jsymolon

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by jsymolon 10y ago
> punish people for using their property the way they want ... Take a step back and look at the big picture. "No man is an island" which in this case is, one's actions affect other people. I'm all for recreational us
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by jsymolon 10y ago
The physical plant is a natural monopoly as you don't want everyone to put their own poles and/or wires in. Nothing special about ISPs. See Phone Service and Electricity.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> means just what I choose it to mean No. Not if both parties don't agree on a common definition, one party can "move the goalposts". It could mean A one day and then B another. Look at all the trouble with TLAs.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
How about the caller id that's being sent has to match the billing number and company ? The telcom companies know who to bill, why do they have to develop any method to fight abuse ? Being a suspicious person, I suspect it'll be
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Cheaper than partitions which was cheaper than permanent construction.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Sorry to ruin that ... but Police do NOT have to "serve and protect" that's a marketing line. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-pol...
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by jsymolon 10y ago
In early Mac OSs, the memory management designs used the top byte for flags as those units didn't have a hardware MMU. System 7 was the first OS to support 32-bit.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
GPUs are the worst examples. They change radically from year to year, so spamming right after you buy is a waste of money.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> ... most of the stuff I did back at university ... I would place that kind of programming in a different class. Small, "one-shot" problems probably don't need a lot of planning. That's the experimental / explo
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> But if you just started a new project and you are still in a constant state of change ... I don't understand what the rush is all the time. Sit down with a pad/pen or whiteboard and think about the design. the last mobile
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by jsymolon 10y ago
On a whim, I checked what the rate is to hire a private jet. Can't really do a prop as it'll take too long to get anywhere. Rate for a Gulfstream jet was about $2500 per hour. So, "for the rich".
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by jsymolon 11y ago
the NorthEast is a big user of heating oil. Tell me what i can do to replace 800 gallons of oil a year. Solar isn't going to work either. Not enough daylight.
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by jsymolon 11y ago
When I bought dry ice (last year) for the science fair, they do give out a safety brochure on handling. One of the top 5 points, no tightly closing containers. Styrofoam cooler is ok and dry ice will last 2-3 days like that.
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by jsymolon 12y ago
You don't need admin rights. What you do need is a reasonable set of tools to be installed and a quick (under an hour) way to get items installed or updated. What about a VM ? Approach it from the tools use, do people use pads and pens
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by jsymolon 13y ago
> show Jobs he is "in charge" at Google Such locker room / schoolyard pissing contests show lack of leadership, creativity, compassion and humility. Very Wall Street. Without a source of what was in the policy manual it&
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by jsymolon 13y ago
Freedom of speech as it's written in the 1st amendment is NOT a blanket of protection against everything you say. "In America, you’re simply guaranteed the right to speak without the government taking action against you. However,
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by jsymolon 13y ago
Yes, but how many drones is it going to take ? Will the drones have flocking behaviors or just a line into the distance ?
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by jsymolon 13y ago
2nd the book recommendation. It's relatively up to date in regards to technique and UML use but doesn't overpower the reader with too much. Written to a decent level (it's not a Knuth book). One main critique, it covers a lot
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by jsymolon 13y ago
I believe that it's useful. In the past century the death penalty should have only been used in a handful of cases. It should be for the really "broken" people who are a danger to everyone no matter where they are. Gacy, Da
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by jsymolon 13y ago
Right. But are those the group that selects to go into web cam or the group that is showing off to a significant other/on a lark ?
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by jsymolon 13y ago
Yes, it's a good thing however I don't think that it's going to be "reversing" any time soon. As stated above, the intrinsic problems haven't been addressed at all. Not sure what the population at retirement ag
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by jsymolon 13y ago
> (I so wished he had used the 386BSD tools instead), I'm curious to the difference between the two. Do you have an example ?
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by jsymolon 13y ago
Working in the mailing business and dealing with the USPS carriers; they are not dummies (the usual people warning here) and if someone gets curious on why so many pieces arrive at a certain address w/o postage, I would expect that add
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by jsymolon 13y ago
However, the base install of perl should be used for system maintenance only and not used for general purpose apps as the base install is just so old (5.8) that its a security hole. Installing a newer version is easy and can be updated in
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by jsymolon 13y ago
A clear coat will work with both sexes.
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by jsymolon 13y ago
Then why hire men at all? If women earn less over a greater period of time that may offset the benefit cost.
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by jsymolon 13y ago
I always thought that the physical plant / last mile should always be another company and not any way attached/owned by the content provider(s). In most areas there are at least 2 content providers who can split the physical plant costs (+
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by jsymolon 14y ago
Doesn't matter, things go wrong. http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/THERAC25.ht...
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by jsymolon 14y ago
His paper worth maybe not his value (IMHO). He got lucky and his team pulled Facebook through the rough times till the network effect kicked in and everyone had to be on Facebook. He's got 1 hit and I rather pay another guy with multiple
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by jsymolon 14y ago
Don't worry about it - nothing been said so far. http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/photos/12...

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