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781.
by flomo 12y ago
The driver's issue could be that the meter isn't running while the customers enter/exit the cab. If the GP had a stroller, the driver may have assessed the overhead wasn't worth a minimal fare. Mean and probably illegal,
782.
by flomo 12y ago
IIRC they made a TrueType version of San Francisco, for all your retina display needs. Perhaps the following would work. Otherwise it might be on some obscure printer disk. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/5824
783.
by flomo 12y ago
By that logic, Craigslist was probably never the largest in those categories. Newspaper classifieds and old job sites like Monster and etc. got the revenue. CL's strategy was always to get the rest of it.
784.
by flomo 12y ago
Yes, and that disturbing plot line was present in a number of other contemporary movies, so I acknowledge your point. How much of direct line you could draw to CS in particular is debatable though, especially as it was hardly the glamour de
785.
by flomo 12y ago
As someone who grew up in the 1980s, I think the pop-culture argument could go both ways, as the nerds got their revenge, and there were also movies such as War Games (1983) and many other portrayals of genius computer hackers. 'It&#x2
786.
by flomo 12y ago
The big opportunity here is to hire and train people who actually care about "Google security", versus people who care about wearing a uniform and applying for real cop jobs. Sorry if I'm going back to my blue-collar days, bu
787.
by flomo 12y ago
Doubtful.[1] California has limited exemptions for overtime that can't simply be avoided by paying salary. Even a significant number of 'IT professionals' should be paid overtime. [2] [1] http://www.dir.ca.gov&#x2F
788.
by flomo 12y ago
Terminate and stay resident.
789.
by flomo 12y ago
The question is whether screen reader software deals well with the unicode emoji characters. I would lean towards the conservative assumption that it doesn't. Even Chrome/Mac still shows a missing character box rather the emoji. (
790.
by flomo 12y ago
In the not too distant past, Apple released benchmark reports for major new Mac lines: G4, G5, Intel.
791.
by flomo 12y ago
In 1989, most of SF was back up and working by the next Monday. Of course, that was a different era without much telecommuting, and many people suffered tragic losses, but it wasn't bad enough to "decamp" anywhere. The oldtim
792.
by flomo 12y ago
It was an era where you could "feel" things like a few CPU Mhz or a 32KB cache upgrade. And you had to pay hundreds or thousands for those little upgrades, so it had to be worth it. I stuck with a IIfx until Windows 95 came out, a
793.
by flomo 12y ago
IIcis had some sort of onboard video which made them feel sluggish compared to similar Macs. We retrofitted them with cache cards (?) which helped a little. But, yep, very slow disks, System 7, and they IIRC had 4MB of memory. (24MB would h
794.
by flomo 12y ago
I worked in a college lab full of Mac IIcis, and they felt ridiculously slow even back then. :) I think people's memories get funny and they forget that it took minutes to launch programs and you could even watch the windows redraw.
795.
by flomo 12y ago
What this shows is the old NY Times house style oddity where they described CDs as "compact disks" rather than using the trademark Compact Disc. (Pre-1980, it is not clear to me.)
796.
by flomo 12y ago
Disagree. I used to reverse-commute through the Golden Gate Bridge and the Caldecott Tunnel, where the freeway went from 4 lanes to 2 in both places. 99% of drivers manage to zipper-merge properly. Likewise, almost everyone zippers at the S
797.
by flomo 12y ago
And on the IIe or later you had to press Ctrl+Open Apple+Reset. (Similar to the IBM PC.) On the earlier models, if you mistyped, BEEP, the system rebooted.
798.
by flomo 12y ago
Meanwhile, the Apple II+ had the reset button right above the return key.
799.
by flomo 12y ago
No, because I addressed that point with the reference to Steamboxes (or MediaPCs or whatever other name they have.)
800.
by flomo 12y ago
One thing the "master race" seems oblivious about is how owning a desktop computer has become a lifestyle choice. Many people have no need/desire to have a computer desk and office-style chair and a large screen in front of t
801.
by flomo 12y ago
Sure. And I should make clear the 1990s are a fundamentally wrong analogy because 1990s Apple barely understood that PowerPC chips needed a compiler, much less create Xcode or a developer productivity tool like Swift. In my mind it's m
802.
by flomo 12y ago
Interesting historical trivia. But it's worth noting that Apple's 1990s developer strategy was almost a total failure, whereas Microsoft's "talk to actual developers" approach was much more successful. Note I'm
803.
by flomo 12y ago
I have the opposite problem. When I was young, I could hear all sorts of hums and whines (including one which came from a nearby Ford factory). But headphones and loud rock shows seemed have killed my low-end hearing.
804.
by flomo 12y ago
Sorry, no reference. But I recall the term was not eligible for a trademark for some reason.
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by flomo 12y ago
Yes, there's some confusion because the term "open source" was around before OSI attempted to define it. If my understanding is correct, the TrueCrypt developers were attempting to make an "OpenSource(tm)" license,
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by flomo 12y ago
Probably. Background: Half-Life 2 was contending with Duke Nukem Forever for the greatest vaporware title ever, when Valve released gameplay footage and a definite release date. The half-done state of leaked game and the subsequent one year
807.
by flomo 12y ago
"American Indian" is the term used by the US government on the census form, so it likely is used in many other surveys that use a similar format. (I don't know how broadly it is seen as an offensive or incorrect term.) http:
808.
by flomo 12y ago
I should have added a disclaimer that I haven't worked with web forms in many years, so my commentary is probably not the most infomred. The ajax controls always seemed a bit ugly to me.
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by flomo 12y ago
IMO, there was nothing horribly wrong with WebForms itself when it was introduced -- So long as you were writing your HTML by hand and using HtmlControls rather than the drag-n-drop stuff. ViewState was far better than other frameworks that
810.
by flomo 12y ago
> organizational mindset Most marketing agencies are owned by a handful of large conglomerates, so this is by design to a great degree. Even when the creative and the media people are under the same roof, they may be entirely separate or

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