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1831.
by acheron 15y ago
Maybe it's £10 in binary.
1832.
by acheron 15y ago
Few years old but fun to look through and remember how many you've used. I currently use a 72-pin SIMM as a keychain.
1833.
by acheron 15y ago
I guess that's true in (some?) cities, but most places aren't cities. In most places, the crossing signal probably won't turn at all unless you press the button.
1834.
20th anniversary of the Michelangelo virus(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
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1835.
by acheron 15y ago
Pretty much. Anyone who singles out Fox as any worse than any other media outlet is just showing their own ignorance.
1836.
by acheron 15y ago
I found the headline funny: my job for the past 3 months or so has been heavily involved with SSL client certs. Of course, it's on a private network, not the Internet, so that makes it easier. (By which I mean "easier to force the clients t
1837.
by acheron 15y ago
Love this. I approve of anything that uses the old fashioned IBM "extended ASCII" characters from code page 437.
1838.
by acheron 15y ago
My son is 6 months, so don't have any experience yet from this side, but my dad started teaching me GW-BASIC when I was about 7. I'm not sure what the modern equivalent would be. Python perhaps.
1839.
by acheron 15y ago
In my experience, much of the time when a company says they're looking for people who are "excited" and "enthusiastic" about the job, it's because they want to pay less money, and think that if they find someone "excited" that they'll be mo
1840.
by acheron 15y ago
That's my position too -- bought a new TV recently, and made sure to look for a "dumb" TV, since I'd rather have all those features separately. We're probably in the minority though; more people would rather have "all in one" machines.
1841.
by acheron 15y ago
"AT&T bought cingular" is not really accurate. Sequence of events: 2000 - SBC and BellSouth jointly create a company called "Cingular Wireless". 2002 - AT&T spins off a company called "AT&T Wireless". 2004 - Cingular buys out AT
1842.
by acheron 15y ago
Obviously you're biased, but you're making it sound like working with an external recruiter is actually a good idea. Mostly I just hear that IT recruiters are terrible -- don't actually know what your skills are and just blast out your resu
1843.
by acheron 15y ago
I've gotten that one a few times, and I always write something that only contains the string 'Fizz' once and 'Buzz' once (i.e., doesn't say 'FizzBuzz' separately, just uses the same logic to print 'Fizz' and 'Buzz' both), because I figured
1844.
by acheron 15y ago
It's because everyone hates each other while flying anyway, and if people had to fly 5 hours with some dumbass yelling on his cell phone the entire time there would be a lot more incidents of "air rage".
1845.
by acheron 15y ago
Can you quit your job for no reason in Australia?
1846.
by acheron 15y ago
I've been using one of the "Proggy" fonts from http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download for awhile now... I don't remember which one specifically, I think "Proggy Clean". This one looks good too, and maybe it'd be better than Pr
1847.
by acheron 15y ago
Speaking of line editors, anyone remember edlin for MS-DOS? Sometimes I think I hallucinated it.
1848.
by acheron 15y ago
Never used a monitor where that was the only option? My lawn: get off of it.
1849.
by acheron 15y ago
I worked email support for a website once upon a time. I'm pretty sure 40% of the emails were "I forgot my password", despite a large "Forgot Your Password?" link on the top of every page next to the login box. And this was a rather technic
1850.
by acheron 15y ago
If you're talking about working for yourself (that is, working for customers), then sure, that makes sense. If you're working for someone else who is paying you specifically to work 40 hours, then there's no reason to work more than that un
1851.
by acheron 15y ago
"That's the problem with randomness: you can never be sure." http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Random%20Number%20Generator
1852.
by acheron 15y ago
Yeah, that always bugs me too. It seems like a relatively recent thing, too; I feel like I always heard it with the negative connotation growing up and in early adulthood, but within the past 10 years or so I suddenly see people who write a
1853.
by acheron 15y ago
Same here.. our baby has been pretty easy once we got past the first couple weeks. He's 3 months old, and sleeps 9+ hours straight at night, he almost never screams unless there's a reason, etc. I kind of worry that we're going to think, "o
1854.
by acheron 15y ago
Yeah, it's basically just a cypher of English. Still cool though, and a good way to approximate a fictional language in a short amount of time.