epo

33 ms·

271.
by epo 14y ago
In both cases it is a statement made by someone who doesn't understand what they are talking about. (EDIT) to avoid being needlessly trite: because if someone does know what they are talking about then they would say it is trivial. "It sh
272.
by epo 14y ago
You might want to correct "half-backed" to "half-baked" in your post, it made me stop and wonder what you were trying to say.
273.
by epo 14y ago
If you are devising a new product concept, the very first telephone (or ipod or ipad) say, then what is gained by doing this? Your customers have no point of reference. In general, asking customers what they think is only useful if you are
274.
by epo 14y ago
I'm sure this will go off topic fairly quickly but the fine is for not complying (between 02/2011 and 07/2012) with an order to display a browser selection screen during system setup.
275.
by epo 14y ago
That site is useless, sample pages I looked contained brief overview paragraphs and no real content. Many contained "todo" items. So you criticised the original article, but when asked to provide information or advice of your own merely cam
276.
by epo 14y ago
Email became unwieldy when it became a universal communication mechanism. Sending email does not mimic a very important characteristic of post, sending email is free. All abuse would stop if people were required to place a paid-for 'stamp'
277.
by epo 14y ago
Its not surreal, just that people aren't moving on. Just solving the same problems over again using new toys; and often doing a poor job of it because they do not understand engineering fundamentals of their problem space.
278.
by epo 14y ago
I think most people have enough processing bandwidth to cope with external libraries using a different convention to inhouse code.
279.
by epo 14y ago
I had exactly this issue at a well known British telecommunications company, I had a personality clash with my (newly promoted) manager and leaving was impossible because the manager did not want to see a diminished headcount. I manouevered
280.
by epo 14y ago
But you wouldn't get a queue for paper towels. People would grab 2 or 3 towels and move aside.
281.
by epo 14y ago
Jeez, you people are scum! Stop with the karma whoring on this guy's death.
282.
by epo 14y ago
More karma whoring off this poor kid's memory. Flag this garbage out of sight.
283.
by epo 14y ago
The whole tone of this content-free article is semi-paranoid - insinuating, without openly saying, that this guy is a martyr, murdered by "the man". This is the latest in a stream of pointless links about Aaron, intended to gain cheap karma
284.
by epo 14y ago
I don't believe that for most people "Windows machines were substantially better". Then, as now, Windows was bundled in with so much crapware and with such poor out of the box defaults that the performance was, and remains, dreadful. Then,
285.
by epo 14y ago
Upvoted, to me Musk is being a publicity whore and scoring cheap hits over Boeing. I.e. his comments do not help us in advancing our understanding so can only be intended to publicise his own company's products.
286.
by epo 14y ago
DbVisualizer (www.dbvis.com) is multi platform and has excellent support. It is Java based and commercial which may be a problem for some.
287.
by epo 14y ago
I bet he wasn't amused by the number of ST2 users who got the ST2 beta and were using it without having got round to paying, in fact I'd bet this was the majority. The trouble with honour systems is that not enough people are honourable.
288.
by epo 14y ago
The tin (foil) hat part was the rubbish about "those who threaten the system". That is just some pre-pubescent fantasy about being an outlaw and "sticking it to the man" to revive a 60's saying in the same vein. The reality was that the pro
289.
by epo 14y ago
Put your tin hat away. The why of it is really, really obvious. Low hanging fruit, an easy target for prosecutors wanting to score an easy win.
290.
by epo 14y ago
The first thing you found wierd relies on selective quotation, you omitted "because of implicit string to integer conversion". The second is an apologist "but its well documented" defence. Your third point is changing the subject, he was cr
291.
by epo 14y ago
I'd argue you haven't got a clue what you are talking about and compensate by resorting to cliched moralizing. Everyone would snap given sufficient provocation, a 'cheating spouse' is very provocative, to call it "poor impulse control" is
292.
by epo 14y ago
ref 1 dates back to 2007, ref 2 is an isolated 'bug report' which no one else seems to corroborate and ref 3 seems to be written by you. You're not making any kind of case here for Apple being overrated.
293.
by epo 14y ago
I once had demigod access to Southampton University Computer Centre. The ops staff used to rip erroneous job cards in half and put them back in the deck for repunching. Clueless or lazy students sometimes repaired them with sellotape and re
294.
by epo 14y ago
That response doesn't answer the question but it does contain a lot of diversionary handwaving. Short version, yes we do tell Amazon, we just claim to preserve your anonymity. Given the deceit implicit in this obfuscation, there is not re
295.
by epo 14y ago
So open source means it does exactly what it claims to do? It sounds like correcting you might be a lifetime's work. Consider the 'bug' that the switch value might be stored correctly but the software might ignore its setting.
296.
by epo 14y ago
Have the Beeb given up on editors for their website? The first sentence is so unlikely to be true, "a day entirely without violent crime", really? I could perhaps accept this if they added the word "reported". But the following statement th
297.
by epo 14y ago
This has nothing to do with DRM, it is a crappily designed customer authentication system. If B&N had any sense they would offer customers the ability to redownload their purchases at any time after say, 120 days, for an additional 25c.
298.
Hotel break-ins blamed on flaw in keycard system(boingboing.net)
1 points by epo 14y ago|0 comments
299.
by epo 14y ago
Pix or GTFO. Any internet windbag can make cheap criticisms. Show us some examples of what you regard as "a good web app".
300.
by epo 14y ago
And you think it is a good idea to replace a non-optimal system by a guaranteed-to-be-worse one? Really? Really??

More ›