tbourdon

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by tbourdon 14y ago
I've got no time to invest in this. I'm too busy finding an alternative for Reader and seriously looking at alternatives for Gmail because I'm just plain torqued at Google right now.
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by tbourdon 14y ago
Also, you can make a one time rollover from a 401K or IRA to an HSA account. So if they switched to the HSA they could start it off by rolling over the amount of their deductible from their retirement account to their HSA account.
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by tbourdon 14y ago
Me too! Kubuntu hits a real sweetspot for me in terms of a desktop environment.
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by tbourdon 14y ago
Best part about this is the link to my home town newspaper. I used to deliver the Enterprise Record every afternoon on my bike after school. Yes, in the 70s the Enterprise Record was an afternoon paper.
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by tbourdon 14y ago
Eclipse's Maven support is not great. IntelliJ's is better but Netbean's is the best in my opinion. The problem with IntelliJ's Maven support is it doesn't handle multiple non-nested projects well. If I were able to set up global Maven buil
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by tbourdon 14y ago
I guess "The Cloud" got rained on in this case.
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by tbourdon 14y ago
Fabulous book. The commentary on the west rings truer the older I get.
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by tbourdon 14y ago
This paradigm is very powerful. The only thing I see missing from these types of interfaces is the ability to select part or all of the output and use it as input for a new command. Think of it as an intermediate step of piping where the us
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by tbourdon 14y ago
Yes, yes, yes. I've been fighting photo management software for years when all I want is the ability to tag files.
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by tbourdon 14y ago
I want the other way around so I can put a piece over my license plate.
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by tbourdon 15y ago
Been watching them for months on Roku... No subscription fee required.
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by tbourdon 15y ago
I've been thinking about a user interface for a long time. One that, leverages the graphical capabilities of the browser and the linguistic capabilities of the command line. The two enhancements over the command line that I envision are the
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by tbourdon 15y ago
This has been my dream for years. Netflix is satisfying part of my content needs with its streaming option. I can only hope that more company's will follow suite. What I'd really like to see is a "real" news website that supplies non-biased
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by tbourdon 15y ago
Here, here.
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by tbourdon 15y ago
I just hope Jeff realizes that the amount of work per child is exponential not linear. So having twins will be about four times the work of just one child. Also, I'm sure Jeff has already done the math on this but at at roughly seven diaper
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by tbourdon 15y ago
Much worse will be written about RMS when he dies and many will applaud what is written, never mind their contributions to technology had the same scale of impact on society... It's all in the perspective.
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by tbourdon 18y ago
Or try out the usernames and passwords on say BofA?
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by tbourdon 18y ago
And a non-existant QA department apparently?
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by tbourdon 18y ago
Maybe 37 Signals should have gotten RMS and the FSF to patent their software.
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by tbourdon 18y ago
Where does education and personal responsibility come into play? Just because one qualifies for a loan doesn't mean one should enter into a loan, no matter what the means of qualification. It doesn't really matter if one qualifies by some
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by tbourdon 19y ago
I usually take PG with a grain of salt but he hit the nail on the head with this one. Another phenomenon I've seen when working in larger groups/organizations is the predatory ways developers will pursue the core/api/library work so as to e
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by tbourdon 19y ago
It's all about time, time, time. I'm not suggesting there aren't extremes at both ends of the intelligence spectrum. But for the bulk of us in the middle of the curve, it all comes down to time. The problem is society pulls for our time on