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by jgeorge 13y ago
I have never heard a tech person pronounce it "sexy" and I have never heard a marketing person /not/ pronounce it "sexy". Tech people who've had to suffer with terminator resistors call it "scuzzy" for a reason.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
For what it's worth, "dub dub dub" as a pronounciation makes my skin crawl.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I wouldnt give that info myself either, but I don't think there's anything skeezy going on. I'll bet the recruiter wants that info to see if you pass a background check before handing you over to the hiring company.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
This is a really well done but depressing visualization of the frequency and scope of Wikipedia vandalism.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Well, he's right about /one/ thing...
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I use waze daily for my commute and it's saved me tons of time. If FB buys it that's the last I'll use it. (and in response to the "why all the FB hate" comment: I don't hate FB. I used it rather a lot. However, I try to limit the amount of
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by jgeorge 13y ago
"Romney rich"? Seriously?
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I read this page about once or twice a year, when I have some time to go through it in it's entirety. It gives me a great reminder that nothing that may stress me out today is worth worrying about. I don't know if it's the inevitability tha
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by jgeorge 13y ago
From Wikipedia: "SPDY (pronounced speedy) is an open networking protocol developed primarily at Google for transporting web content." Apple.com doesn't support it? Color me surprised.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/792/
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I use Cathode as my regular terminal. What are you trying to say? :-)
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by jgeorge 13y ago
So basically I can get you to advertise my club if I tweet a favorable ratio to you, right? :-)
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by jgeorge 13y ago
This is the way MSFT does things, and I hated it. (Don't get me wrong, this isn't a blind MSFT bashing response, this is something that directly affected my career there. If you're there YMMV but this was clearly my experience in my BU.) Du
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by jgeorge 13y ago
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ As if I still needed reason to, any HN links to amistakes.com are an instaflag for me. Tiresome flagrant linkbait whining.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I came here to ride the fence. medium's articles are typically thoughtful and well-written, but generally are not topics that appeal to me very much when I'm looking for tech news or other more mainstream HN topics. I usually skip medium.co
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I am 46 and it guessed 34, I figured it would err wildly in the other direction because I have a crappy mouse here at work and could have done much better with my usual mouse.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Some games didn't use a timing loop, they were written with timing that corresponded directly to CPU speed. Thus a turbo mode would make the games impossibly fast to play. Sopwith and older versions of Scorched Earth come to mind as example
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Enlighten the unenlightened here for a second... Why would you even want to explain higher-order dimensions to a 5 year old? I don't know all that many 5 year olds, in all honesty, but I don't know that I know ANY of them that I'd ever ne
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by jgeorge 14y ago
An even shorter, and more glib, summary can be: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." The more control you give one entity over anything at all related to your livelihood, the more likely that something going wrong (through malice, ignor
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Likewise. I'm a little leery of stuff popping up on my lock screen that I don't have the ability to vet.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
On the surface, interesting. Under the surface, it makes me want to be sure to avoid your apps in case I show up somewhere "interesting" enough for you to post on Twitter. :-(
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Sure it will. Any proposal to reformulate gasoline blends will result in an increase at the pump for consumers, because it's easy to equate new legislation with a price hike. Will the sulphur crackdown increase the cost to refine gasolines?
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Perhaps, but I can't say the original respondent's opinions are particularly rare. I know a decent percentage of parents who love their children but given a "do over" on that portion of their life, quite a few would choose differently. Pare
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by jgeorge 14y ago
No downvote from me, but it depends on what moves you. Not everyone experiences the joy and satisfaction that comes from having children. Doesn't mean they're wrong, it just means their priorities differ from yours.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Shakespeare is still probably my favorite language in that list.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
They don't support a lot of TLDs, but the ones they do support they do well. Support is responsive and helpful, and their site is very clean and function with few frills. Exactly what I want out of a registrar.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
I was expecting "foo" and "bar", honestly. At least things like "data" you can argue the point that the variable contains data (and thus at least isn't a counter or contain state). Which is at least better than "foo". My favorite though is
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by jgeorge 14y ago
I was going to tell a story of washing old circuit boards in the breakroom sink at a prior job, but I guess I'll pass. :-) That said, the air keyboard does have a spill protection layer that provides some measure of protection. My girlfrien
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by jgeorge 14y ago
"man years" is one of many statistics used to sound really impressive even if it's not portraying anything impressive, because the number scales so well. "60 man years" is conceptually a long time, but it can just as easily be one person wo
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Andy's previous company implemented over the air updates years before anyone had even thought of Android or iOS. :-)

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