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by delano 18y ago
The hurricanes are covered quite thoroughly in Canada too (including live coverage). I don't think it's sad though since it's something that can directly affect millions of people and can indirectly affect 10s of millions more (fuel prices,
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by delano 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roermond (Netherlands) Julius Caesar called it Villa Optima. It was destroyed in 1213 and rebuilt by 1232. It was occupied by the Romans, France, Austria, Germany, among others over the years. There was also s
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by delano 18y ago
Open source is more respectable than free and it comes with a lot of benefits. Plus services are more profitable over the long-term than licensing. But yeah, it's probably more difficult to ramp up that vibe in a mature company. Even intern
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by delano 18y ago
Once bit, twice shy. They charged a mint through the 90s and into the early 2000s and a lot of companies got burned paying off those contracts after the cash flow tightened up. Many of them refuse to do business with them. They're also real
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by delano 18y ago
You could suggest that they change their approach in getting the email address but the concept of reminding you to reply with your fix to that error is good.
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by delano 18y ago
That's my point, ironically.
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by delano 18y ago
It's still REST even when you don't use PUT, HEAD, or DELETE. Regardless, verbs are important. Consider the command-line. Which is more clear: $ anImplementation move --from=data/preciousFile.dat --to=data/preciousFile-aug.15.2008.dat
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by delano 18y ago
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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by delano 18y ago
That's not true. Have you looked at Sinatra? It's gorgeous. All URI definitions can (and should) be placed in a single .rb file. get '/content/:id' do header 'Content-Type' => 'text/html; charset=utf-8' # Get content usin
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by delano 18y ago
Ya, this is pretty old hey.
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by delano 18y ago
This post just copies examples from the actual Sparklines documentation. http://www.willarson.com/code/sparklines/sparklines.html
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by delano 18y ago
Being informed improves your ability to bargain, it doesn't negate the need for bargaining.
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by delano 18y ago
I agree that bargaining is inefficient for small transactions but it is the basis of business, everywhere in the world, regardless of whether or not there are price tags.
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by delano 18y ago
Were you there? Were the NYPD picking out people at random?
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by delano 18y ago
Whoa, what's the deal with the 911 emergency button on the OneTouch?
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by delano 18y ago
Most of these aren't business ideas. They're features.
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by delano 18y ago
Ya I agree, if you compare the two directly but you have to consider the chance of either event occurring. A highly likely crash that destroys my most important document is more serious to than the much less likely event that an attacker wo
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by delano 18y ago
The secrets through a warren-pass filter: 1. "In my adult business life I have never had to make a choice of trading between professional and personal. I tap-dance to work, and when I get there it’s tremendous fun." 2. "I have simple pleasu
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by delano 18y ago
Taxes and liability.
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by delano 18y ago
Part of the problem is that the term "security" has taken on a very narrow meaning. A bug that crashes a word processor has just as much to do with security as one that allows an escalation of privileges.
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by delano 18y ago
Email the draft to people you know.
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by delano 18y ago
Ya that's the API docs, but it doesn't give an example of bullet graphs.
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The Economics of Bananas(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by delano 18y ago|1 comments
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by delano 18y ago
Ya, I was hoping the redesign was done by Pearl Jam.
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by delano 18y ago
Ooops, I didn't see the link to the original ( http://b.lesseverything.com/2008/4/30/rules-for-business ); thanks for pointing it out. I don't agree that it's spam though. The rationale is that you get the content in your RSS reader without
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Rules for Business(gtcaz.com)
1 points by delano 18y ago|2 comments
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What happened here(zeldman.com)
1 points by delano 18y ago|0 comments
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by delano 18y ago
Bloody Caesars.
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by delano 18y ago
Maybe I misunderstood what you meant. Can you explain?
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by delano 18y ago
You will be able to pull it off if you learn well under pressure. Java is consistent so it's easy to learn the basics quickly. There are some things that are good to know upfront, like j2d2's comments. I'll also add: 6) It's easy to be verb

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