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by billybob 16y ago
I'd say they're more like a series of tubes.
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by billybob 16y ago
On two occasions, my wife received PDF monstrosities via her school. The first time, I was astounded at the size of a PDF we had to download. When we opened it, it contained a movie. I was dumbstruck. The second time, I tried to open one wi
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by billybob 16y ago
This. If my document is stored in Google's system, and I want to get to it from a computer where I don't have MS Office, how do I do it? Google Docs. "Oh hey, this Google Docs thing works pretty well in the browser. Why do we have a separat
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by billybob 16y ago
If you type pretty quickly, that can actually be faster than using the mouse.
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by billybob 16y ago
Ever notice that an Ethernet jack is just the right height for a USB plug to go into it snugly? I got confused by that one day when I plugged something in without paying attention.
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by billybob 16y ago
Of course the result is what matters. But hypothetically, if you can throw together the basic CRUD of an app in 5 minutes with one toolset, and it takes 2 days in another, which one is more likely to let you hone in on the fine details? If
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by billybob 16y ago
Why?
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by billybob 16y ago
Two jobs ago I had to clock out, using a program installed on my computer, to go to the bathroom. The program sometimes crashed. I also had to fill out a paper timesheet, in case the computer one was wrong. My manager and I both had to sign
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by billybob 16y ago
Thunderbolt is the coolest thing here to me. The way I read this, Intel at least partly owns the IP on it, so it should be available on PCs in the future, too? (I hope so, because that will create a bigger peripheral market.) UPDATE: Answer
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by billybob 16y ago
Ads, I'm assuming. They do have those, you know - pretty well-targeted at programmers, too, and not farmed out to Google or whatever. Although if you're running Adblock, you might not know that.
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by billybob 16y ago
"The line was long" is also a justification for shoplifting. "He looked at me funny" is also a justification for murder. All you're saying is "the offender can tell him/herself that they have a reason." Which is always true for anything any
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by billybob 16y ago
One might assume that more profanity in a langage = more frustration with that language. But I'd bet that proportion of business use has something to do with it, too. If you're hacking on a personal project, you might feel freer to swear in
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by billybob 16y ago
Well, wouldn't it? "Improper" means "will offend people." If nobody is offended by something, it's not improper. If lots of people are, it is. Whether you care is a different matter. If you don't, that makes you a rude person. Which you're
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by billybob 16y ago
Besides all this, a CS degree, from what I hear (I don't have one) often teaches you a lot of concepts but not a lot of practical skills. Which isn't to say it isn't valuable, but it may not have prepared you fully for work. You may not kno
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by billybob 16y ago
I disagree. The web exists because browsers and servers communicate based on open standards. The HN server doesn't know or care what OS or browser I'm using. I could be sitting here typing in my GET requests manually if I was fast enough. N
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by billybob 16y ago
Sure. In one sense, anything is "modern" if it's developed this year, regardless of its feature set. So modern is probably the wrong word. But the argument that a version of IE which hasn't even come out yet doesn't have features that other
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by billybob 16y ago
Business arguments aside, I really wish they would support IE9 on XP. If indeed IE9 has better web standards support than its predecessors, I, as a web developer, want IE users to switch. It's hard enough to convince users to upgrade their
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by billybob 16y ago
Wow. I could just tell my wife, and it would be fine. I guess I'm fortunate.
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by billybob 16y ago
Any results?
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Ask HN: How can I stop getting spam SMS?
1 points by billybob 16y ago|3 comments
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by billybob 16y ago
Doesn't this tell Google "Mahalo is a spam result if I search for 'Mahalo'"? Seems like you should do this when you get one of these and you wanted Stackoverflow.
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by billybob 16y ago
> I do, however, find it ironic that the $199 555 model physically contains more "parts" and more manufacturing costs than the $349 595 model. That's true, but imagine what they could do differently. They could have a whole separate ass
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by billybob 16y ago
Very cynical, and wrong. Revenge is carried out by the victim or someone who is emotionally attached. Justice is an objective third party, punishing based on evidence and an established standard which the offender has knowingly agreed to an
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by billybob 16y ago
If you use semantic versioning ( http://semver.org/ ), switching from 2.95 to 3.0 means you made backwards-incompatible changes. Major features could still happen in a point release.
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by billybob 16y ago
If the software is free, b) doesn't really apply. But I agree that a major version number should mean something - see http://semver.org/ Why not do fast development cycles that result in point releases? That, combined with background upda
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by billybob 16y ago
Simple: you just have to put a EULA at the top of every search result page... ;)
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by billybob 16y ago
They have waaay less traffic only since Google came onto the scene and stole their traffic by virtue of being better.
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by billybob 16y ago
Thank you for summing up why posts like this one from MS make me queasy. Lots of spin and posturing and insinuation when a clear, technical answer is needed. It's like, "Son, did you steal those cookies?" "Mom, Justin always accuses me of s
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by billybob 16y ago
"What do you need to spend money on that you can't afford with $90K?" Salary caps are, in my opinion, a backwards view. When someone says "basketball players shouldn't be able to make $10 million a year," what they're really saying is "peop
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by billybob 16y ago
Completely flattening income is a horrible idea. Everyone would try to get the easiest job possible, because the income is the same. Yes, some people do their job because they love it. But most people bust their butt so they can make a good

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