greyboy

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by greyboy 16y ago
The state I lived in previously recently approved and instituted a state "education" lottery, where all the proceeds would benefit the education system. The campaign was relentless for a few years until approved. What they _didn't_ tell peo
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by greyboy 16y ago
Nice to see others in the area. I hope you folks are successful.
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by greyboy 16y ago
I absolutely agree - unfortunately, Gmail doesn't work great for everyone.
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by greyboy 16y ago
Rob (and Jeremy), Congratulations is in order. I've been using Fastmail since at least 2001 and have been a paying user for the last eight years. I hope it continues to be the quality service it has been going forward.
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by greyboy 17y ago
It's still a small department at NCSU, but not that small (so I've been told). I know some guys graduating this year and looking at graduate opportunities. OT: Hello fellow Wolfpack-er. I think there are a couple other NCSU grads on HN, too
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by greyboy 17y ago
Me. Of course, without JavaScript, it didn't pick much of anything up.
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by greyboy 17y ago
Yes, but pay-as-you-go/pre-paid is usually looked upon as second rate, or only for those who don't qualify for post-paid plans. Plus, it's a little different that Europe. When I've been overseas in various European contries, they get free i
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by greyboy 17y ago
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx
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by greyboy 17y ago
Wow, I can't believe your office is 3 miles from my home, and 1/4 mile from my friend's business that I often visit. Small world.
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by greyboy 17y ago
I'm confused - or you are. A new option is a Mac Mini with 2x 500GB drives (without an internal optical drive), running OS X Server, for $999. http://www.apple.com/macmini/server/specs.html
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by greyboy 17y ago
You mean one of these? Yeah, Microsoft could make some good money bringing these back. I know I'd worry less about mine biting the dust. http://cgi.ebay.com/New-SEALED-RETAIL-PACKAGE-Microsoft-Opti... http://cgi.ebay.com/SEALED-BULK-RETA
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by greyboy 17y ago
If enough people do this, airlines are going to end up cancelling entire flights when everyone switches their tickets. With a family member who spent many years working for a large carrier, this isn't how the airline industry works (in Am
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by greyboy 17y ago
It's nice to see a presence here. Of fellow HN-ers, of course, not the humidity and heat!
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by greyboy 17y ago
In addition to the advantage that notaddicted mentioned, you can also limit the user(s) to a specific command, set of commands, and so forth. Using sudo in that fashion doesn't give a user root access to the entire system, so it's quite dif
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by greyboy 17y ago
Excuse my lack of C knowledge, but using your proposed macro, what would be the result of calling: MYMACRO(x,y,x+y) with your inclusion of typeof()?
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by greyboy 17y ago
The major downside to Redfin is their service area. I hope they can expand by the time I need them.
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by greyboy 17y ago
And if you think LSD can have damaging effects, look at Dr. LSD- he lived to be 102, and he took LSD in mammoth doses. The first time he took LSD(when he discovered it), he did not realize how small its active dose is, so he took something
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by greyboy 17y ago
Interesting, if so. That's not a very good fail-over solution.
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by greyboy 17y ago
I found the last sentence sad, though not unexpected: The TSA says disciplinary action has been taken against one of its employees for inappropriate tone and language. Of course, tone and language aren't the crux of the problem
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by greyboy 17y ago
Excuse my ignorance per this industry, but what about a Will Call or prepaid option for the scenario zackattack mentioned?
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by greyboy 17y ago
Right, I understand the problem. Find and xargs can do wonders. However, that's usually an edge case (in my professional experience). I'm certainly not proclaiming the advanced-ness of 'ls' in this circumstance. However, in the example in t
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by greyboy 17y ago
Am I missing something? What's wrong with: $ ls *5* ?? The find command is more powerful (descending into subdirs, etc.), but the original example in the link only specified the current directory.
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by greyboy 17y ago
Is DB2 not free? I thought they had a free version? http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/about.html
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by greyboy 17y ago
I agree with you. I like the separation. Of course, I'm probably an outlier. I don't use Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, RSS readers, Flickr, etc.
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by greyboy 17y ago
> I recently discovered I can watch many of the games broadcast by ESPN on ESPN360. You appear to be one of the chosen who have access. My super-huge-ISP only gets me this message: ESPN360.com is available at no charge to fans who r
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by greyboy 17y ago
Unlike Al Gore and his fearmongering?
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by greyboy 17y ago
> I met a guy on the streets of Berkeley years ago... That's a really heartwarming story. Unfortunately, it's a single data point. We certainly can't expand that to cover all poor people, right? After hearing people speak at RU meetings
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by greyboy 17y ago
It sounds as if you aren't a US native, so I won't assume you are. However, a few remarks: > none of U.S. cities rank in the top 100 most livable places (Mercer Cities Ranking) Unless I am mistaken, this link shows 8 US cities in the to
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by greyboy 17y ago
In fairness to the other side, that sounds like a problem with Jacob Carter and his assumptions than with "the system." We can't really blame them for that, can we? I'm sure they WANT him to use they card, just as for any other class of peo
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by greyboy 17y ago
I always find this interesting on Hacker News that a post like this, which appears witty, has so many upvotes, and that 'thwarted' just posted this response to another post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=619028 with virtually the sa

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