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by igrekel 14y ago
I don't know about the US but around here (eastern Canada), in December and early January, there were no Macs available in stores anywhere except for some models of laptop, they were still expecting the new ones.
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by igrekel 14y ago
Assuming too much... People who conplain loudly about ClearCase most often never understood how it is supposed to work. Ok ok, you need an army of administrators to make it work but still far from being the worst. Sourcesafe?
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by igrekel 14y ago
Next step: a tupplespace in Go?
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by igrekel 14y ago
"you probably shouldn't have bought a Mac "in the first place" " Especially if its to run it headless as mentioned in the latest post...
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by igrekel 14y ago
Yes... But the micro USB cable is interchangable between many devices. There is always one somewhere when you forgot yours. Making it something completely new and unstandard and charge 30$ for an adaptor to everything up to your car that s
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by igrekel 14y ago
I am not sure on that point this reality didn't affect the area I was working on. What I do know is that the number of fires has severely decreased (nearly halved just in the last 5 years). If the number of fires, the ammount claimed per f
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by igrekel 14y ago
Having worked in the insurance industry, I can tell you there are less and less fires. The main cause are that there are less people who smoke and that old electrical wiring are replaced by the newer standards.
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by igrekel 14y ago
Yes, I used to do a netcat on printers to print for free in college.
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by igrekel 14y ago
Remembers me how frustrated I was when I shared pictures from Picasa with people on my contact list and what it did, without warning me, was to send everyone a Google+ invitation.
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by igrekel 15y ago
Not to mention the integration between the debugger and Seaside... I always get a few jaw drops when I fix code and the page comes up once I press "Proceed".
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by igrekel 15y ago
I know some companies build a separate IT entity to have a more socially acceptable front for their employees.
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by igrekel 15y ago
Not to mention the other problems with using key based authentication with an unsophisticated client. - User A at client company X is the one usually using the system - User A goes on Vacation - User B needs something from teh system, they
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by igrekel 15y ago
caché = hidden http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cach%C3%A9 maybe what you really mean is "cachet" http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cachet I know it doesn't have an accent
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by igrekel 15y ago
Thanks for the post. Over the last few years I've worked from home or on travel a few times. I was able to make it work but it never felt very sustainable. As to working from home it is getting easier as the kids get older (they are able to
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by igrekel 15y ago
Yep I have a 3 and a 6 years old and working from home is VERY difficult. Its usually worse when we travel. ALso we did consider homeschooling but the kids really react differently when its someone else than their parents teaching.
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by igrekel 15y ago
This is not the same kind of purchase a fart app, a coffee, a nice T-shirt you like or even a bigger TV, this application changes what its user is able to do, in that sense it is closer to the purchase of a car, or household appliances.
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by igrekel 15y ago
Especially if it changes the life of its user. It has tremendous value.
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by igrekel 15y ago
I don't know about in the US but I regularly transfer money througgh email with an ING Direct canadian account. I know other financial institutions here have similar functionality.
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by igrekel 15y ago
I was going to purchase a new NAS yesterday but they now only allow each customer to have a single hard drive with a purchase.
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by igrekel 15y ago
Cool. I'm disappointed that there isn't a video for hidden markov models and other models for time series tough, just slides. The schedule says that session is in march, maybe by then there will be a video online.
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by igrekel 15y ago
Not to mention it is easy to upgrade windows on your PC if you want if the hardware supports it.
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by igrekel 15y ago
I also remembered seeing the source code's documentation in an earlier HN post. Here it is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961713
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by igrekel 15y ago
"Calculators make fractions obsolete." This is just nonsense. the digits after the dot are just fractions in powers of 10 and they are much less useful if you actually need to do something in real life with your result, like cutting pie to
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by igrekel 15y ago
Entertainment, it is just entertainment. No really, what difference does it make who they judge is relevant or not? Just see that as the same as comments from sport commenters who obviously don't play. Its fun and caters to the need people
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by igrekel 15y ago
And even if you have ACM digital library membership, sometimes the paper refered to in the ACM DL is hosted over at Springer or the like and you must pay 30$ or more to access the paper.
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by igrekel 15y ago
I have never read his columns but the obituary makes me want to have a look.
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by igrekel 15y ago
It depends but I can say that for allergies, it isn't so sure it would be helpful. First, with severe allergies, you very rarely go to the restaurant at all. Second, just checking the ingredients is not enough, you have to worry about cross
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by igrekel 15y ago
Well, my personal annoyance with that is that it is often used to say: "See the problem will resolve itself by itself, or someone else will do it so we don't have to work on it". The other thing is that while its true that in the past, the
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by igrekel 15y ago
Part of the fun with reading written notes is that you can evaluate the care put into writing the note from the handwriting. Its much harder to appreciate when its electronic.
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by igrekel 15y ago
My kids make a fuss about eating vegetable in their plate but they really like eating it off from the garden. Peas, carrots, chives, cherry tomatoes and beans rarely make it to the house, they are eaten directly from the garden when the chi

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