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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
One person's bug is another person's feature.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"The desktop is just there to launch and switch between applications." If that's how you look at the desktop, then you should definitely look at Lubuntu. It's just windows and a panel. When you look at an Xfce desktop, it looks like Xfce. W
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"citizens at large" I listen to the local police radio on the internet (it's oddly relaxing), and they have two terms for us: suspects, and reporting persons (RPs).
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Yes, they do get punished, but they get away with enough that they deserve their reputation.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
How can the police not be held accountable? Who investigates the police? Other police. Who investigates other police? Other police. It's the police.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
They have to pay someone to do it, they have to pay someone to decide to do it, they have to pay someone to find the equipment to do it with, they have to pay someone to think about it, they have to pay lawyers to license it, and they have
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
And juice. You forgot the juice. It's all about the juice.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"[Gmail/Facebook/USGov/etc] isn't going to find anything particularly interesting about me by my mail, anyway." There are two problems here: 1. We look at our data from our point of view. Other people and orgs have their own points of view,
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I've given this about 45 seconds thought, in the spirit of an interesting problem that's not my problem. If I had this problem, one thing I would try would be to find language schools or teachers in the target language, located in your curr
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
And there are no gay people in the closet, based on all the gay people we meet who are out.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Translation: "That's a pile of poo. And I mean that in the nicest possible way."
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I don't claim that normal people can't or won't be conditioned to develop hostility in us vs them scenarios. I also don't claim that being in the military doesn't change people. Everything changes people, and the change in the military can
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Widely used journalistic convention, to promote the appearance of objectivity, or similarly to remove the writer (who is usually irrelevant) from the story.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"US border guards are primarily ex-military." Ex-military, like everyone else in the world, are individuals. Being in the military doesn't turn you into an asshole, although it could amplify that tendency if you went in with it. Military an
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
At my job in the early eighties we had to maintain paper forms of engineering data, and when one value would change due to external reasons, we had to update all the fields by writing the forms over or with whiteout. I hated that, so I taug
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
US citizen, I used to cross to Vancouver BC occasionally in the eighties. I loved going up, the CBP was always nice and welcoming. I hated coming back, the US guards were rude and terrible. Shameful.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
If most casual users see something isn't immediately available, then it is not there. For example, there is almost nothing on the MS Office Ribbon.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
By sending Word/Excel/etc documents around in email, turning on revisions, and having endless discussions on which version is current. We still do that now.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
That's a great idea. Just like the draft. There could even be a Constitutional boot camp, so you can learn how to be a member of Congress.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
If Dodd was investigated for this, the MPAA bribery faucet would be turned off.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Depending on your needs, there may be something here for you: http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"That's old fuddy duddy thinking. I'm 56 and I see plenty of people my age that thought like this and they have little to do now other than play golf an wait for dementia to kick in." I didn't say anything about quitting work. What you do w
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
@everyone, I guess there are a lot of reasons to not try.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
@silverstorm, if you you do it purely from saving, it will be a hard slog, but if you look at typical salaries thrown around, you can save most of your salary and get to your 1.5 to 2 mil at 35, or 40, or 45 or 50. If you invest aggressivel
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
That you could not work another day and still survive in our economy with reasonable comfort and safety. In an industry like this, that focuses on the new, this will become critical for everyone at some point, although the point where it be
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"if you're reaching 50 in technology, you need to find an exit scenario. government, management, teaching." Everyone's goal should be financial independence by 35, or as soon thereafter as you are able to accomplish.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Instead of these guys going to town hall meetings, why don't they brush up on their development skills and learn something new?" If those specific unemployed people all went home and learned Android development, most of them still wouldn't
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"What would be the impact of such a database, if it became widely available, say, from a company whose mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful?" More ad buys from the covered companies.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Then we can look forward to patent lawsuits over aspect ratios. No thanks.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
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