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by io 16y ago
I want to toast three slices of bread simultaneously, but this absurd toaster vendor sold me a 2-slice model! So I think it's perfectly within my right to steal as many toasters as I'd like.
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Veracity: The next step in DVCS(ericsink.com)
84 points by io 16y ago|42 comments
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by io 16y ago
Actual substance aside, articles with a single sentence (or fragment) per paragraph don't come off as highly credible, to me.
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by io 16y ago
Somebody needs to mention that really low turnover can also be a sign of problems. People don't often leave jobs where they're asked to do very little. It can be a sign of a lazy, unambitious culture.
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by io 17y ago
I guess I don't understand the comparison you're making. The purveyor of fake tune-up utilities fools unsophisticated consumers into buying something useless, which is obviously unethical. The PC game developer tries to make money on a prod
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by io 17y ago
Suits work best on someone who is around 5'9" Nonsense. Tall guys look great in suits. I'm 5'7" and I always feel a bit like Tatoo from Fantasy Island (The Plane! The Plane!) when I put on a suit.
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by io 17y ago
My sister's a fashion maven. I'm a geek. She once told me: "You could pull off a hat. But first you'd have to change your whole personality." YMMV :)
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by io 17y ago
Honestly I'm surprised to see so little sympathy for the publishers on a site like this. Aren't most of us making a living (or trying) by selling bits? What would you do if you were creating software for a market where piracy was easy and
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by io 17y ago
Flying cars first, please.
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by io 17y ago
Summary: Direct communication with users yields better software. Dedicated tech support often translate poorly from user issues to feature requests.
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by io 17y ago
"'As the speed increases you're starting to look at 50, 60mph; there's a considerable amount of power consumed by each additional mile an hour,' Dowling said. 'There's a trade off between energy and time.' To determine how best to expend th
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Zero to 60 in full sunlight: University of Michigan's solar racer(arstechnica.com)
1 points by io 17y ago|1 comments
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The Cutting Edge(wired.com)
29 points by io 17y ago|7 comments
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by io 17y ago
This /was/ written 11 years ago. The market for Linux consultants is a little different today.
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by io 17y ago
Part 2 here: http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/05/13feature.html
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The dumbing-down of programming (1998)(archive.salon.com)
55 points by io 17y ago|33 comments
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by io 18y ago
"'The rational brain can only take in seven pieces of information at one time,' Lehrer says. 'When it gets more than that, it’s like an old computer trying to run Vista.'" Zing! Will Vista's legacy be a pop-culture simile for an overburdene
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by io 18y ago
I'm ridiculously anal retentive about the quasi-ink-dust that comes off the whiteboard on my wall. I think my productivity would dramatically decline if I was faced with the same situation on the surface of my desk. Neat idea though, for t
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Stellar cartography of Battlestar Galactica(galactica-science.com)
1 points by io 18y ago|0 comments
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by io 18y ago
Touché. That'll teach me to only read the first few definitions ( http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=cohort ) I see it now, all the way down at number 5! Everything they said about my generation was true. :) Here's an amusing coinciden
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by io 18y ago
Same as it ever was. I narrowly miss the Gen Y cut-off, but was popular to bag on my generation's failings when we were first entering the workforce. Whatever. (Aside: You don't even need a Kindle to spot this author's crutch words. Am I