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by icewater0 11y ago
Oooh, I can't wait to ignore Microsoft products on Linux as well! PostgreSQL for me thanks.
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by icewater0 11y ago
Hmm. I cannot reach the site.
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by icewater0 11y ago
Naturally, anyone within earshot of an idiot with a smartphone has opted in as well?
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by icewater0 11y ago
I was going to post a comment how I would like to have a local instance of OSM for my state/region. Is it possible to calculate directions/routing locally too?
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by icewater0 11y ago
Bret Easton Ellis also has an excellent podcast: http://podcastone.com/Bret-Easton-Ellis-Podcast
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by icewater0 11y ago
I see a couple of things missing in the comments thus far on George Bell's isolation. First, his age. When he was younger, he was (presumably) in love with, and almost married, a woman whom he stayed in touch with for the rest of his
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by icewater0 11y ago
Echoing some of the sentiment elsewhere in comments, I liked programming a lot more when I was more of a one-man show, instead of a team member with other people doing business analysis, project management, client contact, and basically eve
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by icewater0 11y ago
I think part of "the system" involves learning and lending institutions informally forecasting what the lifetime return on a student's education will be, and then attempting to maximize the return on the student loan(s) as an
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by icewater0 11y ago
> How much of it is due to needlessly churning out new editions to cut off the used book market? And there is all the more incentive when the instructor requires a book he has written himself.
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by icewater0 11y ago
> I assume it's because you can't stand Las Vegas? Haha, I have no idea because I haven't been there, but you're right that I can't stand even the idea of Las Vegas :-)
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by icewater0 11y ago
When the crying person gets this all resolved, perhaps the crying person will want to consider alternatives to Facebook, such as diaspora*.
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by icewater0 11y ago
As I get older, among my regrets are not having gone to see either the Grand Canyon, or the Hoover Dam. I have half-made plans to take the trip, some day.
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by icewater0 11y ago
I would go with: 1) Suppress the empathy response; 2) Implement a kill-switch for rogue units. :-)
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by icewater0 11y ago
I just subscribed to the feed
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by icewater0 11y ago
Good interview
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by icewater0 11y ago
If nothing else, the title is "The Road Not Taken", not "The Road Less Traveled". It implies the subject is the road not taken.
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by icewater0 11y ago
Every single day. It's how I get 99% of my news and other periodical written content. Actually something will have to be extremely compelling for me to bother keeping up with it if it doesn't offer an RSS feed.
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by icewater0 11y ago
> regularly encounter people that use the "they are criminals" justification The inclination to enslave others is ingrained into certain strains of the human species and they will take them where it can find them.
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by icewater0 11y ago
A typical Facebook is mildly nauseating at first, and this increases the longer you look at it. The privacy sacrifice is unacceptable. I don't use it. I do use diaspora*. No one I know IRL uses it, but that's fine for now.
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by icewater0 11y ago
Slack is really useful but it really bothers me that it's hosted off-site. I would rather my communications with my team stay within the team, and not with slack.com.
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by icewater0 11y ago
Do you know if there is any information sent to Microsoft by default for which they did not offer you a screen widget to click that says "off"? Do you know what actual data is, and is not, sent to Microsoft as you use your device?
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by icewater0 11y ago
While it is true that most end users of Free software do not audit or compile their own binaries, the situations aren't even remotely comparable.
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by icewater0 11y ago
Do you think Esperanto is a bad idea?
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by icewater0 11y ago
Honestly I'm not even comfortable with my work interactions being stored on Slack. I would never use a service like this for personal info.
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by icewater0 11y ago
You can put Rockbox on iPods (and many other devices). http://www.rockbox.org/