JimmyL

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by JimmyL 17y ago
The American people don't have the greatest record on deciding what the "common good" is. Think of something like gun control. As someone who lives in a city, if I could participate in the US political system I would be in strong favour of
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I've wondered a similar thing for my country, but it was more out of curiosity, since I almost always encounter very friendly customs people (most end the encounter with a "Welcome home!" if you have a Canadian passport, which I really like
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Not really - you get a visa (which is a relatively plainless process), and when you actually land there is almost no paperwork. And you can bet that for all athletes and associated media/staff, the Chinese would either waive the visa requir
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I'm not quite sure what the article is getting at - people on both sides of the issue agree that there are serious problems with the way health care is currently delivered in the US, and (for the most part) they agree on what those problems
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When I would study for exams, I found the process of writing notes would be almost more useful than the process of reviewing them. The process of writing notes made me boil the concepts down into more discrete forms, and the physical action
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>> Now try explaining difference between URL bar and Search bar in Safari, Firefox, etc. Exactly. My mom, who is in her early sixties and is considered to be very proficient in how to use the Internet among her peer group, can't see
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>> It is more likely to get lost over time through disaster. Unless you're in the IT group, chances are you have a lot more control over the backup retention policy and disaster recovery procedures of your CMS than your email system
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That's often the point - to provide an immutable record of a conversation or of the passing (or not passing) of a message. As much as this is against the spirit of an agile workplace, the "deadness" of an email (and the external time stampi
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As much as I think "tort reform" is a right-wing dog-whistle term, medical malpractice law has a lot to do with cases like this. Put simply, if you're insured and there's an incredibly remote chance that a test could show something, most do
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BlackBerry much?
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True - but no one planes for failed installations. You always think they'll happen to "other companies" and not yours. An ERP, in order to be effective, takes a lot of buy-in from all your business units, and getting that buy-in will cost t
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TigerDirect, surprisingly, has some decent directional antennas. I've had decent luck with http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-deta... , but http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-deta... looks pretty
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That model has the implicit assumption that there has been uninterrupted law, order, conduct of business, and interest-paying accounts for the last five hundred years, which isn't the case. There's also a more interesting question - what do
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Check the OSX license, available at http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/MacOSX.htm . Excerpted: YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT USE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALIT
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>> almost bordering on legally actionable negligence Good luck with that, and please do call us when every single kernel contributor gets sued because someone accidentally overwrites their Windows partition when installing Ubuntu.
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As many have said, he socialization of high school is worth it. I'd even go as far to say that what you would gain by moving everything forwards a year would be less that what you'd gain by having a more "normal" college experience by comin
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Congress and the White House have always been exempt from most workplace and labour regulations - for example, you can't file an OSHA complaint if you work in a Senator's office.
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I use Gmail because labels (specifically, that one message can have multiple labels) and easy application of filters has changed how I work. When I have to use Outlook, everything seems so disorganized...
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And it certainly wasn't the first time, either.
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You've put enough thought into the idea that if you don't do it, you'll be regretting it five years down the road, if not sooner. Plus, you're at the point in your life where you can't screw things up too badly if it doesn't work. I would,
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I like it, but it's a long march - I'm at about 320, and a had a similar pattern; 40 a day while on holiday, five or so while at work. Seems like once you clear 200 pages or so, you're in it for the long haul. It's intimidatingly large, but
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Infinite Jest, as a long slow process. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo/The Girl who Played with Fire, each of which I found myself burning through in a day (the new definition of the genre of Swedish crime writing, which is amazing).
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You can also change your billing address easily with most credit cards - if nothing is being mailed to me (and I'm determined to get past this check), what makes me enter a real address I have access to for it? As for names, it's somewhat c
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If you're really that concerned about multiple users, I think doing the CC check would be the way to go. The larger question I think you should be asking, however, is why this guarantee is so important. You're setting up a huge barrier to n
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Is it used in their world-facing front ends? That's the part I don't get using C++ for. I can understand 100% using it for data processing in the back-end systems, but not for the usual web framework parts...
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We're focusing on the C++ because it's in the title of the post, and as far as I can tell, it's the only real thing of note that separates this from yet-another-web-framework. If the C++ isn't the special bit, what is? What should be be f
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Why so down on China? I found it wild - like Russia, but without the fear of getting kidnapped or shaken-down by the cops. As for advice... Don't plan too much in advance. Know where you're going to start and where you're going to end, but
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Uh...why? I mean the idea is interesting and all (in theory - I didn't download the framework), but I gotta ask why you'd want to do this? C++ is appropriate and excellent for many problem domains...what is it about web development that sho
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When I know I am wrapping up a coding session, I'll often leave a few trivial things unfinished - so that when I sit back down again for the next session, I'll have an easy place to jump right back in, and it will force me to (consciously o
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It's hard to find an exact number, but it surprises most people that Medicare has a very good overhead cost percentage - between 2% and 5%, depending on who you ask - which is miles better than any of the private sector providers. The numbe

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