bowlofpetunias

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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Most of this is only true for Anglo-Saxon values of politeness, which many other cultures will see as insincere, fake, cold, manipulative and even downright insulting. This may not apply to the author, who writes "I am often consumed
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
"Considerably less" still means the smallest F1 team has more resources than the entire NASCAR and Indycar grid combined.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Ah, more 90's payment technology from the US. It's becoming a bit of a running joke. (Also, extremely annoying when you live in a city with lots of American tourists that think you can still pay that way in 2014.) Why on earth wou
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Nah, "soccer fields" is a very common way to reference size/length in various European cultures.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
A non-technical person will not consider that any different. After all, said automated process was created and deployed by Google engineers, so it's still Google engineers browsing through people's private photos. Just because I u
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Maybe Amazon cares so much for the same reason Apple/Jobs cared about the pricing of music: too high a price point encourages piracy. Once piracy becomes an easily accessible and socially acceptable mainstream habit, it's going to
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Adblock Plus is malware. Period. Besides blackmailing advertisers into whitelisting their ads for money, last year it added a "typo correction" feature that would intercept "mistyped" url's and redirect you to the c
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
There's no such thing as "unobtrusive ads". If they weren't obtrusive, they would be either decoration or information, not ads.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
I can think of plenty of other reasons to distrust the EU. The EU parliament is the only aspect that is partially on the side of the people. But on the other end there's the EU Commission, the council of ministers and the entire corrup
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Forced leasing of the last mile nor any kind of actual competition doesn't solve the problem, and the US wireless market is far from healthy. Half of this article is still free-market wishful thinking. The Netherlands, where there are
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Take into account that "during school hours" and "on school grounds" is a much bigger chunk of kids' lives in the US than it is in most other countries. In most countries, school is just the place where you have les
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
This is basically the tech-equivalent of "they hate us for our freedom". This symbolizes exactly what the problem is: zero sense of social responsibility, and when it starts pissing people off you pull the victim card. You really
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
At least once every 2 years I have to deal with trying to explain why the following set of requirements is a bit of an issue: 1. We want separate first name and last name fields, but no additional fields. 2. We want to be able to sort by la
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Marktplaats has been part of eBay for about a decade.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
The problem has already been solved a long time ago, but Americans just don't like the answer. Driving a car means driving a vehicle that can easily murder an entire family in a split second. Drivers should have a greater amount of res
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
"Ever asked yourself why deploying your projects to your servers is such a pain?" I know exactly why it's such a pain. Because every deployment tool available only deals with the easy parts.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
That's very unrealistic and naive. Non-competes are quite enforceable in the Netherlands, which is why me and many people I know refuse to sign them. Yes, companies that enforce them are rare and complete dicks, but they can and some w
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
> The T2 instances use Hardware Virtualization (HVM) in order to get the best possible performance from the underlying CPU and you will need to use an HVM AMI. I've always used paravirtual AMI's, as I understood that gets the b
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
As zorked noticed, these are HVM only, which is why I didn't see the option for my paravirtual AMI's. I've never used anything but paravirtual, so I'm kinda stumped as to why this is.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Since the email Amazon sent out doesn't seem to be reflected anywhere on the web: -------- We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Amazon EC2 T2 instances. T2 instances are a new low-cost, General Purpose instance type
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
I find any decent phone as good as the next one, all of them offering the handful of features and apps I really use. Which makes my choice of phone more a matter of "lifestyle accessory", and being a sucker for great design, the F
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Discuss advertising with anybody and you'll come to the conclusion that apparently advertising works on other people . Who those "other people" are, no idea. I strongly suspect some people really are just statistics.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
I've found that the people that seem the nicest are the worst people to do business with. Niceness is often mistaken for not telling the whole truth. Also, many of those nice people often disappear when the shit hits the fan, because t
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
In a toxic environment, every tool and process is abused.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
If read it four times, but the logic in this statement is bizarre. Your first sentence clearly states "Youtube blocks all videos they don't have the rights to" . That's YouTube doing the blocking. Period. Of course they
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
So if you are part of a group that hates gay people and actively pursue and agenda of treating those people as second class human beings you have a "political view". But if you are part of a group that opposes the aforementioned g
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
No thanks. I don't trust corporations like Twitter any more than governments. All of the dominant American online service already come with their own built-in ideological censorship, usually under the euphemism "family-friendly&qu
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
It's interesting how the tech start-up community suffers from the same inability to shift perspective that Microsoft had when it became a powerful megacorp but still saw itself as the underdog. Uber is not the plucky little start-up go
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Why replace something that works and can be systematically verified for something that will lead to all kinds of complications and may be outdated in 5 years? Sometimes something that just works doesn't need to be disrupted.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
It's not just a highly problematic claim, it's 100% false. Any democratic digital vote is in itself 100% fraud, because it lacks two fundamental elements: 1) Completely transparent and verifiable for all voters. 2) The guarantee t

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