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by baak 14y ago
"Who's the OP" was pretty funny. Honestly, the hacker-hero worship on HN gets a little ridiculous sometimes.
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by baak 14y ago
...That guarantees you the right to drive at any speed you want? Sorry, laws are important, as are taxes. And while you may not use roads, the rest of us do. I don't have children, but I pay taxes for schools. I'm okay with it because educ
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by baak 14y ago
1 in 50 seems... very, very optimistic. On top of that, the investment is higher than the lottery. The lottery costs you $1. This costs you ~$10-20k in salary, and possibly more in lost opportunities and time you would've had elsewhere.
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by baak 14y ago
Somalia doesn't really have a functioning government. You could try there, if you don't like having your 'life controlled'.
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by baak 14y ago
Go to aaronsw.com/weblog Click on the title of any blog post. Scroll to bottom and click read comments? Am I missing something?
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by baak 14y ago
Database Theory, Algorithms and Data Structures, and Software Engineering were the most useful for me.
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by baak 14y ago
JSON Databases have passed relational in popularity? I don't know that I believe that. Anyone know if there's a NoSQL/SQL market share comparison out there?
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by baak 14y ago
I definitely had this issue with Office 2007 during my internship a few years ago.
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by baak 14y ago
Yep. Opening a CSV file in excel: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/215591 What a nightmare. Do they not realize how many DB tables start with 'ID'? And CSV is too common a format to just completely ignore. It's not always up to us.
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by baak 14y ago
I absolutely hate Excel. It's not the number crunching that's the problem. Database -> Excel, Excel -> Database issues are almost unavoidable. In 2 months of working with SSIS packages, I encountered every one of these problems (I'm
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by baak 14y ago
That last sentence conjured an image of a person trying to drag a giant toolbox with him everywhere for some reason :) I do tend to disagree with the sentiment though. The initial time investment per tool is steep. Also, the tools' values d
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by baak 14y ago
I thought the same. Still cool site though.
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by baak 14y ago
I don't think it was only the last 24 hours either. It's kind of hard to ignore signs of it in his blog. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying
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by baak 14y ago
Zimbabwe has debt too.
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by baak 14y ago
Very cool site! Noticed a few issues, the most obvious of which is sometimes the answer doesn't belong to the poster you're looking at. An Example: I drilled down to C#, Jon Skeet, 'What's the worst gotcha in C#?'. There is an answer int th
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by baak 14y ago
Which pharma cases? I noticed the if. It's still a rather bold statement. "Soandso is an idiot." "Do you have any proof?" "If they think this, then they're an idiot. Have you provided evidence to the contrary?" It's like saying Stephen Hawk
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by baak 14y ago
Which other more serious cases did Ortiz choose not to pursue and why? Perhaps there wasn't good enough evidence to pursue them? I really don't think she's an idiot... I know we're honor-bound not to like her, but we're calling her an idiot
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by baak 14y ago
There is nothing wrong with defending his comments. Who made you judge, jury, and executioner? Anonymity has made you bold.
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by baak 14y ago
No. The difference between your comment and his is hindsight. Well, that and that his comment had some thought behind it. You are just as nasty with your commments and have absolutely no shame because you're anonymous.
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by baak 14y ago
You're just as capable of hurting people. Maybe you just pushed someone over the edge by calling them scum. Tomorrow, will I get to call you names and talk about how your comment was excessively cruel and vitriolic? Do you know if the perso
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by baak 14y ago
You can disagree with something someone does and still feel bad when they die. I don't understand why that is a contrast. Did you feel bad when Steve Jobs died, even if just for his family and friends? Did you ever say anything critical of
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by baak 14y ago
I got the impression he just thought Aaron was guilty of a crime, and consciously committed it to make a difference, so Aaron should accept the legal consequences that go with that. Hindsight is 20/20, and perhaps knowing Aaron was the type
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by baak 14y ago
Why is that a contrast? He didn't support what Aaron allegedly did, so he should be happy that Aaron is dead?
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by baak 14y ago
Poker, anyone?
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by baak 14y ago
Oh. You don't like their business model, so you should steal your 'petty entertainment?' It does matter if it's petty entertainment. I might agree with you if you were having trouble eating over this. But you can't watch Game of Thrones wit
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by baak 14y ago
"Maybe then you'll see the problem." "The problem" is that you can't see Game of Thrones. Really? REALLY?? Oh the humanity! I don't know how people ever did anything before Game of Thrones. It would be absolute chaos if people couldn't s
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by baak 14y ago
"But doesn't that speak to the exact issue you're responding to? I'd more than happily pay for Game of Thrones season 2 if it were available for me to pay for on its own or with other things I want. The problem is that in order to get it I
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by baak 14y ago
You downplayed child pornography as just someone "jerking off to a picture." So yes, you apparently don't see the other consequences of it, and don't think it's a big deal. That's what you don't seem to understand: It's not the 'transfer of
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by baak 14y ago
The real screwed up part about all this is the fact that naming of bills has you somehow convinced that child pornography isn't a big deal. You think it's about jerking off to a picture?? That's sickening. The fact that some politician out
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by baak 14y ago
Oh really? Why don't you tell me exactly what is you won't give up to stop the rape of a child. Go ahead. And none of this "civil liberties" cop out. Give me a specific thing you could do with Tor that you can't otherwise that is worth more

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