RyJones

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by RyJones 13y ago
We used gerrit at amazon and my current employer and it seems to have plenty of enterprise features out-of-the-box. https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
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by RyJones 13y ago
I have signed exactly 0 of my credit cards and this has not caused me any trouble. Nobody checks.
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by RyJones 13y ago
Yes, I went through that training, and that's an accurate summation of the commandments given. Do not peruse patent databases because it only takes one person at Microsoft reading the patent, and someone else totally unrelated infringi
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by RyJones 13y ago
I've had the experience of violently agreeing with a comment I found on the web, only to find I wrote it years ago and had forgotten about it. Strange days.
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by RyJones 13y ago
so very, very little of day-to-day coding is what I bucket as CS problems. It's mostly turn the crank part assembly that's needed. Not that CS problems aren't out there, but your architects should be decomposing those for mor
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by RyJones 13y ago
this was exactly how the "anonymous" board at Microsoft worked.
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by RyJones 13y ago
better than the ones that could be criminally convicted for earthquake prediction failures. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-23/italian-scientists-con...
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by RyJones 13y ago
My favorite filler text of all time.
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by RyJones 13y ago
It turns out to be relatively cheap (in dollar terms) to move a barge. In time terms, not so much. If you wanted a floating party barge to hit the US coasts, I'd build one on the east coast and one on the west, just to save time going
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by RyJones 13y ago
Not sure why. He's clearly stating his expertise - he's a user, not a computer builder, and he wanted to get that out of the way. After that, he relates his experience as a user, which you can choose to inform with his earlier com
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by RyJones 13y ago
It's nice to see the author play with fonts to illustrate his points (3.2, 3.3, 3.5 are most obvious).
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by RyJones 13y ago
Ask Melinda Gates.
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GeekWire Radio: How these security pros view the NSA revelations(geekwire.com)
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by RyJones 13y ago
Audio voicemail increased ARPU and minutes/month/user, thus the resistance dropping it. Now that everyone is on flat-rate plans, burning minutes for voicemail access is unlikely to ever cost you money. Didn't use to be the ca
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by RyJones 13y ago
I wonder what he means by 1/4" armor plate - AR500? Is it actually rated for armor plating, or just built with material from which you could also build rated plates?
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by RyJones 13y ago
Except you can't scroll far enough to close it.
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by RyJones 13y ago
Cigar smoker here. Cigars take between 45 minutes and an hour and a half to get through; a little long for a fix. You can get smaller cigars, but they're mostly cigarettes sold as cigars to escape the higher taxes.
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by RyJones 13y ago
The angle of the edge makes insertion tricky. The lack of visible indicator as to which direction is correct; It would be nice if there was a little glyph showing the expected orientation.
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by RyJones 13y ago
I would have bought LTE with my surface pro, had it been offered. My iPad's LTE is so flaky I don't trust it.
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by RyJones 13y ago
Usually, I don't need the stylus; I'm using the keyboard and touchpad. However, when I do need it, I can't find it because it attaches where the power cord attaches, so I'm always removing it and setting it down, then fo
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by RyJones 13y ago
I've been happy with my Surface Pro; the two changes I'm most looking forward to are the docking station and Haswell. The extra pixel density is a nice-to-have, but being able to pop it in and out of a docking station is killer. T
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by RyJones 13y ago
Because a small fraction of people buy it, and a smaller fraction of purchasers turn it on. I've bought (and given away) four iPads with Verizon LTE. Exactly 0 people activated it. This is old data, but in line with newer data I'v
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by RyJones 13y ago
When it's used as a gate, it is an issue. It took the Seattle PD and whatever agency actually issues civilian CAC (HSPD-12) a long, long time to get enough prints to allow me access to do my job. Both eventually had to accept three ver
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by RyJones 13y ago
I don't have fingerprints. A large part of the world population doesn't have readable prints. What now? People on blood thinners, elderly people, Asians, women all have less distinctive prints. I don't have prints due to psor
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by RyJones 13y ago
No argument it's built better - and to code, no less.
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by RyJones 13y ago
they're cheap to acquire, but long-term, not so good. They're also very flimsy, so everything sort-of goes at once. Yes, you can spend a lot more on one and get nicer finishes, but the end state is the floor sags and none of the d
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by RyJones 13y ago
I can. You can submit your site for review, it seems they mis-flag lots of sites.
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by RyJones 13y ago
specifically, it's the Asha brand, not the Nokia brand, that they got for feature/dumb phones. Microsoft will not be selling anything with a "Nokia" label
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by RyJones 13y ago
Your site is blocked by McAfee as a source of malware, btw.
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by RyJones 13y ago
Do watch the video at the end.

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