excitom

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by excitom 13y ago
Is it just me? I'm suspicious of companies that do not put any identifying information on their site, like who they are and where they are located.
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by excitom 13y ago
Nostalgia break: Learned BASIC in 1973, first computer class at my high school. Pascal, FORTRAN, and COBOL in college. Started working at IBM in 1978. "High level languages are for wimps". Assembly all the way baby! Ah those were
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by excitom 13y ago
The old classic: http://slashdot.org/
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by excitom 13y ago
This has always been a pet peeve of mine, it's totally unnecessary to ask for the card type. Also, it bothers me that I can't type in my card number exactly as it appears on the card, with embedded spaces for readability. Stupid
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by excitom 13y ago
Pretentious hipsters ruining SF since the last century.
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by excitom 13y ago
Well, I'm no fan of losing net neutrality but if the worst thing that happens is that lame VC pitches are no longer funded, I'm OK with it.
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by excitom 13y ago
Yeah, there's just that little price gouging problem during times of scarcity. I think they took a big PR hit when the cost of rides skyrocketed during recent storms. Old style regulated cab companies can't do that.
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by excitom 13y ago
Great advice, will this work for other technical professions, too? Say, brain surgery, for instance.
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by excitom 13y ago
I share you skepticism about involving the authorities. Once, when I had started up a new online business that accepts credit card payments, I detected fraudulent activity. I did some investigating and was able to pinpoint a lot of details
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by excitom 13y ago
As a person with a computer science degree and years of experience in the software industry, I would love to be chosen for a jury like this so I could do my part in smacking down a troll. However I realize this will never happen precisely b
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by excitom 13y ago
Exactly. There was always a "gentlemans' agreement" not to abuse the game, but that decorum has been abandoned.
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by excitom 13y ago
What part of "you need to win elections in order to get to make the rules" is un-democratic?
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by excitom 13y ago
When working as an AIX kernel program in 1985, I set registers to a unique value so it would be easy spot code that tried to use an uninitialized value. My choice: 0xdeadbeef. Good to see that constant is still in use.
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by excitom 13y ago
It makes it so simple, any idiot can write a GUI program ... so you get GUI programs that look like they were written by idiots.
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by excitom 13y ago
When I saw that millisecond-faster copy/paste was item #1 I kinda lost interest in the rest of the article.
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by excitom 13y ago
The last time it rebooted was due to a power glitch at the data center. Came back up just fine. Prior to that, uptime was over 1,000 days :-)
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by excitom 13y ago
Yeah, but I'll take the weather in Redwood City (mid peninsula) over the oppressive heat and humidity (and cockroaches and mosquitos) of Florida any day. For reference: I've lived both places.
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by excitom 13y ago
Here's a system that runs a business that I put on "cruise control" 10 years ago. It just keeps on running with minimal attention ... Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000 DST Patches Applied Tue Mar
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by excitom 13y ago
In past years in my career I worked in game development. I can say without hesitation that anything client side can be reverse engineered and hacked. Any limitation built into a browser can be circumvented, and it will happen in a matter of
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My gripe with ecommerce forms(medium.com)
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by excitom 13y ago
Yeah, a new logo, that's what they need.
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by excitom 13y ago
How about when you click one of the suggestions, go ahead and open the route in google maps.
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by excitom 13y ago
Small point, but SQL Server was developed by Sybase.
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by excitom 13y ago
"UPDATE 3: CNBC reports the Securities and Exchange Comission is monitoring the situation." Wow, CNBC, what would we do without your valuable insight?
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by excitom 13y ago
So, they're basically adding the features from Apache ...
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by excitom 13y ago
Must be nice not to need to work for a living. Remind me never to hire this quitter.
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by excitom 13y ago
Exactly. I have run into this problem with event calendars. For example: Schedule a recurring event for 1pm. It happens to be EDT at the moment so you store the event date/time in UTC by adding 5 hours. Then, in days, weeks, or months,
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by excitom 13y ago
You take a large chunk of someone's money, and along with it comes responsibility and accountability. Insightful.
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by excitom 13y ago
This is what Dell Computer was like in the early days. I worked there in the late 80s. Tech support would try to solve any problem a customer had, regardless of whether it had anything to do with the PC hardware. I think that kind of servic
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by excitom 13y ago
Security firms that sell this kind of service tout its accuracy, like it's going to prevent fraud by uniquely identifying everyone. Interesting that the author notes they stopped using it because of poor results.

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