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by khill 14y ago
You could use it for phishing. It might make users more likely to click through and provide security information if you display their correct full name and even Facebook URL.
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by khill 14y ago
Strange. I've been using Ubuntu for over four years as my only OS for work and home but I've never heard of this.
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by khill 14y ago
Lobster is exactly the same thing. Up until the mid-19th century, it was low class food - something only the very poor would eat. Now it's served with steak.
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by khill 14y ago
Agreed. You can choose from several different color schemes (foreground/background) for text on the Nook Color. I'm most comfortable with the cream colored scheme which is closest to actual print.
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by khill 14y ago
In addition to the points outlined in the article, Apple is also at fault for issuing a temporary password when the caller failed to answer security questions correctly: From Honan's post: "In response, Apple issued a temporary password. It
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by khill 14y ago
I think people want to hire young ("junior") programmers because: 1. They are cheaper 2. They are more likely to have less focus on work-life balance (i.e., willing to work crazy hours) 3. They can be more easily molded to a company's devel
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by khill 14y ago
That fish rots from the head down. I've met a lot of smart and friendly developers who work for Oracle (or companies acquired by Oracle) so I know for a fact there are many people in that organization which are genuinely good and really sma
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by khill 14y ago
Haha, Exchange. Try Lotus Notes.
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by khill 14y ago
Exactly my feelings. They were a search engine I never used, a mail account which only received spam, some mailing lists which were moved to better open-source solutions, and then a "media portal company" which seemed like it just regurgit
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by khill 14y ago
Another good reason is that it ensures the company can function without an individual for a week or two. This will encourage key people to document their work and share information so the company doesn't suffer when they drop off the grid.
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by khill 14y ago
Sure but people need to go on vacation, multiple projects need to be worked simultaneously, developers may leave their jobs, etc. There are lots of good reasons to have multiple developers on a project other than simply throughput.
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by khill 14y ago
That percentage became less disturbing for me once the article broke it down by age groups: "For example, while 93 percent and 67 percent of 9 year olds said that they believed Robovie to be intelligent and to have feelings, respectively, t
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by khill 14y ago
I find that limiting line length to 80 characters causes some programmers to use overly terse variable names. This hurts code readability and can hide defects.
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by khill 15y ago
If you don't like the choices made by Canonical for Ubuntu, just use Debian.
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by khill 15y ago
It's a bit of a catch-22, though. People buying items on the Internet tend to prefer to buy via a well-established, highly-structured and secure marketplace. From a buyer's perspective, buying through the big companies you're talking abou
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by khill 15y ago
It always looks to me like it's running to get to the nearest bathroom - or that it didn't quite make it in time.
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by khill 15y ago
I totally agree with your point. However, unlike you, I didn't click on anything because (a) my time is valuable and I can't waste it on a site which may not provide value to me and (b) I don't trust web sites which don't explicitly tell
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by khill 15y ago
Or why not create a dating site which only allows women to contact men? By creating a one-way dating channel, you can filter out a lot of the behavior which drives women away from sites. Make it a virtual Sadie Hawkins dance.
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by khill 15y ago
I'm surprised I got 7/9 considering my inability to nicely position furniture in a room.
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by khill 15y ago
Why is everyone blaming the lobbyists? If someone offers you a lot of money to do something unethical and you accept it, how is it the fault of the other person? You're the one doing something unethical. Lobbyists are just doing their job.
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by khill 15y ago
Bike lanes only work if they are physically separate from the road. Otherwise, they are covered with debris swept off the main road surface, populated by double-parked delivery trucks and cars,or a random hazard of opening car doors and cy
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by khill 15y ago
That logic only applies if you think of an app as an end-in-itself, as the final product to generate revenue. While that may be a viable business model in some cases, I think it misses the true opportunities for making money with a mobile
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by khill 15y ago
You are correct in saying that the virtual world is not free from hazards. However, the difference is in feedback and evolutionary development. In the real world, you feel the snakebite or the hot stove burner. When approached by a strang
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by khill 15y ago
Read "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut.
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by khill 15y ago
Sharing doesn't necessarily mean someone cloning or contributing to your project. I find github useful because it lets me read other people's code both for evaluating potential co-workers and getting better at my craft. I've learned a lot
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by khill 15y ago
Is it possible there's a market for technical people who could help business guys like this with a prototype of their idea for a fixed price? I wouldn't be willing to quit my full-time job and work with some unproven guy on a startup projec
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by khill 15y ago
If a school tried that, you would have parents complaining about the process because their child was placed into a "does not socialize well" track.
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by khill 15y ago
Why wouldn't a business just use Twitter or Facebook for announcing a realtime, short-term deal like that? I follow most of my local businesses for that reason - many of them already tweet about on-the-spot deals which works the same way.
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by khill 15y ago
Starting in 2.7, the unittest module actually has the ability to discover tests so you can just do: python -m unittest discover The docs are here: http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#test-discovery I've actually been using both u
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by khill 15y ago
Lucene doesn't have to commit document updates to make them searchable. You just need to grab the IndexReader via the IndexWriter.getReader() method instead of opening an IndexReader on the index directory. We use this for NRT indexing cur

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