jmccree

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by jmccree 13y ago
Not a fine of course, but a "tax". A fine would be unconstitutional. My state rejected expanded medicaid, which leaves anyone in that gap between ~$2k and ~$11k with the option of paying the penalty tax or just stop working. There
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by jmccree 13y ago
How so? Most americans have unfiltered access to the internet where they can get far more information than the old days of having 1 or 2 local newspapers and 3 TV broadcast networks.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Almost all ground shipping services are now "day-definite delivery" the same way Air services are. UPS ground, FedEx ground, and USPS Priority Express offer money back guarantees now, although large shippers may have different con
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by jmccree 13y ago
Next big idea: Uber for sex.
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by jmccree 13y ago
The universe outside your echo chamber.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Why do people feel the need to spam this on every single PHP thread?
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by jmccree 13y ago
Not being able to afford a car is an entirely different matter from the government forbidding you from driving one. As for DUI offenders etc, once they've served their sentence they should have the right to drive like anyone else. Duri
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by jmccree 13y ago
Perhaps from the UN? "Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State." In the US, for probably 90% of the country there is no easily accessible public transit, cabs are financially inf
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by jmccree 13y ago
See the book and surrounding discussion of "three felonies a day". The Congressional Research Service cannot even produce an accurate count of how many federal crimes they are. Most estimates are over 100,000 different offenses. A
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by jmccree 13y ago
In most US jurisdictions misdemeanors are punishable by up to a year in jail and/or $1,000 fine. Some states are worse. Considering how many things are crimes in the US, most of us commit enough to theoretically get life in prison ever
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by jmccree 13y ago
The US supreme court ruled that DUI checkpoints, where drivers may be stopped for a brief (~30 second) questioning to see if they appear drunk, but no answers are legally required, are legal here. This was a controversial decision and sever
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by jmccree 13y ago
I can't say whether something else wouldn't have replaced PHP eventually, but I can say PHP definitely played it's part in making the web we know today. Back in the day, say circa 2000, unless you were wealthy/lucky enou
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by jmccree 13y ago
Yeah, but PHP use as CGI was likely never more than 1% of the market. What most people mean is installing mod_php is easier than setting up another language via cgi or fastcgi.
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by jmccree 13y ago
PHP was doing MVP before it was cool.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Jurassic Park. If for nothing else than the 3D file browser being an actual SGI file system visualizer, rather than some hollywood 3D UI.
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by jmccree 13y ago
It really depends on the definition they are using of on call. In many small companies/IT teams everyone is "on call" 24/7, but it just means you may get called on 24/7, but there's no availability requirements
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by jmccree 13y ago
It's an interesting topic to me. I've worked places where the whole team happily liked, upvoted, and retweeted company posts, as we were all rather excited about the posts ourselves. Messages might get sent out like "Hey, eve
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by jmccree 13y ago
It's hard enough to find someone who can write excellent code in one language. If you can also manage servers, do DBA work, and configure firewalls/networking equipment, you are actually very valuable to the right team/client
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by jmccree 13y ago
Thank you, my dyslexia always makes me confuse the two dates. "Firearms Owners Protection Act", just like the "Patriot Act". Great naming.
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by jmccree 13y ago
And note, that on a federal level, the only restriction are machine guns manufactured after 1968. In many states, full auto before 1968, grenade launchers, etc are fully legal for individuals to own. The ban on machine guns manufactured aft
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by jmccree 13y ago
This whole thread makes me sad...
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by jmccree 13y ago
I think the disconnect here is, many of us can't imagine offering something with known technical security issues such as browser side JS encryption, and branding that "secure". Much less with all the unknown legal, operationa
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by jmccree 13y ago
Curtains.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Even with the brute protection provided by scrypt, it's very worrying that you can assume the encrypted private key will A) Be available to authorities via (secret) court order B) Captured and stored by NSA types. The security of the k
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by jmccree 13y ago
Worrying about strong crypto in browser JS is like installing a vault door to secure a room partitioned with drywall.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Perhaps there should be a timeframe clarification, "few successful entrepreneurs blogged while doing their venture that made them successful." I'd say for many of the successful entrepreneurs, it was only after they were &quo
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by jmccree 13y ago
Net neutrality as it's discussed now focuses on the wrong thing. We need neutral last mile with the ISP of our choice. There are no issues with lack of competition if you are inside major meet me rooms. The only reason att,verizon,etc
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by jmccree 13y ago
It only makes sense the closer the viewer distance the higher the PPI. I view my cell phone normally at less than 8" away. My laptop at maybe 14" away. My desktop at 30"+ away. For people with less than great vision even 1080
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by jmccree 13y ago
I'm super worried, as I am full on addicted to ThinkPad keyboard/hardware. I used an external usb thinkpad keyboard with a work provided macbook pro, and using same usb thinkpad keyboard plugged into my actual thinkpad to type thi
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by jmccree 13y ago
For my personal use, I prefer my laptop to have a higher dpi due to the distances involved. My current 15" thinkpad 1080p display is already straining my eyesight when I use it as a 2nd monitor on my desk, but is very nice when working

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