elarkin

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by elarkin 14y ago
This isn't entirely an issue of greedy people having feelings of entitlement. Like many of you all, I do not know of anyone who pirates software, movies or music (ever since I graduated college) anymore. That's because the piracy rates in t
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by elarkin 14y ago
The original article hinted at the reason for your views. Firstly, the 95% piracy rate they are reporting is worldwide, not the rate of piracy in the USA. In the USA, piracy rates have never been all that high, but cart yourself over to Chi
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by elarkin 14y ago
You can generally get around windows' 255 absolute character length limits by using UNC paths. We had that problem at my last company, where the system would allow you to write files into a path but not delete them. There isn't a modern rea
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by elarkin 14y ago
I find it odd that the author claims that Gen Y is anyone born 1982 to 1999, and yet that it does not contain herself at age 30. Given that the author herself stands about a 25% chance of being included in her own definition of Gen Y, she s
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by elarkin 14y ago
They do.
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by elarkin 14y ago
Likely yes. He mentions that he turns off deduplication for the experiment. You're right that it does not accurately describe his typing, but it does describe which commands he uses most... which is about half as good.
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by elarkin 14y ago
Not a lot, though as the head of the executive branch he could likely intervene to prevent the ban.
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by elarkin 14y ago
I suspect that Ruby and Python programmers are likely in a better position to switch than are programmers in other languages. For example, if you're in the CLR or the JVM already, there's a lot of reason not to move. Ruby and Python's relat
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by elarkin 14y ago
Comcast installs a piece of software that drops shortcuts to comcast.net and stuff on your desktop. It also installs whatever antivirus thing they have a contract with. McAfee? However, they only have Windows and Mac versions of the stuff.
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by elarkin 14y ago
You are not. Although, I had more trouble with the Apple earbuds than with a more premium earbud.
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by elarkin 14y ago
Likely the person(s) who spoke out now feel a burden lifted from their conscience. If the information is true, it surprises me that it has stayed hidden for so long.
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by elarkin 15y ago
Mice don't send a continuous stream of information to the computer. Instead, they send samples at some rate. It's that rate that lloeki is referring to.