jthol

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by jthol 13y ago
> The officials would not disclose the names of the companies because, they said, doing so would provide U.S. enemies with a list of companies to avoid. I too would like to avoid these companies.
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by jthol 13y ago
I believe a lot of departments have moved to giving up those chases for just that reason. I'm sure there are situations where they will/will not pursue though I'm not sure what the criteria are.
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by jthol 13y ago
Ah. Yeah you have a point but a good dev would at least suggest doing backups of some sort.
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by jthol 13y ago
What do you mean?
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by jthol 13y ago
Go try to buy some ram for a 386. Let me know how much it costs.
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by jthol 13y ago
... and the Java programmer laughs in the corner (Let's not talk about generics though).
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by jthol 13y ago
Mmmm, I wonder how "oops, it was caught in the spam filter" would work out? At least with mail delivery you can have confirmation of receipt. With email what's the guarantee that the person in charge would look at it?
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by jthol 14y ago
Well that wasn't really what great-grand parent was saying. They were asking why not build your own. Sure AT&T knows what they are doing. However they have a very clear track record of over charging and under delivering.
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by jthol 14y ago
Let me just download this stuff at 1Gbps... annnnnnd we're out of internet.
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by jthol 14y ago
That is simple. The city doesn't know what it's doing. They know Google does. They don't have to give any money to do it, just not charge Google to put their stuff in. Essentially they have to do nothing, get an ass-load of credit for d
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by jthol 14y ago
Stop telling people to do this. I like my roomy uncluttered 5ghz spectrum.
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by jthol 14y ago
Because it makes sense. These sorts of things normal are allowed to go through so that horrible unintended consequences can be wrought on the unsuspecting.
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by jthol 14y ago
This worked pretty well for me in my final year of school when the only time the lab was open for our project was midnight to 8am. Weird having an end of the day beer at 10:30 in the morning though :)
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by jthol 14y ago
Because lawyers.
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by jthol 14y ago
I am aware of those standards. I'm also aware of how much worse it was before we had them.
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by jthol 14y ago
No one was arguing that point. The FDA does good things. The FDA does bad things. The question is whether the FDA is more helpful than harmful. I for one am happy that the FDA inspects my food and medicine and holds them to a standard of
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by jthol 14y ago
It would be interesting to see what percentage of gift card dollars never get redeemed and how long they take to get redeemed.
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by jthol 14y ago
10%-15% cut if you use your own payment processing? You lose the one click convenience customers have to add all this extra data etc.