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by iigs 17y ago
I just tested a meta refresh inside a noscript tag. It works (in FF, at least). I'm sure it would make some validator angry, but it would make automatic redirection easy for the js-disabled case.
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by iigs 17y ago
Google should have checked for this before offering these numbers. In a lot of NPAs (area codes) there just aren't any never-assigned numbers left. My brother waited, for months I believe, for a GV number in 512 (Austin).
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by iigs 17y ago
Two potential problems: 1) I don't recall who it is, but someone who is not google holds a patent (sigh) on using the URL path after the host as the search string. 2) If it was my property to control, I would not want google.com/{*} to accu
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by iigs 17y ago
I think he means he would like a boolean response to "Do you know what this is?" not, "please give me whatever information you have in your cache". Although I can see it the latter way, as well, and it's reasonable to ask for an ebay clone
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by iigs 17y ago
I wonder if Microsoft hires programmers and Google hires software engineers? I don't think that's a fair assessment of the developers themselves. I would write it up to differences in product release mentality -- it takes a different mind
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by iigs 17y ago
In theory yes, but many many consumer ISPs filter the TCP ports required to do this, so it might not be as successful as one would expect.
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by iigs 17y ago
I work in the same building as BGC3. Since he moved in I have hoped to bump in to him in the elevator. It hasn't happened yet. :) BGC3 appears to be Bill's business presence now that he's not at MS on a day-to-day basis. A very common busin
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by iigs 17y ago
Your interviewers were non-technical but your authority chain (hiring manager?) knows enough about the situation that he/she sent the previous person on his way. They may not know why the guy was asking for so much money but they should be
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by iigs 17y ago
It's not directly relevant to this article, but you can stop the beeping of a Thinkpad keyboard by disabling this driver. See: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=155201
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by iigs 17y ago
If people go into nursing because the perception is that it pays so well, these viewpoints are not contradictory.
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by iigs 17y ago
Google undercutting their hardware partners would be suicide for future phone wins. Moreover, since Google doesn't do their own hardware, this would surely be the last time HTC partnered with them and they'd be up a creek for future hardwar
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by iigs 17y ago
Often people (I, at least) don't care what it costs to make a product, but rather care what value it provides. I'd take a free phone (duh), would probably take a chance at $399, but flirting with $550 is beyond the pain point for me. I supp
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by iigs 17y ago
It's really cool and a convenient visualization for humans, but with the proliferation of GPS and computerized mapping (everything in a big -180 to +180, -90 to +90 rectangle), I'm afraid it's destined to be a smaller niche than it could ha
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by iigs 17y ago
Great question. In the common case, the solution is to set low TTLs (time to live attributes: they tell the DNS server how long to cache the name) on the DNS records, so they expire quickly. You can also run a pair of "front end" servers at
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by iigs 17y ago
Yeah the snotty attitude advanced in the article is pretty offensive. If you run something on the internet and rely on it for your dinner, you don't really have an excuse for single points of failure. Do your job. It's exceptionally easy to
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by iigs 17y ago
I mean it mostly theoretically: In my case I work at a company with a multiple billion dollar market cap, several thousand employees, and I have 4-digits in stock/options (and lately that's been a generous estimate). I was the ~100th employ
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by iigs 17y ago
Blain is president of WashTech, a Seattle affiliate of the Communications Workers of America. A link to the opposing viewpoint is cited at the end of the article. Personally, I prefer to retain all of my bargaining control, rather than de
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by iigs 17y ago
Within reason I agree, but in large part "technology fads" are actually evolution. The mood ring was a fad. Nobody knew what it was, then it happened, then it went away again and everyone was fine. With technology that's largely not the cas
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by iigs 17y ago
I know it's not what you asked, and I'm sure, given your situation, that you've already investigated your options, but you might take another pass at elevating your monitor. My eyesight happens to be OK, but I overwork my eyes in a similiar
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by iigs 17y ago
In the United States emissions regulations recently came into effect (2007) that mandated ultra low sulfur diesel and particle filtration for vehicle exhaust systems. I wonder if the particle filtration technology could be applied to ships,
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by iigs 17y ago
The ISx50 is actually not anything like the Corolla -- it's rear wheel drive (or rear biased AWD) and has a different chassis. Interestingly, there is a luxury version of the Civic in Canada, it's called the Acura 1.6EL. Other than the fact
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by iigs 17y ago
Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again. Man, how did they not work up a system like morse cod
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by iigs 17y ago
It's not a specific hack, but it has given me the same feeling, something I keep discovering: It's just a bunch of rules. Learn the rules and you understand it. We've probably all seen it with computing; it looks mysterious from the outside
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by iigs 17y ago
That was also the most common password in a user database that I did anonymized analysis of in my distant past. Depending on your definition of safe, I'd say yes.
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by iigs 17y ago
Did they suggest those in a particular order? I would consider reversing the order of those from a desirability standpoint, particlularly if the throttle is forced wide open (as opposed to partially). Most of the time the rev limiter will p
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by iigs 17y ago
Agh. On all key type ignition switches there is a position between run and lock. On most non-US products that's where the "accessory" position is. (US brands tend to put accessory past lock the other direction). On automatic transmission au
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by iigs 17y ago
I'm a screen junkie. The 14" diagonal widescreen perplexes me. They have terrible color and resolution and are just generally miserable. IPS panels ("FlexView" in IBM/Lenovo-speak) make a tremendous difference. Compare these two pictures:
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by iigs 17y ago
Yeah, their example goes exactly the wrong way for me. I use Terminal 6 (or XTerm "Tiny") on a 1600x1200 15" LCD, and I don't use Antialiasing because at this font size every pixel counts, I don't need 6 blurry pixels, I need 9 sharp ones.
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by iigs 17y ago
Where I work I suggested we name (and we did) our printers after trees. (Oak, Pine, Fir, etc) It was mildly uncomfortable (and very amusing) to hear people ask where to find "Rubber". :)
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by iigs 17y ago
Any hacks to take off the cap on broadcast strength on an easily available router? Yes, with certain firmwares you can. This adjustment is like turning up your stereo: it might get a bit "louder" but beyond a certain point it begins to cl

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