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by holygoat 16y ago
I've become really happy with my various ways of switching between things. Part of the reason why is that there are so many ways to do it, because I don't put everything in Emacs. I use a Mac, running various web browsers, Mac apps, Vim, Em
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by holygoat 16y ago
Not sure about the hurricane. Hurricanes have orders of magnitude more energy than atomic bombs. It would have to be helluva fire.
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by holygoat 16y ago
The idea is that assigning a tangible cost to fucking up will cause people to try hard to avoid it. For example, if everyone in the BP executive chain were personally responsible, and would go to jail/get beaten up/etc. as a consequence of
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by holygoat 16y ago
I can't give details, but in my experience your view of Microsoft is incorrect. If anything, the converse is true: core business teams offer less opportunity to do something great, because they're bigger and less flexible. I didn't choose M
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by holygoat 16y ago
Phrased another way: IQ tests are for testing how well you do at IQ tests :)
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by holygoat 16y ago
There's a big difference between responsibility and deserving the credit .
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by holygoat 16y ago
Quite possibly… but which course of action is the most likely to succeed in getting the post quietly pulled? "Hey Michael, sorry about this, but some wires got crossed on our end. My bad. Apparently…" or "Hey Michael, you screwed up. You be
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by holygoat 16y ago
Heh, I also did digging and sent him a mail. Looks like a missing linker flag.
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by holygoat 16y ago
Do you have a citation for your inkjet assertion? I'm intrigued.
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by holygoat 17y ago
s/UNIX/Linux, by the look of things... not quite what I was expecting.
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by holygoat 17y ago
"Given its immense importance…". I wonder if Justin O'Beirne lives in NYC?
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by holygoat 17y ago
They already did it once (the first time they launched, and Cuil was a POS). Insane.
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by holygoat 17y ago
… or the UK.
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by holygoat 17y ago
I'm about to move from a place with 18Mbit down to a place with 2Mbit down. I expect my use of Netflix Watch It Now to drastically decline. Mail is only a temporary problem if you define "temporary" as "ten to twenty years". There are plent
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by holygoat 17y ago
It runs for me, but I have no tab completion. Puzzling. Edit: scratch that. I have tab completion of things in the database, but not of paths! Much, much less usable than cd for going to places I haven't been before, which is probably half
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by holygoat 17y ago
Yup. I got about two sentences in before I hit Cmd-W in disgust.
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by holygoat 17y ago
Fiji, milk, and whisky are not pressurized like a carbonated soda.
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by holygoat 17y ago
My shitty uninsulated California house is entirely heated by electricity. Only the water tank is heated by gas. Managed to break $400 for December's heating bill. I damn near lost my shit.
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by holygoat 17y ago
> then we don't have to waste money on building and maintaining power transmission lines. Instead we'd just need to maintain a much larger natural gas infrastructure.
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by holygoat 17y ago
And in sales taxes.
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by holygoat 17y ago
It seems that a lot of this guy's "this is awesome" points are cloud related — the gCal integration, seamless contact info from Google — and are the main reasons I don't want to move to Android. Frankly, I think that Google already has to
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by holygoat 17y ago
IMO (and this seems to be supported by modern American culture), if a man isn't wearing suspenders he should be wearing a belt.
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by holygoat 17y ago
I wear a rabbit felt fedora. More casual than the feather-in-the-band style, and waterproof, without looking like a Tilley hat.
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by holygoat 17y ago
Don't use a gun. Human beings are really hard to kill, and messing up a gunshot suicide is reportedly very easy. You're liable to end up with a big chunk of cheek or jaw missing, but not dead. Unpleasant. Someone also has to clean up your m
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by holygoat 17y ago
You're one step down the "should" chain. You're saying it's illegal, so he should face the consequences. I'm saying it shouldn't be illegal to build one's house however one wishes. As one example: most building codes dictate the building ma
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by holygoat 17y ago
Apparently he didn't really want a phone: more a GPS!
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by holygoat 17y ago
You might be surprised at the amount of money they save by not having you as an employee. They save a few thousand a year on your desk; thousands on unemployment taxes in many states; SS and income tax contributions; healthcare benefits, st
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by holygoat 17y ago
Codes exist to benefit the homeowner . Nobody should have the right to force you to tear down your newly built home because they think it's not up to an arbitrary standard. There's also nothing in the article to suggest that it's not up to
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by holygoat 17y ago
Um, you have to print e-ticket boarding passes.
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by holygoat 17y ago
I'm English. (On the Internet, nobody knows you're not a yank.) Microwave food was very common for me growing up.

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