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by funkah 15y ago
Out of all the problems our country has with insurance firms, I'm not sure "they cover too much" is one of them.
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by funkah 15y ago
I boot into Windows for work since our whole stack is Windows-based and it's just easier that way. I agree that to a pretty large extent the OS doesn't matter when developing. This is especially true when everything is up and running fine.
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by funkah 15y ago
Tip: The default Bourne-shell-compatible prompts end with $ while the default C-shell-compatible prompts end with % or >. (zsh is an exception to this.) Root (super-user) prompts often end with # by default. Of course, this behavior is
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by funkah 15y ago
Well, its usage is different for different's sake in the context of the web, and that's what I meant. I know this style of numeral is old, but I'm saying that its age does not make it good. We also used to substitute "f" for "s" in some sce
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by funkah 15y ago
I know that this numeric style is old, I'm used to seeing it in older texts. But it's one of the (many) things that was lost in the web's super-simplified typography, and I personally don't want it back. I just think it looks bad and is har
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by funkah 15y ago
I really, really dislike that style of numerals. It just looks like they're bouncing all around the baseline. Please don't use that, designers. Different != good.
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by funkah 15y ago
I've been working from home since August 2010. The part where you get up on time, shower, shave, dress well, etc, is very important, as the author says. It's psychological - you're gearing yourself up for a day of work. If there is no physi
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by funkah 15y ago
http://www.springframework.net/ Spring handles a lot for you, but learning to use it and (especially) debug/troubleshoot it is like learning another framework on top of .NET. It even has its own language (called SpEL).
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by funkah 15y ago
You've really gotta be looking for something to disagree with if that's what you've decided to hang your hat upon. The words "right now" were emphasized in the original sentence for a reason. If taking away commissions didn't hurt sales, wh
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by funkah 15y ago
I agree, people keep stumbling upon this saying and parroting it, as if it were any more insightful than "2 + 2 = 4".
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by funkah 15y ago
Maybe that's why I feel so crazy whenever I try to use it. We can have bitmapped interfaces now, no need for the arcaneness of vi and similar editors.
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by funkah 15y ago
You know what's interesting about the comments on this story? You're posting a lot of comments telling people to charge more money because the work they're doing is valuable and the market is tight, and almost all of them are telling you wh
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by funkah 15y ago
> "Congress has sat idly by as the TSA strip searches 85-year-old grandmothers in New York, pats down 3-year-olds in Chattanooga, and checks colostomy bags for explosives in Orlando. Enough is enough!" said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mars
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by funkah 15y ago
Never understood that. It's easy enough to order from crucial.com, though.
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by funkah 15y ago
If you think Hacker News sucks that bad, you're free to go read reddit and bitch about the users there. This comment is shitty and cynical and you should feel bad about it.
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by funkah 15y ago
On the other hand: http://www.merlinmann.com/better/ This is my favorite thing Merlin has ever done, and I think about it all the time. I identify strongly with the following three points. * identify and destroy small-return bullshit; * s
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by funkah 15y ago
So, if I'm reading this correctly, starting a business in a country lacking a robust economy and business culture did not work out. Well, I believe that.
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by funkah 15y ago
Definitely just you
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by funkah 15y ago
That's the thing about leaks like this -- they happen without regard for your sense of propriety. Or anyone's.
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by funkah 15y ago
This comment section is a suitable demonstration of the author's point.
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by funkah 15y ago
I'm not crazy about how this site requires an email address simply to see what's on offer. But they do tend to have good stuff, and Mailinator works as always.
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by funkah 15y ago
Have you ever seen Hofstadter try to summarize the idea conveyed in the book? He really is not able to, and so I think the book pretty much boils down to "hey here's a bunch of weird/cool stuff." Which is not such a bad thing. But for me, t
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by funkah 15y ago
I feel like this is bound to happen anytime you're optimizing for ease of development rather than user experience. Same reason to beware of cross-platform UI frameworks. But for Facebook, at this point perhaps their users are so entrenched
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by funkah 15y ago
I agree with you, these certifications are generally crap. My company signed up for Hacker Proof a few years ago (badges and shields look secure, ya know), and it found one SQL injection vuln we had in some old Classic ASP stuff that nobody
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by funkah 15y ago
People don't care, he gets blamed for stuff that happened before he was in office all the time. I've seen Republican members of congress publicly blame him for TARP too. The downturn we're in right now is the "Obama economy" even though it
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by funkah 15y ago
I'm sorry, are you trying to say that this administration is doing too little to protect intellectual property? If you're saying the IP issues are being left to someone who doesn't respect IP, that is the only conclusion I can draw.
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by funkah 15y ago
Stop freaking out about downvotes. They are literally just meaningless numbers on a website.
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by funkah 15y ago
An interesting discussion of what's coming. I agree that suppliers are in a race to the bottom unless they can provide added value, but the author seems to fixate on algorithmic pricing as the ultimate determinant of who wins. He mentions A
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by funkah 15y ago
I have to say, I do get a certain kick out of seeing the success of things I use, which started out being ridiculed. Twitter is an excellent example -- in its earlier days it really was something special, but people mocked it in the manner
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by funkah 15y ago
"Open letter to sites with annoying interfaces"?! Maybe I'll write an open letter to traffic. Or an open letter to waiting in line at the post office. Or an open letter to humidity.

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