greyboy

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by greyboy 14y ago
I thought those were rather lame. Even most of my _friends_ don't have the same interests as I do. Plus, in my basketball playing years, that was a great example of teamwork.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Better title: 5 simple tips to turn GMail into a powerful collaboration tool
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by greyboy 14y ago
I'm not sure we really disagree, if I understand your response correctly. I _do_ think there can be improvement (and, probably, should). My main objection was calling for using a device that is expensive, requires special/additional phone p
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by greyboy 14y ago
Look at the "Cradlepoint" brand, such as: http://www.cradlepoint.com/products/mbr1000 I'm sure you can then find some similar offerings.
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by greyboy 14y ago
In an ideal world, we wouldn't need to worry about unauthorized access. Unfortunately, that world doesn't exist. But I sincerely hope a requirement for me to use the internet doesn't demand we have a private server instance or a smartphone
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by greyboy 14y ago
They could have said 'no.'
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by greyboy 14y ago
Well, unless you are living, eating and travelling on each continent for free over the 6 months, it's going to cost much more than the stated price.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Oh, I 100% agree with you, having been in a similar situation. It only happens once, then you learn to carry an extra set of clothes in your carry-on (when travelling internationally). My point is just that 1% is a pretty reasonable margin
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by greyboy 14y ago
26 million of what, though? I don't recall seeing that mentioned in the article. Are we talking 5%, 10%, 35%? What is an acceptable failure rate? Us programmers aren't perfect, either. Or course, it's not justification, but it would sure he
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by greyboy 14y ago
The link JoshTriplett gave is a simple script, nothing that takes any time to make it usable after you download it (assuming Python is installed). But, different strokes for different folks: and choice is usually never a bad thing. Of cours
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by greyboy 14y ago
My totally unscientific and anecdotal input is that, for what I end up watching (5-10 videos/week), it's in the 50-75% range (for HTML5 videos being available). Of course, that doesn't mean much and I always have a Windows virtual machine r
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by greyboy 14y ago
In addition to the responses from others and depending on the password restrictions set by 1and1, there is no gurantee you can use the same/previous password when you try and reset it.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Correct, there are certain exceptions. I believe the point of this rabbit trail was to correct that notion that root formations are mirrors (or otherwise similar) of the tree trunks/canopies. At least, that's what I was hoping to show.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Not personal photos, but here are some examples: http://www.cclockwood.com/stockimages/WE-HURRICANE-GUSTAV-46... http://www.doc.state.nc.us/news/scrapbk/David-1.jpg http://www.city-data.com/disaster-photos/photos/220.jpg http://www.c
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by greyboy 14y ago
Having lived in a very hurricane-prone area of the southeastern US for most of my life, I can verify that tree roots are not a mirror of the above-ground portion.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Personally, I can think of lots of edge cases that will be interesting to see answers to. For instance, a 4-way stop - we know how to handle that easily, and can overcome someone jumping out of turn, again, quite easily. More importantly -
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by greyboy 14y ago
They just closed the NC office, too. Rather abruptly to my surprise friend employed there.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Different strokes for different folks. I realize this is Hacker News, but Outlook isn't the worst [email or otherwise] product someone can use. Edit: The comment was originally: "I've been using Outlook by choice" Sorry, but I just can't wr
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by greyboy 14y ago
I can work fine with a single 20" 1600x1200. It's not my dream setup but it's also not hindering me for my work (backend systems).
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by greyboy 14y ago
I think we're probably mostly in agreement, even if I wasn't clear about it. In my line of work, there have been times where I was not permitted to use external scripts or binaries (highly sensitive environments). However, that one small ex
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by greyboy 14y ago
That's a fine recommendation for machines that you solely work on, or have complete control over. However, it's good to be able to work with the standard toolset if you frequently work on a variety of remote machines (where it's quite commo
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by greyboy 14y ago
And yet, like most (all?) calculators, there is no questioning about the houses age, condition, pending/expected costs, etc. Those are things I've always needed to tack onto the calculator results to get a better answer. Edit: Sorry, I thin
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by greyboy 14y ago
That's all well and good, and I understand the point, but it does't appear to apply to PadMapper. Personally, while I'm not a big fan of Craiglist's UI, it's stretching it to think that PadMapper would be classified as "such enormous public
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by greyboy 14y ago
> Legally he might not have been in the right but we should be helping him out not uselessly debating and casting judgement. If he's not "legally not in the right," why should I be helping him (doesn't that imply casting a judgement - t
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by greyboy 14y ago
That seems like an implementation problem. (warning: anecdote ahead:) All sliding chain locks I've used are up at eye level, which would make this much more complicated, if not impossible. That, or they have the hard-bar-over-ball lock, als
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by greyboy 14y ago
> Translated from patent-speak, this just means that the little position indicator along the side of the display indicates where you are in a document. Further claims indicate that the position indicator disappears when you don't do any
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by greyboy 14y ago
I believe jaems33 is referring to the phone being used as a hotspot. I can, almost literally, watch the battery drain when I put my wife's Android phone in hotspot mode. Also, there are more popular 4G data plans now, such as T-Mobile's "No
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by greyboy 14y ago
Of course, I disagree - I call that being taken advantage of. If I could depend on the employers honoring the same thing - employing people "through thick and thin" - I'd believe it, but it's almost unheard of. Unfortunately, I worked for f
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by greyboy 14y ago
Agreed. I'm one of the most loyal employees you'll ever find ... as long as I'm treated fairly. In exchange for good work all they need to provide is ample benefits, flexible schedule, satisfactory compensation, work with challenging/motiva
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by greyboy 14y ago
I'm pretty sure most of this is misinformation. Having worked in retail before, there are defined and accepted processes about how returns are handled. For my employer (who was MUCH smaller than NewEgg), we had what was called a "Return To

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