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""I didn't get my password reset email yet, so I'm going to go try and score some karma on HN with Browser Wars link bait." is how I interpret that response." Not at all how I inte…

Fundamentally because it's been more than two hours since I asked for a password reset. But really, because I'm not trying to fix this. This message was mostly for me, because I'm …

Some time in the last week, Firefox (latest by auto updates) on Lubuntu (latest by auto updates) has been freezing up briefly, then coming back (in seconds). But once that starts, …

Shouldn't we consumers just cut to the chase and use foreign banks directly?

He just did. There's a video and ad hiding everything about the site. To me, the site is "something I'll never know because you have to watch a video to find out." A simple sentenc…

Great tip, but I thought it was going to be how to identify and remove all the digital cruft in your environment. Tools and packages that were tried, abandoned and forgotten. Anyon…

"Pay them poorly." I was with them until this. There's no reason to treat a valuable person as a throwaway, and poor pay does that.

The nose in the tent is that they didn't say it's full of water, they said it's full of [something I've never heard of], and presented in a newsy-alarming way, in venue where peopl…

The left vertical bar all the way down the text makes it look like the entire text is a quote from somewhere else. I experienced unresolved tension, waiting to see who "really" wro…

They already have, or are in the process, to the extent that classroom time is dictated by the needs of preparing students for the flood of standardized tests in use today.

It's "artistic license" in the original sense.

"Google has taken aim at the companies who sell off their patents so they can be used in lawsuits." Yeah, it's so much better when you can buy a whole company for the contained pat…

"in a store through a phone's camera." If it was for the store then you'd do one or more stationary mounts of something better and more purpose-built than a camera phone. Or someth…

Ads suck, but the bigger danger is that the uber-profile will be available for subpoena, or the govt might just flip the fuckit bit and take it because they can. Being allowed to r…

Why would you trust any company of that size?

I suspect "making available" would be treated similar to selling. But if the law is as described in the ref'd comment, I wonder why there aren't sites or books that walk you up to …

Interesting comment from the article's comment thread, from Janne. A patent is for the commercialization of an idea. Anyone is free to implement any patent for personal use, as lon…

I see ads all the time on TV and billboards for DUI and settlement and disability lawyers. "Get the result you deserve." I think many of them are national firms, although they look…

Like so many things, I probably could get my answer if I was prepared to fight for it. But since I have insurance, and I'll eventually pay out my deductible and out of pocket maxim…

By "eventually" I mean a cascading series of events and degradations. I won't die the day after the missed appointment, but I'd almost certainly die within the year from that speci…

"Yes, this non-transparent pricing," I have an appointment with my doctor soon. I asked them how much the appointment will cost. They called my insurance company. The got back to m…

Resource Acquisition is Initialization, so just wait for current trends to go out of scope and you'll enjoy automatic, orderly and all but guaranteed destruction of kulaks and unfo…

I'm not one of the people you're looking for, but like so many things, a flexible mix based on the character of the work at hand is usually most effective. Sometimes ( sometimes ) …

I think even parody is too much attention in this case. People are going to rearrange processes, to produce the same things, for infinite generations to come. Probably best if you …

I'm always leery when the process gets more attention than the work. If your process has a name it's in great danger of getting too much attention.