armored_mammal

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by armored_mammal 14y ago
The reason we don't do much of it is that it's not viewed as a productive expenditure of dev time by management.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I agree with you as a generalization, but imagemagick is pretty much known to be a deadbeat project. Give graphicsmagick a go. The maintainer is well known for working with people who have questions, bugs, and such (if you can forgive the c
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How is $455 per week comparable to $27.63 an hour?(dol.gov)
5 points by armored_mammal 14y ago|1 comments
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
^ And point proven.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I try not to view it as a community. Cynicism helps.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
The goal of Y Combinator is not to encourage discussion of controversial issues. If something is divisive and not related to a debate strictly to do with technical topics they probably consider it in their best interests to bury it. Sadly.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Too simplistic. There are a lot of things that bring bias into the equation if the question is about the effectiveness of teaching/education and not about the ability of a school to create (rather than select or influence) 'success' outside
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Come on... it IS an east coast old money circle-jerk. And everyone knows it.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
One of those ideas that's blatantly obvious, but which most will refuse to consider until someone 'big' mainstreams it. I have a hard time reconciling the various useful things the Gates foundation seems to do with the tendency towards obno
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Perhaps most companies prefer to keep the press positive? Mine certainly does. (And it'll probably stick with MySQL until its dying day despite it causing problems repeatedly.)
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Abandoned in space(web.archive.org)
2 points by armored_mammal 14y ago|0 comments
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I've had massive delivery delays every so often with gmail and they're a little irritating, sure, but quite frankly email makes no guarantees about delivery time. If you need guaranteed fast delivery maybe email isn't the answer.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
My biggest issue with Steam on Linux is the load times. They seem ridiculous for no discernible reason. Based on my watch opening simply loading a game must read through 20 Gigabytes of files. Oh, wait. The game is only 14 G on disk. Maybe
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
If I new of a job where I could program for a container agriculture company or something I would. Your comments ring true to me.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Who should blame the administration instead of the DDOS'ers.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
It's more like ignoring that your father raped someone or tolerating it or telling him it's fine instead of getting him help or reporting it.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
And your tuition money is so entirely different than tithing how? Likewise, customers have social responsibility in their purchasing decisions, and transferring credits to another school isn't all that huge of a deal, either, so I'm kind of
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Fortunately protesting at the ballot box allows Americans some measure of escape from culpability for the actions of the US government, however most are still responsible having voted for Democrats or Republicans, the very ones who have put
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
What, do you think people have no social responsibility towards the institutions they support? If you belonged to the Westboro Baptist Church or some other group it'd be legit to claim you're responsible for their actions to a certain degre
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
If the students have failed to vehemently distance themselves and protest to the administration, or even quit MIT for somewhere else, then they are just as guilty. Their attendance abets the status quo. Especially since it's a private unive
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I don't consider myself a windows hater per se, but his 'parody' really rings true to my experience, though the absolute limit for me was having to install a special piece of software so that I could scroll the areas underneath the mouse wi
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I agree the systems in use seem horrible and expense from a cost, engineering, and IT perspective, but I'm also a big fan of my doc being able to see my records in digestible format, IE graphs showing a series of test results over time and
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I often find Forbes blog entries more interesting than the actual magazine articles, though that is, of course, not the same as saying that the blogs are on average any good.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Here's one Linux user who'd love to see Civ for Linux.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I'm not sure it kills the Ouya... my main reason for getting an Ouya is that it's really small and I can probably use it to stream stuff from my desktop to TV easily. Not because I'm expecting crazy gaming power or touch screens. I'm sure o
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Count me as another one who says meh to Facebook and doesn't care for drinking but otherwise likes the idea.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I got a netbook with an atom for $250-ish dollars just about 4 years ago and still can't find anything under $400 dollars that's enough of an improvement to make it worth replacing. The crap SSD long ago died so my machine now runs LXDE off
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Switzerland has guns all over and doesn't have much of a problem, with a gun crime rate that's similar to many countries with tough restrictions. Norway has much tougher regulations than America's and still had Anders Breivik. I don't think
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Yes, let's play with people's emotions. Maybe after seeing this they will feel good about my site and pay me. Just because something is a tragedy doesn't mean we should turn it into a hoopla of cooperative and meaningless tripe. Skip the ho
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I like having co-workers and actually going in to the office, but you'd have to start talking MASSIVE salary increase to get me to go NY or SF with the cost of living so high, commutes so awful, and onerous laws so numerous. Concur with aut

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