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How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux

Comment in News (21 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/15/2008

Privacy please! I use unison and/or backuppc to sync/backup files from various computers to my file server. I don't have anything to hide - other than the usual personal correspondences and business documents - but I don't really trust that external ser … (see comment)

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Top pollsters caught fudging with Presidential Race numbers

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 09/11/2008

The corporate media also wants to sell more soap - it pays their bills and makes them richer - so making it a closer race makes more people tune in more often when makes them more money. Simple. (see comment)

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Awesome circular application menu - Google Code

Comment in News (4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/02/2008

Looks like a new implementation of Don Hopkins' 1980's era pie menus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu Nice to see them updated for Gnome... (see comment)

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Random Acts of Kindness: A Social Site I’d Love to See

Comment in News (-5 diggs, 1 reply) - on 08/31/2008

Sounds a little like http://www.affero.com/ (see comment)

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Become a Master of Metaphor and Multiply Your Blogging Effectiveness

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/04/2007

Metaphors be with you, Luke. (see comment)

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The Ten Coolest Numbers

Comment in News (1 digg, 1 reply) - on 03/12/2007

ring-around-the-rosy number: 142857 multiply 142857 by a number 1 through 6 and you get: 142857 shifted, e.g., 2*142857 = 285714 multiply it by 7 and you get 999999 (which is related to the fact that 1/7 = .142857 repeating) multiply 142857 by a … (see comment)

A Probability Riddle. Strange...

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2006

This is the Monty Hall problem that's been around for years. I've had my version of it online since 1994 (unchanged). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem for more... … (see comment)

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YouTube Vid of police brutality gets cuts, Google into cencorship now?

Comment in Videos (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 11/06/2006

it's not just you... Thomas Jefferson wrote: "god forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. ... the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." we've gotten too comfortable, and have for … (see comment)

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GM admits it's building hybrids to get good press, and not much else

Comment in News (17 diggs, 5 replies) - on 07/22/2006

The whole notion that the technological "dust-to-dust" cost of a hybrid being more than a standard (say) SUV does not factor in the true cost of waging a war for oil. Every subsidized gallon of gas that we burn in our vehicles is coming at a huge cost in … (see comment)

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Data Miners Digging Deeper

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 07/12/2006

Seumas is right: "I would not mind "data mining" if I had some degree of control over it." Data mining can best be done by each person themselves, though it really becomes "offer mining." You are the only person who has control over your "SuperProfile … (see comment)

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The Evolution of a Programmer

Comment in News (0 diggs, 1 reply) - on 06/27/2006

For another perspective, I have the "Software Lifecycle vs. Programmer Maturity" graphed out at http://www.comedia.com/hot/program/softwareProcess.shtml BTW: though I believe I came up with this metric myself (circa 1990) after years of interviewing ot … (see comment)

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No Neutral Ground in This Internet Battle

Comment in News (7 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/27/2006

What he also fails to mention is that the net became what it is today with "net neutrality", but we never called it that. Once again, the wrong side has taken a winning spot by framing the issue in such a way that it sounds like those of us who want to k … (see comment)

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