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by fotbr 13y ago
Well, I'm in the 4th group, then. My current job, and every previous development job has clauses about outside development, and what internal hoops have to be jumped through. I'm compensated for that restriction, so I don't
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by fotbr 13y ago
Looks like it's $6.99 per delivery, not necessarily per package. Perhaps they can accept & store packages for a couple days, if you know you've got a string of them coming, and can wait until they're all at the luna wear
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by fotbr 13y ago
It's just a small, local signmaking business. No web presence; currently relying on word of mouth to keep the workload low enough that I can still meet expectations -- quality and deadlines -- while working out of my garage and workin
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by fotbr 13y ago
Article is from the British Broadcasting Company, about a British company testing the product at an airfield in Worcestershire, England. Me throwing "rozzers" in was simply a bit of humour. As for the last: 1) Defending against
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by fotbr 13y ago
Yet another reason to buy old cars. Screw "black box" recorders and the current congress-think towards mandated gps tracking. On the other hand, having worked on a similar setup while at university, these are not particularly dif
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by fotbr 13y ago
I fall into this "Dark Matter Developer" in more than one way. On the social front: I go to, on average, one half of one work-related conference per year (real world, I go to one conference every other year). I have no use for t
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by fotbr 13y ago
"Sorry, we are currently experiencing heavy load. Please check back later." Thanks, but I prefer my IDE to be available anytime I want it. Even if this IDE-in-a-browser isn't tied to their website, it doesn't inspire co
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by fotbr 13y ago
Screw 'em. A London based company is under no obligations to kowtow to the PR wishes of the whitehouse, or the president's pet organization.
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by fotbr 13y ago
For the stuff you don't want the post office to touch / screw up / fail to deliver / whatever -- pay the $4 / item prime rate for one day delivery. No post office involved then. My only complaint with amazon using
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by fotbr 13y ago
> That being said, if I had a magic formula for instant huge wealth you can be damn sure I wouldn't be sharing it. But I'd be selling it, and you can find out how by buying my book for the low, limited time price of three payme
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by fotbr 13y ago
Seems like the short version is "apply principles of 'Moneyball' to American fantasy football, and win". American football still holds no interest to me, and I'm still the guy at the office who would rather discuss
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by fotbr 13y ago
Crumble the workforce? HAH Here's the bitch of the situation, and the part that most who think like you do not understand -- the people that you're hoping will "come to their senses", if they take the oaths they signed
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by fotbr 13y ago
People (in general) don't like OTHER people doing that. They assume that the person going solo is lonely, sad, and is generally someone to be pitied, mocked, or both. The stigma is not attached by the people going solo, it's att
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by fotbr 13y ago
Given the spat of hard disk failures I've experienced in the last few months, I actually trust the paper copy to remain useable longer. Also, the lower data density of a paper note book helps mitigate the risk as well - damage to a no
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by fotbr 13y ago
My (paper) note book (a cheap $0.50 mead spiral bound model) can be thrown in my bag without any concern over it being damaged, or remembering to charge it, and it will remain functional. It has no obvious value to thieves, and leaving it
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by fotbr 13y ago
>I have no idea why they didn't go with the accepted abbreviation of November as 'Nov'. Perhaps because they're talking about October?
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by fotbr 13y ago
That would be an interesting service to provide. More data points for companies (x people were interested enough to check reviews with us) and end-consumers get a better feeling for the reviews. I'm not sure how you'd turn a pro
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by fotbr 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, do those "reputation management" companies realize that in serving their clients by making fake reviews, they help destroy end-consumer trust? In many ways, it's the old SEO argument all over again - ga
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by fotbr 13y ago
This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziOG_GHNVq0
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by fotbr 13y ago
After the IBM commercial, "Ideating" became code for "I'm going to take a nap" where I worked at the time.
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by fotbr 13y ago
>An actual bomb is beyond the capability of anybody but a nation-state. No, no it isn't. The theory is well known. More importantly, the theory has been been put into practice before, and the practice is pretty well known too. Ac
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by fotbr 13y ago
What happens when the people you're trying to shame simply do not care about your opinion, or the opinions of anyone else?
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by fotbr 13y ago
Strangely enough, "new version of blahblahblah" is much more interesting to me than anything "tech culture" ever will be.
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by fotbr 13y ago
In reply to your reply: Different, perhaps, but not necessarily better, or necessarily worse. What I'm saying is that the differences are so minor as to not matter in the long run. The figurehead at the top matters, yes, but not near
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by fotbr 13y ago
It was a snarky dismissal, yes, but I think it points out something quite valuable that a lot of people overlook -- Obama's election message was that voting matters, that it effects change, and that he was different, etc. He has utter
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by fotbr 13y ago
If your communications are vulnerable, and your communications are of interest to governments, then there's very little you can do to avoid it being intercepted. You may, if you trust your hardware, your encryption software, and your k
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by fotbr 13y ago
If the US decides your France<->Iceland traffic is that valuable, it's a small matter to reach an arrangement with friendly-or-easily-pressured governments, agencies, or companies to have your traffic routed in such a way that th
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by fotbr 13y ago
Others (and you) note battery drain when the gps circuits are used, why does it make "zero sense" that current draw is higher when the camera is powered on, vs when it's off? To answer your question though, yes, I have experimented several
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by fotbr 13y ago
It's not always about memory. With my (current iOS, but not current hardware) iPhone, it's about battery life - for whatever reason, applications that use the camera dramatically drop battery power even if the app isn't "active". It should
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by fotbr 13y ago
I've done the first, and get good results with aluminum, brass, and both mild and stainless steel (although stainless is probably pushing the limit here). Your anecdote + my anecdote don't equal data, but your use of absolutes -- specifica

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