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by ismarc 16y ago
I think we're running around agreeing with each other. I think any scientific research involves a bit of art and intuition in the approach to the discovery. I think the only difference would be that I don't consider the research part as p
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by ismarc 16y ago
An electrician is not given absolute exacting directions on what to do and then follows them by wrote. A master electrician is given guidelines (in the form of regulations) and then a list of what the customer wants. They then consolidate
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by ismarc 16y ago
Bricklaying is actually a really good comparison to programming. It's stacking bricks with glue. But those bricks eventually end up making an entire building. And with that, you have corners, archways, windows, doorways that you have to
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by ismarc 16y ago
I could use one, been waiting for a few months now. I guess I'm in the magic "nah, not you" bucket right now. If you haven't burned your last 3, I'd love one to ismarc31.
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by ismarc 16y ago
Except for the fact that the entire blog post with the excerpts has no content except the excerpts. There's no value to be derived from it except reading the excerpts. There's no trimming them down, they are the only content.
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by ismarc 16y ago
There's 4 different interfaces that use the same OWA URL but function completely differently. There's the web based email that people typically think of when someone says "OWA". There's WebDAV, which uses HTTP or form based authentication
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by ismarc 16y ago
I'll provide a second anecdote. The only pirated games that I have/have ever had were ones that were no longer purchasable. The same is true for all but one of my friends. And that one friend who does pirate games never purchases a singl
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by ismarc 16y ago
If the rate of cost to the ecommerce sites is right for the number of extra sales, it'd spread like wildfire (with the right sales calls). I think there's really two models here. Refer a product and refer a site. Refer a site would be a
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by ismarc 16y ago
I read through this, and all I heard in my head was "Click Here to receive 10% off your next purchase" and then the repeated sound of old-school cash registers. I think the hardest part would be coming up with an adequate monetization stra
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by ismarc 16y ago
I think you're approaching this the wrong way. Without a contract, the company you work for doesn't care about you the person, only you the worker. You can take what advantages the other company is offering and go to your boss/bosses boss
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by ismarc 16y ago
I would suggest a follow-up email. I always remember the answer to a question, or realize a bug in some whiteboarded code, etc. It's also polite to thank them for their time...interviewing someone took time out of their day. I typically
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by ismarc 16y ago
I've determined that Facebook is designed to have something to hold your attention for 45 seconds to 3 minutes on each page before something else shiny jumps out for you to click on it. It's a brilliant interface when you're dealing with p
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by ismarc 16y ago
Yeah, I resisted posting a comment earlier as well. The "article" ignores that the problems are due to the DHCP client on the iPad, not the networks.
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by ismarc 16y ago
You're mixing multiple concepts into a single thing, and that's probably a large portion of why you're running into difficulties. There's fundamentally two pieces to a web-based application. The user interface and the server that runs it.
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by ismarc 16y ago
I have a friend who's a professional engineer at a local studio and after working on some filler for some vocalists (simple drum/guitar parts quickly banged out so they had something to listen to while recording), I got to hang around and s
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by ismarc 16y ago
There are a large number of people that would dive head-first into a startup if it sparked their interest. I know I've been itching to join another one, so I've been bootstrapping a couple of ideas at once, seeing which one ends up getting
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by ismarc 17y ago
I've used a T60 with Linux installed for several years as my laptop, and I love it. I ended up with two RMAs (CPU fan died and screen had some sort of display issue), but the third has been a trooper with no issues.
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by ismarc 17y ago
I've strongly considered dropping an application at Bioware for a while now (been doing the business world development for a while, looking to move to games). Any idea on server side developer positions or "I have development experience bu
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by ismarc 17y ago
I've had (and have) many mentors over the years. The way I found most of them was I'd have a question on something I couldn't get answered. I'd go to IR and ask the question. Whether anyone knew the answer or not, I'd hang out for a while
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by ismarc 17y ago
Honestly, this is going to sound cheesy at first, but it's not, I promise you. My dad was the first mentor I had. Entire time I was a kid he was trying to get different businesses off the ground. After I moved out he actually succeeded f
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by ismarc 17y ago
The way Debian manages it, only bugfixes are added once something hit's "stable" (current Debian 5). This means that drivers and new versions of applications are typically frozen except for bug patches only. Debian 5 was released a little
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by ismarc 17y ago
Since Ubuntu 8.04, `rm -rf /` does not work. Like, seriously. You have to pass in --no-preserve-root.
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by ismarc 17y ago
Debian is still considerably more solid. However, improvements and software development has outpaced the Debian release cycle. In order to be "competitive" for what a large number of people want on the desktop side, unstable or testing ar
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by ismarc 17y ago
Best pattern I've seen to guarantee backup availability is for upgrades/deployments to occur on the hot failover first, swap the hot failover to primary, move primary to hot failover status, then upgrade what was previously the primary. Th
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by ismarc 17y ago
I agree completely, especially with regards to the sworn statements. Everyone involved was making decisions based on what they perceived, with the goal being a common consensus of the appropriate action. The investigation had a couple of
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by ismarc 17y ago
I've tried very hard to stay out of the discussions, and someone pointed this out to me. It's a good read (sworn statements and determinations made by investigating officers) to understand the full situation (ie, everything going on outsid
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CENTCOM releases documents on Death of Reuters Journalists(www2.centcom.mil)
19 points by ismarc 17y ago|20 comments
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by ismarc 17y ago
If you read the official documents on the investigation of the incident, including the sworn affidavits, the ground forces were 100-200 meters away throughout the entire thing.
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by ismarc 17y ago
This gets into dial semantics vs. number format, which then becomes an element of user behavior. I don't know how user behavior is in a large number of other countries, but the U.S. I know typical reaction to "enter your full phone number"
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by ismarc 17y ago
One instance where it would be nice is if you have your own "browser" written to use XULRunner and want some custom local database for something (say your use of XULRunner is to provide a test harness for automated testing and you want to s

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