Chirael

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by Chirael 10y ago
It's also a signal to potential hires that "we only use the same hiring phrases and buzz words everyone else uses" At best that can indicate "we copied and pasted the top part of this job description from every other job
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by Chirael 10y ago
Completely agreed. This (hitting backspace suddenly changing the page) is the kind of thing that catches older people totally by surprise and makes them think they have no idea what their computer does or why. Long overdue, but: "Thank
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by Chirael 10y ago
While I appreciate the time it must have taken to write this article, the credibility of an article that recommends services and provides affiliate links in the recommendations is severely degraded in my opinion.
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by Chirael 10y ago
"You won't believe these 3 changes that just made energy purchasers sit up and pay attention!"
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by Chirael 11y ago
Bookkeeping is tactical and low-level while accounting is strategic and higher-level. A lot of the strategic possibilities come about because of the many ambiguities and options in tax areas, and because the "best" decision for a
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by Chirael 11y ago
I've had problems viewing "private" Vimeo videos with 3rd party cookies blocked
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by Chirael 11y ago
Yes absolutely. I learned OO with programming in the early 90s, around the birth of the OO religion. So it's definitely in my mental toolbox if needed... But in practice I'd say I rarely, if ever, need it. The only time it's
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by Chirael 11y ago
It seems like he's been ruthlessly honest all the way through, including at the end and even where it might be unflattering to him. It also seems like there are precious (very) few cases of someone who built such a business sharing the
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by Chirael 11y ago
Thing explainer meets thing learners?
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by Chirael 11y ago
That's my standard answer when a prospective employer asks what I'm making now.
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by Chirael 11y ago
I've had a good experience with Commafeed https://www.commafeed.com/
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by Chirael 11y ago
I read it quickly and said, "Why on Earth did the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have a presence in mainland China anyway?" Then I remembered, oh yeah, SCMP was that website I read several times a day, for a couple of weeks straigh
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by Chirael 11y ago
I personally don't care, but the public might, and since the FBI seemed to cherry pick this opportunity to push the issue when public opinion might be more favorable to its request, it's nice to see something that counters it - ev
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by Chirael 11y ago
Completely agreed. I think committing to doing X words a day is a much better system than this. Sometimes you need to pause and mull something over, which is not necessarily the same as going into "editing mode" that I think this
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by Chirael 11y ago
I use it more as a glorified low priority to do list. For example some page I was reading (from HN) linked to a recommended article "How to Build Stable Systems" ( https://medium.com/@jlouis666/how-to-build-sta
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by Chirael 11y ago
The github page says "Records is a very simple, but powerful, library for making raw SQL queries to Postgres databases" - so it does seem PG specific
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by Chirael 11y ago
You might have to institute a minimum donation amount, and link to a page explaining why. And I honestly don't think it will matter much if the minimum donation has to be $3 instead of $1 due to fraudulent charges & fees
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by Chirael 11y ago
Locked up my iPhone 4 when I scrolled down to the spinning cubes (in Safari). Eventually after about 10 minutes of being completely unresponsive, it rebooted. No judgment, just reporting what happened when viewing on a phone.
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by Chirael 11y ago
Cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
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by Chirael 11y ago
Reminds me of Gaiman's "Why Defend Freedom of Icky Speech" http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-...
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by Chirael 11y ago
This reminds me of movies and "release windows" (releasing the same movie at different times in different countries & formats in an attempt to maximize profits). It sounds, from this, like the NYT is still stuck in 20th centur
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by Chirael 11y ago
Sounds like another battle in the "coming war on general purpose computing" http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
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by Chirael 11y ago
Maybe it's from the length of the message or the general impressiveness of the project, but the first thought that came to mind was, "Wow, I'd have to be unemployed to have enough time to work on this - there's no way I
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by Chirael 11y ago
Oh so that's why half the embedded videos I see are black boxes. Oh well, that's why I keep IE (with no Ghostery) around, for cases where I really want to see the video. Seems like a good arrangement so far.
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by Chirael 12y ago
Nice work, EFF! Our membership dues at work :)
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by Chirael 12y ago
Love the concept, can't wait to see it. I don't normally play computer games, but this sounds intriguing. One minor point: "Alt-tab over to your email and click the confirm link in the email we just sent you." If you use
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by Chirael 12y ago
Best email client out there, hands down. I use GMail on the web for quick checks, but it's impossible to do serious email management in GMail. If you're serious about managing your email, you need a real email client and Thunderbi
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by Chirael 12y ago
Back to BBSs?
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by Chirael 12y ago
In the US, as I understand it you wouldn't be able to use capital gains on this kind of thing because you haven't held the Bitcoins for a year. It would be "short term capital gain" which would be the same as ordinary in
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by Chirael 12y ago
Still using my Palm Pilot daily :)

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