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by mickt 17y ago
RTFM?
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by mickt 17y ago
It's never too late! I went back to college and got a degree in Computer Science when I was 35.
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by mickt 17y ago
Whose says a greeter is totally useless? I believe it's party done to prevent loss, as when people are greeted when they enter a store/shop they're less likely to steal something.
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by mickt 17y ago
And another ICUG (Inventor)! I'm surprised as it does sound like me (or at least how I think I am).
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by mickt 17y ago
We keep hearing about, when is it going to be available (so we can see if all this hype is true or not)? http://www.wolframalpha.com/ still says "Launching May 2009" and it's now May 3rd.
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by mickt 17y ago
Those zany MIT geeks! :) Sure they have their own website that details all the pranks: http://hacks.mit.edu/ I think the cop car, complete with donuts, on the dome is still one of the best: http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1994/cp_car/
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by mickt 18y ago
Yup, in Boston.
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by mickt 18y ago
Tiny's not working properly for me, entering google.com give me this link: http://➡.ws/g Either Firefox doesn't recognise it as a valid address, or my DNS doesn't?
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by mickt 18y ago
Even walking on the esplanade on a serene calm winter's day when there's no-one else about can be very tranquil. Also, I find walking about Boston, even in weather that most people think of as bad, a good way to help me concentrate my thoug
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by mickt 18y ago
>No Mac support There is Mac support, but only for Intel based systems. PowerPC systems are out of luck.
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by mickt 18y ago
Penny Arcade sums it up: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
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by mickt 18y ago
Sometimes it's fun to be on the "bleeding edge", such as when KDE4 first went from experimental to unstable. Plus, it benefits Debian as they've more users testing potentially breaking packages and filing bug-reports.
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by mickt 18y ago
>They are decent people caught being in a wild and crazy mob? How is that not contradictory. Decent people get caught up in (bad) events all the time. There's the Stanford prison experiment, where students were separated into guards &#3
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by mickt 18y ago
Decent people make all sorts of mistakes, and many of the commenters mentioned in the article sound like decent people who got caught up in this whole flaming thing like a wild & crazy mob. On the other hand do they deserve to loose the
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by mickt 18y ago
That's a good point, and maybe without moderation users can act like a mob doing and saying things they normally wouldn't do.
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by mickt 18y ago
Imagine a employer or potential investor Googles your name and found such content. Don't you think that they might have second thoughts, and that it could harm your chances? I can imagine some people's thought processes: Because supposed so
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by mickt 18y ago
This is something that can apply to us techies and just about anyone these days. Imagine a potential employer or an investor Google's your name and all they find is crap calling your character, or judgment, or skills into question. Bang goe
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by mickt 18y ago
KDE 4 is available in Sid.
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by mickt 18y ago
It's usually reasonably stable, but occasionally there will be severe breakage when major components are being updated and reach the repo's at different times. This happens more with X, Gnome, KDE ... but sometimes when major system librari
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by mickt 18y ago
Oh, yeah: Gissa job! ;)
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by mickt 18y ago
They're getting a lot of traffic, but is it really a success; are people learning or getting or understanding the best answers to their questions? Are there enough smarties (experienced smart programmers) on the forum to answer all the inan
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by mickt 18y ago
Yes that would be useful. Also, might want to allow an option as to how public people's resumes or profiles are. Maybe an option that only allow logged in users can view other user's resumes. Also, not everyone wants their resume cached by
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by mickt 18y ago
So as an hacker looking for a job I can ask a question about job hunting and get a job? Oh, boy sounds like we're going to get a bunch of those types postings and that PG is going to have his work cut for him modding down a lot of postings!
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by mickt 18y ago
It's clean, fast, and simple. However, I think the start page is a bit too busy. However, if you just list the States people might not bother clicking through. Not sure what the answer to that is! :) You might want to do is allow people to
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by mickt 18y ago
Very few friends use encryption, so full e-mail encryption is out. For a while I tried just signing my e-mails with a PGP cert, but I gave up when friends & colleagues kept asking why they couldn't open the attachment or what that attac
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by mickt 18y ago
I was at NEDBDay (New England Database Day) on Friday where Alon Halevy from Google was talking about this. Basically there's a lot of information on the web that are in tables that cab be mined. As the data is already ordered or structured
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by mickt 18y ago
Maybe obsolete isn't the word, but the language is showing it's age and heritage. I've worked with Java almost since it's inception and since I've started looking at Ruby and RoR, Java just seems cumbersome to work with and it takes so much
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by mickt 18y ago
Have a look at Kmail (or Kontact which intergrates Kmail with Korganiser & KAddressbook). Evolution ain't too bad either, but seems to have gotten buggy (or buggier) in recent years.
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by mickt 18y ago
I think you need an "about" page. It's not obvious to me what the site is for, even with the blurb on the right had side.
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by mickt 18y ago
My handwriting has always looked like a spider fell in an inkwell and the ran across a page. After 10 years using a keyboard, all I can say is that my hand writing has gotten even worse. I do find that if I use a really good pen, it doesn't

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