Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
The other thing they're missing is: how has this changed over time? I don't think it has much. How many people ever aspired to be a waiter, a customer service rep, an office clerk, a stock clerk, etc.? Zero? People don't
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>A number of my colleagues print to paper for code review. They find it easier to read and markup in that format. I personally can't stand the idea of using that much paper That's why I like to print code in an ultra-small font
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yes, but the other factor is, with much cheaper platinum available, new applications are likely to be found which were previously ignored due to cost. Today, for instance, (this is an unrealistically simplistic example) if you could make s
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I'd like to do the same with patents.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Do even better than that: have the government do random checks with drones, and if someone's found to be violating, seize their entire farm. Do make sure to include a provision to make sure they weren't non-compliant by accident
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>ONLY available through a local visit of a MS agent (9 to 5 , Monday to Friday) at a cost of (say) US$ 100.00/hour + US$ 1.00/mile Microsoft really should adopt this approach to customer service. It's been very successful
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by Arizhel 10y ago
"European Jewish culture" is not a technology. It doesn't take a huge population base for a group of people to remember their roots and culture and save a lot of it. But most people are not technologists. Sure, there'
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That's exactly right about maintaining this level of technology. Looking around at most people I know and am surrounded by, there's just no way we could keep the technology level we have now without such a large population: most
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That second link looks like it hasn't changed since 1996. I love it.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
They're also used for low-volume prototyping or short-run manufacturing, not just high-volume manufacturing. They're especially useful for placing high-density components; it's not exactly easy to assemble a PCB with BGAs by
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You obviously don't have what it takes to be a good HR worker. (I mean that as a compliment.)
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Oracle even wanted scans of W2s ... Yet another bullet-point in why not to ever work at Oracle.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Liberals won the popular vote... Irrelevant. The Electoral College doesn't work that way, and also, Republicans won elections across the board in all the other races: House, Senate, governors, state legislatures, etc. Basically,
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yes, there are plenty of opportunities to work in cheap parts of the US. I get emails from recruiters for jobs in these places all the time. The problem is, these opportunities are not in the same place! So if I were to take one of them,
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Some ethics test. The employer is already failing at ethics by asking this in the first place, so I have no problem lying to them. This is no different than them asking if you have kids, if you're married, etc.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yep, take the true answer and inflate it 20% or more. Make them think they're getting a bargain.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This is a really useful post. Are you this self-centered all the time?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Computing was more fun back then.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, I wish I could edit that post to specify American Christianity, and exclude Catholicism.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Maybe, but then the resulting peace treaty would likely have been non-punitive, and then the Nazis and Hitler would never have happened, along with WWII.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Instead of adopting Gnome3, they should adopt KDE. It's far more customizable (so "Easily customize, relocate the Unity launcher (53 weight)" would be already done) and much better architected than Gnome. And for people lam
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No, he was 5'7" (after converting French feet to modern feet), and that was slightly taller than average for the time. If you don't care about "average height for the time", then you're just being intentionall
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by Arizhel 10y ago
They don't need to be "part of a branch of Christianity" to be Christian; it doesn't work that way. In fact, they represent a majority of (non-Catholic) Christians in America these days. The mainline Protestant groups
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It's the majority of Christians in America these days. It's not like all those mega-churches are mostly-empty on Sundays: they have thousands of people attending every week and pouring money into the coffers. And it's not l
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>This might sound nit-picky but I think we all (Americans) value education as a whole. That's a bunch of crap. If we (Americans) valued education as a whole, we wouldn't vote for leaders who continually cut education budgets.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yep, with the way things are going now, you can expect consumer protections to disappear and for companies like BofA to be able to steal your money left and right. (this isn't sarcasm, sadly)
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Without wanting to sound too snarky - no kidding, Sherlock. >Anyone who drives at rush hour in the summer months, when (UK, at least) schools are on holiday, will know how much quieter the roads are. The problem is, "everyone kn
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Faceboom is the only successful social media Was that a Freudian slip or something? :-) I'm going to have to remember that one.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Are you sure about this? Have you seen what the Xerox Star could do in 1981 Yes, I'm quite sure. I was alive in the 80s, and I remember what things were like. I sure as hell don't remember any Xerox Stars, but I do remember
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Did you miss the November election? That should be proof enough. Compare the anti-Vietnam-war protests of the early 1970s to the anti-Iraq-war protests in the 2000s... oh wait, there were no anti-war protests in the 2000s; everyone in Amer

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