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True, but I would appreciate a little integrity/honesty. He flies all over the world, multiple times in a short time span, and then makes his money "complaining" that we are using …

The very last line of the article explains it all; this is to promote his soon to be release movie. As always, it's about the money.

While I agree with the sense I get in general that modern, digital catalogs are better for search than the older, analog catalogs, I feel it has gotten worse for myself, and possib…

What's really going to blow your mind is when you realize that everything belongs on both lists - it just depends on your point of view when thinking about that particular list ite…

Interesting that you see a difference. Who do you think the democratically elected are? "Wealthy ..."

As with many others, "Eeny, meeny ..." was for selection. I remember using the School House Rock lyrics/rhyme for counting by 5 for counting (Who's not ready, holler I) during "Hid…

My problem with apropos (and man, for that matter) is related to how at least one major distribution handles the man pages. Rather than bundling the man pages with the applications…

> Dr. DeConto and Dr. Pollard do not claim that this is a certainty Boil 'em in oil, the stinkin' deniers. Oh, wait, that's the scientists that this did this study about a time a c…

Thanks for the link!

This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just fig…

Thanks for the link. Good advice for anyone asked to look at some statistics.

From the family stories I have heard, my great-grandmother raised rhubarb, so my grandmother had it because my grandfather was used to it. I was encouraged to take a stalk whenever…

Thank you. Very informative for the newbie that I am. I've used Linux for some time but never delved this deeply under the covers.

It's funny to me how comments on an article on digital librarians has strayed so far down a rabbit hole.

Interesting collection of ideas/graphics, but the first graphic has a person doing 9 hours of stuff between getting off of work at 5:00 p.m. and going to sleep at 11:00 p.m., just …

I don't remember how I came across it, but I remember reading it early in high school - 9th grade, I think - and loving it. While the philosophy was a great read, the ideas of unde…

Agreed. I would want "No lock-in" for IM to be a requirement. I wonder whether or not pure volume - e.g., Facebook Messenger - would be enough, however, to drive people in that dir…

I think part of the problem with getting rid of email is that it has proven itself flexible enough to handle a variety of communication needs, so to replace it, several tasks/apps …

Which is to say, yes, you are not seeing things.

I don't know if this follows the spirit of the question, but if I consider a 'wonder' as something that had a major affect on the coding world, wouldn't some virus/Trojans be appli…

I remember my great-grandfathers: Gilbert, Clyde, Coit, and Sam. They mean something to me because I would not be me if they weren't them. Something would be different if their liv…

"How are you retrieving the web page?" would be my first question. I usually do `lynx -dump [ http://optional.com/]some.html` to get plain text. I know this works for links also.

This reminds me of the thought that [real, long-term] writers write, not because of the attention or positive feedback but because of the internal drive. Attention and positive fee…

The two code examples don't do exactly the same thing. Consider lvl=1000. That being said, I do appreciate the author's sentiment of insuring the code is easily readable by humans.…