Draco6slayer

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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
To be entirely honest, I've never heard server used in the US, and a few of my friends are waiters and waitresses.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
I don't know. Some words are just attached to each sex, and that's just a part of language. We don't say waitperson over waiter or waitress. Something that is both attached to a gender and insulting is by no means insulting someone for thei
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Is insulting a female inherently sexist? I wouldn't call someone a sexist if they called me a d ck or a son of a b tch. Obviously the response here is sexist, but calling somebody bad names is not sexist, regardless of their gender.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
I would say that using technical terms in a joking way is definitely a sign of enjoying one's job, and enjoying one's job is definitely a significant data point as to gauging whether one is good at it. If you can talk about your job without
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Only if it took one week for another shopowner to start up again, and they gave 3 months notice. There was never even a cut in functionality; I'm already using Feedly instead of Google Reader, and Reader's still going to be around for anoth
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
I recognize that it was a typo, but solders of giants is so much more appropriate, somehow. Even if it doesn't really rhyme. :D
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
I don't see how dropping one product == become untrustworthy. This is like if you went to the supermarket every day to buy milk, flour, sugar, beans, and lettuce. And then the supermarket realises that it is uneconomical for them to provide
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Forekast: Collaborative World Calendar(forekast.com)
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
The idea behind machine learning is that no single data point does the changing. It's about modelling you with a computer and determining if the model matches current models of fraudsters. If you do go directly to the payment page, you use
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
So the chief difference there is price and the WiFi interaction between the bulbs? Is everything else the same between the two products, then? Or does LIFX offer any additional advantage?
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Wasn't there a Kickstarter project floating around earlier that was supposed to have the exact same functionality as this 'Phillips Hue'? Or are they the same?
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
The opening Holmes quote is being used improperly. Holmes used that as opening, then he went on to find further evidence to support that conclusion. He did not rely on logic alone to determine the culprit, but rather went on to find hard ev
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Oh, no, sorry. That's probably because it's been on my mind as of late, I doubt Myspace would send a representative to compliment them on something as far from their demographic as HackerNews.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
I have been on the new Myspace for a few weeks now, and I will say that based on my experiences, and my friends who have also been beta-testing, this article is by-and-large inaccurate. I feel that the intention is to make some comedy out o
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
This looks curiously like the interface on the new myspace.