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Tell HN: "So… What happened to the last guy?" - An Update
15 points by furyg3 15y ago|2 comments
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Could the Google / Motorola deal lead to a phone free of conflict materials?(csrwire.com)
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by furyg3 15y ago
I did business with a department which was in the process of spinning off from a big Fortune 100 company. They had plenty of funds, but there was a lot of bureaucracy during the transition. As such, they told me they 'required' net-60 I a
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by furyg3 15y ago
A "U.S. Person" has a specific meaning in this context: * a citizen of the United States * an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence * an unincorporated association with a substantial number of members who are citizens of the U.S.
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by furyg3 15y ago
Bah, financial apps. My current company frequently hires a FoxPro 'expert' to do customization of a horrible financial app. It worries me deeply that there is a company marketing "new" accounting software based on tech this old, and that
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by furyg3 15y ago
Reporting a crime is a bit different than being questioned for one, but the point still stands that by talking to a police officer you are potentially risking a lot, and should take the situation very seriously. "Which direction did they go
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by furyg3 15y ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with the Incubator Incubator http://incubatorincubator.com/
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by furyg3 15y ago
God what an awful site (the Register, that is). The article makes it seems as though Adobe is publicly whining about all of these problems as though it is Apple's fault, when in reality they've simply categorizing all of the incompatibiliti
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by furyg3 15y ago
The problem this particular teacher ran into was that kicking someone out of a class for plagarism / reporting to the university (as per the policy) is a big process, not just a print screen of Turnitin's report... That means that the teach
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by furyg3 15y ago
The euro has 8 coins (€2 €1 50c 20c 10c 5c 2c and 1c) and here in the Netherlands, they've pretty much phased out the 1c and 2c coins. All stores round up or down the nearest five cents, evening the system out. You're only charged the pre
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by furyg3 15y ago
Good! Much better than blaming their paying Apps customers (in front of their users) for things they didn't implement: http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
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by furyg3 15y ago
Yes, exactly. No matter how many boxes of chocolates an admin receives, he/she will not be able to activate Google Profiles for his users... it just isn't possible. It's been a known problem for quite some time, but now made much more notic
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Ouch: Google blames customers for features they didn’t bother implementing.(google.com)
15 points by furyg3 15y ago|5 comments
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by furyg3 15y ago
The first comment on wired has a very good tip: For best cooling you want to use a mix of Ice and cold water, with a ton of salt. This lets the water temp drop below freezing, and makes better contact with the cans/bottles, transferring he
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by furyg3 15y ago
Yes, but if they are purchasing this property together to use as a weapon against another company... it seems awfully anti-competitive. Similarly, you could make a similar assertion that "companies should be allowed to sell their products
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by furyg3 15y ago
This seems an awful lot like collusion (IANAL), and if it isn't illegal, it sure feels like it should be. Google should have gotten in on the deal with the rest to pay a bit more and open-source them all.
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by furyg3 15y ago
I'm really interested into the longer answer! I'm sold on bcrypt but like to hear scaling stories :)
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by furyg3 15y ago
The Norway situation you describe is correct. Normally an influx of wealth from oil (or other natural resources, even humanitarian aid) will suppress the country's abilities to be competitive in manufacturing or other (non-oil) sectors. It
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by furyg3 15y ago
A gas powered car will burn gas now and in twenty years. lectric car burns (mostly) coal now but it doesn’t have to in twenty years. That’s what electric cars are all about. This is really the key point. Right now, if all cars were elect
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by furyg3 15y ago
But I'd imagine that as long as it's recording, the phone wouldn't go into lock mode unless you specifically told it to. That's the thing... you want it to. If you're pulled over by the police you want to 1) start recording, 2) start upl
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by furyg3 15y ago
I'm pretty torn. On the one side, this was a realllly stupid mistake that should have been caught earlier, not by some external party who was kind enough to report it to them. I feel like the stakes should be raised a bit for companies who
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by furyg3 15y ago
KPN is now one of many ISPs in Holland. They were the former telco monopoly (think AT&T), and as such they still own a large share of the physical infrastructure. They are also one of several Wireless providers in the country (along
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by furyg3 15y ago
Dutch. I moved to Holland from California several years ago, and have picked up the language after taking a few courses. You don't need it here, but it sure helps you break out of the expat scene. This is the first language I've really 'le
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by furyg3 15y ago
So we've got a situation where a) someone has joined a gang where the morals permit killing people, b) their leadership (rightly or wrongly) becomes paranoid for whatever reason, and c) they accidentally kill a one or more of their own gang
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by furyg3 15y ago
Slowness of the interface isn't really a huge problem, because it can still speed up service and improve efficiency. Just last week I was sitting at a terrace located a little ways away from the restaurant itself. The waitress punched in o
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by furyg3 15y ago
The two extensions which I can't live without are: Adblock: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjoc... Readability (Redux): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jggheggpdocamneaac... And yes, I disable ABP for
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by furyg3 15y ago
Just wait. They'll sell the first few for hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars to Google, Pepsi, and Sony, and in 10 years they'll be on GoDaddy fo $20.
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by furyg3 15y ago
Exactly my point. With a bank I'm insured against theft. With bitcoin I am not.
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by furyg3 15y ago
There's a key difference here: If I get hacked, I loose all my BitCoins. If my bank gets hacked, sucks for them.
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by furyg3 15y ago
The police are trying to accomplish at least two objectives in the "information gathering" (pre-arrest) phase: 1. Figuring out what happened here, broadly. If you didn't do it, it truly seems like a good idea to help them with this functi

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