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by hapless 17y ago
The government's offer wasn't made in a void. In exchange for re-prioritizing creditor claims, the government was offering billions of dollars for debtor-in-possession financing that is not available from private sources. There was no
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by hapless 17y ago
I wouldn't use C for web applications, either.
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by hapless 17y ago
Once you see the e-ink screen in person, the $500 price tag just doesn't matter. It's jaw-dropping. It is considerably better than you might imagine. (I speak from experience with the Sony PRS-505, but it is my understanding that the kind
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by hapless 17y ago
Languages are like tools: buying a the best set you can afford is the best possible start to a project. PHP doesn't cause SQL injection flaws, but it doesn't make it any easier. How many escape functions are there ? Shall we count them ? -
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by hapless 17y ago
Does anyone have a non-scribd link ?
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by hapless 17y ago
The dark matter of a startup: mysteriously absorbs money without emitting product.
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by hapless 18y ago
Palm is irrelevant. It doesn't matter when they schedule their launch: who's eagerly awaiting the next alternative-platform phone programmable only through javascript ?
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by hapless 18y ago
Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1 were ported to IBM PReP systems in the 90s. You could order certain models of PPC workstation with AIX, Solaris, Windows NT, or OS/2 preloaded.
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by hapless 18y ago
It's very simple: transactional sex is less pleasurable than a sexual relationship. It seems only natural that a market for a higher-end service than simple prostitution exists. These men could pay for sex, but they are willing to pay extr
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by hapless 18y ago
One might argue that heeding road signage, signaling, and lane discipline impairs the driving experience. It is, nevertheless, necessary.
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by hapless 18y ago
This isn't hard to do for free, with open source speech synthesizers and a modem. That's well out of the reach of the general public, but presumably folks who run their own servers and monitoring systems have the technical acumen required t
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by hapless 18y ago
There's a boot-time argument that will move the barrier to 3G instead of 2G.
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by hapless 18y ago
This guy looks at 4% uptake and says the sky is falling. I look at 4% uptake and say we're in really great shape. According to this guy's somewhat pessimistic view, we're at least two years from the beginning of IPv4 shortages. We alrea
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by hapless 18y ago
They started with a working codebase on day one -- khtml. It's a lot easier to hold to this rule while polishing a working product than to break fresh ground.
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by hapless 18y ago
For me, it turned out to be a waste of time that could have been spent on literally anything else at all. My experiences were sufficiently negative that it probably would have been more constructive for me to sit on my ass and drink beer t
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by hapless 18y ago
Correlation/Causation problem: The police are getting away with these policies not because journalists aren't there to watch them, but because ordinary citizens no longer give a damn. The newspapers are desperate for a reason to exist.
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by hapless 18y ago
If these sites were viable, but not a "fit," then we would be hearing about AOL and Yahoo selling the properties, not closing them down.
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by hapless 18y ago
Something that the author brushes over is that the other two services that closed their doors -- Xdrive and Briefcase -- are over ten years old. When HP closes a service after a year, maybe they really just don't get it. When AOL and Yahoo
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by hapless 18y ago
Revisiting high school economics, making your price and value hew to each other as closely as possible is called extracting consumer surplus. Your customers are not stupid. It's already difficult to get a pilot project implemented. When t
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by hapless 18y ago
This could be the best instant coffee ever developed, and it would still be branding suicide. It would be like Coach bringing out a Wal-mart exclusive line. Starbucks is, at its heart, an aspirational brand. There's nothing aspirational a
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by hapless 18y ago
Fax machines are still in use for the most important messages. E-mail is still in use for important notifications. Blogs are still in use for minor items. Twitter is in use for... inconsequential items?
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by hapless 18y ago
I think I would prefer not to hire folks who spend their days trying to cram their insights into 110 character textboxes instead of working on the hard problems.
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by hapless 18y ago
- GCC was a necessary prerequisite to starting in on a kernel. What good would a free OS have been if it wasn't self-hosting on free software? - Emacs was a politically important project because there had been a serious free-software kerfu
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by hapless 18y ago
50% "overhead" for management and direction sounds pretty low. The only hopeless thing about that chart is the number of geographical sites.
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by hapless 18y ago
Harper's. The modern magazine is a wild mixture of topical essays, edgy literature, and book reviews. You really never know what you're going to get, but you can count on it being inflammatory. As an added bonus, the (very inexpensive) sub
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by hapless 18y ago
Idle speculation. The author wants to hear a certain hypothesis, so he digs up poets and primary school teachers who will tell us exactly what he wants us to hear. The only science in the article runs counter to the author's preferred out
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by hapless 18y ago
It's under the "Compensation" header: "Competitive salary, healthcare, bonus, 401k and equity "
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by hapless 18y ago
Garbage men are actually paid extremely well in the United States. I don't know a single developer in my area who makes as much money as a garbage man does with overtime.
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by hapless 18y ago
I follow my doctors' advice. Every doctor I've ever had has given me the same advice on insomnia. It's not rocket science. 1. Go to bed at the same time every night. 2. Get up at the same time every morning. 3. Don't do anything in bed ot
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by hapless 18y ago
This is considerably better than your average 'meetings suck' article. The author actually does offer some practical advice. Unfortunately, the most important piece is probably impossible to implement in most business situations. No one c

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