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by billybob 17y ago
I'd also add that it doesn't build good will. I did an unpaid internship in college. It was good experience, and I was doing real work (not just getting coffee), but I did resent not being paid. It sucks to be told, in essence, "we don't va
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by billybob 17y ago
Yep. jQuery does have .delay() now, though. You can use it like this: $('#thing').fadeIn(300).delay(2000).fadeOut(300);
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by billybob 17y ago
Upvoted. But there's a difference - the arsonist is only allowed to get an insurance policy on buildings he owns. It's more like an arsonist taking out insurance policies on other people's buildings, THEN burning them down. Except we don't
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by billybob 17y ago
"Sure, sure, we'll take your horse bets. You think the horse will win, this guy thinks the horse will lose. Place your bets and we keep the fees. Oh, you lost? Too bad. Yeah, we forgot to tell you that the other guy knew your horse was pois
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by billybob 17y ago
Yes. This renews my fury about the bank bailouts. You know what's REALLY too big to fail? Capitalism. And rewarding market failure is the surest way to take it down.
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by billybob 17y ago
I don't know this specific situation, but NPR's This American Life just did an episode about a hedge fund called Magnatar. IF the description was accurate (authorities will have to determine that), this was the scenario: Magnatar aggressive
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by billybob 17y ago
Besides all this, why the heck do they need pictures to track a device? A picture of a bedroom doesn't even tell you where the laptop is. A GPS reading does, and is far less invasive (though I would still insist on the students being notifi
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by billybob 17y ago
"The presence of a nude photo shouldn't matter. America has lost sight of intent as a critical component in crime." Absolutely. The intent was to photograph kids in their own homes and without their knowledge. That is absolutely criminal. I
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by billybob 17y ago
It's in the cloud, silly. See, the way it works is, clouds are flimsy things, so it's easy to just run tubes right through them and it doesn't even hurt. All the poor Justice Department wants is to run its own tube through the cloud before
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by billybob 17y ago
I hope so. This is the kind of reporting I enjoy most. I would also love to see the "10 shocking ways your toddler may die - more at 11" kinds of crap end. And I want a pony.
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by billybob 17y ago
That's a good definition. And one that actually matters for open source - where, after all, the goal is for other people to be able to modify your source code. But it's completely irrelevant here. If nobody is going to modify your code but
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by billybob 17y ago
"Despite their lack of racial bias, children with Williams syndrome hold gender stereotypes just as strongly as normal children, the study found. That is, 99 percent of the 40 children studied pointed to pictures of girls when asked who pla
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by billybob 17y ago
The ISP position is brain-dead. They say that services like Youtube are unfairly saturating their pipes and not compensating them. Nevermind that access to things like Youtube is exactly what CREATES demand for internet service. You think p
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by billybob 17y ago
This isn't about Opera, but just backing up the "renders different != non-compliant" thought - I just fixed a rendering bug in one of my pages that only showed up in Google Chrome. It turned out that Chrome was behaving correctly and that F
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by billybob 17y ago
I'm surprised at the negative reactions here. I thought it sounded brilliant, honestly, and I look forward to seeing more sites blossom.
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by billybob 17y ago
1) I don't think they're trying to model 'the complexity of human relationships.' That's what Facebook tries to do. The trust metrics are crude, but the real goal seems to be to get credible upvotes for answers. I use SO all the time, have
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by billybob 17y ago
It is sharecropping to the extent that StackOverflow is sharecropping, but not as much as Yahoo Answers, Experts Exchange and others. Yes, you provide content and someone else makes money. On the other hand, you get answers and the content
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by billybob 17y ago
"Alma Whitten is Privacy Engineering Lead at Google." I don't know whether that means real influence within Google, but apparently this isn't a random employee.
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by billybob 17y ago
"You don't have to agree with me! You're all individuals!" "I'm not!"
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by billybob 17y ago
That's it. Next time I work out, I'm going to grab the front of my car and lift like crazy. It won't budge, but I'll exert maximum effort. One rep - I'm done. Efficiency!
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by billybob 17y ago
You heard it here first: authenticity is fake! Fakeness is the new authenticity!
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by billybob 17y ago
"This rewrites all files for /zap/j/anything-anynumber.js to /zap/j/anything.js and /zap/c/anything-anynumber.css to /zap/c/anything.css" Why post a file called "foo-12930.css" and show it to browsers at "foo.css"? The opposite is better -
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by billybob 17y ago
Ad hominem. Do you have any valid arguments?
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by billybob 17y ago
Are the numbers opinionated?
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by billybob 17y ago
I'm not one to defend Bush, but "everything is Bush's fault" is not any more reasonable than "everything is Obama's fault." I do agree that a similar report should have been made during Bush's administration, and if this think tank didn't m
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by billybob 17y ago
Where is the spin? I didn't see it. Did he mis-state any facts, or leave out something important? The author clearly has an agenda, but his opinionated-sounding statements (for instance, that this debt will be 'dumped in the laps of our chi
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by billybob 17y ago
Yes. Previously, phones such as the "tin can with no string" only enabled conversations with oneself. The addition of "talk to someone else" technology was truly a revolution in social networking.
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by billybob 17y ago
I agree about the issues, but I think 'edit the CSS yourself' is not a solution. I'm in the < 1% of people who'd know how, and I don't want to bother. If I've got to do the formatting myself, I might as well just code HTML - or more rea
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by billybob 17y ago
If they fix the formatting issues with bulleted lists, I will be happy. (If you haven't made and revised a lot of bullets on, say, a resume, you may not have felt my pain.)
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by billybob 17y ago
I don't know, but I think it's a horrible conclusion. He hated his job and felt he was making the world a worse place. If that's what his top-notch education got him, why did he want the same for his children?

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