VT_Drew

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by VT_Drew 9y ago
Doesn't matter if you re-install the OS. They spyware was baked into the BIOS. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...
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by VT_Drew 9y ago
I never said it was fake news. I know that company X is garbage, reviewer Y says company X is great, why the hell would I trust reviewer Y? This isn't opinion or debate, they were caught 2 different times putting spyware on new machine
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by VT_Drew 9y ago
Source right here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ (and it isn't a wikipedia article)
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by VT_Drew 9y ago
I read that too. Lenovo the top spot? Aaaand we are done here. I am not going to trust any "review"/"ranking" system that doesn't put Lenovo dead last. They were caught 2 times preloading spyware/malware o
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>Generally, in price negotiations it is advantageous to name a number first. This is absolutely 100% wrong. In price negotiations you will almost always fair better if you force the other party to bring up a number first.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Very true, when combined they are horrible. But disagree with "neither". Sugar is really bad by itself, it isn't an "empty calorie" at all, it spikes insulin and will rot your teeth.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Is it driven by limit orders then? I mean if people are buying and selling at the "market" price then it should stay sideways. If someone wants to sell to get cash and there are no market buys then the price just automatically dro
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Ask HN: What is the actual formula for calcuating the current price of a stock?
1 points by VT_Drew 10y ago|3 comments
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Who is going to advertise on gail.com? The numbers of visitors is meaningless if the vast majority of your visitors take 2 seconds to look at the site and say "Ooops I made a typo, this isn't the page I wanted. Let me fix that.&qu
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
I personally like http://heeeeeeeey.com/
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
The title for this article is hideously awful. "Console into Mass." WTF is that suppose to mean? Not to mention that Mass. is the Associated Press's abbreviation for Massachusetts, which only adds to the confusion. Also headl
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Make sure to tell them that you name in Jenny too.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
> Right, but where do they get their data? You give it to them when you sign up for that stupid rewards card.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Exactly. >Even as the big publishers work to increase the proportion of sales that come from digital products, they’re still largely dependent on physical books. The other issue the large sum of money they want to charge per book. The co
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>get money by being dishonest; so it's stealing. That isn't the definition of stealing. In fact I would argue, while it is dishonest, it isn't stealing in slightest. Stealing means you took something, without agreement, th
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Article was sort of interesting, but I think it glossed over the most interesting part. >long before he enlisted a programmer to build a system that authorities say was designed to cheat the market. What exactly was the system doing to &
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>If half of the warriors are drunk or stoned, you'll lose whatever battle happens to come up. If all the world leaders were required to take psychedelics on a quarterly basis there would likely be no need for warriors. Every war is
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Here is your information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ffswUVoxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxM_CLsvieE
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>I will admit that after that I simply disabled SELinux and never looked back. The benefits didn't seem worth the hassle to me. YUP, this right here. SELinux needs to be way more user friendly if you want to see wider adoption.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Exactly this. I don't really care if it pays well if I hate the system. If I hate using it, if I don't believe in it, if I feel like it isn't the right product for the customers I am supposed to help.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>How do you break into a career in a niche field like SAP development. OH GOD WHY? Have you used SAP? SAP is the most expensive pile of shit I have ever seen. No company in their right mind would deploy such a system at this point in tim
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>I'm a longtime Windows developer who doesn't have much patience with nerdy complexities. That is funny because I have setup Apache, Nginx, and IIS web servers before and by far the one I found to have the most nerdy complexiti
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>The configuration is not that intuitive and you really need to get into the syntax and concepts to get an understanding of knobs to turn in order to achieve a certain goal. Personally I found Nginx configuration much simpler than Apache
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Started off learning Ruby and was going to teach myself Rails. Then I deiced to give Python a try, before getting into Rails, and found I like Python way more than Ruby. So, I picked up Django instead of Rails.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
It has it's pro's and con's. I do love how I can just to !a to search amazon, or !w to search wikipedia, or !g if I really want to use Google. Kind of wish Google had a feature like that.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Not creator here. "Flash-like content authoring tool for HTML5" isn't catchy at all, that's like calling an iPod "Digital music playing device". Branding and marketing count.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>If you can plug it in, it will work: Not if there aren't drivers written for your OS it won't. Unless you are the type of person who can roll your own drivers.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
>Python used to be easy to learn. It isn't anymore. Compared to C++, C# and Java, Python is still MUCH easier to learn. Python and Ruby are the easier languages to learn. I have to agree with the other commenter, why learn a toy lan
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
Stock in AMD bought when it was under $3 per share.
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by VT_Drew 10y ago
I will give Emacs a try once I figure out how to exit Vim.

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