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To make us feel better about collaborating with authoritarians

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/business/banks-to-make-cus...

Because fuck you, that's why.

The processing fee is if you don't get a gift certificate. I usually get an Amazon gift certificate for 100% of my coins value.

It can be all that bad, many rivers are basically sewers.

Hahahaha

The feed isn't even full text.

On a mac, you can use :r !pbpaste

If you're ssh'd somewhere it's a different story. I've seen some things about sharing clipboards across shells, but I've never bothered to set it up.

Also, copy-pasta makes for bad code.

Welcome to the internet.

Filter? See also: You Are Not a Curator http://newcurator.com/2010/03/you-are-not-a-curator/

Not just a drug dealer, but Freeway Ricky Ross, who arguably helped invent crack whose cocaine supplier was the Nicarguan Contras, the CIA-funded army of Iran-Contra fame. I love Planet Money, but I wish they'd gone a little deeper into his involvement with the contras. If you want to know more look into Gary Webb's series, Dark Alliance. The restored site is here: http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

I love getting articles like this in my RSS feed. I agree that RSS hit a wall in terms of adoption, but it's still the most efficient way to read.

I've used both, and I found that Pentadactyl was MUCH faster. In addition, it handles passthrough keys more sensibly. Vimperator required a plugin, pentadactyl uses the passkeys setting. My pentadactylrc: https://github.com/bingaman/dotfiles/blob/master/pentadactyl...

My advice: don't get a degree in web design. DO go to college and learn about something you're interested in (or just go to figure out what you're interested in!). College should not be vocational training, no matter what your parents or counselors imply. Take the time to think really hard about things that have no bearing on the 'real world'. Keep designing websites (there will be plenty of opportunities) and build a portfolio. The best people practicing what you're interested are working and sharing what they learn online - not through academic institutions.

Some of the interactive design programs out there do look pretty good (SVA, for one - though that's postgrad).

(PS - I struggled with this 10 years ago and ended up getting degrees in computer science and graphic design. Anything I learned about 'web design' was totally useless by the time I was working, and I had taught myself basically everything I used day to day. However, the fundamentals of graphic design and CS do not change.)

Quick ssh and and start screen:

  function s() { ssh $1 -t screen -dRR }

And how would you suggest printing the calendar for the year 8?

I wouldn't brag about a simple import breaking your site.

What is the correct terminology?

Identi.ca: http://identi.ca Status.net: http://status.net

I think that in some ways the general trend has been toward you working for your computer instead of your computer working for you. Personally, I get a lot done during the day that I don't even have to think about because I put a little bit of time into setting up some cron scripts a long time ago. I still count that toward things I'm getting done. Without being able to background apps, it's something that's seriously missing from iOS (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Unix pipelines are currently in decline

Citation needed

I thought they were referencing the ability to find MDMA by searching for 'vice'. You know...they are on a 'roll'.

The airplane, the machine gun, dynamite, radio, lasers, the telephone and cable television have all had similar claims made about them. I would copy and paste it if I could, but the beginning of this chapter of What Technology Wants has a lot of similar sounding quotations: http://books.google.com/books?id=_ToftPd4R8UC&lpg=PP1...

Eternal September: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

You don't have to buy the $60 popcorn.

Neat hack, but here is a timer for hot water heaters on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Intermatic-WH21-Electric-Water-Heater/...

Anyone considering this should also invest in some insulation as others have said.

I just checked and I've spent almost exactly $60 on my pay-as-you go phone since mid-October. That comes to about $15 a month. I make no effort whatsoever to reduce my phone usage, other than the fact that I don't enjoy talking on the phone at all. I use AT&T, so I pay $1 a day when I use the phone and then it's 10 cents a minute for calls outside of the network. As it turns out, most of the people I talk to have iPhones, so I'm not getting charged the 10 cents per minute. I also buy the minimum amount of text messages every month (200 for $5). I've never used all of them and they roll over each month, so my current balance of text messages is about 475. This may not be for everyone, but it's working for me. My phone is also the 'dumbest' phone I could find. Cuique suum.

ShiftIt is awesome, it just needs support for multiple monitors.

I use Terminal.app + Visor, but I'll give iTerm2 a try after reading this.

The mouse is bullshit!

"Boredom is counter-revolutionary"