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by mirkules 14y ago
Can you describe exactly what is "Virginia's ABC"? And how were they able to shut you down? That part of the story was completely lost on me - I feel like there is some context that I might have missed.
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by mirkules 14y ago
That's a nice play on the "What are you biggest strengths and weaknesses" interview question, in reverse. The only problem with that -- as we've been conditioned over the years of being asked this stupid question -- is to list a strength as
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by mirkules 14y ago
Yep. Microsoft gave away free software for years (Windows, Visual Studio and Office suites) to students in order to get them excited about their technologies and familiarized with their development environment. One day, those students wil
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by mirkules 14y ago
A good developer should be testing for that stuff too. But hackers test these things out of curiosity, developers do it out of attention to detail. A great developer will do both :)
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by mirkules 14y ago
Heh, not at all.
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by mirkules 14y ago
That's irrelevant, because the association is ever-present. As an example, if people lived on Venus, they would be called "Venerials" by the proper genitive form. Alas, doctors got to it first (Venus, Roman goddess of love...) so it was cha
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by mirkules 14y ago
Yes! People often lose sight of what is Google's goal compared to what is Apple's goal. The bulk of Apple's profit is in iDevices (hardware) and services (iTunes, AppStore, etc). Google's core business is ads. They sell ads by getting as ma
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by mirkules 14y ago
The OP's point is that this feels a lot like Antennagate 2010, where a large number of non-Apple users latched onto the fact that there was something wrong with Apple products, and complained louder than the actual Apple users. At this po
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by mirkules 14y ago
Besides agreeing with your point about "coolness", I also thought about the "stuff I'm interested in" vs. "stuff other people are interested in". It struck me as an insightful sentence that perfectly describes their respective social netwo
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by mirkules 14y ago
If Twitter's business is threatened by third-party apps, why not charge for an API license? I also can't quite understand why developers expect a free API from services like Twitter and then complain when something changes? What is the busi
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by mirkules 14y ago
My apologies, I somehow glossed over the Apple part of your post. I agree with everything you said, perhaps even about being forgiving of Apple using the last 4 digits as a verification mechanism. It's true about a cellphone number -- from
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by mirkules 14y ago
I heard about this hack too ( http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-four-critical-security-flaws-... ), but I disagree with you - the last 4 CC digits should be considered non-identifying. First, let me explain a little bit of background on this "
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by mirkules 14y ago
While I agree that exceptions in very rare cases are needed, exceptions are becoming the norm and, like I said, are coupling functionality and content. This is why CSS was created, to decouple style from content, and now? We are are throwin
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by mirkules 14y ago
So we compensate for a lack of CSS libraries by mixing presentation layer with content layer. Nice.
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by mirkules 14y ago
I'm tired of having this argument over and over again, so let's approach this Javascript issue from a different angle: It is bad practice to couple content (the "what") with functionality (the "how"). The content itself should not depend on
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by mirkules 14y ago
Likewise, never stop learning.
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by mirkules 14y ago
Yeah, I figured it would be slim, but I'm guilty of letting my imagination run away from me. Btw, what's an MER - Mars Exploration Rover? Agreed, if yes: I wish I was more into Astronomy when Opportunity and Spirit landed, but thankfully, t
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by mirkules 14y ago
In lieu of Curiosity landing on Mars in just two weeks, I wonder if one of these is within reach for the rover to do some exploration? Although it's probably too dangerous and the rover is probably not equipped to explore something like thi
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by mirkules 14y ago
My professor's favorite joke: Java: Write once, run anywhere Perl: Write once, run away
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by mirkules 14y ago
Just started reading a book called "High Performance MySQL" and in one of the early pages, the following advice appears: "It's an excellent idea to run a realistic load simulation on a test server and then literally pull the power plug. The
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by mirkules 14y ago
This one sentence really changed my perception of his story: "Sometimes I would open another tab and load Flickr or Open Processing so I had an excuse if someone asked why I was comparing every single computer." If he truly thought what he
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by mirkules 14y ago
There are many reasons not to use Dropbox: 1. Sensitive/Confidential info - I would never feel comfortable storing any kind of documentation on a 3rd party server that is sensitive to me like mortgage docs, tax docs or receipts. 2. Many com
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by mirkules 14y ago
YouTube videos and reviews (online or not) are mostly just astro-turfed advertising campaigns. You and your friends are likely influenced by either of these things on both a conscious and subconscious level, which then feeds back into the a
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by mirkules 14y ago
This is pretty identical to mine, so I have a natural bias towards this (and the only one I took seriously). There's something to be said for simplicity, but too simple is just not realistic. For example, in the first picture, it's just a
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by mirkules 14y ago
Yeah, the likelihood of messing it up is really what kept me back all these years (that, and voiding the [now-expired] warranty). I might give it a shot this weekend. Thanks for the info!
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by mirkules 14y ago
Is this the 2007 MBP you have? I would love to know the details of your upgrades because I have an '07 17" MBP that needs a refresher. Specifically the amount of RAM you have (I thought 4GB was the max) and the SDD?
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by mirkules 14y ago
I was under the impression that settling after the judgment makes sense when the plaintiff knows for a fact that the defendant cannot possibly pay off his debt in his lifetime. I could be wrong, but I believe this is done because a) they wa
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by mirkules 14y ago
Not so fast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Monopoly The free market left to itself will eventually converge into a monopoly.
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by mirkules 14y ago
Here's a fun one that the kids love: Get a bowl of water, a salt shaker, pepper shaker, and dishwashing detergent (the liquid kind). Imagine the bowl of water is a swimming pool. Now add some white sheep (salt), and some black sheep (pepper
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by mirkules 15y ago
"Navizon's system can determine where you are, but not necessarily who you are, since all it sees is a Wi-Fi radio." Maybe they can't find out WHO you are, but they can certainly find out where you live: wigle.net Apple and Google may also

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