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by mmagin 12y ago
The problem with this argument is that aside from work space and meeting space, there aren't many other uses to which most places are going to allocate the surplus space. And furthermore, I've seen non-load-bearing partition wall
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by mmagin 12y ago
> Why does it have to be either or? Because the people who spend the money at a lot of companies don't want to spend any more than necessary.
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by mmagin 12y ago
I've experienced a fair amount of "offices are for director-level and above only". In fact, what really gets on my nerves is that we used to have our support people sitting three-to-an-office, and now they sit in a cube farm.
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by mmagin 12y ago
Somehow reminds me of Comet Cursor. :)
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by mmagin 12y ago
While significant risk to internal organs seems unlikely, there have been studies for decades suggesting RF exposure may increase risk of cataracts in the eye. e.g. http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc28/sc4/Ocu
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by mmagin 12y ago
It's not at all clear that this extends to humans.
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by mmagin 12y ago
I suspect you have to avoid the temptation to use smaller fonts.
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by mmagin 12y ago
I find it kind of ridiculous that making a self-signed cert is still that hard.
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by mmagin 12y ago
It may be an introvert thing, but I find this similar to how I vastly prefer the self-checkout machines at the supermarket. I don't really want to expend the finite emotional energy I have on being fake-social with people I don't
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by mmagin 12y ago
Or you can just get a new set of bearings for $10 or so. If you're in the market for their product, you can probably afford it.
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by mmagin 12y ago
As someone who commutes 3 miles each way 4 days a week on a Yuneec E-GO, I'm laughing at the article's "Unfortunately its 1000 watts will only get you up to 18mph". Either the writer hasn't actually ridden it, or t
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by mmagin 12y ago
No, it is so the employer doesn't need to carry the additional liability in their accounting. Vacation time is something with a monetary value that must be paid out if the employee is terminated.
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by mmagin 12y ago
So, uh, why would anyone bulldoze dead almond trees if they're not going to replace them with another crop yet? Seems like it would just increase soil erosion problems.
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by mmagin 12y ago
Typically people get mild auditory hallucinations after they've been awake for 30 hours or so. Sounds like what you might have been experiencing.
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by mmagin 12y ago
My impression is that most of the mandatory phase of education in the US teaches this lesson. It was well into my 20s that I really realized that I was taught wrong.
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by mmagin 12y ago
As mentioned, Prolific's USB serial driver previously dropped support for counterfeit some Prolific chips, albeit not in quite as nasty of a way.
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by mmagin 12y ago
I wonder if the MAC being fixed while cellular data is on has anything to do with Hotspot 2.0 operation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot_%28Wi-Fi%29#Hotspot_2.0
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by mmagin 12y ago
Uhh, on your final point, they have signed checksums with the releases.
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by mmagin 12y ago
The patch: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.3-patches/bash43-025
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by mmagin 12y ago
And on my Debian testing system with systemd, the longest service definition is 46 lines! (/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service)
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by mmagin 12y ago
Simple scripts? Have you looked at the shit in /etc/init.d in a modern linux distribution? $ wc -l * | sort -n | tail 274 exim4 286 apache2 290 dnsmasq 298 nfs-common 350 clamav-freshclam 364 udev 386 che
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Null Stockholm syndrome(blog.pshendry.com)
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by mmagin 12y ago
git != "the cloud"
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by mmagin 12y ago
The horrible thing is that the pain of user interface latency never gets any respect, and everything either has: 1. network latency (the "cloud"!), 2. stupid GPU eye-candy, or 3. plain-old bad design (everyone should read _Program
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by mmagin 12y ago
I didn't know Python users hate static typing so much.
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by mmagin 12y ago
Most of them do some kind of wear leveling, but they usually use cheaper flash and less capable controllers and the controller algorithms are mostly oriented around making them usable for sequential writes as you see with a digital camera,
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by mmagin 12y ago
"But this time we have big data!"
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by mmagin 12y ago
Being more concerned about fire safety than surge suppression, I've always been bothered by the cheap construction of the outlets in most of these products. So, for a while I've only been buying the TrippLite isobar and industria
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by mmagin 12y ago
$80k in San Francisco (especially right now) is like $40k in many parts of the country.
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by mmagin 12y ago
I've wanted the USA to finish going over to the metric system for about as long as I can remember. It annoys the heck out of me that I have to have two sets of tools at hand, have to determine if fasteners are one or the other (both i

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