesn't mention is games. Several large-ish MMO's basically operate on this principle (Adventure Quest, Dungeon Runners and Runes of Magic to name a few). It's basically the exact same idea he's talking a
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by fr0man 16y ago
U-Haul has some right ideas when it comes to their website: You Searched for: uhaulsucks.com WHOIS results for uhaulsucks.com Registrant: U-Haul International U-Haul International U-Haul International 2727 N. Central
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by fr0man 16y ago
Rendered in Times New Roman. Awesome.
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by fr0man 16y ago
Man, with VLC Player has been ready for prime time, I haven't downloaded a codec in years.
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by fr0man 16y ago
You might want to work through some ASP.NET MVC tutorials using your language of choice before jumping into Django or Rails. That will give you an easier entry point to learning MVC (which is quite different conceptually from ASP.NET Webfo
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by fr0man 16y ago
I would almost argue source control period isn't for the non-technical user, but I could see some fringe cases where training non-techies to use it would be useful. But git is DEFINITELY not for the non-technical user. Edit: Just to be clea
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by fr0man 16y ago
I'm saying obesity among America's poor is a real problem and there are studies that support that claim that come from somewhere other than a conservative think tank dedicated to keeping the rich rich and keeping the government from helping
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by fr0man 16y ago
The two aren't really related. It's not like Microsoft was Walmart, coming into towns and destroying mom and pop drugstores that had been in business 50 years and whose owners were barely making it. Microsoft engaged in business practices
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by fr0man 16y ago
Not to mention there's a valid point to be made but linking to heritage.org 'research' undermines your validity right off the bat.
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by fr0man 16y ago
I think Gates is a little more concerned with eradicating disease and hunger in third world countries at this point in his life. I'm sure he would prefer M$ weren't so far behind in the mobile phone and tablet computing arenas, but I just
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by fr0man 16y ago
He's a blogger, can you blame him? He got my click from his Twitter feed with it, because I was interested to see a non-IT guy's take on the recent spate of Apple-bashing. Yglesias is usually very measured and insightful. I just didn't t
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by fr0man 16y ago
Yeah, Yglesias is a super smart guy, but he's just way off on this one.
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Is Steve Jobs Big Brother?(yglesias.thinkprogress.org)
17 points by fr0man 16y ago|21 comments
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by fr0man 16y ago
I also agree 100% with him, I just meant that Apple will never allow that to happen. Just like I think Microsoft SHOULD open source NT and XP, and that will never happen either.
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by fr0man 16y ago
Losing her to the crazies was a huge blow to the IT community.
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by fr0man 16y ago
It's also time for Microsoft to open source NT and XP, but that's about equally likely to happen as this proposal. Not that I disagree; it's just a pipe dream. What I find shocking is that this is in Macworld. Macworld!
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by fr0man 16y ago
Agreed. I think 1 lb per week is more in line with the doctor recommended rate, but 2 lb per week is the threshold you're not supposed to cross. 8 lbs per month in 5 months is right at that. That is a damn good achievement.
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by fr0man 16y ago
The FireBug console with FireQuery installed will also highlight any DOM elements that match your selector when you mouse over the results in the console. I hadn't heard of FireFind before this; I'm gonna have to give it a try.
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by fr0man 16y ago
Have you tried Google Wave + some of its gadgets? I've had moderate success with it, though not with the type of usage you're talking about. I believe it works with Gears to give you offline access. FWIW I didn't like Basecamp at all ei

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