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Why 'The Enterprise' might be hard for your startup to break into.
5 points by bdunbar 14y ago|5 comments
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> Any other tips or tricks I should know about? I really don't want to lose too much productivity over the shift. Think of OS X as 'unix with a really nice window manager' .. it might help. I think it's mostly a matter of what you're us
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Great idea. Now _how_ does one bell that cat?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Define 'lived'? While in the Marines I deployed from Okinawa with JTF Sea Angel to Bangladesh, for a month and a few days, disaster relief after a cyclone. Some of the things that stuck with me: Footwear. Before I deployed, I had purchased
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Fascinating - thanks for the update.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Because there is now way I would let Some Guy reach into the mail store on my server and fiddle around with the files there.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Heh. My only brush with that kind of thing was servicing computers that wrote to the paper tape punches we used in the Marines in the early 90s.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Teletypes, not typewriters, punching out paper tape.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
As would I. I don't assume they _are_ tightly integrated - all the article claims is 'eight people'. These could be crack coders. Or they could be '1 guy who kinda knows VB and 7 people learning OJT'.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I hate to be Donald Downer but ... it's not done, yet. ' close to finishing the core version ' 'expects to begin testing its openStudent software in elementary schools this spring, with a full launch to follow in 2014. An advanced version f
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I believe the poster is referring to Cuomo's press conference this morning (1/15) where he announced his intention to enact a ban on rifles, sales of rifles, ammunition, restrict magazine capacity and so on. http://open.nysenate.gov/legisl
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> even "professional" journalists have become so sloppy these days This is not a new thing - journalists have been sloppy with facts for a long time. It is simply more noticeable now, with multiple sources of information.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
"The government is nothing but an employee of the collective and - ideally - everyone agrees with its goals at least so much that they pay the taxes thought to be necessary to accomplish them." I would love to live in a country where this i
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> To me this reads like pretty standard fraud I assume the companies ran this by legal before going forward with the plan. Loopholes aren't illegal, they're just exploits.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> we re-wrote their history as evil scumbags who committed atrocities during the war. Re-writing was not needed. Stalin was an evil thug, just as bad in minor ways as Hitler.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Ignoring Italy - the slow little brother of the Axis Powers - the Japanese were fully as evil as the Nazis.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> I don't think its fair to sort combatants into 'good/bad camps'. What's fair got to do with it? If there was ever a good/bad distinction between combatants, World War II was it. The Axis powers were evil, don't doubt it.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Your point - do you have one?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
The only occasion I can think of where a private citizen would use a firearm in a public area is a city-owned gun range, or hunting on public land.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Point! I was thinking 'shooting range', not hunting. Which is silly - where I live half the office is gone during deer season.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> We don't allow people on the roads without a licence I'm not convinced by this argument. Firearms are not used in public spaces, but in private land, or on club-owned property.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Data. And you?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Why not put it back on the poster who asserted without evidence that affirmative action will cure "gang violence, intense poverty, substance abuse, neglect, and trauma"? I will allow that it could. But we've had this deal in place for fift
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by bdunbar 14y ago
"I'm not leaning toward the latter." Are you basing this leaning on study and contemplation of the facts, or because it makes you feel better?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
"there were already many poverty-ridden black ghettoes in the 1950s." There is poverty. And then there is "gang violence, intense poverty, substance abuse, neglect, and trauma" I am asserting that these became systematic problems after the
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by bdunbar 14y ago
The poster I was replying to said "gang violence, intense poverty, substance abuse, neglect, and trauma" These, by and large, were not systemic problems before the introduction of affirmative action.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
"even informally suggesting that affirmative action was likely to have caused black people to live in poor, squalid, crime-filled ghettoes." That is what I am suggesting.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
The problems you mention were not problems until after affirmative action was implemented.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I missed the sarcasm at first - my bad! But I don't know about 'union thug' being a myth: lots of actual violence back in the dark days of the last century. Carnegie brought in an army to bust up the union and it wasn't because they were m
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Perhaps you know libertarians that I don't. The ones I know are well armed, but about as non-violent as you can be and not be a Quaker.

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