Duff

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by Duff 14y ago
You know, I hear that email sucks all of the time. It's all bunk. Email has been around in it's present form for a good long time now. That staying power is a good example of why it is a "good enough" solution for just about anything. It's
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by Duff 14y ago
People aren't "starving" in the sense that they are dying. But they are being fattened up on a diet of cheap carbohydrates and salty pre-prepared meals. In my small city, folks living in the poorest areas are a 30-minute bus trip away from
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by Duff 14y ago
The birth rate argument doesn't hold water -- the folks with low birthrates are the same middle class people who are losing their livelihoods. A third child means that a middle class family loses the second car and cable sports package. Poo
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by Duff 14y ago
Other highly technical areas, such as medicine, don't seem to have this problem. The average doctor has a better handle on science and mathematics that the most computer professionals ever had.
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by Duff 14y ago
I don't know if the startup founder demographic is well defined enough to make a definitive statement. There are probably significant demographic divisions (race, educational background, housing rent/own ratio, size of industry clusters, na
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by Duff 14y ago
Track changes isn't part of any standard, so it's harder to duplicate. Technical superiority won't defeat Word. Office is on every business desktop because of the licensing regime that Microsoft has been very successful at implementing.
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by Duff 14y ago
Note: In the Microsoft canon, Publisher is the desktop publishing tool for the masses. The problem with Word is also it's greatness -- it does everything. It's a word processor. It integrates with SharePoint for content management and all s
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by Duff 14y ago
You're thinking in terms of a 2005 business model. Even government organizations are buying lots of iPhones, even though Apple is an obnoxious vendor for those organizations to deal with. Microsoft sells stuff these days by bundling product
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by Duff 14y ago
Usually the government gets a fine or change in behavior. Afterwards, individual claimants sue the loser, using the facts of the government case. For example, a few states have sued Intel and LCD manufacturers after an FTC ruling.
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by Duff 14y ago
It's amazing how segmented the market has become. A few years ago, everyone pretty much had 1024x768 or 1280x1024. Now, just about all cheap laptops are 1366x768. Everything else is all over the map!
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by Duff 14y ago
Absolutely true -- it's more of a risk mitigation thing for me. I had a ruptured disk and a spinal fusion a few years ago that went really well.... and I'm a little paranoid about keeping it that way!
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by Duff 14y ago
I started doing the same thing last year, at least when the weather is pleasant. It's an amazingly liberating experience. It makes you look forward to spring. I live in a place that typically has bad winters, so the prospect of breaking my
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by Duff 14y ago
Great point. The whole notion of the "gated community" is patently offensive and only possible by virtue of the automobile. Walk through an old city. Even in the victorian era, where families were packed in single rooms with no running wate
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by Duff 14y ago
Before we talk "erosion" we need to talk about what the market actually was. In reality, alot of lousy "photographers" were able to make a living because they had access to professional equipment. So the challenge is getting to a higher lev
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by Duff 14y ago
I think that the legal theory is that possession of certain items is indicative of bad intent. If I carry x quantity of illegal drugs, I'm a user getting charged with a misdemeanor. If I carry x + y quantity of illegal drugs, I'm presumed t
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by Duff 14y ago
I say follow the money. Things that don't make any sense on the surface often have simple motivations. Someone (perhaps someone affiliated with the Instagram funding round that closed days ago) needed an infusion of cash. Facebook has more
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by Duff 14y ago
I think the difference, from the perspective of the regulator, is that a firearm is a tool with a limited scope of use, and that certain firearms (pistols) have a further limited scope of use that makes their existence noxious. In the US, t
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by Duff 14y ago
Hanging out with people on a team isn't a friendship. For one, teams are ephemeral. More importantly, people generally don't behave like dogs, humping everything in sight... Some folks find themselves "in lust" at first sight. Others take l
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by Duff 14y ago
Were they really inspirational? I remember my first walkman fondly. But I think that it was always a small cassette player to me.
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by Duff 15y ago
I find all of this hand-wringing over working conditions to be the biggest pile of bunk that I have ever heard of. The only reason that China is manufacturing just about every consumer product out there is that sending work there allows you
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by Duff 15y ago
This sounds like a very sober analysis of "the mob" and the inane-stream media whipping up a phony crisis. While there is some overreaction, it has been documented that teachers and corrections officers have been asked to provide access to
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by Duff 15y ago
You nailed it. The worst part about that is that the people behind Facebook think this is a great thing.
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by Duff 15y ago
Perhaps this is just another case where the Obama administration is "speaking in shorthand." It sounds like the president is supporting SOPA, but in actuality he is speaking in some law professor dialect where words do not mean what they se
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by Duff 15y ago
Agreed. If you stop me from copy and pasting, there is always pen and paper. Security auditors have fun making companies look dumb when they find passwords to critical systems on post-it notes.
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by Duff 15y ago
My #1 pet peeve is annoying address fields. I live in New York. Why can't I type "New York", "NY", or have the system figure out where I live by zipcode. Instead, I get some sort of pull-down menu. You already asked me where I live and I fi
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by Duff 15y ago
People act differently around unusually attractive and unattractive people. Some of these folks have issues that seem odd at first glance, like a tall, exceptionally attractive woman who cannot find a date. It happens to guys too. At the en
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by Duff 15y ago
The published examples that I have seen were teachers and prison guards. Employers of these folks want evidence of fraternization with students and inmate families, respectively.
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by Duff 15y ago
I don't know if it matters whether there is a bona fide investigation or not. The police have broad authority to identify subjects of investigations. The NYS Department of Labor and the NYS Office of the Inspector General placed GPS devices
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by Duff 15y ago
It's not a myth -- it just isn't an absolute statement. I'm an employee in a large enterprise. With a multi-year contract. So getting rid of me without cause is challenging because it is expensive and onerous to do so. Corporate politics is
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by Duff 15y ago
The court order is important, because it shines a light into a dark corner. Like cockroaches, bureaucrats engaged in behavior that they believe to be wrong always avoid the light. Court involvement means court supervision and ultimately a m

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