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by gm 18y ago
From: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/94905.html "Anyway. Accusing companies of conspiring against us when the most likely explanation is simply that they don't care is a fucking ridiculous thing to do and does nothing to get rid of the impr
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by gm 18y ago
I tink it's dumb to remove the comments from code, although I agree with making symbol names more meaningful. In the original post, the comment // square root of n with Newton-Raphson approximation Is removed and replaced with the improved
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by gm 18y ago
This is strange. I am one of them red/green colorblind (basically, some shades of green look brown to me, that's the best I can describe it), but the "how it looks to the colorblind" image looks different than how it looks to the non-color
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by gm 18y ago
I just think that it's gonna be hard for anyone who can do something about this to give a sh*t. Anti-trust instead of false advertising? Now I know for a fact nothing's gonna happen. Anti-trust cases are about the hardest to do. Anti-tru
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by gm 18y ago
Well, you guys can mod me down all you want, but the fact remains, they said the motherboard itself is not certified for Linux, so putting Linux on it is a gamble, regardless of the ACPI standard. "Run an O/S we support, and tell us if the
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by gm 18y ago
For me, with deletion, in all cases it's better. Given that it's sometimes really hard to undelete (or technically impossible, as in the case of an FTP client, for example), I'd rather get the confirmation box before the deletion is done.
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by gm 18y ago
But it's still not Linux certified. About the DMCA, yes it sucks, and yes, it would be irrational to sue because of that, that's why it would be interesting. Anyway, not that I am hoping for that. Stupid laws should go away.
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by gm 18y ago
This guy has a cheapskate attitude. Have him show a way to delete something without warning that I will not regret later... All he talks about is message boxes that inform you of something. And yes, I want some message boxes to make me th
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by gm 18y ago
So you are using a motherboard under conditions that they state it's not certified for... Where's the news here? Is this just a pissing match gone bad? "I'll be damned if I'm going to buy a copy of Vista just to get the crashing caused by
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by gm 18y ago
If the questions were asked honestly, then you would have cited your sources. To be honest, I really don't care about neither the IQ issue nor about the answer. I just thought the questions themselves were very leading. The answers don't
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by gm 18y ago
Just a bunch of nutcase, leading questions. "If IQ doesn’t matter or doesn’t exist, then why is it the single largest statistical predictor of life trajectory?" Who says it's the largest predictor? Who says IQ does not exist or does not m
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by gm 18y ago
RE: Bill Gates, 1983: "We will never make a 32-bit operating system." I have to admire a guy that makes a mental mistake (or rather, limits himself, as in this case), and then goes full-on to prove himself wrong. I think if you were to look
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by gm 18y ago
Interesting list... I found myself disagreeing with several items here, but I think it is only because of my focus on programming. Three years of calculus is overkill in my opinion, though I do think that one year teaches you the mindset e
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by gm 18y ago
Well, you're gonna laugh, but... I usually don't know what day of the week it is. I stopped observing weekends a long time ago, so everything's kinda lost in time. Besides, with the things I do, I have to keep careful records for a long t
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by gm 18y ago
Memo to self: MAKE IT FIT. VCs don't give a crap. They should not. Neither should your banker, mother, potential business partner/co-founder, etc... The onus is on you, the founder(s), to be articulate enough to make it fit. The focus is
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by gm 18y ago
Very interesting... Except I suck at remembering dates. It would be a cool addition to the directory structure, not a replacement.
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by gm 18y ago
Who cares? Do you think people writing about Twitter sucking actually makes them improve things? If this were so, then automated phone response systems would be history. So would off-shore call centers, and so on. Bad Twitter stability w
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by gm 18y ago
Admiring's fine, it's criticizing that I have a problem with. It takes all of half a second to say "Twitter stability sucks," but it takes a LOT more work to actually make a Twitter that is stable. Anyone can say what's wrong with the wor
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by gm 18y ago
Well I'll be damned... Is this a case of Arrington actually trying to make something happen instead of watching things happen? I for one, am surprised. I am very happily eating crow. Not that anyone should care, but I have always disliked
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by gm 18y ago
I read the post and was left waiting for the punchline... Where is the argument for startups having run out of ideas? I mean there is not connection between the PG paper (a list of submission topics he would like to see) and the title of
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by gm 18y ago
If the point is to get funding, yes, I suppose. Don't you build startups to be useful, though? I do think you have a point, though, if, if your building your company, you set it up to be so profitable, VCs will fight to get in on the actio
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by gm 18y ago
Nice post, but rather inconsequential: Who needs who more, after all? VCs get to choose, right? They are the ones with the money. Companies go after the VCs not the other way around. VCs are the ones with their staff filtering phone ca
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by gm 18y ago
Cool post. It is very easy, as engineers, to forget how incredibly important it is to articulate what we work on. Not only to explain to our families, but to bridge the gap between the technical and the non-technical people. Engineers, spe
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by gm 18y ago
I love the last one: XML is not a database, so don't treat is as one... Major pet peeve for me...
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by gm 18y ago
I'd be careful in telling people EULAs are not enforceable. Case law is all over the map on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULA#Enforceability
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by gm 18y ago
Dude, sorry for the tone, but yes, you need to snap out of it. I don't feel particularly sorry for you because I was faced with the exact same situation as you, and I ended up in some pretty lofty places. All under my own power, so it's n
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by gm 18y ago
Alnayyir, I am by no means belittling you; stop calling yourself a flake. College: You can do it. You should do it. It's worth it. The tools are there. Almost everyone wants to help you. The mechanism is set up to help you. Heck, ther
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by gm 18y ago
I'll be honest, hopefully you'll appreciate it because you need honest advice. I read your post and I can already hear the self-pity string quartet playing and a big screen in the background playing images your hard, hard life. Task #1 is
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by gm 18y ago
I stopped reading at the heading: "Windows will be dead; Microsoft may or may not Die with it." Windows has been dead since before Windows existed. (All you fellow old farts: How many prove-able, truly, completely superior alternatives were
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by gm 18y ago
Well that would rule out Arrington from working there... (Sorry, I could not resist)

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