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The Oatmeal's lawyer responds to FunnyJunk(scribd.com)
275 points by engtech 14y ago|97 comments
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by engtech 14y ago
When I was junior I really thought that everything can be fixed. As I've gained more experience I've realized that maintaining a code base is like any relationship with conflict -- you have to pick your battles carefully or everything turns
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by engtech 14y ago
I wonder if the IRS will ever start targetingthe more popular AirBnd profiles. I imagine most people do not declare the income, and $20k a year is significant revenue.
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by engtech 14y ago
Other than the simple top 100 password list, a password based on the name of the service is the most likely password that everyone has. Usually something like "domainname"+"common password for all sites"
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by engtech 14y ago
I think you solved my imgist.com addiction. Thanks!
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by engtech 14y ago
what is the recommended approach to handling work hours? close your browser when leaving work? :) or is there something I'm not understanding?
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by engtech 14y ago
Has anyone tried to use a home Chromebook as a development tool connecting to a corporate network over VPN and using VNC to connect to a linux box? I think it would be much better for my marriage if I could handle the "work emergencies" fro
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by engtech 14y ago
no, I had assumed it was an HTPC from the landing page. I've completely forgotten that Chromebooks even exist because I've never heard of anyone buying one.
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by engtech 14y ago
Experience has taught me that if you want to get something done, you need to stay off the bleeding edge, or at the very least only drag yourself to the bleeding edge at controlled increments. The only thing that should be changing often is
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by engtech 14y ago
Thank you for posting this, Matt. It's amazing that you were able to learn so much about his condition. It gives me hope for the future of medicine, because I sometimes feel like we are still in the dark ages. I hope you have success with t
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by engtech 14y ago
"Whow, are you arrogant. Can you even contemplate somebody who doesn't want to have children?" Can you contemplate that if you are having heterosexual/breeder sex, you may have children even if you never planned to?
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by engtech 14y ago
"A non-parent could similarly argue that you don't get to pass judgement since you are under the influence of cognitive dissonance." The difference is that someone who is a parent has also been a non-parent. Someone who is a non-parent has
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FixMeStick: USB virus scanner & repair(fixmestick.com)
1 points by engtech 14y ago|0 comments
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by engtech 14y ago
link to original article instead of yahoo aggregator: http://mashable.com/2012/04/16/sergey-brin-worried-internet/
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by engtech 15y ago
wow, just realized I'm user 175 http://stackoverflow.com/users/175/engtech
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by engtech 15y ago
I feel that with the TV watching, that cable TV with commercials is worse than something like Netflix with no-commercials.
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by engtech 15y ago
off-topic, but couldn't find a contact form on the website. Priceonomics need to improve their search results. If you navigate through categories the results are well organized... but if you try to use search it does not organize the data p
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by engtech 15y ago
The next obvious step is to attach a shotgun to it.
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The Sky is Rising - Entertainment industry growing despite (because?) of piracy(scribd.com)
3 points by engtech 15y ago|1 comments
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by engtech 15y ago
If anyone else had trouble reading the site because of font rendering in Firefox (what is up with those r's, D's and S's!?), I found readability made it digestible. http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets
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by engtech 15y ago
I was very surprised that he doesn't mention to stay away from scripting in csh/tcsh. I've been using tcsh for 11 years now and I wish bash had been the default for the first unix job I had, because tcsh is the devil for writing any script
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by engtech 15y ago
I'd be happy to pay $50/mo for netflix that included HBO, Showtime, AMC and BBC new releases if only because Netflix supports so many devices. Cable services provide unbelievable horrible services (locally it's $25/mo to rent a PVR that sup
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by engtech 15y ago
I've sadly realized that almost all job offers are based on some combination of what they offer other candidates at that level and what you state your previous salary as. Given that you're an unknown commodity, they use your previous salary
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by engtech 15y ago
I agree that people should use a good package manager, but the reality of the corporate env world is that you'll be trying to use the latest Python on some ridiculously old unix install without root access, and you'll never be able to get I
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by engtech 15y ago
I realized after re-reading the original comment that he only has to valid date his CC on first opening. What I was wondering is if he had to re-validate at some point in the future, would the expired card trip him up or would his encrypted
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by engtech 15y ago
Most reputable stores recommend photocopying your thermal paper receipts if you'll ever need them for warranties because they fade so fast.
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by engtech 15y ago
what happens when your credit card hits the expiry date?
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by engtech 15y ago
I'm sure it varies by project, but as has been said before when Google kills things, a lot of their projects require the core Google infrastructure (BigTable?) that isn't open sourced so it isn't possible to spin the project out.
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by engtech 15y ago
Isn't iBooks part of the default for iPads now? iBooks wasn't around for the iPad 1, but things change.
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by engtech 15y ago
In this case, there are no servers. There are only local HTML files that are checked in to revision control and shipped alongside releases. HTML was chosen as the documentation file format because it's easy to find something to view it with

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