Vivtek

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571.
by Vivtek 13y ago
Oh, who could possibly have predicted this? Why is everybody so surprised? I literally do not understand this.
572.
by Vivtek 13y ago
Some natives of Bloomington, Indiana do that one, too.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
"Seem"?
574.
by Vivtek 13y ago
Don't even get me started. It was a manufactured crisis and the manufactured media response was yellow journalism at its best. There were hundreds of thousands of people out in the streets protesting that travesty of a fake war - which we'
575.
by Vivtek 13y ago
That entirely depends on the issue and whether it's blocking a way for me to make money. Assuming it's a no-go for something I need to do, then I'll hire the smartest guy I can find and contribute the code back into the project.
576.
by Vivtek 13y ago
the American people, who want the media to rally around officials in times of crisis Bah. Speak for yourself, Atlantic Magazine. (Especially during manufactured crises...)
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by Vivtek 13y ago
That's its value to me, too. I sit in Budapest and I'm actually in closer contact with my old high school friends in Indiana than I have ever been. And my kid's friends' parents in Puerto Rico. And yeah, some people here in Budapest. It
578.
by Vivtek 13y ago
This article entirely misses the point: the author is not Facebook's market . And this is why Facebook will be a long-term feature of the Internet - because it actually works exactly the way most people want to communicate. So it doesn't
579.
by Vivtek 13y ago
Yeah, there are real problems with an evacuated tunnel - such as the fact that any air leak in its hundreds of miles makes it a non-evacuated tunnel. Do something like this and you've got the best of both worlds. Elon Musk is making Americ
580.
by Vivtek 13y ago
The difference there is that Paypal is required by law to make those ID requests. AirBNB is not.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
That may be the best possible answer I could possibly have imagined.
582.
by Vivtek 13y ago
A little scrounging at the bottom of the article will tell you that it wasn't written by the Onion... Even if it were, it would have been written by the Onion .
583.
by Vivtek 13y ago
What? Then Pat Robertson would have to get a job.
584.
by Vivtek 13y ago
The article does state it's an unusual move.
585.
by Vivtek 13y ago
Yeah, but it's relatively restricted right now, to the point that the vast majority of consumers have no idea it exists. If this is enshrined in law as a bona fide policy, it will become much more widespread - perhaps to the point that Joe
586.
by Vivtek 13y ago
I proved this in my college calc class - my proof was the shortest (one page) and it won me the textbooks for differential equations.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
(Or mark it in some way, you know: "This is ambiguous, but it needs to be because _______" - because frankly, ambiguous parses are destined to be bug sources.)
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, they're not really doing a good job protecting us from crime. As you know, Bob, I'm pretty liberal - but not when it comes to state surveillance. I'd like to see some empirical evidence that state surveillance has ever been used p
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by Vivtek 13y ago
This perfectly encapsulates my feelings about the Perl parsing question! An ambiguous parse is still a parse, and yeah, the 'whatever' example is pathologically unmaintainable code. As you say, if a static parser finds it ambiguous, you sh
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by Vivtek 13y ago
It really is, isn't it? "Comrade, American economy needs you!"
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by Vivtek 13y ago
A much milder version of this happened to me once. I accidentally discovered a rootkit on the server of one of my customers and reported it. Their initial knee-jerk was to ask me why I thought I had the right to put a rootkit on their ser
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I'm not joking at all. I had a consulting customer once that had a problem; I asked him a couple of things on the phone that he insisted he'd checked, and he pleaded that I come to Chicago in person and take a look, when I lived in Souther
593.
by Vivtek 13y ago
Quality only matters after the cost accounting is done. It's kind of a Maslow Hierarchy for large corporations.
594.
by Vivtek 13y ago
Ha. Scrubbing with a wire brush is worth a dollar - knowing what to scrub with a wire brush was definitely worth $130, right?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I for one am glad the community has been diluted to the point that I can participate.
596.
by Vivtek 13y ago
As the parent of a college freshman, let me say that this is one significant reason we've relocated to Budapest. (Not that this would be a help to most, as our daughter is bilingual in Hungarian.)
597.
by Vivtek 13y ago
Yeah, I'm not at all convinced sentience is a safeguard against interspecies competition. Look what we have done to other species...
598.
by Vivtek 13y ago
I know what you mean. I stopped at the first frame. Two people lying on a beach, with popup text "Wait for it." I thought that was pretty poetic. Then it turned out it was just the first frame.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, yes, actually they do show up in a balance sheet - that's why it's a good thing if your balance sheet is an entire population without the difficult cases jettisoned.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
No, no! He's always a pleasure to read. But then I come from a long line of cynical curmudgeons and this stuff always reminds me of my (now deceased) uncles.

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