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by mhurron 11y ago
> Attempt to answer the question, or don’t comment at all. Don’t tell them to RTFM, Google it, No, just no. There is no point to any of all this search technology and this accumulated knowledge if no one uses it. Someone asking a questio
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by mhurron 11y ago
http://www.cracked.com/article_16079_the-10-craziest-scienti... I believe no truer words have been spoken than the opening of the section on Midgley in that article - "Thomas Midgley Jr. Tried Really Hard to Destroy th
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by mhurron 11y ago
> they will not just have angry customers, but likely also lawsuits started against them Which is why they've prevented over-clocking the whole time, except they haven't. Their chips that allow over-clocking and the chips that
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by mhurron 11y ago
> I think other factors have to be taken into account. I would put forward what we consider an appropriate education as one of those factors.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Coding is quickly becoming a cross between 'Factory Work' and a trade skill. The result is going to be a glut of factory worker programmers out of work as things continue to move over seas. They're being steered that way beca
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by mhurron 11y ago
> It does need to be mutual though. No it doesn't. The hiring company needs to be upfront, but the candidate doesn't. The company has a budget range set for the position whereas the candidate is asking the question 'Am I w
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by mhurron 11y ago
If you don't allow it access to your network, it's a dumb TV again.
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by mhurron 11y ago
I new a guy who was super healthy, no smoking, no drinking, didn't use aspartame for everything. He went to the doctor feeling a little under the weather one day. Several weeks later he had died of leukemia. Don't know what caused
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by mhurron 11y ago
> What is up with every app requiring 10.8 and above Even Apple has stopped supporting 10.8 and below.
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I agree. At $50 I wouldn't buy it as I just use javascript/make websites for myself. It's probably a steal if you do this professionally, or even more often than I do. The 50% off on the other hand brings it down to where I&#
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by mhurron 11y ago
Well yes, but they still have to pay for it. For most people that means working, and that's time out of a day, most days a week. They included what it used to cost to heat and power the school for a year, but never mention what it is n
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by mhurron 11y ago
'Someone once asked Slick Willie Sutton, the bank robber, why he robbed banks. Sutton looked a little surprised, as if he had been asked “Why does a smoker light a cigarette?” “I rob banks because that’s where the money is,” he said, o
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by mhurron 11y ago
Awesome. I knew someone had to know.
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Speaking as a person who knows nothing, where do you get astronomical data to work with? There has to be something more than just setting up your own telescope out there, which I couldn't do where I am.
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by mhurron 11y ago
One of the nice things about Java is it didn't force a specific web browser on the user. If you presented something to me that required Chrome, I would leave. I don't use Chrome and I do not wish to.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> Haven't you ever had a moment that your work was so interesting that you wanted to share it with someone else in your 'non-work' time? No. > talk about what interests you. I have far more interests than work. Work is
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by mhurron 11y ago
HTTP was never marked as secure. Mixed content was marked insecure because there were assets on the page that might not be from where you think they were from. It was an indicator that the little https lock in the URL bar wasn't tellin
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by mhurron 11y ago
I make sure not to talk about work when I'm at lunch. I step away from my desk to eat lunch when I'm in the office to explicitly take a breather from work.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Excel on OS X seems to have many problems with somewhat large xls(x) files. I know a project manager that had to switch back to Windows because of that. Office on OS X has always sucked. If it wasn't for Office's dominance on the
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by mhurron 11y ago
That would suck. VMWare Fusion/Workstation/Player mean I can run the exact same VM on a Mac, Windows and Linux without any modification. Having to use VirtualBox over here (which I've had problems with before) and KVM over th
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by mhurron 11y ago
Except that Bronson's character wasn't a cop.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> we've eradicated slavery in much of the world and on paper. No, we haven't. http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1440-5-things-i-... And we haven't for the same reason that children are sold into
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by mhurron 11y ago
Yes languages are fluid but words also have various meanings. If we have to prevent ourselves from using some word because others may find it offensive, that is self-censoring. OP tried to get around that by trying to say that when you coul
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by mhurron 11y ago
Microsoft documents that on OS X OneNote can not. OneNote (Metro) on Windows 10 also can not. Now on OS X it will go into offline mode and save to an ever growing local temporary file, but you can't choose to create a local notebook. I
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by mhurron 11y ago
> but not where the general public is likely to see it and misunderstand it. So nowhere. It's on the public internet which is where 'the general public' is likely to see it so suggesting that you don't use some phrase
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by mhurron 11y ago
> Try the OneNote from the Windows App Store Which, like the OneNote version in Office on OS X, can only sync to a Microsoft account through OneDrive and can not even create local notebooks. That may be a show stopper.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> Just pointing out that there are a lot of fields with skewed gender parity that there's not a push for equality in. So? Other than to attempt to muddy the conversation, what benefit is there to mentioning it? Unless everyone at on
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We'll get to it eventually.
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> I doubt it too, but I'm willing to waste the karma on putting it forth as a valid alternative. If you make something that people want, then make it hard to get legally, alternatives will be found. Region locking spurs piracy, it d
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by mhurron 11y ago
> Suppose you lost something very valuable and sentimental, even if you knew it was destroyed, is it unreasonable to spend 15% of its value ($100M/$691.7M = 15%) to find out what happened to it? (Personally, I do think it's wor

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