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by billybob 16y ago
Why are we seeing this article a year after it was published?
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by billybob 16y ago
So... there's no product yet?
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by billybob 16y ago
Speaking as an American who has spent time in Mexico, Spain and Ireland, and has traveled to southeast Asia: yes, Americans do sometimes have an arrogant view of the world. On the other hand, knowing about other countries doesn't come as na
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by billybob 16y ago
That article was pretty disorienting before I read the date at the top. "Man, I thought I knew most of the players in the industry... wait, joysticks as a standard peripheral?" Guess I missed the 80s mention in the first paragraph. :)
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by billybob 16y ago
Doesn't uranium get mined? How safe is that?
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by billybob 16y ago
Huh. I went from using XP at work to using Windows 7 at work, and I didn't see what all the fuss was about. The file finder was nice, but other than that... ? Since then I've moved to OSX at a newer job. I really like the paradigm of instal
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by billybob 16y ago
No, it's more like me saying "why should I be strip-searched every time I go to the mall? I know there are people who shoplift, and the shop owners want to protect their stuff, but holy crap, I've got rights too!"
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by billybob 16y ago
That's what we do. It works great for us.
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by billybob 16y ago
Yes, but .NET is a Microsoft platform. Are there any non-Microsoft-specific platforms for which Windows is the best development environment? Because the majority of languages, frameworks, etc in the world are not made by Microsoft.
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by billybob 16y ago
TL;DR - The software that "detected" the keyloggger was wrong, and the company that makes it acknowledged that. The guy's apology was an actual apology, not spin. That was refreshing.
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by billybob 16y ago
Doesn't every company have a Murder Division?
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by billybob 16y ago
TL;DR - A German man got all the data his cell company had collected on him, correlated it to his other public data on the web (Twitter, etc) and made an online, animated map of his life. Illustrates how much can be known about someone from
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by billybob 16y ago
Yeah. It's weird to think about making a lot of money for a small amount of work, but it does make sense in the market. I mean, if 16 people are willing to pay for an hour of your time on Monday, and you're only going to work 8 hours, how d
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by billybob 16y ago
True, but you could die of scurvey.
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Yes. To clarify: if people don't understand how to use it , it's engineered wrong.
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by billybob 16y ago
Is it better to force banks into smaller entities, exerting government control over the marketplace, or let their investors lose their pants when the banks take stupid risks, allowing the marketplace to correct itself?
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by billybob 16y ago
I'm not saying things don't suck there; I just thought that was understood. But since they suck, hey look at this opportunity! To your point about management: what do you mean? (I'm honestly asking.) Who should be in charge of making sure a
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by billybob 16y ago
OK. What reason do the bailed-out institutions now have to avoid such irresponsible behavior in the future? Previously, they had "it might ruin us." Now? If we've merely postponed this problem and are waiting for Round II, then yes, we shou
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by billybob 16y ago
Having everyone say "you suck" isn't the kind of publicity you want. If your app sucks, you don't want it to be famous for sucking. I mean, Lotus Notes is famous, right? Are you running out to use it? With this kind of publicity, you've got
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by billybob 16y ago
On the contrary, it encourages disfunction. "Let us remove the consequences of your failures." Gee, I wonder if that memory will make them so grateful that they'll be more careful next time? Sure. It's not like their whole industry is about
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by billybob 16y ago
Odd. The context of the article and the rest of what you wrote, I would have expected a word like "friends" or phrase like "cool guys" in place of the vulgarity. Did you dislike these people?
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by billybob 16y ago
I think none of this will happen, but if it does, another problem I'd forsee is personality decay. We all accumulate quirks. If you're mauled by a dog, you will understandably be afraid of dogs afterwards. Probably excessively, irrationally
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by billybob 16y ago
I would add that most commentators on this passage don't draw the conclusion "having money is evil," but rather, that Jesus saw that this man's attachment to his wealth was a problem. In hearing this command, the man realized that his wealt
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by billybob 16y ago
I think you're taking the situation too lightly. Is the threat of death worse than wanting to be dead, for instance? If something makes you intensely unhappy, you would resent somebody else saying "bah, that's not a problem."
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by billybob 16y ago
To a large extent, the two go hand-in-hand. A closed-source platform may give you a lot of freedom to customize things, but what it doesn't give you, you can't have. On an open platform, you can do anything. It's the difference between "mos
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by billybob 16y ago
Can anybody explain what this means? There was a segment on This American Life a while back about how nobody's looking into the effects of cell phone radiation on the body anymore, and that the reason isn't scientific but political, and may
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by billybob 16y ago
Agreed. Although I should add that it's still great to call out to the standard Unix toolset when it's the easiest way to get something done. The accepted answer here illustrates that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4714043/what-is-the
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by billybob 16y ago
You know, I work at the command line all day, and I'm always happy to learn a new trick. But for writing actual scripts, I'd much rather write in Ruby. I don't want to have to use awkward syntax like case statements ending with "esac." Yes,
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by billybob 16y ago
Wow. That is really cool.
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by billybob 16y ago
Yeah, I heard a story this morning saying that Detroit now has enough empty space that some other large cities could fit inside it. The first thing I thought was "what a great opportunity to create parks and greenways!" Even if they don't h

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