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by epo 15y ago
Not everything needs to have a 'community'. A depressing majority of the web using public are idiots and having a no-consequence comment area just encourages them to leave their garbage for you to clean up. All these people here making earn
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by epo 15y ago
The salient point here is that the offending tweet was apparently made some weeks ago. This public act was done deliberately to send a warning signal that Big Brother is everywhere and sees everything. It might have caused some unpleasantne
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by epo 15y ago
Pretty inane article and mildly paranoid conclusion. If it had said "x seats available" it would have been grammatically correct but too long for a button. And yes, "algorithm" was geek linkbait.
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by epo 15y ago
There is a mindset amongst some of the worst sort of managers that "we only want the best people" and so they design hiring schemes or post jobs ads which over specify their needs and/or are designed to stop lesser candidates wasting manage
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by epo 15y ago
Looking at it from a non-MS fanboy perspective. Apple has repeatedly out-flanked MS, reinvented a couple of major industries and has hugely successful product lines beyond desktop PC software, so yes, Apple has been kicking MS's arse for qu
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by epo 15y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about, I'm guessing this is because you have never created anything worthwhile on which your livelihood depended. I'm sure you'd be quick to whine if your employer (assuming you are old enough to work)
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by epo 15y ago
It is not the best written article but I think that some people here are wilfuly misrepresenting it (maybe being a bit defensive?). He is clearly talking about clarifying your business model in the early (pre-launch?) days of a startup. In
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by epo 15y ago
I had a boss once who went on at great length about the benefits of the paperless office. His office was indeed devoid of paper storage, his secretary's office however, had loads of filing cabinets stuffed full of papers. Self-regarding par
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Kaufmann's wonderful Posographe (an analog mechanical computer)(nzeldes.com)
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by epo 15y ago
Time will tell. I think you're wrong. Most of the third world doesn't even have a reliable cell phone service and, of course, little money, so there are few consumers to target ads at. On a practical note, battery life matters in impoverish
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by epo 15y ago
I have only ever seen the 'diss' spelling, perhaps your dictionary needs revising.
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by epo 15y ago
"No. The one valid definition of a business purpose is this: A business should do what the owners want it to do. Otherwise, the notion of ownership loses meaning." This is specious, not all shareholders are equal and most have no practical
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by epo 15y ago
"Android is open" is BS for the plain and simple fact that (time delayed) source code availability is of no consequence to the vast majority of Android users. They say it as though it means something, it means nothing, rather like water ven
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by epo 15y ago
So, what's it like to realise that New Scientist is more up to date with street talk than you are?
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by epo 15y ago
This comes from a test for Aspergers doesn't it? Only people who are incapable of comprehending their role in social relationships would think this was a good idea. Hint for the Aspies, relationships require effort on your part. These littl
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by epo 15y ago
So if someone comes up to one of these radically honest people and tells them they are a pretentious self-important little jerk who is too full of themselves to be worth even contemplating getting to know they will think "Oh! What a refresh
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by epo 15y ago
Nonsense, non-technical people will be swayed by some initial special offer, as always. This will all be forgotten about by February. GoDaddy will just price themselves to be attractive to the vast majority, i.e. cheapskates. The 'elite' wi
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by epo 15y ago
Nice, a classic example of witless fandroid drivel. An irrelevant comparison to Apple used to introduce a pro-Android rant along with the obligatory "I used to use IOS" and explaining any downvotes for this tosh as pro-Apple groupthink.
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by epo 15y ago
You might have observed that it wasn't all that funny or witty and I might have agreed with you. But commenting on what you wrote: obscene doesn't mean what you want it to mean. Perhaps you should take your prudery, your censorship, your se
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by epo 15y ago
One advantage of a non-standard SSH port is it cuts down on log file clutter and sends the script kiddies elsewhere to look for their low hanging fruit. But, as you say, nothing to do with Apache.
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by epo 15y ago
Or reading between the lines, your family are lumbered with third rate devices because of your ideological geeky fanaticism. This is all reminiscent of the "Linux will take over the desktop" advocacy of 8 or 9 years ago. People with knowled
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by epo 15y ago
Except for ammunition to the endless legions of kneejerk anti-Apple fandroids, what is the point of this article? It is essentially content-free, the limited claim being that Apple, who are infringed upon in many areas, is suing people who
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by epo 15y ago
I used to work at BT Labs back in the day, there were very, very many smart engineers and scientists there. BT had a dismal track record of exploiting anything Labs came up with, then again Labs were very bad at being relevant and selling t
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by epo 15y ago
BT is a private company these days, has been for a long time, how does Britain as whole foot the bill?
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by epo 15y ago
The book title is a pun. The implications and sexual connotations are purely a fabrication of your imagination. Don't project your hangups onto other people. EDIT The meaning of the word "obscenity" is quite clear, just saying something is
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by epo 15y ago
Except that these are normal aspects of their job. Not liking the sight of blood is a normal human response too, but shouldn't be if your career choice is butcher or surgeon.
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by epo 15y ago
That is a lucid and very charitable version of my take on it, which is that there are an awful lot of stupid people about (or perhaps a few stupid people who put themselves about a lot).
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by epo 15y ago
Agreed. Knuth no doubt chose a simple, but non-trivial, program to build from scratch to illustrate the technique. McIlroy responded with an equivalent made up from Lego bricks. Knuth documented what he did. McIroy said "I used this command
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by epo 15y ago
The difference between those who do and those who bemoan not doing is motivation. The Hemingway Trick is a simple way to give yourself the initial motivation. Then again, you might just be lazy.
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by epo 15y ago
They are claiming 5 times more sales, so are they saying that Microsoft take the same cut as Apple? Also the app was language learning app for (presumably) the very young, how likely is that these youngsters would have (extended access to)

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