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by dougp 17y ago
Usually we test this on our own soldiers. So you have a valid concern.
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by dougp 17y ago
They demoed it live on stage. They didn't just play this video for everyone in the audience...
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by dougp 17y ago
That is the type of stuff nightmares are made of.
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by dougp 17y ago
I would say the big no no in ruby is requiring extensive configuration files. Which I think is also because of Java and its heavy reliance on XML to set things up. If the hello world code cant be done on one line then we won't bother with
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by dougp 17y ago
I guess I haven't seen a National Geographic show in a while. I remember a series following a cheetah mother with cubs and it was heartbreaking her coming back after an unsuccessful attempt at a kill to find one less cub then when she left
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by dougp 17y ago
I liked the ads better.
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by dougp 17y ago
Because this gives people that have dismissed rails outright a reason to feel good about themselves.
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by dougp 17y ago
Web designers often send me half heartedly formated html that is full of repetitive nested structures that I do not understand. When trying to turn it into a collection of partials I have inevitably destroyed some important tag. Everything
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by dougp 17y ago
http://volokh.com/posts/chain_1240849478.shtml is a better link. The content is really in those 3 links at the bottom. His basic point as I understand it is that there never really was the good old days of the patent system and that it
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by dougp 17y ago
My fault I only read the presentation and from all the couchDB logos I mistakenly assumed it was done by a couchDB developer.
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by dougp 17y ago
The problem with bicycles in Northern Va is that the season is too short it is either burning hot and you will die of heat stroke or freezing cold and your fingers and ears get frost bite. I had much more luck walking (2.5 miles) to the me
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by dougp 17y ago
I have heard that you have to jump through some pretty annoying hoops to prove that you don't have a TV. Since the government just assumes that you actually have one and just don't want to pay.
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by dougp 17y ago
I thought this was going to be an article about tree houses. I am disapointed. Anyways the most interesting part of this article to me is how you white list chatting. That has some interesting implications and I have never heard of that b
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by dougp 17y ago
I have a Thinkpad running XP and it is fine except every time I resume from sleep I have to repair my wifi connection. In addition for being the "premium windows laptop" it sure comes bundled with a lot of annoying software (password manag
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by dougp 18y ago
I am very interested in this but what do you about internet. Do many ports have wireless?
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by dougp 18y ago
Beneath these articles is the assumption that Google is making lots of money off of newspaper articles posted online. I don't think this is right. If anyone should be cutting the newspapers a check it should be Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Hacke
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by dougp 18y ago
This is just programming language stockholm syndrome. I like my cell and my kidnappers have my best interest at heart. If I wasn't bound and gagged then I might do something dangerous.
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by dougp 18y ago
They should at least take down the page on request.
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by dougp 18y ago
The article basically points out that KDE and gnome both provide convenience methods in launchers that can be used for nefarious purposes and compromise the security that the execution bit provides.
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by dougp 18y ago
ADA advocates always talk about these safe guards but if its so easy to see how much better and safer it is show us some code. It is telling that the only snippet we see is from c.
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by dougp 18y ago
I never have and never plan on watching sports on espn's web site. I am going to be very disappointed when my bill goes up because of this.
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by dougp 18y ago
If I reinvented a Patricia tree I would be pretty pleased with myself.
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by dougp 18y ago
Not surprising. This is the same company that gave a substantial portion of its employees a 20% paycut when they were forced to start paying over-time then acted like it was a pay raise because most employees work over 40 hours a week.
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by dougp 18y ago
Modernization at my old high school involved a Laser disc player for every class room.
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by dougp 18y ago
I think number two is your best bet but instead of being a sort of shop overseas service, you should make storefronts focused on one of the brands at a time. Try to make your visitors feel like they have just stumbled upon something thats
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by dougp 18y ago
http://www.michaeltotten.com/ this journalist travels all over warzones and is independant.
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by dougp 18y ago
Paris Hilton is a bad example she makes like 200 million a year. Perfume sales at Target, clothing lines, etc.
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by dougp 18y ago
The comments on that blog post are something else. "I would buy Starcraft on the iPhone for $9.99 in a heartbeat." Yeah I would too but it will never happen because starcraft for the computer is still over 10 dollars.
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by dougp 18y ago
Well then one will smell the others perfume. You have to initialize both the variables to be the same.
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by dougp 18y ago
Retailers get charged about 20 cents per 100$ for debit transactions and $1.48 per 100$ for credit. If you say credit with your debit card you are giving your bank that larger cut and getting none of the protections associated with a credi

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