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1771.
by 13of40 11y ago
Didn't you ever watch the end of "There Will Be Blood"?
1772.
by 13of40 11y ago
Yeah, well fuck 7-Eleven.
1773.
by 13of40 11y ago
I had a different one: Two months? If that guy hasn't built his business up to the point where he can take a sabbatical and do right by his family, then there's no hope for the rest of us.
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by 13of40 11y ago
Even without the internet, the status quo in the western world for several decades has been to spend five hours a day eating Hot Pockets in front of the television. Hopefully future generations will remember that when they're criticiz
1775.
by 13of40 11y ago
Seems like the hip thing for a multi-billionaire to do would be to buy the whole stone and leave it uncut, just so they could have the largest diamond in the world.
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by 13of40 11y ago
> The number was 1,626. Wow, that's more than half as many people as were killed in the 9/11 attacks. We should have this thing wrapped up by Christmas.
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by 13of40 11y ago
I used to work at a fairly big software company that was on about version 6 of a product with a 2 or 3 year ship cycle. They'd spent years trying to get away from the waterfall model, but there were still gaps on the order of maybe 8
1778.
by 13of40 11y ago
I heard that you can download plans for encryption from the internet and build it secretly in your basement with widely available tools.
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by 13of40 11y ago
No, Google Earth has.
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by 13of40 11y ago
I use Google Earth almost daily, and they've never made a penny off of me. It doesn't even have in-app ads. I guess these days "Totally Blew It" means "Wisely decided not to spend the next two decades hemorrhaging
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by 13of40 11y ago
And let me tell you, my evening was pivoting on what the terrorism alert level would be today. It was double-plus-orangy-red before, right?
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by 13of40 11y ago
When I got mine done (in the US) they gave me an IV of something that took care of the pain but didn't make me unconscious, and afterwards it gave me amnesia, so I can remember the fact of being aware, but not the details. Kind of lik
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by 13of40 11y ago
Hmmm. It's almost as though they tailored the headline, pic, and article to piss off the working class Joe.
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by 13of40 11y ago
Hell no. I was a dead man walking in that interview. When I was trying to transition from test to dev, half the people I interviewed with didn't even ask me technical questions. I had one interviewer show up half an hour late, spend
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by 13of40 11y ago
Two or three years ago I was doing an informational interview, trying to move from a QA job to a developer job, and I mentioned to the guy that I used assembly code almost every day. He guffawed and said I was full of it, but it was true -
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by 13of40 11y ago
> most people have not seen more than their hometown I can easily see this in the United States, since any public transportation beyond the local level is so expensive it's a luxury for a big chunk of the population, and the distanc
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by 13of40 11y ago
I don't think that's the whole story. I read a really eye-opening book a while back that was essentially an insider's guide to surviving in prison, and one of the things that stuck with me was the idea that people behave the
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by 13of40 11y ago
About a thousand years ago, I bought a new 286 motherboard from the local computer shop, and when I brought it home, DOS would boot on it, things like edlin and debug worked, but anything like a game (Lemmings!) would hang. I tore my hair