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by csixty4 13y ago
Performance isn't bad. You've been able to install an opcode cache for years, and there's one built into the runtime now. HHVM really boosts performance, and it's closing in on full compatibility with mainstream PHP.
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by csixty4 13y ago
I can't speak for those charities, but I have experience with helping run an animal shelter. Some things to keep in mind with donations like this: * What's the bread's shelf life? * Will there always be X amount of brea
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by csixty4 13y ago
The Global feed is depressing. It's almost entirely spam. Not like "hey, check out this article I wrote" kind of spam, but more "cheap nike shoes gucci purses prada http://example.com" . There's some
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by csixty4 13y ago
You're probably not being serious but, yes, rotation away from the body is easier than rotation towards the body ( http://books.google.com/books?id=fnqZPpq2apAC&pg=PA136&lpg=P... ) which is why screws (not screwd
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by csixty4 13y ago
And if there's a security system or intercom next to the door, it's probably going to be on the right side.
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by csixty4 13y ago
You get used to it, just like you do with doors and all the other things designed with righty's in mind.
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by csixty4 13y ago
In Mavericks at least, you can hold Option and click on the Wifi icon in the menu bar to get an "Open Wireless Diagnostics" option in the menu. And you're right -- it's pretty handy when you're surrounded by college
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by csixty4 13y ago
Nope. Once the credit card company authorizes the transaction, it's entirely up to the merchant whether to fulfill the transaction and close it out, or refund the customer. The credit card companies will do nothing to assist in making
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by csixty4 13y ago
It doesn't get easier. I was taught C++ in college without terms like "encapsulation". It was just "hey, you can make one of the variables in your object hold another object, isn't that cool?". Took me almost t
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by csixty4 13y ago
Last time I was involved in in-person interviewing, we told people to bring a laptop with whatever software they were most comfortable using for development. Or, we could provide a freshly-formatted Windows XP system they could install thin
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by csixty4 13y ago
Cash donations to causes I care about. I volunteer at an animal shelter and help staff fundraisers & outreach when needed. And, I maintain & host the web site for another animal shelter.
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by csixty4 13y ago
Totally off-topic, but I remember those days. At some point, I got a copy of my customer record and saw "MCS bailers" in the referral field. Got a good chuckle over that. I don't even remember what KD did, but I remember choo
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by csixty4 13y ago
There was a big push to get more men in nursing a decade ago. Hospitals offered big hiring bonuses and 100% tuition reimbursement after a couple years' employment. There were billboards on the side of the expressway talking about how i
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by csixty4 13y ago
The Sonny Bono copyright act has a specific exception for libraries and archives who make available digital reproductions of works which are no longer commercially available at a reasonable price. Details at: http://www.copyright
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by csixty4 13y ago
Back in the day, people used to have Rolodexes, and it wasn't uncommon for a Rolodex to follow you out the door from one job to the next, growing steadily with each new acquaintance you made. A good executive relied on their Rolodex, k
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by csixty4 13y ago
I worked a college computer lab help desk in 1996. When people reported that they got a chain letter from one of our students, we forwarded it to the folks in charge of the mail servers & they got a stern warning. I miss those days.
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by csixty4 13y ago
This really resonated with me. All growing up I got variations of this message. "You can't be a computer programmer if you aren't good at math." "Nobody will hire you as a programmer if you can't touch-type.&qu
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by csixty4 13y ago
There still were shrink-wrapped PDA apps available in stores, though, which is probably how a lot of people acquired them. I never owned a PDA back then, but I'm assuming they were just the same files with a shiny installer.
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by csixty4 13y ago
Depends what you mean by "legit". I once asked a project manager if the client had and legally-mandated rules for passwords. The response from the client was (paraphrased) "no legal requirement. Let's go with 6-12 charac
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by csixty4 13y ago
> As a condition of my employment, I had to sign a contract with my former employer that basically said since I was a software engineer with them, they owned all the software I wrote, even if I wrote it outside of my work hours. I had an
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by csixty4 13y ago
Twitter, Hacker News, and Zite
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by csixty4 13y ago
> Are you saying that women or black people have a too busy agenda doing their <enter stereotype> stuff that they possibly cannot use github? That's exactly what the article is saying: > 52% of women caregivers with incomes
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by csixty4 13y ago
This article isn't talking about people who ate lead paint, though. It's talking about people who might be brilliant programmers, but don't have the opportunity, time, and money to contribute to OSS for one reason or anothe
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by csixty4 13y ago
I love Airmail. Only complaint I have is the lack of S/MIME support.
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by csixty4 13y ago
Fuck it, Doodle, let's go bowling.
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by csixty4 13y ago
You're right. 2048x1536 is the retina iPad resolution.
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by csixty4 13y ago
I actually did just that. Gave it a custom discount code for 20% off and got zero orders. The kind of people who get their fun from making fun of other people's pictures on a gaming forum aren't the kind of people with $25-40 to s
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by csixty4 13y ago
Not a startup. No bankruptcy or anything. Wife & I liked this company Goth Gift Baskets that used to advertise in Gothic Beauty magazine. One issue had an ad saying they were selling the business. We bought the name, website, inventory,
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by csixty4 13y ago
My community college still had us writing C on huge tablets of that IBM grid paper in the late 90s. I can't imagine writing huge amounts of production-worthy code that way.
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by csixty4 13y ago
At the risk of this coming off pretty damn snarky, it's because volunteering involves work. My wife and I do a lot of volunteer work, actually; mostly with animal shelters. I also do a good amount of open source work in my spare time.

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