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by bblough 10y ago
I also just took the plunge. I guess I'm at about 3 weeks (late next week is one month). For the past several months, I spent some of my free time going through my history, deleting almost everything I ever posted (note, there's
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by bblough 10y ago
> They're rejecting your reports because the issues are often fixed in newer versions Sure, newer versions fix bugs from older versions. But they don't delete/archive the old reports after a new release, so the reports tha
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by bblough 10y ago
Nowhere did I say that the WINE folks should support old versions. I said that the information in the user report could be relevant and useful to people who still use that version, even if it's unsupported. These are informational repo
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by bblough 10y ago
Unless you run Debian stable (or probably any LTS distro), in which case they don't want your reports because "your software is too out of date". I find this attitude odd, because there are (at least) tens of thousands of win
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by bblough 10y ago
I guess I'm in the minority, but not only does this behavior not bother me, for me it's a feature. Most of the time, if I'm trying to draw outside the boundary, then it's because I've got the wrong layer selected.
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by bblough 10y ago
I'm not using a steambox or steamos. But I game on Linux exclusively, thanks in-part to the efforts of Valve and Humble Bundle.
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by bblough 10y ago
It's already on the list, but I thought the video on hacking cable/satellite TV was amazing. I've done software reverse engineering, but don't have any experience with hardware RE. It was great to see an overview of t
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by bblough 10y ago
> There is at least one documented case of a name brand motherboard offering up junk ACPI data unless Linux claimed to be Windows I hadn't heard about this and was curious. Google turned up this: https://ubuntuforums.org
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by bblough 10y ago
> The UX of hg was more intuitive for users coming from SVN and CVS I second this. Trying to go from SVN to git left me confused and frustrated, while I found it much easier to switch to hg. Once I had been using hg for a while, I fou
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by bblough 10y ago
Of course we'll have to call them "cyberjudges"
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by bblough 10y ago
Thanks for mentioning Everspace - I hadn't heard of it before. I'm looking forward to giving it a try when they release the Linux version.
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by bblough 10y ago
H&R Block Online also does this, and is the primary reason that I switched away from them this year. Ironically, I switched to TurboTax, but didn't have the same issue because the login is done automatically via my bank login. Doe
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by bblough 11y ago
> what are EA and SAM? Enterprise Agreement and Software Asset Management (basically a license audit)
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by bblough 11y ago
Strong encryption used to be classified as munitions under ITAR, so maybe there's some precedent there.
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by bblough 11y ago
It sounds like you're taking "sex outside marriage" to mean "sex with outside partners, while married." I think the intended meaning here is "sex without being married" (or at least that's how I inter
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by bblough 11y ago
I don't want to flood you with a ton of studies (I have lots more bookmarked), but here are several: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15148063 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23155696 h
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by bblough 11y ago
I didn't say that. If it makes you feel better, mentally replace "I could have" with "One could have" (It's too late for me to edit it)
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by bblough 11y ago
According to Mayo Clinic, walking at 3mph burns between 314-469 kcals/hr [1], depending on weight. That's 3140-5628 kcals for 10-12 hours of walking, depending on weight. Now consider the amount of calories available [2]. I could
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by bblough 11y ago
Fortunately, I wasn't desperate, so I had the advantage of being able to walk away. And I agree with you - I think that ultimately I dodged a bullet. It's a shame, though - I think I would have had a lot of fun working there and
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by bblough 11y ago
> I have literally never encountered a company that stood by such a loaded term and lost their would-be new hire over it Not to discount your experience, but I actually just had this happen. I wound up walking away from an otherwise ni
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by bblough 11y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one that did by gaming. While not a MUD, I played a lot of EverQuest back in its heyday. I went from hunt-and-peck to 60+ wpm. Though admittedly, typing lessons would have taken a lot less time.
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by bblough 13y ago
Nice work!
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by bblough 13y ago
For mock user profiles, etc., I use http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
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by bblough 13y ago
The link doesn't work for me. This one does: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-has-only-slept-45-ho...
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by bblough 13y ago
I understand the desire to innovate, especially for many of the people on HN. But not having anything you need/want (i.e., you current tools meet your current needs), is a problem? Really?
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by bblough 13y ago
The graduation requirement is "intermediate-level" skills in any modern foreign language (not necessarily Spanish). This translates to 3 semesters at college level. Considering that 2 semesters (or 2 years in HS) is the entrance
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by bblough 13y ago
Both University of Illinois and Florida State University have online BS degrees in CS.
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by bblough 13y ago
Florida State University offers an online BS in CS - http://distance.fsu.edu/students/online-programs?prog_id=177 and it's actually a CS program rather than a glorified IT program. Generally, 2-way interaction is done via message board,
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by bblough 14y ago
I don't have to be extorted by companies that want me to pay extra for bug fixes, or ignored by companies that won't fix bugs at all. If a bug concerns/affects me enough, I can fix it myself, or hire someone to fix it. (yes that's still pa
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by bblough 14y ago
Very nice!

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