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   by btmorex 16y ago

   Well said. I always thought it was odd that people cheered Google when they pulled out of China even though they only did that because the Chinese government was hacking them (most notably not becase the Chinese government doesn't care abou
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   by btmorex 16y ago

   For an individual you can make those proclamations, but individuals don't operate in a vacuum. There is such a thing as morals and utility in a society. There is value in participating in a society. Therefor, there is value is having
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   by btmorex 16y ago

   Well, you're making decisions about someone else's mortality. Maybe they wouldn't want to live forever with everyone else that they knew dying? Maybe they would want to have a physical existence in the form of a human body. You're denying t
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   by btmorex 16y ago

   If you're going to invent scenarios, you should invent realistic one's. For example, I'm fairly confident that you couldn't solve the problem of brain duplication for a trillion dollars. The NIH budget in 2010 was ~32 billion which isn't cl
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   by btmorex 16y ago

   I was kind of skeptical about the whole "let HN play Dr. House", but I have to admit the symptoms on the wikipedia page seem to match the OP's symptoms very well. Even if he/she doesn't have Pernicious Anemia, it's a really good suggestion.
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   by btmorex 16y ago

   http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/product... is really, really nice. If you find a good sale you can probably have it for around $800-$850. There are probably similar resolution panels for a lower price, but they won't
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   by btmorex 16y ago

   Why can't you change jobs?
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   by btmorex 16y ago

   Let me preface by saying that I haven't been in a position to hire someone. However, I think switching jobs a fair amount can even be a benefit. It depends on what your references say. If they really think highly of you, it's not only a goo
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   by btmorex 16y ago

   I definitely get the feeling the tech job market is transitioning. I should say that the market never really died, but there was a noticeable slowdown during the recession (you could find a job, but not necessarily the exact job you wanted
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    >I'll repeat what I always say though: poor people aren't fat because they're poor, they're fat for the same reason they're poor -- they're not too bright, have poor impulse control, don't plan ahead, and so forth. Evidence? Not saying
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    I don't think there are negatives that you have to mitigate, but you really need to think about where you want to end up down the line. Working 5 years at Microsoft says, "I'm perfectly happy doing solid software engineering/management work
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    This really gets driven home when you watch a show like "The First 48" and realize that a lot of murder cases are basically strong circumstantial evidence and a confession. Take out the confession and getting a conviction is really, really
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    Are you arguing that the web would be 80% less popular if google disappeared? Point being, they're king of the search hill for now and the foreseeable future, but it's not like no one else could replace them.
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    Umm... Adsense doesn't need a referrer and it definitely doesn't need search terms. Adsense crawls every page that it serves ads for and that's going to be better context then any analytics packages would offer.
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    Just curious: what evidence is there that the stats matter less? There are certainly fewer stats altogether and the stats that exist are more team-oriented stats, but I still don't really buy your conclusion. For a counterpoint, baseball is
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    I guess I'm missing something. t-mobile 1000 minute plan is $40 per month. at&t 900 minute plan is $60 per month. $20 * 24 = $480, roughly what your phone is worth except you're stuck with the carrier for 2 years.
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    I have to agree. I probably wouldn't say this in the SO question because I wouldn't necessarily want that person to read it, but: There's a possibility she's just in the wrong field altogether. Most of the computer science people in my clas
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    That's actually not the case in the US. You don't need a box if your TV has an ATSC tuner. The only reason a lot of people need boxes is that they have old TV's with NTSC tuners.
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    It's hyberbole, but on the other hand, it's ridiculous to think that Apple had nothing to do with it. If Apple remains silent, doesn't file any sort of police report, nothing would have happened. That said, Apple has been a litigious, heavy
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    I just do a nightly rsync. It doesn't protect against a certain class of problems (like being hacked, which I'm not worried about since I'm a small fish and I actually update my systems). And, yeah, $5 per month seems kind of steep for a li
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    I don't understand your criticism. How is per application volume control in the title bar anything like "dock/bar icon apps"?
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    I thought the example of per application volume control/mute was pretty useful.
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but O_SYNC is the equivalent of calling fsync() after every single write, so even if you manage to omit one fsync() you're going to come out ahead.
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    Well, you can't reasonably avoid external CSS, but you can reasonably avoid external JS. I still have tons of pages without external Javascript. I'm fairly sure I don't have a single one without external CSS. As for gzipping etc. it's the n
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    "You couldn't pay me to use an existing desktop mail client over Gmail." So, I understand having your email everywhere. That is a killer feature. But you can also provide that feature by simply having a web gateway to your IMAP mail. What
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    Fixing layout in javascript has negative performance implications. Either you embed the js in the html, in which case every page is larger than necessary, or you put it in a separate file, in which case your layout can't be rendered correct
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    What do you find controversial about that statement? You can certainly argue over which languages are most powerful, but there's really only one other general purpose language that rivals C++ in terms of performance and that's C. C++ being
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    by btmorex 16y ago

    Honestly, I felt like I was reading the cliff notes version of a personal anecdote. I didn't read the rest of the article. I might have if I didn't think that headline and "anecdote" were just there to make me click through.
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    by btmorex 17y ago

    Facts can't be copyrighted. There's no problem with redistributing the data.
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    by btmorex 17y ago

    If he doesn't want hate mail, maybe he shouldn't be so condescending toward people that don't think exactly like him. That review was insufferable.