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by archon 8y ago
If you like fountain pens enough to give them another shot, a couple suggestions: > but I've ruined too much stuff with ink spills. Try a pen with replaceable cartridges instead of an ink well. Pilot makes pens like this, and I&#x2
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by archon 8y ago
> Presumably the backpresure of requests does not go away If a teacher's work email is anything like my email inbox at work, ~90% of emails just go away if ignored. The other ~10% email again if it's actually important. Once yo
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by archon 8y ago
> Pilot Metropolitans are ~$12 but feel really expensive. They are metal and have replaceable cartridges. You can get a italic nib which I love. To expand on this, you can also get converters that allow you to use bottled ink. I use Pilo
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by archon 8y ago
I'm worried that because this is a case in which the defendant actually did deal drugs, the court will rule in favor of the civil forfeiture laws and the SC case will then be used as a precedent to justify broader use of civil forfeitu
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by archon 9y ago
> some sort of test for users, that verifies that they read the terms of service, as a form of consent for the user agreement. This will only happen if terms of service get vastly shorter, or if a law is passed that forces it. I would be
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by archon 9y ago
> Think about every script you've ever written for "some thing at home" and how you only cared that it worked for the very narrow, specific, circumstances you were looking for. Maybe you left out error handling and just le
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by archon 9y ago
Licensing is weird sometimes.
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by archon 10y ago
> I've never seen such behavior in my life. Which behavior, the asking for phone numbers or the getting annoyed? Many major chains in the US have some sort of "loyalty" program that requires a phone number, email address,
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by archon 10y ago
> it's more like having someone at the door of every store you go into asking for your phone number as you walk in. Which is exactly what many stores do, except on the way out (at the register.) They also tend to get pretty annoyed
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by archon 10y ago
> I bet there's some higher-ups at FedEx who still like flash and refuse to give it up. I suspect this is just a delaying action - a vain attempt to retain some of their web order volume - while they frantically write the replacemen
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by archon 10y ago
I encountered that last night when trying to get something printed. Nope. My money went to a different printer. I'd be really curious to see some numbers on how successful this has been for them.
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by archon 10y ago
> At the same time I'm don't understand how anyone with who works in tech and is thus capable of really understanding these things would voluntarily pick this stack as their daily driver. Because it's way less work. Simple
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by archon 10y ago
> So why would I spend $5 on an Amy's frozen Indian meal when I can get the real thing, fresh made from the restaurant for $8? Has frozen ever been cost efficient? Seems like the better comparison would be homemade vs. the restaura
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by archon 10y ago
> let's just say I rode by some places with signs that made it very clear non-whites weren't welcome. I'm extremely curious to know where you saw that. I live in Chattanooga, and I've never seen such a thing. I am sor
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by archon 10y ago
As another Chattanooga dev, I hate to be a wet blanket, but I would be very surprised if any startup here has a need for or ability to employ a team that large. Especially since the larger employers here (TVA, Blue Cross, Unum, Covenant Tra
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by archon 10y ago
> you probably have a computer. Why not listen on that? Is this supposed to convince me to buy the device?
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by archon 10y ago
> people simply refusing to leave their home. This is the same in offices, in my experience. Our shared office building has a horrible fire system, and gets about a half dozen false fire alarms a year. My coworkers think I'm crazy f
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by archon 11y ago
> all non-board employees have full immunity, even if they worked on the defeat device I'm not trying to pick a fight, but how is that in any way honorable?
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by archon 11y ago
Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I'd been occasionally looking for a book like this but was discouraged by the price of the options I found.
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by archon 11y ago
> I have not played much KSP, is there anything as realistic as orbiter? From what little I've seen it tended toward comical set of pants, like comparing ChopperLifter to MS flight sim. By default, yes, it's pretty comical. But
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by archon 11y ago
We house-rule this. When playing Scrabble in my group of friends, we've added a rule that when a word is challenged, not only will the challenger look the word up in a dictionary, but the one who was challenged must correctly use the w
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by archon 11y ago
> Does working outside of your office make ambient noise more tolerable? Ambient noise in a cafe is different than ambient noise in an office, in my experience. Obviously this is going to be different in each office and cafe, but I'
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by archon 11y ago
I don't understand this. A language's popularity with large businesses is enough reason to dislike it?
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by archon 11y ago
> If you're in .NET land I have no idea why you would chose C# over F#. One of our reasons: The pool of (good) developers who can write C# is already pretty small in our little city. My company has enough trouble finding developers
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by archon 11y ago
> It's absolutely automated. Is there really a bot smart enough to scan an article, then not only complain about the direct mention of IMAX (which is easy enough), but also be able to connect that mention of IMAX with a virtual real
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by archon 11y ago
Yes. This is to get people to start thinking about manned Mars missions as a real possibility. Any useful ideas they get out of this program would be an unexpected side benefit.
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by archon 11y ago
Because a lot of businesses have codebases in VB. My company moved to C# for new development long ago, but we still have maybe 20% of our codebase in VB. It's not worth the time it would take to convert it, so it stays in VB. It's
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by archon 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Chattanooga, TN) I'm a full stack developer. Experience in a broad range of industries, working mostly with the Microsoft stack. Keywords: SQL Server, C# .Net, .Net MVC and Web API, HTML/CSS/Ja
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by archon 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Chattanooga, TN) I'm a full stack developer. Experience in a broad range of industries, working mostly with the Microsoft stack. Keywords: SQL Server, C# .Net, .Net MVC and Web API, HTML/CSS/Ja
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by archon 12y ago
A martial art does not have to be directly usable in the real world to still be a martial art. Martial arts are about training the mind and body. Some of them happen to have practical defensive uses, others don't.

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