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by crikli 15y ago
This seems like a really clunky way to do things. I have to a) create an account if I haven't already b) send an email and c) somehow redeem that coupon. They already have my PayPal info...why not set up the program to integrate with my de
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by crikli 15y ago
Maybe I'm dumb. Well, I'm definitely dumb. But where the heck to I go to buy this thing? Can't find where on the HP site to do so.
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by crikli 15y ago
That's interesting; we run a range of sites from law firms to a VOIP switch producer to a big hospital system. IE usage ranges from 60-85%. Oddly enough the VOIP switch producer has the highest IE utilization, but we did a bunch of analys
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by crikli 15y ago
US, certainly. I should have established the context.
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by crikli 15y ago
I don't buy it. My company manages a number of websites; the site with the most homogenous use across all demographics shows IE at 80% usage. Here's a shot from the last couple of days: http://a.yfrog.com/img614/5741/ls8.png Edit: IE usag
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by crikli 15y ago
You're not the first person that's said that; what's your setup? I've had consistent memory problems on WinXP, Win7, and OSX, all of them muscled up machines, especially when using JS intensive apps or leveraging Krumo (yes, I'm a PHP progr
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by crikli 15y ago
They should have done this three years ago, before Google's better, faster, less leaky browser started to gain traction.
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by crikli 15y ago
Apropos, sorta: do I ever identify with Jobs' statement about "getting the curiosity beat out of you" in school. I was "the smart kid" until I decided I wanted to fit in, so I stopped going after the math and science as aggressively. I've
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by crikli 15y ago
This quote made Brook's law echo in my head: "But an employee who worked on Courier said the project was far enough along that the remaining work could have been completed in months if the company had added more people to the team. " [Emph
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by crikli 15y ago
I would love to buy the book about his experience, but copies are way expensive ($60-$160). http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Rode-Thunder/dp/0135482712 Perhaps if all us HNers could click on the "I'd like to read this on Kindle" link the pub
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by crikli 15y ago
Glide ratio, or lack thereof. Swept wing fighters usually have a glide ratio of like 1.5:1, meaning you go 1.5 feet for every foot you drop. With the engine out you've lost the hydraulic boost you have over the control surfaces so the air
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by crikli 15y ago
"It's widely claimed..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#Passive_and_middle_...
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by crikli 15y ago
You're welcome. I'm like most pilots, my favorite subject is flying. There's an old joke: how do you know if there's a pilot in the room? Because he'll tell you. You know, the hands off 180 definitely something I'm going to try next time
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by crikli 15y ago
It strikes me funny how Brooks is mentioned so casually as an area professor as opposed to the living legend that he truly is.
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by crikli 15y ago
Training for a PPL currently requires 3.0 hours of instrument time, including maneuvers like climbs, descents, and turn to a heading. It also requires unusual attitude recovery, a drill where you cover your eyes and the instructor puts the
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by crikli 15y ago
I've used a similar analogy frequently, that profit is to my business as fuel is to an aircraft. I want as much profit as I can get not because I'm greedy but because I want to stay in their air as long as possible, constantly making longe
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by crikli 15y ago
"it seems like a solid study" It is, provided that context is given when statistics from the paper are mentioned...which rarely happens. To fly a Bonanza you have to have a private pilot's license, a high performance endorsement (required t
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by crikli 15y ago
"According to a 2004 study, the average life expectancy of a non-instrument-rated pilot who flies into clouds or instrument conditions is 178 seconds." This statistic is the aviation equivalent of the "Bill Gates is going to give you $5" em
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by crikli 15y ago
You should see my niece, 18 months old. She can unlock my iPad and find Netflix or Angry Birds as fast as I can. Now of course she needs help past that, but still.
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by crikli 15y ago
Yup. I clean tiny swipe prints off of my TV every time I'm done babysitting my 18 month old niece.
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by crikli 15y ago
My "status-symbol widget" is going to allow me to make a cross country flight tomorrow without carrying three sectional charts, a terminal area chart, and an airport/FBO directory. It will retain a GPS fix the entire flight, creating a mov
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by crikli 15y ago
Is this using nginx in lieu of Apache or nginx in front of apache, acting as a reverse proxy or similar?
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by crikli 15y ago
Here here! I've completely given up on Firefox on my MBP (3.06 Core2, 8GB, 480GB SSD). Between the egregious javascript memory leak and constantly increasing resource utilization it's just unusable. And my fans are running full tilt withi
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by crikli 15y ago
Steve was my idol as a child of the seventies growing up in the '80s. I was so angry at Apple after they got rid of Jobs that I vowed to never buy another product from them. And of course I dreamed of being able to have a NeXT. So I occup
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My Steve Jobs lunchbox, circa 1988(imgur.com)
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by crikli 15y ago
I'm surprised at the Javascript figure. I leave a few swears in server-side script but the only people that will see that are other programmers; Javascript, anyone can read that. That said, I've found a couple of rants in my old JS from th
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by crikli 15y ago
You're making a whole pile of assumptions to arrive at judgement. You're assuming that because you don't have days where you've got to travel several hundred miles an then back that nobody else does...or should. You're assuming that you k
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by crikli 15y ago
> I have just over 70 tabs open... I'm really curious about this as once I get to about 10 tabs my brain starts wanting to close them to get back to something it can manage. This is either because I'm dumb (highly likely) or because yo
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by crikli 15y ago
Your point is well made and I'll adopt this policy in the future. That said, it's scary to say anything slightly negative about Obama without wanting to try to cushion the expected blows.
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by crikli 15y ago
I'm gonna get hammered for this, but this smacks more of a struggling President that has it out for a (ridiculous) news organization that has it out for him than a legitimate racketeering case.

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