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by etfb 13y ago
Not referring to anything in the past. This is what they're like now. Especially if you're trying to get them to pay out.
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by etfb 13y ago
You misunderstand -- the name is an anagram, and refers to their current business practices, not something they might have done half a century or more ago. They are bastards right now .
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by etfb 13y ago
They better hope they're not insured with Allianz Insurance, aka Unclean Nazi Liars, or they won't see a cent.
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by etfb 13y ago
Still, he did manage to find a human being to talk to (so it's better than Google, which appears not to employee carbon-based lifeforms) and the human beings had the ability to deal with the issue (so it's better than Apple, which
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by etfb 13y ago
Not so! If it were a book report, it would be returned for using light grey ink on white paper. Give teachers some credit!
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by etfb 13y ago
Thank you. I came here to say this. You have saved me the shame.
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by etfb 13y ago
Any sort of context at all would be welcome at this stage. American politics is fascinating ("I love the USA! I never miss an episode!") but I don't have all the names memorised.
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by etfb 13y ago
Maybe I'm being unfair, but my immediate response to that headline was the traditional response to the statement "size doesn't matter": "Oh." [Pat, pat.] "Did somebody tell you that, dear?"
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by etfb 13y ago
At what point? Not sure. Some years ago now, I think. When did Vista launch?
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by etfb 13y ago
The Dalek Ovens (as I call them) in Canberra, Australia, have a regular hourly cleaning cycle. You get plenty of warning to get out, and then they turn on the hoses. I presume it reduces their utility as a form of cheap housing.
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by etfb 13y ago
Odd. My immediate conclusion from your story was that Seattle was a bad idea.
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by etfb 13y ago
I'd like to know the names and addresses of the people who ordered it. Does anyone have a phone number for someone in the Department of Homeland Security I can ask?
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by etfb 13y ago
Nice, but he needs to change the name. Kudos isn't a plural noun. There's no such thing as "a kudo" or "several kudos". It's like saying "I had a computer in the 1990s that had an MS-DO on it, but I upgraded it with a couple of DR-DOS I
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by etfb 13y ago
I just took it as an opportunity to empathise with the people who stare at me blankly when I talk about computer stuff. It would have been nice to have the acronym explained, and given that it's a website they could have used the acronym
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by etfb 13y ago
But no explanation of what the colours are for, where they're from, what happens if you hit Reload. My assumption was that there was some clever algorithm to choose a "nice" set of colours from a wide palette, not that it was little more t
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by etfb 13y ago
"Every little detail"? Good grief! How about "any information at all"? Would you like to consider the lush, verdant pastures of the middle ground?
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by etfb 13y ago
Ah I see. Still, you got me thinking about the need for a general term for that sort of hammering, so it's not all wasted.
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by etfb 13y ago
And here we see the ultimate extension of the web designer's aesthetic into the realms of the absurd: colours, artfully chosen and arranged; a Flash (?) interface allowing exactly one interaction, of utter triviality. And because it would
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by etfb 13y ago
Used to be called the Slashdot effect; nowadays you see it more in reference to Reddit. There should be a name for it that doesn't need to change every time a new web link aggregator becomes flavour of the month. Incidentally, whatever it'
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by etfb 13y ago
All the best science is. Sadly, most of the worst pseudo-science is too, which makes it largely useless as an indicator. Ah well.
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by etfb 13y ago
My experience with Mint less than a year ago was that the Cinnamon interface was so bugridden I actually looked forward to going back to Unity. The only real bug I've encountered in Unity is the integration between it and LibreOffice that
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by etfb 13y ago
Yours is a dangerous attitude. You believe that the thing that you understand is easy to understand, and those who don't understand it are therefore morally wrong, for some definition of "morally". Thus, you ignore genuine problems becaus
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by etfb 13y ago
Concatenative language syntax is actually pretty easy at the basic level. I don't know Factor, but I used to dabble a lot in Forth. The single syntactical rule with Forth is that a symbol (called a "word") is one or more non-space charact
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by etfb 13y ago
A better title would be: What you can do with artistic talent and sufficient time even despite the Gimp.
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by etfb 13y ago
One way to reconcile our views on this is the hypothesis that most Australians are living beyond their means...
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by etfb 13y ago
Credit cards are still more expensive than debit cards, and in Australia any machine that can take the former will take the latter as well. Credit cards allow you to spend money you don't have, whereas debit cards don't.
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by etfb 13y ago
Credit cards have fees -- interest, account-keeping fees, and so on. It's why banks like them.
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by etfb 13y ago
America is a funny place. You can get 127 varieties of salad dressing at your local supermarket, but you can't pay for it except with cash, unless you want to be hit with credit charges, and when you do the prices are not as marked. Austr
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by etfb 14y ago
No, YOU have an upvote! Thanks!
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by etfb 14y ago
s/Api\'s/APIs/g s/Api/API/g I know it's nitpicky, but the error makes it painful to read the article. Obviously I'm blaming nobody, and to judge from his name the author is probably fluent in more languages than me. But it's

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