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by metageek 16y ago
Hmm. Postmodernism denies the existence of objective truth, right? Sounds perfect for PR and marketing. Customer: "My laptop caught fire. My legs are scarred for life. Don't you guys do any QA?" Marketeer: "Tsk. You're such an absolutis
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by metageek 16y ago
...yeah, but that's not what it means. Although I suppose letting words mean whatever you want them to mean is fairly postmodern.
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by metageek 16y ago
Here's the comment from one of the source files: /* * Copyright (c) 2010 Broadcom Corporation * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, prov
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by metageek 16y ago
A møøse bit my sister once.
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by metageek 16y ago
Psst. Now that you're not in New York, you don't need to call it "the city".
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by metageek 16y ago
From the second link: ".tar.gz is the most widely used archive format on Linux. Using other formats (.tar.bz2, for example) is discouraged, as it requires additional steps for the packager." -- so fix the bleeping package system to support
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by metageek 16y ago
It's probably possible to buy a ticket at the counter—though I wouldn't try paying cash—but what's definitely extinct are paper tickets. Since about 2004, it's all e-tickets.
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by metageek 16y ago
Answer: because, in February 1995, the only browser with SSL (Netscape 1.0) had been out for only two months.
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by metageek 16y ago
I'm stealing that second sentence for my .sig randomizer. (With attribution.)
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by metageek 16y ago
Specialization is useful, but it's also useful to have some minimal level of design competence, just so that you can make a prototype and not have people reject it just because the design is lousy. (Also, having a basic grasp of design will
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by metageek 16y ago
"confiscating a graduate student's plane ticket back to China" -- Theft. Possibly grand theft, depending on the state and how much the ticket cost. And possibly false imprisonment, if the student had no other reasonable way of leaving the
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by metageek 16y ago
"There are still a huge number of video, audio, and design professionals that need the power of a Mac Pro and are willing to pay for it. Why would Apple intentionally drop this market?" They might, if they believe they can make more money i
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by metageek 16y ago
"I don't think there was any claim to reaching the 'standards of science'." Science is how we know things. This article doesn't help us know very much, because it's so sloppy with its numbers.
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by metageek 16y ago
I cannot use it at all. My minimum font size is set at 24 (weak eyes); you apparently hard-code the font size and the line spacing, and Firefox is overriding only the font size. The result is that I see only the top half of each line.
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by metageek 16y ago
It looks like the problem is that the redirect to the login page doesn't URL-escape my email address. Since I used one with + in it, they got turned into spaces. (Bonus points for not rejecting +, though.)
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, but he doesn't take into account the fact that 73% of apps do not get 73% of the downloads.
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by metageek 16y ago
The Nexus One was intended to drive the improvement of Android, which is intended to increase ad revenue.
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by metageek 16y ago
See the first chapter of _Accelerando_.
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by metageek 16y ago
If he sticks with Mac, then he's funding the company that he believes is trying to destroy desktop computing.
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by metageek 16y ago
The cost escalates even if the OSes don't change, because you've invested more effort and have more data to migrate.
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by metageek 16y ago
...yeah, I suppose you're right.
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by metageek 16y ago
This article seems to assume that you can't be considered a success unless you're a manager.
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by metageek 16y ago
"Performance is number one and so is usability." How dilbertian.
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by metageek 16y ago
Let's go straight to gold-leaf hat: corporations should fund research into drugs whose sole effect is to make people feel motivated when they hear the company loyalty song.
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by metageek 16y ago
Arrgh. They're not implementing IPv6; they're deploying it. Implementing it would mean writing a stack.
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by metageek 16y ago
More than that: all (I think) the proposals came from outside the FTC, and the draft points out problems with some of them.
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by metageek 16y ago
I thought it was the linker that truncated. So functions called fredBlogs() and fredBlugs() would be fine as long as they were in the same compilation unit, and not called from any other compilation unit.
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by metageek 16y ago
But that's exactly the situation we had in the PC world in the mid-80s, when there were competing GUI environments that ran on top of DOS (Windows, GEM, Visi On). In theory, they could've continued coexisting indefinitely; in reality, netw
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by metageek 16y ago
In America it would be banned by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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by metageek 16y ago
For me, the big one is paper handling. Every non-HP printer I've owned mangled paper; no HP printer ever has.

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