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by johngalt 12y ago
Is the 'us vs them' attitude really so strong in your mind? Do you think it's perfectly reasonable for an organization that spends $1.5billion on IT to be unable to retain their directors email? I can't help but think
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by johngalt 12y ago
I wonder if the author is judging other women for not making the proper feminist choices 'mooching off a boyfriend' etc... Putting a magnifying glass on other women while not even noticing a male who quit to pursue a video game ad
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by johngalt 12y ago
Word 2013: File -> Options -> Proofing Feel free to turn off whatever auto-correction options you like. From an IT perspective I always find this type of thing interesting. Everyone is trying to add automation to make things easier fo
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by johngalt 12y ago
This article goes out of it's way to create hand wringing 'what-if' scenarios. Completely ignoring the fact that car accidents would be practically eliminated with autonomous vehicles. It's perfectly reasonable for a gro
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by johngalt 12y ago
My favorite trick is to have a salesman tell me that there is a better deal somewhere else. Anyone who says 'the offer is only good until you walk out the door!' knows that once you walk out the door you'll find something bet
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by johngalt 12y ago
I enjoy seeing those MRTG/RRDtool graphs everywhere. I find it so surreal that $X Billions in infrastructure, that is forwarding $Y Billion of internet traffic. All monitored by a single tool created by one guy from Switzerland. Since
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by johngalt 13y ago
The curse of competence. In your next family gathering people will ask you to fix their computer. You say 'Sorry I'm not IT, I'm a programmer'. Suddenly they dislike you. Do they dislike your cousin who waits tables for
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by johngalt 13y ago
My trick to avoid getting an axe stuck is to aim for the outside edge of the log furthest away from you. Not sure why it works, but it does. The closer to the middle of the log an axe lands the more likely it gets stuck. Also dry wood will
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by johngalt 13y ago
Interesting cross between an axe and a froe. Gives you the levering action of a froe in one motion.
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by johngalt 13y ago
It's an RTS/RPG hybrid. A standard top down view strategy map with two opposing bases, with tiered fortifications. Each base is already generated at the beginning of a match and automatically creates computer controlled units and
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by johngalt 13y ago
Exactly. Sure some H1-b visas might be used to just increase programmer supply, but many are like the professor you're talking about. Even catching a few geniuses in an extremely broad net is an invaluable boon to our country. Our co
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by johngalt 13y ago
Would I distance myself from MLK? no. From the black panthers? yes. There is a vast difference between believing something to be true, and wishing harm upon those who refuse to acknowledge that truth. Are there any injustices you see in the
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by johngalt 13y ago
It's ok though, because this time the mob is right . All those other times the mob was wrong . So long as you can predict exactly which way subjective collective reasoning will go for years into the future you'll be fine.
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by johngalt 13y ago
I completely support the right of people to gather statistics like this and make informed decisions about their consumer habits. I also support the right of Mozilla to make employment decisions based upon this. Next up. Anyone who has ever
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by johngalt 13y ago
> Do you really think Bill Gates created equivalent value to 100,000 Americans? No. Not equivalent, in fact he created vastly more value than 100,000 Americans. Probably on the order of millions. > Bear in mind that if he hadn&#x
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by johngalt 13y ago
You're looking at it from the perspective of a paycheck rather than a transaction. Like we are all sitting around the boardroom deciding who gets a raise. Inherently business transactions imply that both parties gained value. It would
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Inequality in Equalland(daemonology.net)
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by johngalt 13y ago
When is the last time entitlement spending went down in aggregate? Any 'cuts' I've seen have been merely been reducing the rate of automatic growth. Clarification Edit: You made the assertion that entitlement spending is bein
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by johngalt 13y ago
IT perspective: Interesting and subtle change. However it will likely be net negative. Most high volume copiers/printers are laser and/or covered by a cost per copy maintenance agreement. Meaning that most organizations pay the sa
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by johngalt 13y ago
Got it, not animals... property
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by johngalt 13y ago
Theology maybe. I find it difficult to believe that there are engineers against gun ownership and impossible that there are engineers against nuclear power, to the degree that both subjects are taboo. Gun ownership is just fear of a tool. I
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by johngalt 13y ago
re: potholes You already have millions of internet connected (gps localized) accelerometers on the roads daily. If you could convince enough drivers to record/report that information you'd have a decent map of any rough spots.
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by johngalt 13y ago
Making the world a better place, and making a profit shouldn't be considered divergent goals. You act as if profit motive should be treated with inherent suspicion.
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by johngalt 13y ago
I'm a marxist as much as I'm an astrologist. It's easy to make broad statements like 'work should be meaningful'. Who would disagree with that? #4 might as well say "As a Libra you believe that specialization d
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by johngalt 13y ago
We have piles of empathy. For the property owner.
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by johngalt 13y ago
Evicting someone who doesn't pay rent is a loophole? If anyone found a loophole here it's the tenant.
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It's been obvious since the 90s that if the internet fulfills half of it's promises that nations would seek to control it. Anyone who thought that the internet wasn't going to have state actors and control, also must think th
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by johngalt 13y ago
You've sidestepped the primary point. If anyone experienced in the field is classified as a hypocrite. Then where should the detractors legitimately come from?
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If anti-government and inexperienced then: 'These libertarians are just backwards and don't understand government' If anti-government and experienced then: 'Hypocrites!' else: more government It's a stronger
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by johngalt 13y ago
Unfortunately the audience is different. Uncertainty becomes more of a negative the further away the audience is from the practitioner.

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