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by ambiate 13y ago
If I lost my laptop, assuming I would have a backup of the past 15 years on it (like most devices I own), I would worry about the statute of limitations on cyber crimes regarding felonies for unlawful intrusion. When I was a teenager, we us
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by ambiate 13y ago
You would be really shocked at what $20 can get you in some communities. You might have inspired me to do some writing on the subject.
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by ambiate 13y ago
Most of my friends seem to be bankers, on a board, or loan officers of some sort. This was not by intention. It just seems everyone is connected and has their fingers dipped in money. It is insanely easy to build connections. I had an oil c
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by ambiate 13y ago
I compare Austin to little San Francisco. Texas is not the South. Wipe that stereotype from your mind. I live in Waco, TX. Two hours from the hearts of Austin, Fort Worth and Dallas. First: Internet. With Google Fiber and Grande Communicati
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by ambiate 13y ago
Our local credit union was sued by the city for using a picture of a local bridge on their debit cards. The credit union owned the rights to the photograph that was provided by a local photographer. The city owned the right to pictures of t
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by ambiate 13y ago
You tread dangerous ground offering free images with logos and brands in them. Be careful in choosing a license.
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by ambiate 13y ago
I remember finding the 'Jobs Menu', but never finding out how to change jobs and focus points in categories until I was half way into the game. It was a ruff experience of mostly pure melee and potions for those first 30 hours.
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by ambiate 13y ago
I've always noted that it was interesting that link selling (in a non-obvious manner) was not an incentive for these Kickstarter projects. Donate $20 and get your name and link to your website on our contributors page! Shrug.
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by ambiate 13y ago
I started at a community college (and wish I had transferred in the full 60 hours). I went to a private university with 1/4th paid tuition. The other half (~12.5k/yr) was in my pockets. I stayed for 2.5 years. I achieved 100 hours of my bio
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by ambiate 13y ago
I have been intending to buy this book for over 3 months now. I finally got around to it today. The coding conventions won me over in the first 5 minutes.
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by ambiate 13y ago
The article states: 'a licensed professional can only tamper with an emissions system.' This is obviously not true, because the person who stole my catalytic converter most likely did not have a license. Much like the hundreds of thousands
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by ambiate 13y ago
The cat kittles speaks the truth. Minimum living and investing 50% of your income into a 401k for 5-7 years in your twenties. Invest the other 35% or so into diverse CDs with ranging lock periods (or flipping things on craigslist, both have
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by ambiate 13y ago
I went to Sears two days ago for a brake inspection. The guy quoted $700. He pulled me off to the side and said, 'buy the parts for $100 and we will charge $300 for labor. Quote around for better prices, or you might be able to do the labor
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by ambiate 13y ago
Indeed. I was installing Crunchbang. Our local proxy knows to route our local username to our email addresses in our VPN. Yet, the validation required an @ symbol. It is against our standards to use our @ email internally. Sigh.
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by ambiate 13y ago
This is off topic, but in the recent months there has been an influx of these informative blog posts with animated gifs that are not really relevant to the information. Is this just a side effect of being a Tumblr user/community member? The
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by ambiate 13y ago
It is funny he mentions observing hacker news to understand the audience and potential criticism. It is 100% of the reason I visit this site. I want to understand and interpret this audience. There is a fountain of knowledge in these commen
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by ambiate 13y ago
It is really nothing against you. The distaste is from previous black hats using these lists for SEO purposes/link bait. Easy to get backlinks, easy to put a link at the bottom with a DOFOLLOW that is completely off topic (hello infographic
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by ambiate 13y ago
Little substance is found in Top N lists. I would much rather have the author cover one library and explain how it has benefited his development process. What roadblocks did using xyz library overcome? What issues were found along the way?
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by ambiate 13y ago
As a southern person, I do not think of Chattanooga as the stereotypical southern area. In fact, most of TN is beautiful and avoids the pitfalls of 'true southern' towns such as: retirement cities, college towns, mix of prior two, devastati
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by ambiate 13y ago
Ugh, our lapse rate is typically 30 days. We have companies that have lapsed 6+ months. Yet, it has been going on for decades. No one questions it and we always seem to get paid in the end. It is just bad form for both parties. 'We have alw
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by ambiate 13y ago
I use the void concept to explain my absurdity. I usually fall back on explaining the thought process that follows awakening in a void. The loss of identity, speech, motion, etc. Now, I wish I had taken a physics class.
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by ambiate 13y ago
I really thought you were my coworker. He has been pushing for me to attack a niche at the company in spare time for months. 'Work on interesting things and move further away from meetings and people in general. You will lock yourself into
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by ambiate 13y ago
Crunchbase -- 'Tasty Labs is a startup founded by the founder of Delicious, Joshua Schachter, and ex googler Paul Rademacher and former Mozilla Director of Add-Ons, Nick Nguyen. Tasty Labs goal is to try and put “the useful back into social
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by ambiate 13y ago
As a person with severe social anxiety, I felt truly anonymous in my visit to San Francisco last summer. I was not worried or threatened like my wife. I knew all things come and go in SF. The inherent risks of SF seemed easier to evaluate d
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by ambiate 13y ago
The goto and labels stick out like coal in a pile of gold.
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by ambiate 13y ago
I once used a laptop for a two hour hackathon. The risk, price, performance, and power ratios of owning a desktop versus a laptop never quite added up to me. My wife knows (from some prior experience) that unplugging the computer without sh
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by ambiate 13y ago
I was using my wife's experience as content. I have a different perception of how to attack problems. She knows there is a power button 'somewhere' in the desktop environment. She knows clicking the mouse twice turns on the computer. Howeve
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by ambiate 13y ago
Just the amount of effort required to put the computer to sleep... ugh. The instructions are: 1) (Sometimes) when you hover in a corner a menu will popup or press WIN + C. 2) Click settings (in the midst of 4(?) other options) 3) Click the
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by ambiate 13y ago
I was shocked to see 'hey.io' was just bought today.
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by ambiate 13y ago
I saw top 5% and did not know how to interpret that either.

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