nfnaaron

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by nfnaaron 16y ago
They're both rich ... no. They're both hairy ... no. Ah - they both choose their computer systems based on stubborn adherence to software ideology.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"You're the one insisting that all-in is always the right solution." I never said the words "all in," and you complained above that I'm not going all in. I'm confused. In fact I'm opposed to "it must work 100% or it's useless, and if we do
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Feynman.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"Nope. We'll end up with a lot of old-tech solar that isn't as good as what we'll get by waiting." No, we'll still get the years of use from the "old tech" while new tech is being developed, partly on the back of what was learned by botheri
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
So that the US citizens that live there are fully represented.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
So implement storage. Build more capacity than you need for momentary power and use the excess to charge batteries or raise water columns. Build still more excess capacity, charge local storage at the solar plant or at intermediate location
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Link to a downloadable/non-404 version of Hughes' paper: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/702256.aspx Two pdf links below the summary paragraph.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
This is well done and worth checking out. The only thing I didn't like is the strictly linear route to all articles, whether you're interested in every article or not. But I don't think that takes away from the accomplishment.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Sounds like Microsoft condemning Communist open source.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Condolences.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"Beyond the technical and management experiences, the experience taught me how to be audacious and think outside the normal framework," Or relates. "Much of the Mosad's power derives from a capacity to do things so audaciously that the enem
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"... and their users need to handle multiple versions in multiple locations ..." Man, I get crotchety just by going to different King Soopers (Kroger) stores in my area and having to deal with variations in "swipe your card" terminals and p
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Would you buy a bank app from an app store? I think I'd rather get the app directly from my bank. On the other hand, I'm having trouble reconciling that last statement with Quicken downloading data from my bank; I didn't get Quicken from my
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"So who created programming languages?" We did, but we did it on purpose. Programming languages are mere tools, subsets of human language. Human language evolved as part of human evolution, and is as intimately part of the definition and co
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Cooler Twitter. Enterprise Twitter. Better Personal Twitter management. "What possibly" and "conceivably" assumes that the current form of Twitter is all it could ever be. If they're smart enough to do Twitter, they're smart enough to enhan
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Open Twitter, allow anyone to be a Twitter server, and sell their services to Twitter providers who don't want to deal with Twitter nuts and bolts, as Disqus does for comments and Google does for gapps. Be an expert in Twitter and sell trai
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
It's on my DL. You're all (all 6B of you) welcome to all my parts, once I'm done with them.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"don't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi" Would that be a grammar Vichy? "it's spelled "voilà" Right. The dash was in there to emphasize mispronunciation of a mis-spelled word, to indicate mock astonishment in context. Thanks. :)
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
My point exactly.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
This problem was very easy to fix: move his account to another server. It took an amount of one blog post to trigger the solution. He got special attention. Remember that facebook non-deleted picture discussed yesterday? http://news.ycombi
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
So you can't delete delete a picture if other people, who don't own it, like to look at it?
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
(My comment is backed by fundamental ignorance.) Have you tried university/research hospitals? I wonder if it would be worth researching/shopping for such a hospital and get them interested in and committed to finding out what ails you.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Or, they're trying to encourage you to be logged in when you search. IIUC, you won't see "your" personalized picture unless you're logged in and cookied.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
It doesn't actually do the exact same thing: http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptr2.html
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Totally subjective, but with slicehost I recall that their Dallas center had problems noticeably more often. Is there something about Dallas, for Linode or Slicehost or both?
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Agreed 100%.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"Their browser is too tied to the OS." During the debates surrounding the anti-trust trial MS argued that that, browser tied to the OS, is a feature . They were close to saying that the browser is the OS.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"Perfect email regex finally found" Based on the HN title I thought it was going to be an article describing a post-it found on Fermat's dressing table mirror. Instead it's a list of mostly correct regexes. As Miracle Max might have observe
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
For fuck's sake, take the bag! There's no way at all that you can imagine what you might do with your life, what you might experience, what you might give other people. I'm not religious at all, but if there's anything in the universe that
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Abso-fucking-lutely. Let woman-kind make that decision, no reason you should pre-empt them.

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