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by borlak 14y ago
Best Buy is not "no longer permitting employees to work remotely" -- it now has to be discussed with your manager [0]. [0]: http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/05/technology/best-buy-work-fro...
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by borlak 14y ago
What drove me away from Firefox to begin with was the crashing, memory usage, and (lack of) speed. Mostly the crashing -- I was willing to put up with the other stuff. I'm a backend/systems developer. One thing that would be awesome for m
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by borlak 14y ago
Russians have been doing this for years, without any company involved. Don't want to wait for taxi or trams? Just put your arm out, and someone will stop, and you tell them where you want to go and ask 'how much'? They call them private
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by borlak 14y ago
personally I thought it was a horrible choice. didn't fit the theme at all. that music piece is incredibly sad, whereas the video has an upbeat/interesting feel to it. the contrast was bad enough to almost make me stop watching. the onl
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by borlak 14y ago
The problem for me is you cannot 'buy HBO'. You have to have cable first, which I don't. I'd buy an independent streaming subscription to HBO in a second, but they are not making that option available...
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by borlak 14y ago
I worked at a place where the hardware in one rack easily exceeded 150k. We started saving money vs. a cloud solution in about 6 months. You can pack a lot of firepower in a virtualized environment.
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by borlak 14y ago
I just moved to CA from OK last year. I moved for a few reasons. 1) family -- more stuff to do here (understatement) 2) I don't fit in with OK culture (red + religious) 3) career -- I'm a programmer
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by borlak 14y ago
Games Workshop is worse than Disney when it comes to protecting their IP. Just search google for games workshop lawsuit.
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by borlak 14y ago
I've been to Costco. It's a madhouse, and quite unnerving for an introvert like myself. But that's not even the main reason I like Amazon -- it's for the product ratings. How do I know what I'm getting at Costco is the best quality for th
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by borlak 14y ago
That's awesome.. it shows michael.org as available though, which it isn't :( got my hopes up!
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by borlak 14y ago
SquareWheel explained it very well. As for the difficulty, you'd be surprised how easy it is. I started picking a few weeks ago for fun and I've been able to pick your basic store bought locks within a couple minutes with the hook tool (wh
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by borlak 14y ago
You can lose your spot instance at any time if you are outbid...
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by borlak 14y ago
Very true, but I do end up learning a lot from the HN discussions. I'm a C guy myself, but I try not to be biased. I always tell new programmers to try and not favor any language, as they all have their uses.
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by borlak 14y ago
HyperPin, from the guys who make HyperSpin (MAME frontend) http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/ example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCKLGL-HLUs
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by borlak 14y ago
The article was very poorly written -- I couldn't even finish it..doubly surprised to see it at the top of HN.
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by borlak 14y ago
How does the carpool lane relieve traffic congestion? If people could actually use that lane instead of it being some kind of elitist lane (which is what it feels like, I drive it in all the time (family)), traffic would be better. The tim
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by borlak 14y ago
I assume you'd be interested in startups if you've come to hacker news, so my simple answer would be "San Francisco." I don't know why you don't consider web development a 'programming' job. My favorite language is C and I develop in it fo
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by borlak 14y ago
Maybe you'd be willing to empathize with me, then? :) The business I work for lives off ads, and is actually a good business and supplies a lot of fun to millions of people a day. And as far as paying customers, most of our userbase are k
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by borlak 14y ago
Nice work, but these types of videos always annoy me. Anyone with the basics of athletic skill can perform these stunts with enough tries -- which the guy admitted to taking several tries. Some of the pure-power moves are out of the quest
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by borlak 14y ago
Mostly scifi and fantasy. I've never been much of a reader, so I'm trying to catch up on classics. * Hunger games 1-3 -- not bad, would probably recommend * Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy -- good, surprised how short it was. really liked
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by borlak 14y ago
so, spam.
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by borlak 14y ago
https://ifttt.com/wtf hmm
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by borlak 14y ago
I wonder what would happen if you designed the page a little bit differently, and gave them an option to pay, and a separate option to download it for free. At first glance I want to put in $0.00 just to see if it works, not necessarily bec
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by borlak 14y ago
Looking on the Amazon Kindle store I don't see an app for Amazon Instant Videos, unless it's simply on the Fire by default (and not removable)?
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by borlak 14y ago
Maybe it doesn't tell us directly and the title is a bit strong, but so is the word 'nothing'. Cloudflare tells us quite a lot. It is unlikely the terrorists cut all the lines, so that is out. That is information I didn't have before thi
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by borlak 14y ago
It's a cliche thing to say, but hey, you don't have to participate. If you truly support Humble Bundle and what they do, then you would support them in this endeavor as well -- you are giving them some tip as well (and charities if that's y
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by borlak 14y ago
Are these still "64gb" as in it's really 45gb with the OS files and such installed?
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by borlak 14y ago
I think you've touched on the base problem of both sides of the argument -- it's a UX issue. Facebook has given too much power to the 'like' button. There should be a different 'follow' or 'subscribe' button. If you subscribe to a page, y
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by borlak 14y ago
Agreed, there is simply too much to know, for someone who programs as a day job. At my previous job, I was becoming the DBA, and I actually quite loved it, as it was a fairly complicated setup w/high traffic. At my new job as purely backen
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by borlak 14y ago
where does it say he is wearing google glasses?

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