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by jerhewet 14y ago
> a source of revenue for anyone else but Google My theory is that internet advertising is a zero-sum game (out of the left-hand pocket into the right-hand pocket sort of thing), but there hasn't been any serious, credible research to p
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by jerhewet 14y ago
I think it happened, but everyone screamed and/or crapped their pants, and ran the other direction. ActiveX and DCOM. ( shudder )
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by jerhewet 14y ago
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/w/mi... These ISO's should work on any machine as long as you have a valid Windows 7 Product Key. I've always bought at least one OEM copy of Windows, or purchased upgrade copies whe
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by jerhewet 14y ago
> The first step was getting rid of the usual pre-installed crap [...] It took me over an hour to go through all the uninstallers. I was at least three sentences into a long "Uninstallers? Seriously?" rant when I realized that this is
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by jerhewet 14y ago
> Enron's PRC Tried looking this up on Wikipedia, and I'm pretty sure you don't mean "People's Republic of China". Or any of the other disambiguations on the page I ended up on. So even though I'd like to read up on whatever it is you
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Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56(thecodist.com)
214 points by jerhewet 14y ago|56 comments
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by jerhewet 14y ago
Some very good stuff shows up in the NetDNA blog. Useful stuff. Stuff that you might not put to use right away, but you bookmark the post so you'll remember to come back for another read.
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by jerhewet 14y ago
Couple of years ago I used to get at least one Google interview request a week, until I figured out how to get myself off their cold-call list: "Thanks, but I couldn't work for a company that requires me to have written permission to instal
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by jerhewet 14y ago
Any time a developer drops one of these "popup" spam div's into my page while I'm on their site I block it using Adblock Plus. If there are enough people like me that get tired of seeing this particular piece of visual spam it gets added to
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by jerhewet 14y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations for search terms I could use to put together a list of news stories / posts about known man-in-the-middle attacks that have occurred?
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by jerhewet 14y ago
> I am going to trust in the cloud, where my library now lives. Relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4138624
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by jerhewet 14y ago
> And I see the flip side, people that are past the age of 50 [...] are not capable of creating compelling social products. This tells me everything I need to know about this ass monkey.
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by jerhewet 14y ago
I can't thank you enough for those links to the "A Smart Bear" blog. Both articles were exceptional (and should be read in the sequence above to get the full impact).
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by jerhewet 15y ago
> and in a few years time, not being able to code will be as big an impairment as not being able to read and write. Because, y'know, writing code is the easiest thing in the world . And, y'know, anyone can do it , y'know.
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by jerhewet 15y ago
I thought the same, but Panopticlick (panopticlick.eff.org) says otherwise. :-\ (and thanks to dfc for reminding me about Panopticlick)
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by jerhewet 15y ago
> There's no need to write cookies to track you if you're the only one running your particular configuration. Doesn't this methodology fall over the next (and subsequent) time your addins are updated? I average eight addins in Firefox,
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by jerhewet 15y ago
> The first are the cogs. Would appreciate it if people around here (and elsewhere) would stop acting like the word "cogs" is universally recognized, like "ram" or "dos". I have no clue what "cogs" is / are, and the search engines aren
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by jerhewet 15y ago
[raises hand] I've read it cover-to-cover, twice -- the original edition, and the 2nd edition. Brilliant stuff.
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Alternative To Google Code Search(symbolhound.com)
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by jerhewet 15y ago
Very nice! Off to spend some money!
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by jerhewet 15y ago
First and foremost I want a dead-tree version of the magazine. Call me old-fashioned (and old, for that matter), but I like paper. I've tried the Nook and the Kindle, but they're just not my cuppa. Second, I want real technology news.
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by jerhewet 15y ago
Maximum PC. Hands down the absolute best computer tech magazine on the market. Also highly recommend "This Week In Computer Hardware" ( http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-computer-hardware ) for a tech-related podcast. I've stopped listenin
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by jerhewet 15y ago
And, if I might be so bold: Technology != Consumer-Oriented Devices Edit (before the downvotes hammer this comment into oblivion): The subject here is "tech journalism". I don't consider puff pieces about smartphones, MP3 players, your cel
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by jerhewet 15y ago
Try adding a semicolon in your source files immediately after your includes: #include "stdio.h" #include "system.h" ; int StartOfYourCPPCode() { There's a long-standing bug with pre-compiled headers and code regeneration that (apparently) M
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by jerhewet 15y ago
> the test automation tools into Visual Studio were terrible It went from "just plain bad" in VS2008 to "horribly awful" in VS2010. So awful that someone at MS named the process that manages the unit testing "QTAgent", so that when you
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by jerhewet 15y ago
Thanks for both of those links -- and for scaring the crap out of me when I clicked the second one and got to the bottom of the page. "1 - 15 of 534" Five hundred and thirty-four purchases. Like having a cattle prod jammed into the back of
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by jerhewet 15y ago
Nice blogpost regarding BEAST on IIS servers: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaushal/archive/2011/10/03/taming-th...
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by jerhewet 15y ago
MaxCDN (subsidiary of NetDNA). They're faster, the support tools are substantially better (invalidation on Cloudfront is the very definition of "suck"), the uptime is better, and the cost is a LOT lower. Their support for .Net isn't very
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by jerhewet 15y ago
Upvote from me. It's a sad day when Kiddiescript is somehow magically elevated to the status of a real programming language.
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by jerhewet 15y ago
Serious question, here. How difficult would it be for anti-SOPA corporations and supporters to block congressional IP addresses? Assumption (possibly incorrect) on my part that it would be fairly easy to identify blocks and ranges of congr

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