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by fotbr 13y ago
There are some things I will not buy if they're made in some countries, of which China is just one. There are other things that I don't care where in the world they were produced. There's a definite relationship between the length of time
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by fotbr 13y ago
You can take a sub-$1000 benchtop mill (Sieg X2 or X3, for example), add less than $1000 of new parts and less than $1000 worth of motors and electronics, and have a benchtop CNC mill capable of working with aluminum and brass with no probl
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by fotbr 13y ago
Borrowed one, decided that having one might be a nice addition to my shop. Built my own rather than buy an existing design. Now it sits in the corner of my shop gathering dust - it works well, but I found that what I really wanted out of i
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by fotbr 14y ago
Lost cause. He's dead set in his ways, and if you don't think he's the equivalent of management Jesus, you don't deserve a job. I've watched coworkers try to talk to him about his management style and get escorted out by security before t
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by fotbr 14y ago
The sad part is that my current boss follows his "do not" list to the letter. Yes, I'm working on leaving. Eight hours of that crap in the office, then usually 2-3 hours of job hunting in the evening after working in the yard or otherwise
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by fotbr 14y ago
Really? I find few things more annoying than going to a business's or organization's website and finding it has no details about them, their products, their services, or anything else useful -- all because some genius has decided that face
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by fotbr 14y ago
Quoth the article: "Oh yeah, and they have this little feature called “Boost,” which gives celebs the ability to require fans to subscribe to their YouTube channel or follow them on Twitter or Instagram or like them on Facebook before acce
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by fotbr 14y ago
I believe you mean "abused" not adapted. I spent most of last week cleaning up and replacing an email-the-Excel-file-around "solution" with one out-of-the-box sharepoint list. Fortunately, the change was mandated by someone with the knowle
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by fotbr 14y ago
I'd argue that he has been influenced by others in the mainstream when it comes to producing his own videos / specials. Jeff Dunham comes immediately to mind; IIRC, "Arguing With Myself" was done without the help of any network. I don't kn
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by fotbr 14y ago
He's not the first to "discover" that.
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by fotbr 14y ago
Works great in FF 3.6.24, too. Yes, I dusted off an ancient testing virtual machine just to see if it would work.
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by fotbr 14y ago
Why the change from a BSD style license to the AGPL? While it looks like a neat project, and I'd use something like this for my personal use; but that particular license means I won't touch it with a 10ft pole. The older BSD version -- ht
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by fotbr 14y ago
He/she probably worked on the control systems that allow cells to be locked/unlocked from a central point, or something else that mundane. Not some pie-in-the-sky system that determined guilt, which would seem to be where your problem lies
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by fotbr 14y ago
Fortunately, there are companies offering private mail boxes and forwarding services in most medium-to-large cities, so obtaining a billing address in the market of your choice isn't particularly difficult.
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by fotbr 14y ago
I quit going to hackathons when they started to turn into "do something with our web service" instead of "X straight hours of whacking away at whatever project you're working on, surrounded by like minded people doing their own thing, that
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by fotbr 14y ago
I got paid interest because the IRS took longer than they were supposed to when they processed my return claiming the first time homeowner credit. I wasn't expecting it, and I certainly wasn't expecting the interest rate I was paid to be h
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by fotbr 14y ago
1974 is only 40 years. The terms "career politician" and "career bureaucrat" apply everywhere; someone recruited, say, right out of school, could easily still be working. That's to say nothing of anyone those people may have recruited. Sa
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by fotbr 14y ago
Ah. I never bothered to go there, since the HN link was to github.
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by fotbr 14y ago
I didn't see any such requirement, simply clicking on the <down arrow>zip icon gave me a zip. github dot com slash designmodo slash Flat hyphen UI slash archive slash master dot zip
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by fotbr 14y ago
Instead, though, you have to deal with moving all your content, repeatedly, as your chosen "forever" or "lifetime" company goes under, folds up, gets sold and shuttered, changes terms of use and claims rights to your content, or any of the
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by fotbr 14y ago
Why should I trust that this will last longer, given the same people are involved? The fact that you charge $5 / month? What do I get for $5 / month versus, say, my own VPS running whatever blog software I choose for the same money (or le
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by fotbr 14y ago
There is an attitude common amongst the more radical 2nd amendment supporters: that trying to keep the government in check is a lost cause, and they're merely biding their time until "the sheeple" finally open their eyes and get fed up, at
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by fotbr 14y ago
I'm still technically obese, but better than I was. I'm big, but I'm not exceptionally wide. If I was an inch taller, I'd merely be "overweight". If I were 4 inches taller, I'd be pretty close to "normal" weight. I fit in a standard airli
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by fotbr 14y ago
I just know what I and my classmates went through. The commenting requirement wasn't from any book, it was a requirement coming from the professors who taught the courses.
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by fotbr 14y ago
Take it up with programming 101 instructors around the world, who beat it into their students' heads that "every line" / "every function" / "every class" etc needs comments, no matter how redundant or bad the comment was, because "good co
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by fotbr 14y ago
Because your site won't take a guest comment, I'll leave it here: "Smaller amounts of additional revenue would be available in 2011-12" should have been a clue that something hinky was going on. This is why you always read the full text of
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by fotbr 14y ago
You'd be surprised. I know quite a few people still using 2.x They (we?) come from an era where you don't upgrade just because there's an upgrade available - you make changes when you're affected by a bug, or something important to you qu
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by fotbr 14y ago
Don't know how unique I am, but clicking the test button there causes (old, 3.x) Firefox to crash.
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by fotbr 14y ago
"The $430 million paid for radio infrastructure and maintenance as well as the actual radios." It's not $3500 per radio.
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by fotbr 14y ago
Most likely it's Motorola Solutions providing the hardware, although there's probably some 8A business playing middleman to collect their guaranteed contracting dollars. Everyone likes to bag on the big contractors, and not without reason,

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