lurker17

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by lurker17 15y ago
That quote sounds deep, but it reduces almost exactly to: "Almost everything is possible." More precisely: "If a distinguished but elderly scientist passes judgement on in idea, it is probably possible. Only ideas whose possibility are not
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by lurker17 15y ago
Accenture is more known for bungling giant contracts and sucking money out of nearly-bankrupt organizations.
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by lurker17 16y ago
There is no more research or fact-checking implied by a blog than by a series of tweets. There is only longer writing.
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by lurker17 16y ago
Previous discussions: http://searchyc.com/submissions/skype+5?sort=by_date
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by lurker17 16y ago
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jennifer-boden/1/86/ba6 Unless Amazon has managers named Jen Boden, Jen Boden is a Business and HR director, not IT director.
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by lurker17 16y ago
EMR is a mess too. The Amazon-blessed Pig is almost a year and 2 major releases behind, and the official EMR documentation seems to describe a version of EMR that doesn't even exist. "Elastic" is AWS's claim to fame, but I am not seeing it.
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by lurker17 16y ago
If it is so much work for Microsoft to support IE9 on XP, they should make it and offer it for sale. Since XP is so important, and IE9 is so important, people will surely pay for a browser upgrade, right? What's the market price for a moder
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by lurker17 16y ago
No, parent poster did not mean to provide more free advertisting.
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by lurker17 16y ago
37628 is a permutation of 32768, which is (1 << 15) as a 16-bit unsigned integer, which is -32768 (minimum possible value) of a signed 16-bit integer in "2's complement" notation.
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by lurker17 16y ago
Why do you believe that components are home made? They are only home-designed. Nearly all of the iPhone is built and assembled outside of Apple and outside of the US. The (non-standard parts of the) hardware are "designed by Apple in Califo
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by lurker17 16y ago
Are you sure you know where the local restaurant's food comes from? It's most likely from SYSCO: http://www.sysco.com/products/productpage_search.asp?product... Not every local restaurant sources local organic farm-to-plate food.
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by lurker17 16y ago
#2 If you don't want to wait for Google: http://www.customizegoogle.com/
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by lurker17 16y ago
What's wrong with about.com? I generally find about.com has high-quality content giving an overview of a topic, much more in-depth than mahalo or eHow.
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by lurker17 16y ago
The top businessmen in China all carry Pracla purses.
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by lurker17 16y ago
The Server Tipping Point *Not actually a generator or randomized collection, but a list of prepared images cycled in order until the site fails under load from Hacker New and other visitors
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by lurker17 16y ago
The way I read it, the two facts are redundant, they mean that virtually everybody with credit card debt carries a balance from month to month. That's tautologically true. I would guess that more than 1/3 of Americans have a credit. ca
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by lurker17 16y ago
An untrusted application is handled in running it as a dedicated user, like 'httpd' or 'nobody'.
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by lurker17 16y ago
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_for_Vendett... """ V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the
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by lurker17 16y ago
Heavier object do fall faster than lighter ones, near the surface of the Earth, due to air resistance.