jlcgull

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by jlcgull 16y ago
lovely story snippets... a must read!
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by jlcgull 16y ago
Awesome! Who says geeks don't have a sense of humor! Oh! And while we are at it, jquery also makes my breakfast every morning.
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by jlcgull 16y ago
A sad day indeed, at least for me. I inevitably end up running some flavor of linux on almost all my computers sooner or later. ATI's support for linux, compared to nVidia, has been piss-poor to say the least (certainly in my experience).
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by jlcgull 16y ago
It is not going to take long for one or more fake-auth servers to spring up... much like those Windows7 validation-servers-run-locally.
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by jlcgull 16y ago
As a corollary to this, I am also curious about vitamin D levels in people using UV tanning beds. Assuming equal carcinogenic potential from sun exposure and from such beds (which is most likely an incorrect assumption), the results should
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by jlcgull 16y ago
More truth than hype in this case. The modern indoor lifestyle and diet are not very conducive to maintaining the requisite levels. Vitamin D comes in many forms -- and not all are equal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholecalciferol
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by jlcgull 16y ago
Now Apple just needs to incorporate this into the "iPad Keyboard Dock" and I'll be more than happy to buy!
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by jlcgull 16y ago
Sure. OSS is great and I am a big fan. But which major OS is f.lux not available for, again? Your argument in the present context is exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned RMS! Also, f.lux does work as advertised on the OSs that i
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by jlcgull 16y ago
f.lux works as advertised. Love it. Use it. Highly recommend it. More so, now that is has nice GUI and all. The fact that it is closed source should not be a problem unless you are RMS!
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by jlcgull 16y ago
Upvoted. Seems like a positive way make dent on the incumbent censor-happy morons. Good luck Australia!
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by jlcgull 16y ago
The only relevant reply, unfortunately, was not even in reply to my OP !!! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543020
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by jlcgull 16y ago
What a troll you are! Oh! Yes! You are!
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by jlcgull 16y ago
I think you will understand how analogy works by watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fI3KEgy6c edited to add: Beware, for history repeats itself. Just because heinous crimes were documented in the past is no guarantee th
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by jlcgull 16y ago
What about riak ? How does that compare ?
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by jlcgull 16y ago
Australia, is turning into an e-Tibet ... Get ready for millions of innocent websites dying at the hands of OberFuhrer Robert McClelland. Yeah, that statement may sound over-hyped today, but come talk to me a year after that thing gets sig
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by jlcgull 16y ago
As an aside, why do advertisers on 'geek' sites (by devs, for devs) even bother putting up advertisements is beyond understanding for me. Given the demographic that visits these sites (tech savvy power users), would the majority not be usi
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by jlcgull 16y ago
The day is not far that Patent Troll Inc.s and their brethren will be thrown under the democracy bus. It is a matter of when, not if. And it won't need a revolution, just enough in-fighting, a bit more alienation of the masses; which will b
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by jlcgull 16y ago
But can it tile windows yet? :-) I know, I should use a "real" window manager if I need my windows to be tiled, but I feel that tiling is a real feature with a legitimate need that should be built into Gnome.
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by jlcgull 16y ago
Nice job, but the headline is somewhat misleading... it is _not_ a 100k foot balloon, but a balloon that reached 100k feet. My first impression was of a really long balloon tube. :)
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by jlcgull 16y ago
it is the OS that makes the device... a super-responsive touch screen also helps. of the the many touch devices i have come across, nothing compares to the responsiveness of an iPad or iPhone/iPodTouch.
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by jlcgull 16y ago
time for someone who is a lawyer to weigh in ... calling grellas !!
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by jlcgull 16y ago
all right, point taken. and dare i say, lesson learned. however, it does represent, at least to me, a flaw in the whole HN voting system; given that user privileges are tied to karma points, i feel that upvotes should be allowed as they are
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by jlcgull 16y ago
not complaining. just asking "why" ? i hope that is considered fair. if not, then god help HN the day i get downvoting privileges. edit: being downvoted for a comment like this i understand and agree to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by jlcgull 16y ago
will the anonymous downvoter please stand up and show some gumption?
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by jlcgull 16y ago
... and why is that bad? or rather, who is it bad for?
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by jlcgull 16y ago
... and in other news, pigs have grown wings and are flying! seriously, why QE? is base stacking plus some electron cloud sharing not a good enough explanation for dsDNA?
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by jlcgull 16y ago
haters gonna hate! srsly?
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by jlcgull 16y ago
Fascinating!! Yet scary how many folks confuse odd numbers with primes on the original blog's comments.
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by jlcgull 16y ago
Best paragraph: ''' Imagine the reaction when a company like Apple suddenly comes with devices like iPhones and iPads that don’t feel like computers, don’t require nearly as much maintenance & ‘Just work’. Or at least work enough. Imag
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by jlcgull 16y ago
... and had the longest most awesome RAVE evar!!!! </ sarcasm>

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