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by Drbble 15y ago
A Microsoft Blogger explained that comic sans was designed for a Clippy-like feature that never shipped.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Typeface plus size plus bold/italic/etc is the font.
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by Drbble 15y ago
How is tracing a published work not considered copying?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Princeton Review teaches students to use logic and some knowledge to exclude wrong answers, to help the top 10ish percent raise their scores. Students who are capable of using these techniques are much more intelligent/education than studen
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by Drbble 15y ago
If we are being pedantic: it should be "greatest common denominator".
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by Drbble 15y ago
Tell one major problem with SIM is the ancient outdated hard locked data model, and phone software developers refusing to implement a proper merge when exposing both SIM and phone data in UI.
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by Drbble 15y ago
I am surprised they allows that. That sounds like a far more obvious antitrust violation than putting an IE icon on the Windows desktop.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Nice, the intellectual failure of the "must die" meme in the headline correctly predicted the intellectual failure of the article. SIM cards solve a real problem for the consumer in a convenient way. Better to replace a 5 dollar card than a
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by Drbble 15y ago
I would be nice to have a conventional Javascript utility for these kinds of app-pages, or browser plugin to make something like ctrl-back go the most recent history page not on the same page (or maybe even not on the same site, for #! Twit
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by Drbble 15y ago
Not all of them, my friend and fellow winner in natural selection!
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by Drbble 15y ago
Why was this downvoted? Does HN etiquette have a sentence length penalty?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Headline is a bit euphemistic in how it describes a civil rights trampling police state power grab: > The guidelines will lengthen to five years - from 180 days - the amount of time the center can retain private information about Americ
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by Drbble 15y ago
Social Security isn't a Ponzi scheme; it isn't even an investment scheme. It is a welfare program with a funding model loosely designed to resemble insurance. Your payroll tax today does not entitle you to any promised future benefit beyond
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by Drbble 15y ago
You think the SEC staff enjoy making rules and enforcing them, for no profit and guaranteeing to make enemies of one side of every dispute they regulate?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Many successful devs also preach TDD. TDD is great when your client has a high quality spec, or you are being paid for meeting team spec. TDD is less great when your project goal is "build something neat" with a very loose spec and wide tol
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by Drbble 15y ago
FBI not wasting resources pursuing non-suspects would save tax money too.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Isn't that like saying that your car's movements records of its movements are business records of the manufacturer, or of OnStar, and subject to subpoena?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Note: the FBI lawyer is representing the FBI, not "security".
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by Drbble 15y ago
> YC W12 vs. > all of our investors (as if) ???
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by Drbble 15y ago
Joining a large tech company today, one can get hired for $1 million on a four year schedule, after incredibly higher odds of payout than a startup. The expected value of income is not the reason to found a startup.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Aside: "per se". It's Latin.
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by Drbble 15y ago
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~comp210/96spring/Labs/lab09.html (search for ""omatic".) The author seems to use automatic" to mean "mindless human", though, not "mindful computer"
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by Drbble 15y ago
In pop media, everyone not a confident sexy god/goddess is a loser.
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by Drbble 15y ago
"Rockstar" is a meaningless word. Real rock stars, like famous musicians, work their butts off with large teams, and then celebrate, sometimes too hard.
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by Drbble 15y ago
OK, but millionaire CEOs and invented the Old Boys Club, so what does success in business have to do with egalitarian respectful behavior toward all?
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by Drbble 15y ago
It's appropriate to take someone to task privately, while still making public statements of principles and expectations, even alluding to "the tenor of conversational has been unprofessional a few times recently, and it's not healthy, it's
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by Drbble 15y ago
Does this analysis apply to pilots and surgeons as well?
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by Drbble 15y ago
I would never want work somewhere where the CEO had a large office. Unless maybe CEO was owner and is buying the office with his own money. At my last job, I had a bigger windowier office than the CEO, and our company had millions in revenu
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by Drbble 15y ago
That is a great example and happens all the time. This can be handled decently well by something like Skype, or just using code reviews and design reviews like professional engineers we claim to be.
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by Drbble 15y ago
HVAC can ruin private offices too! Consider the common case where 5 Private offices share HVAC, but some have windows, and some face west, some south. Guarantee that everyone is burning or freezing. But hey, you save $30/month per person o

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