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by imajes 16y ago
I'd agree. I'd rather hire someone who's willing to know what he/she does or doesn't know, and rather than pussy foot around the issue, trying to remember it, google's the answer, fixes the problem and moves on.
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by imajes 16y ago
Hey, I took the data from http://www.taniwha.org.uk/gprs.html which has a pretty horrible format/ hard to read, and turned it into a google spreadsheet. It's useful to have bookmarked, especially if you travel and switch out SIMs. Would a
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updated apn (3g etc) spreadsheet - please help improve(spreadsheets.google.com)
5 points by imajes 16y ago|3 comments
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by imajes 16y ago
is it not a waste for someone to open a fire-hydrant so they can bathe their dog's paws? Your definition of "usage is not a waste" is really questionable. BTW, there was no ad-hom attack on your handle, but rather an observation of your pot
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by imajes 16y ago
I don't see your point here. Encouraging waste because a resource doesn't have scarcity seems a bit strange. Perhaps it can be piped to areas that have scarcity? Many rivers etc are dammed to provide municipal water; so oversupply might enc
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by imajes 16y ago
"Thoughts on Flash" would have gone through several lawyers, as there's a real chance of a serious lawsuit in that instance. This one would be more marketing driven and would probably only get a cursory review.
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by imajes 16y ago
Being one of the people that Gabe sent the ad request to - i can attest ot the fact that the adly spend rates are just not good enough to present value for money. There's a very high threshold in which i'm willing to take money (say, 3-4 fi
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by imajes 16y ago
Actually, i disagree it's a bad idea to have two devices; I trust that the apple extreme will work fantastically to share a disk for me; they get the OS and the fs, so it's pretty straightforward. A one device solution? Well, that'd be a ro
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by imajes 16y ago
I'd echo this experience; I have a drobo fs with the new wd caviar greens. It works like a treat and is very quiet. I'm next looking into a tape backup solution for longer term storage, but for now- the drobo is an excellent way to work wit
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by imajes 16y ago
this place is down the road from me, and yes- their canopy is all Papyrus. I wince every time i go past.
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by imajes 16y ago
Actually, the faster payments system make interbank transfers (for member banks) go within minutes, and intrabank transfers shouldn't take more than a few seconds. That, at least, is my most recent uk banking experience...
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by imajes 16y ago
Hey, just a quick tip- it's probably best not to suggest specific diseases or suggest such a thing about notable figures (especially those whose health has an effect on their share prices). It's better also if you can spell their names prop
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by imajes 16y ago
I'm still genuinely perturbed that people think the integrated 3g here is a good deal. I got the WiFi iPad, specifically so I could choose the right data provider and get on-the-go data for my MeFi. (which would also support my iPhone, my f
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by imajes 16y ago
whereas in reality, "The cost of ... antivenom is $2000 – $3000 per bottle" [1] and you should hope that your health insurance covers it. I've heard of anti-venom which is more like $10k per bottle, but can't find a link. oh, and you'll ho
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by imajes 16y ago
Actually, just to clarify, all the transactions in the 'fail window' are going to be cancelled. no-one makes anything.
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by imajes 16y ago
The article/memo says that Apple are waiting for Adobe to present a ported version of flash that works. It says that they promised early 09, late 09, early 2010, late this year... in other words: it's vaporware, still.
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by imajes 16y ago
OK, so if we want to get technical... taste cells on the tongue contain chemoreceptors. Those turn chemical signals into potential - i.e nervous system signals. Since normal food has normal type chemicals, whereas manufactured, msg type foo
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by imajes 16y ago
True. it's pretty awesome at retarding growth of some of the most virulent disease vectors - but at the same time, it's also a fairly awful carcinogen and I wouldn't want it sprayed on my lettuce to keep away some pesky caterpillars. :)
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by imajes 16y ago
Heh- I was thinking about math and wrote DDX. What i meant to write was DDT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT caused some quite awful effects.
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by imajes 16y ago
Sure. I was commenting more to the between-the-lines idea that he'd make a comparison between a tablet touch screen and a miniature laptop. It's a bit of an apples-and-oranges comparison. He also complains about sd/usb/keyboard/password as
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by imajes 16y ago
The problem with saying organic has no benefit is that i can always say, "DDX", and refute your argument.
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by imajes 16y ago
It's a shame I've gotten downvoted here, and you got upvoted as much. I guess hackers like the idea of hacking food too. Here's the deal, though: You could conceivably add the right chemicals to a pile of offal cooked in a skin of some kind
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by imajes 16y ago
As with all winer whining, you have to take it with a large pinch of salt. On this one, he's made 3 factual errors before he even gets to his point: > I have both an iPad and a netbook, and the netbook is strictly more useful than the i
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by imajes 16y ago
Mobile Safari is pretty decent. apps are a way to handle auth better etc...
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by imajes 16y ago
not really. that's the msg which is there to trick you that it tastes good.
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by imajes 16y ago
are you seriously hosting news.yc on slicehost?
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James Gosling (Java Creator) quits Oracle(reuters.com)
30 points by imajes 17y ago|4 comments
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by imajes 17y ago
Whilst i agree with you, the devil's advocacy in me says, "what happens when Facebook gets sued for this data exposure?" And there are two avenues that might happen - investors suing as to loss of potential revenue, and user(s) suing over p
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by imajes 17y ago
Shame he doesn't talk much about how they managed to get memcache performing like that. Alas.
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by imajes 17y ago
I really wish djb would date his posts. His rants are good, but hard to contextualize.

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