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by apotheon 16y ago
On that subject . . . Have you worked with any competing platforms, or is Azure pretty much the platform you know? I'm just curious about your thoughts on Azure from a comparative, rather than strictly technical in-a-vacuum, perspective.
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As a throw-away statement, he referred to the fact that losing money on his books factors in the time he spent (and, presumably, the money he could have made doing other things). I'm not sure I buy that means of estimation, given the way h
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by apotheon 16y ago
Contemplating suicide plus insurance fraud in a single act without talking about the background for why he would have thought this was a good idea is not well-calculated to induce sympathy. Foisting books he thought sucked onto editors whil
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Yeah -- that moment and the moment at the very end where he found his happy ending were the only two moments in the whole thing where I felt any sympathy for the author at all. The rest of the time, where he wrote crappy books he knew were
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If someone told me he was getting rid of his cellphone because it was costing him too much money, time, whatever, I wouldn't leap to the conclusion that he's just snubbing his friends. If you would, I think you have some antisocial issues
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They know whether you respond.
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Why don't people validate? That doesn't make any sense to me. There are even free services that can perform the validation for you based on a "crowdsourced" approach to verification, like Perspectives: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/sec
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by apotheon 16y ago
Wow. Seriously, you need a better class of friends. Are you seriously telling me that people won't talk to you in person because you aren't on Facebook? What the hell is wrong with people?
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Of course, they're less likely to get angry with you if they just think you've gotten off Facebook entirely than if they think you're ignoring them while still accessible to them.
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I make it a point to hold in higher esteem the opinion of someone I personally know to have his or her head screwed on straight than a mob of virtual social butterflies who don't even know my girlfriend's name. When she calls me a donkey,
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It provides sort of a "first hit is free" experience when you're trying to ignore it. "Oh, I'll just check my wall really quickly," followed by "I'm going to check this person's wall, because that comment was interesting," followed by more
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. . . like your account information. Oops.
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There's nothing antisocial about assessing your use of a service and deciding its benefits are less significant than its costs.
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How does some corporation that will disclaim liability at the first sign of a light breeze telling you a site is "authentic" trump your own personal judgment? CAs are scams. Use something like Perspectives instead of CAs: http://www.techr
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You've got my vote.
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How A Server Side Language Achieves Popularity(blogstrapping.com)
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Avoid getting buried in technical debt(techrepublic.com)
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by apotheon 16y ago
Do you mean four times faster or do you mean four times as fast ? These terms are not synonymous. Four times faster means the same thing as five times as fast. i.e.: If it is four times as fast, you multiply the speed by four, and
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by apotheon 16y ago
I didn't downvote (I haven't even been to the page since before you posted that comment until just now), but maybe I can help you understand why I disagree with what you said: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/when-open-source...
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Looks interesting. I might need to dig in. I like the license, too.
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Excellent! I mean, Apache's a bit of an overly complex license implementation for what it does, but what it does is pretty good. Thanks.
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It doesn't appear to actually be open source: > # Copyright 2010 Greplin, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Where's the license? I think the term you want is "publishes", and not "open sources".
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I think it would be near that many pages, for many books around that size, at least. It depends in large part on how many sentences you fit on a page, after all. Anyway, you're claiming a false dichotomy there. Standardizing on single s
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It suddenly occurs to me to ask whether those friends will ever invite him to dinner with them again. He turned their friendly dinner conversation into an excuse to call them Luddites stuck in the 19th century. "You're off my Thanksgiving
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. . . unless it's not a sentence break, as in the case of "Mrs. Rigsby" or "etc. etc. etc.", or any of dozens of other options. On the other hand, software configured to recognize two spaces after a period is far more likely to work properl
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That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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That doesn't seem likely, given your preceding comment.
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Thanks for taking it a step further. I was to lazy to go that extra mile. Well . . . several keystrokes, anyway, plus a Google lookup.
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What -- you dislike it if it's off-site, but it's okay in comments? I don't get it. edit: It's not linkbait. It's really long -- too long for anyone to be likely to read in comments, and too long to throw away in a temporary context.
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Formatting. It's tougher to render (for instance) source code in a clear, easily understood fashion in a proportional font than in a monospace font. The same goes for a lot of mathematical and scientific writing, cases where red-pen editor

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