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fixedd
13y ago
Better yet, have it find an overhead power line ;)
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13y ago
In the video on that page he specifically says that if you're writing software at Facebook you're probably doing it in PHP or C++.
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13y ago
I had the opposite occur for me. I reported a similar problem and they said they'd dispatch an engineer to check on it. Three days later everything worked perfectly.
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13y ago
They're fantastic. I got (selfishly) really sad when Mr Banks died as it meant he'd have no more fantastic stories to tell.
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I like Sqwiggle, in theory, but the CPU use and constant camera connection even while it's not in active-recording-mode was annoying... it murdered the battery life on my laptop. Some of my coworkers also found it a little privacy-inva
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13y ago
Wait till you go to a "Bring Your Own Device" employer.... ugh.
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13y ago
Our Rokus all worked great, until one day around 1.5 years ago, something changed. They are only barely functional at this point. Charter cable here.
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13y ago
Industry specific index funds?
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Also, the world is just different now. Where it made fiscal sense to invest before isn't necessarily the same as where it makes sense now.
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13y ago
I know this is a trope, but Citation Needed.
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Not arguing for the OP, but you're waging that taxes in the future won't be hugely different than they are now.
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The best part about the property-vs-other investments is that if you look at it without the bubbles (read: still not NOW) then property values (as a whole) in North America rise almost lock-step with inflation. Even the simplest of index fu
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College, in North America, is something that you "have to have" (according to popular thought) and is for-profit, so there's incentive to increase the cost. The costs have catastrophically ballooned just since I went and I&#x
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You can't imagine a scenario where your spouse may find something irritating, but for whatever reason choose to not mention it. Then, after years of daily annoyance, one day decides that it's too much and presents you with an &quo
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13y ago
I think you mean 18 months: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3468085?hl=en
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>> "I’m going to believe it’s a piece of Seattle history until proven otherwise," said Ann Ferguson, the curator of the Seattle Collection at the Seattle Public Library It is exactly what my biases would lead me to believe i
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13y ago
and if you keep going down the rabbit hole you'll end up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
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The Galaxy Nexus was launched in the US 2 years ago today. It was sold until about 1 year ago, by Google. They are refusing KitKat for it due to it being obsolete. A (barely more than) one-year-old NEXUS phone is obsolete......
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13y ago
Point in case: I have a Galaxy Nexus that is fewer than two years old that won't receive any future releases because it's old enough they don't want to bother with.... not that it isn't capable... they just don'
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Smart music services (such as Play) will use this radical new technology called caching so that you don't have to stream everything you listen to if you have things you listen to more often.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2003/pulpit_20030116_0007...
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I don't understand why anyone uses recruiting agencies, honestly. When I was starting out I went to the agencies and they couldn't help me because I didn't have "5+ years in .Net" (the year it was released) and I wa
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13y ago
I've been working exclusively with laptops for > 6 years now... how long do I have to wait?
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Sarah's pretty sharp. IIRC, she single handedly built Linux's USB 3 support.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive#Mass.E2.80.93e... | In 2012, physicist Harold White and collaborators announced that modifying the geometry of exotic matter could reduce the mass–energy requirements for a
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1) There are enough factual errors in that article to show that the author doesn't know what he's talking about. 2) Small airplanes aren't necessarily expensive, so you don't necessarily have to be rich to afford them. F
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Ask every sales person ever.
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Or people who happen to be in the same cafe as people who they think might be pirates.
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13y ago
The United States is a Democratic Republic, not a Democracy.
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13y ago
Just clean it up later... flag as "delete in 1 day" or something.
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