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by cagey 16y ago
> Whatever happened to saving in the good years to spend in the lean years? Companies and families (including individuals) surely do, but has ANY government ever "saved for the lean years"? > Wait, was it all spent on bribes and pol
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by cagey 16y ago
> Most tax money goes toward providing defense It seems like (FY2010) 20% of Federal expenditures go toward defense, and 58% go to entitlement programs (which (I speculate) the 1% wealthiest do NOT receive disproportionate benefit from)
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by cagey 16y ago
I've evolved a Perl/Tk app (forked from http://cscrape.sourceforge.net/ , but there's practically nothing left of the original cscrape code except GUI bits) that sniffs Craigslist RSS feeds and applies additional filters (beyond the limite
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by cagey 16y ago
My own (call it "c"). At university (1985-9, EE major), there was (MS-/PC-)DOS (CP/M had faded into oblivion). Unix was something heard of but not seen. There was no internet (for starving students). The only sanely priced own-it-yoursel
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by cagey 16y ago
I've been using MsysGit (Windows) for about 18 months as a "local vcs" wrapper around a sucky vcs (Accurev). Until the most recent MsysGit release, I used the "git bash" shell exclusively: for each Accurev workspace, I had a CMD shell wher
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by cagey 16y ago
"[federal prosecutors] explained that they were unable to put Mr. Aleynikov on the “no-fly” list..." I wonder why...? Seems like many manage to get on the NFL by accident, and the feds can't manage put a "flight risk" on it? Who can they
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by cagey 16y ago
And while some place great value in "holding a book in their hands" as a way to evaluate it as a good purchase, I've long since found more value in AMZN reviews and links to "related books you might like" (both on the AMZN book pages as wel
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by cagey 16y ago
My dad had a HP25 (not C), which was the first calc I ever used. I can't use a algebraic calc (drives me nuts). I had an 11C, then a HP15C in college, sold em both to get a HP71B. Now I collect these when I can. There's something nice a
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by cagey 16y ago
Maybe your co-workers and clientele are all skilled typists who never make transposition errors. But I've dialed enough wrong numbers due to simple transposition (mental) errors (and made analogous typing errors) to know how easy it is t
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by cagey 16y ago
Agree on all points. I watch "over the shoulder" of many software engineers at my (Windows-based) work, and 90% of them work at a CMD shell/console with QuickEdit mode disabled; software that I'm responsible for spits fully qualified logfil
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by cagey 16y ago
It will be exceedingly interesting to watch the progress/outcome of this investment ( if Google chooses to share honestly, something that's clearly optional). The best indication of the actual ROI of this investment will be whether furt
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by cagey 16y ago
Amen. Someone in my orgzn was let go very recently. I'm not in mgmt so only had a peripheral view of what transpired, but the orgzn I'm in is very loose and generally hires strong candidates with very high success rate. We don't have a lo
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by cagey 16y ago
I was surprised to learn that Mono Lake, [is] in California’s Yosemite National Park . Last time I checked, it was well to the east...
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by cagey 16y ago
We've had ours for almost 4 years. The only dog I've ever owned, and he's a wonderful family companion. Very high pride of ownership: if (god forbid) we lost him, I would want another vizsla.
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by cagey 16y ago
I did this over 5 years ago (Fujitsu fi-5110EOX w/Acrobat 6.0 Standard running on WinXP). It been a complete success, but we've also been a victim of it's success: I read about all the cool new features of the newer Scansnaps and am very j
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by cagey 16y ago
Ditto @ 21 years! It's not work, it's a hobby I happen to get paid (well) to spend time doing (well). The field is sufficiently vast, with "new things" (that I can teach myself at 0 cost, not including time) "coming out" at an ever increa
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by cagey 16y ago
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_16412292?source=rss_viewed excerpt: "Coroner: Aragon High School student took LSD before falling to death in Canada" 10/23/2010 12:01:00 AM PDT "A 17-year-old Aragon High School student was under the influenc
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by cagey 16y ago
Or because there are incredibly few new movies worth watching ?
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by cagey 16y ago
I wasn't replying to your post. My post summarized the post I was replying to (by dogas), highlighting the apparent contradiction contained therein: Philly's taxes are "exorbitantly high" yet dogas would be _happy_ to pay them _if only_ ...
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by cagey 16y ago
It seems you really don't object to Philadelphia's "exorbitantly high" taxes at all. What you object to is that these high taxes haven't turned Philadelphia's government into an effective deliverer of all the services that you wish it
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by cagey 16y ago
"When things are designed by 1 person (IME) they work better and have a more flowing work flow. Designing in a committee has been a freaking nightmare." I completely agree. Yet in industry, being that one person (like I am) leads to great
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by cagey 16y ago
You indeed sound an awful lot like my (ex-)neighbor who decided to "move up in the world" to a nice house in a much richer neighborhood, while keeping your existing home (in our (til then) quite nice upper middle class neighborhood) for i
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by cagey 16y ago
And if they're there only because of "Section 8" funding you get to revel in the knowledge that it's your tax dollars "at work" subsidizing the mayhem next door! [BTDT] Hey, another bureaucracy at work!
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by cagey 16y ago
The problem is not 'the government' or 'society'. The problem is our neighbors: citizens like you and me... I fail to see how my neighbors caused this problem (aside from demonstrating a tendency to vote for legislators who thems
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by cagey 16y ago
We had "a run in" with Child Protective Services about 10 years ago. The charge: "Shaken Baby Syndrome" (symptoms medically caused; a long story). The "advocates" at CPS had me and my wife (in hospital having just delivered child #2) trie
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by cagey 16y ago
Or better yet, watch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_48 instead of fiction.
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by cagey 17y ago
Somewhat tangentially: I run a useful app, JBidWatch (a nice, free eBay "sniping"/monitoring tool) on my Windows XP desktop. I started it 1 week ago following a reboot. One week later I noticed the PC's mem usage was nearing the amount of
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by cagey 17y ago
_Brown_ Islamist soldier who kills 13 soldiers and wounds 30 at Fort Hood: _not_ a terrorist!
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by cagey 17y ago
I too had to buy a comparatively giant house to get a parcel of land the size I was looking for within sane commuting-time of my job. We were living in a house almost half the size, but have figured out ways to take advantage of the extra
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by cagey 17y ago
file:///c:/my/scripts/home.htm c:\my is under Subversion control, allowing me to sync and propagate changes made on any home or work PC which has my setup to all the others (next time I use them). Created this setup (first using CVS) about

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