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by earl 16y ago
Thankfully, the US passed the recent national health care law which, I believe, bans such discrimination as of 2014 and brings us that much closer to being a civilized country.
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by earl 16y ago
In the US at least, we do now have such protections -- viz community rates and obamacare.
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by earl 16y ago
I couldn't replicate the article's results for the 8 character cutoff, but I did verify my password is case insensitive. For the record, I registered in 1996 or so, and probably haven't changed my password since.
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by earl 16y ago
Seriously? You took the time to dig up emails for a bunch of employees to whine at all of them, and you couldn't do this? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tumblr+exporter You then had your friend PR whore on the internet, without mentioning at first
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by earl 16y ago
+1 for divvy: http://www.mizage.com/divvy/ Watch the video, but basically, you can define predetermined window positions and sizes, bind those to keys, and use hot keys to snap windows to the predetermined sizes. Or a size selector avail
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by earl 16y ago
Those buckets are pretty broad. I mean, $100 - $250K: that takes you from doing ok in SF, in the land of $550K one bedroom apartments, to doing pretty damn well.
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by earl 16y ago
To quote myself, yesterday: ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140893 ) It's really easy to get customer service from G. They provide, free, to each customer their famous "fuck off and die while we totally ignore you" brand of
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by earl 16y ago
They have cheap desks but the chairs are not $50 ikea crap; they're pretty comfy. fyi And at least when I was there, go karting was really about a 5-6:30 activity.
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by earl 16y ago
heh http://blog.earlh.com/index.php/2009/07/building-a-zip-line-... particularly: http://blog.earlh.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/p5q.jpg We also tried a giant rubber band to increase speed. Everyone involved smelled like condoms for
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by earl 16y ago
It's really easy to get customer service from G. They provide, free, to each customer their famous "fuck off and die while we totally ignore you" brand of customer service that has propelled them to the very bottom of JD Power Customer Ser
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by earl 16y ago
Characterizing paying taxes -- the result of the democratic process, etc -- as theft under threat of violence makes you a fucking idiot.
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by earl 16y ago
I don't know -- A2Z is in SF just off Market street, the employees receive Amazon stock, get discounts on amazon.com, work exclusively (afaik) for amazon.com, and some lawyer has figured out how they aren't actually working for amazon and t
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by earl 16y ago
NB: re Quantcast -- Quantcast and Clearspring paid a combined $2.4MM [1] [1] http://www.research-live.com/news/legal/quantcast-and-clears...
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by earl 16y ago
Does anybody have a clear answer as to nVidia's right to make Intel chipsets for i7, etc? "Intel will pay Nvidia for access to its patent portfolio, which includes its GPU and supercomputing technology. In addition to the cash, Nvidia will
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by earl 16y ago
That's exactly what they are. However, they're an inferior phone . And so my post is a counterpoint to the article's claim that smartphones will extinguish dumb phones. Because people still want to have a phone that does phone things.
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by earl 16y ago
Am I the only person who loves my dumb phone? For starters, it just works. A good friend has a Motorola Droid X. Android is a useless piece of shit -- his alarm clock keeps crashing with NPEs. This was one of the premier android phones
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by earl 16y ago
No, Netflix doesn't. If the studios don't sell netflix a streaming license, then Netflix has no streaming business. I am aware of no law that requires the studios to sell such a license; even if there is, I doubt that it requires the stud
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by earl 16y ago
Here's my take: There is no threat to the studios. 1 - Netflix thinks streaming is the future. 2 - dvds are covered by first sale; streams are not 3 - ergo, netflix needs a license to stream, which they didn't need for dvds 4 - they got thi
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by earl 16y ago
No. You can start here: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=223259... or glassdoor or virtually any former dev there
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by earl 16y ago
That's fine, but not all of us are 20 anymore. Some people -- including some very experienced devs! -- want to do boring shit like not be broke, have savings, have a 401K, take vacations, etc. Even if they live in NYC.
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by earl 16y ago
This. All these bloody people play armchair economists with macroecon, which is genuinely difficult, but refuse to do the same with micro: If you can't hire people at a given wage, raise the wage . Or whine online about the lack of employ
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by earl 16y ago
Um... I disagree. I worked for a large company that does just that: hire liberal arts majors with high gpas and teach them to program. It works, well, horribly. Ask any former employee about the code quality at epic systems.
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by earl 16y ago
I am aware of all internet traditions
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by earl 16y ago
From the article: "Adobe’s senior director for engineering Paul Betlam took to their corporate blog and declared Flash 10.1 support on Chrome OS notebooks 'a work in progress'." A work in progress. Just like on my macbook, except they've h
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by earl 16y ago
What's with the recent fetishization of Big Data? I'm moving to Dziuba's camp -- its a developer dick size contest.
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by earl 16y ago
"To spell it out, a organization that treated a one off request for a discount due to non-conventional circumstances is a company that shows attention to detail, and a willingness to work with even the smallest purchaser to make them happy"
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by earl 16y ago
Dude, you used a story about your daughter, etc, to try and get a discount on the license. The vendor said no. That's fine, and if he or she was rude as you mentioned above, that's worth taking into account -- there's no need for the vend
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by earl 16y ago
C++: this got me into computers Mumps: didn't ruin my life, just a year of it VB6: wow you could get a lot of pretty productive stuff done quickly Matlab: This is how math on a computer should be written. R: Convinced me there is nothing be
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by earl 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985714
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by earl 16y ago
I don't know what the deal is, but it's weird on SO's part. If the issue is, as a sibling comment says, presentation html / js confusing G's crawler, then you email your account manager at Google and it will almost certainly be completel

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