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by jtheory 13y ago
Well... it's certainly killing applets, but applications that run on the JRE are going to have a tough time as well. I have a few applications that suddenly started popping up warnings that they may stop working in a future Java releas
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by jtheory 13y ago
Nope; I moved out of the US 8 years ago and my SSN remains the same. My daughters both have US SSNs and they've never lived there; the younger one hasn't even visited the US once yet. If they do live there someday, they'll
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by jtheory 13y ago
Eh, only those who don't read the actual comment. It didn't equate them.
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by jtheory 13y ago
Answer: yes, of course it's sometimes appropriate. But if you're having a serious conversation with someone on the subject of privilege, and you're on the privileged side (and they're not), the likelihood of you accurate
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by jtheory 13y ago
Ha! You got not just one, but TWO careful completely disingenuous replies. "Bro" is short for brother the same way that "gay" means "happy". Well, sure, that's trivially true, but it kind of matters wha
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by jtheory 13y ago
Why do so many of the arguments on this page seem to think that "bro" is part of male culture? I'm male. I'm even American. I don't think anyone including my biological brother has ever called me "bro"
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by jtheory 13y ago
72-year-old grandmother passes a message from beyond the grave with this one weird trick
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by jtheory 13y ago
I'm an atheist, and I'd agree with that. But if I were among the faithful, the answer that it's the intent and level of attention that counts seems the most reasonable. A computer using TTS to recite prayers at high speed wo
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by jtheory 13y ago
Eh, SSNs aren't linked to location in any usable way. Obviously your SSN will not change when you move cross-country (so they're not linked to current address), and I think they're only based on the mailing address entered w
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by jtheory 13y ago
I've been living in France (and driving a diesel Peugeot 206) since 2006; diesel (gazole) is always cheaper than standard petrol (and that's part of why I bought this car). See: http://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr/
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by jtheory 13y ago
The problem with this is that as you expand, most of your customers will not expand with you. So they may start using contact@ to communicate directly with the founding team; two years later they will use contact@ and get the intern who is
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by jtheory 13y ago
There's a big debate about this, though it's a tangent to this discussion. But it boils down to how adding money into the equation tweaks the incentives of those giving blood or donating organs in a way that's not necessaril
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by jtheory 13y ago
We have a few people working for us with similar deals -- e.g., people have kids and switch to reduced hours (this is a pretty good reason!).... We have one dev who is a theatre director for a few months every year; he lets us know well in
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by jtheory 13y ago
It runs the gamut, of course -- someone's out there building an awesome campaign to advertise a blood drive, right now. But most advertising basically using psychological tricks to push you to want & buy all kinds of stuff that rea
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by jtheory 13y ago
All of them. Fine print: "fog" is also a type of cloud.
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by jtheory 13y ago
It'd help to include at least basic support for some older browsers -- there are still a decent number of users on IE8, for example, but you seem to support only 9+.
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by jtheory 13y ago
That seems like a poor example -- from what I've read (and vaguely remember) their revenue is huge (and they could easily be extremely profitable if they so chose) but they're choosing to keep re-investing all of their revenue int
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by jtheory 13y ago
> The "mobile" part ceases being true when their battery is only sufficient to allow them to be mobile for the duration of an entry-level delayed road trip. Not that this is more than a patch for poor battery life, but even if
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by jtheory 13y ago
The vast majority of the times I hear the word "router" nowadays, it refers to the box everyone with broadband internet has at home, connecting the internet (via DSL/cable modem) and the home network (via ethernet/wifi).
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by jtheory 13y ago
To be fair, your memory could be only slightly altered over time -- e.g., your dad fetched you home from the neighbors, told you to wait in the living room, and brought your mother (and baby down) from upstairs, so only the bit about the do
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by jtheory 13y ago
Yeah, that still sounds like exactly the same difficulties (the online work would likely involve a background check too, right?) plus a huge pile of new difficulties. If you'd still be earning in dollars, especially, cost of living i
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by jtheory 13y ago
I hired someone in the UK who was obligated by law to divulge a crime that she has committed more than a decade before, because she would be interacting with my children. It was grueling for her to discuss it -- she was trembling and wringi
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by jtheory 13y ago
Meh; I agree with that advice for many situations, and playing "tough guy" has nothing to do with it. You're missing the prereq of building some skills at dealing with people -- not "confronting" them, not attacking
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by jtheory 13y ago
Eh, all of the forum spam I get is from "users" who have actually created accounts and sometimes posted halfway legit comments (it's a music theory forum, and they obviously don't know anything about theory, but post s
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by jtheory 13y ago
Ah, but they are -- they're on display to a person standing behind you, out of your field of vision (and thus with yet another advantage).
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by jtheory 13y ago
You're replying to a throwaway account, so I doubt the poster is going to put an email address on it. Make yourself contactable instead (e.g., an email or something similar in your profile text), and cross your fingers.
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by jtheory 13y ago
I have a Jewish friend who claims that the crispiness of a piece of bacon corresponds with its level of kosherness.
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by jtheory 13y ago
Transferring domains doesn't need to cost another year's registration -- I haven't checked into this for GoDaddy/others, but for NameCheap I know you can "Push Account to User" instead of making them pay to tra
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by jtheory 13y ago
I got two emails, one putting me in touch with the person getting my domain, and another for the person giving me theirs. I've exchanged edofy.com for lb1.net, btw...seems fair enough, as I don't really want either. :)
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by jtheory 13y ago
No worries, I agree with your comment on the tone -- it does come across as cold-blooded to even think as far as lawsuits when "you might induce someone to commit suicide" is a possibility. Just saying "someone might be unsta

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