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by Shog9 11y ago
Yeah, and who needs USB on a MacBook? Seriously though, why would you assume this? The article doesn't state it - it gives examples of both devices being damaged in different ways, but cites only Dell as actually designing their hard
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by Shog9 11y ago
What are you afraid will happen? That a JavaScript developer will get lazy and store function definitions in some globally-writable place, allowing untrusted logic to be injected into systems via some embarrassingly accessible route? Becaus
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I agree, this is annoying: > On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I'm from. In their eyes, CO == pot. OTOH, it beats talking about that guy shooting up the abortion clinic and see
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by Shog9 11y ago
If you have breathing problems, getting out of Denver would probably be a good start. Air quality is pretty good for a city, but you're still surrounded by motor vehicle pollution pretty much all the time. The wildfires are probably
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by Shog9 11y ago
Let's go with Mormons.
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by Shog9 11y ago
What an odd statement. Have you ever lived in a place where children routinely travel on the ground, barefoot? This would be a useful scenario to bring to the table here. Kids trapped in an attic... not so much.
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by Shog9 11y ago
Well, the other problem here is that you can't know for sure how you come off to others; again, they can't know whether your actions reflect ACTUAL offense any more than you can know the motivation for theirs; we can take you at y
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by Shog9 11y ago
How would you ever know? You can judge actions, moderate actions, reward actions... But feelings are harder to identify. Which was sorta the point of this article, I guess. There's a good chance that everyone is offended... So, what
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by Shog9 11y ago
So, this - the pile-on voting - is something folks get really frustrated about. Every system I've ever used that allows down-ranking has these regular screeds from one side or another about how the system is being ruined by gangs of li
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by Shog9 11y ago
Re: your shorter version... Answering questions tends to be a pretty solid way to learn about a topic. I've talked to quite a few people whose experience on Stack Overflow was that they learned more about the topic they were working in
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by Shog9 11y ago
Over the past few years, we've put together a couple of (reasonably short) guides to asking questions on Stack Overflow; if you're a beginner (or simply struggling to learn the Stack Overflow way of doing things), it wouldn't
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by Shog9 11y ago
I work for Stack Overflow: it might help to know that the prompt isn't permanent; it will go away in between 4-14 days (as the votes or flags that triggered it age away). We added that prompt because a huge number of people were asking
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by Shog9 11y ago
You can when they block the construction of low-pollution utilities in their neighborhood at the expense of high-pollution utilities in poor communities. You can understand why they do it, but you can also (and should also) still blame them
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by Shog9 11y ago
Heh... Folks use software like f.lux to purposefully distort their displays in order to reduce fatigue. The ability to adjust the output to one's liking should not be confused with an inability to faithfully reproduce input.
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by Shog9 11y ago
I'm reminded of folks who ignore evacuation orders during a hurricane, latching on to any small lull as evidence that the storms will lift before it's too late. Of course, one tends to hear these stories after it is too late. No d
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by Shog9 11y ago
The discussion linked here is linked to on every single question page, question list, and homepage of Stack Overflow. And the same for every other site on Stack Exchange. I guess the hiding is the lack of a <blink> tag?
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by Shog9 11y ago
1) broken links are kind of a big problem. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/300916/i-estimate-10... 2) plagiarism (regardless of copyright) is strongly discouraged. http://stackoverflow.com/
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by Shog9 11y ago
Apparently this gets weird pretty fast as you try to navigate various legal systems; CC0 is taking a stab at simplifying this, but even that would be potentially problematic on SO. Tim just posted an answer that touches on this: http:&#x2F
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by Shog9 11y ago
Which brings it back to being a process issue: if folks are diligent about verifying (whether that's a phone call or clicking on a name), then this is harder to pull off.
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by Shog9 11y ago
Because hauling cargo requires more physical endurance... The term implies mimicking behaviors in vain hope of achieving the same results as those being mimicked. In this case, that'd be less sleep more multitasking more conspicuous ef
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by Shog9 11y ago
Not recent. May have gotten worse, but last I tried it was heavier than hangouts; yeah, text chat chewing up more cpu than streaming video. Pretty rough. Folks on Macs had no idea what I was complaining about though. Go fig.
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by Shog9 11y ago
Because it's reinstalling all the apps that actually takes time . Yes, hopefully you put all the Really Important Stuff in your home or somewhere else where it can be trivially copied (and backed up...) - including your favorite edito
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by Shog9 11y ago
Not for gas, not in the US right now, unless maybe you plan to travel in an old truck or some horribly inefficient sportscar. If you're factoring in wear and tear on your car, maybe... But highway driving isn't particularly hard o
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by Shog9 11y ago
To be fair, they don't make Sen-Sen anymore - he may never have had the opportunity to taste a truly vile American candy.
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by Shog9 11y ago
I've had bland cooked beef served in Wisconsin... Also had relish trays served with uncooked ground beef, dark rye bread, horseradish, braunschweiger, onions, mustard... Potent chilis may not be a traditional Wisconsin favorite, but
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by Shog9 11y ago
"Interstate truckstop palate" is what you're aiming for, I think.
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Black humor, I think. The author is ruefully noting that, while this usage has existed for hundreds of years, it manages to keep dropping out of fashion only to be reinvented in a new generation.
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by Shog9 11y ago
A co-worker explained it thusly: if you want to attract folks who have (or plan to have) children, you have to offer them a way to do so while working for you... Or they'll go with a different employer who does. Of course, in the past
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And assuming you have dynamic keyboard shortcuts turned on (and why wouldn't you? Best thing ever.) this is about as painless as it gets.
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It talks to you. One might say of a person that they have a mellifluous voice; one could literally say the same of this device. It has an appealing set of features, and a seemingly-promising future. One might metaphorically say that the dev

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