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by neild 15y ago
Loyalty is a wonderful thing. You should demonstrate your loyalty by giving your company a full two weeks notice when you leave. You're being taken advantage of, and you know it or you wouldn't have posted this. You're taking an under-mar
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by neild 15y ago
Half-Life was released in 1998. I can still play it--using the product key from my original retail purchase!--via Steam. Can I definitively say that this will hold for all my current Steam purchases? No, of course not. I can, however, sa
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by neild 15y ago
Be extremely careful if following this advice. Hyponatremia--dilution of the blood resulting in low levels of sodium--is a serious concern for marathon runners. Dehydration during a race won't kill you; hyponatremia might. Absolutely, pos
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by neild 15y ago
Without some sort of vote indicator, it's hard to tell who has the most accurate opinion, except often in subjects like law, security, and seo where there are known experts that often chime in (e.g. grellas, tptacek, patio11). You assume
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by neild 15y ago
I believe what you are looking for is the alpha channel--the fourth color component which specifies how to blend two values. It doesn't make sense to add RGB(0,0,0) and RGB(0.5,0.5,0.5). It does make sense to add RGBA(0,0,0,0) and RGBA(
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by neild 15y ago
This seems a lot of work in a world where most content, and most popular content, is disposable by design. The books I read, the movies I watch, the music I listen to...I really can't think of how any of it could be described as "disposab
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by neild 15y ago
My theory is subtly different from these. I sometimes call it "ambient sociability". That's a beautiful way of putting it. I absolutely can be productive in a coffee shop. The best ones are busy enough that I feel social activity going o
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by neild 16y ago
The Amiga kicked ass at 2D games, but could not hack it in 3D. The Amiga was effectively dead before 3D games became notable.
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by neild 16y ago
2. Assume a hacker can in turn be significantly more productive working for themselves. I'm a hacker. I work at a company that employs sales people, marketers, and support staff. The software I work on makes my company money--far more t
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SCons is full of win today(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by neild 16y ago
IPv6 is a perfectly fine protocol. Supporting IPv6 is absolutely nothing like "ripping out your spinal cord and putting a new one in". It's largely trivial if you aren't doing anything tricky--and, notably, it requires nothing that an IPv4
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by neild 16y ago
...unless you're Apple, or Google, or some other company with the money and cachet to attract the best.
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by neild 16y ago
Tcl didn't play in that space, and to their credit I don't think the Tcl folks were willing to go there just to ride the buzz. That's not entirely true. I don't recall the exact timeline, but there was a Tcl plugin for Netscape which cou
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by neild 16y ago
That doesn't affect Jabbles's point in any way. Run enough tests, and you will get statistically significant but bogus results.
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by neild 16y ago
A Perl expression. You could use this for sed-like activities: # Print included files. ack --output '$1' '#include <(.*)>' You could presumably do much trickier things as well, since the --output argument can contain a
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by neild 16y ago
Glycemic load is a measure which attempts to address this problem. Glycemic index measures the glucose response to consuming a fixed amount of carbohydrate. Since different foods contain different amounts of carbohydrate, the amount of foo
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by neild 16y ago
How do you securely police the "20 free articles a week" system if you can't trust cookies, can't put validation on the page itself, and ip addresses change all the time without requiring even a free account to read the content? You assum
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by neild 16y ago
What do you expect? How can you have someone that doesn't like talking to crowds be a politician or someone who avoids cameras be in the entertainment business? I guess, then, that leaves the extroverts to fill the gaps... Many introverts
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by neild 16y ago
By "some external sources of data", you mean "Bing". DDG's primary data source is Bing, via the Yahoo search APIs.
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by neild 16y ago
$14.80/month for the weekday-only print subscription is a 50% off deal that lasts only three months. You'll be paying ~$30/month after that. Which is, of course, still cheaper than the web+smartphone+tablet plan.
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by neild 16y ago
Cocoa doesn't require hundreds of lines to represent a simple object. Here's code to make a button: UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect]; [button setTitle:@"Button" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
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by neild 16y ago
Assuming a just-bought vanilla Mac computer, how is someone supposed to install a tarball of GCC or LLVM/Clang sourcecode without a C compiler? Take the developer DVD that came with your Mac, put it in the drive, and double-click the inst
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by neild 16y ago
I signed up for OKC, lurked for a while, and then sent a message to the person at the top of my match list. We're still together, five years later. I'm probably an outlier, but hey--match percentage works some of the time!
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by neild 16y ago
I use ASCII. Everyone can read it, I can paste it into emails, and I waste no time fiddling around with formatting on a document that will just be scanned for a few keywords and discarded.
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by neild 16y ago
Sure they can: Charge $13 for Netflix with iOS streaming, or $10 for Netflix with no iOS streaming.
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by neild 16y ago
I'm not certain why you're so emphatically insisting that an article that is a pure anecdote--a case study of a single failed business--is more relevant than industry-wide data. You're quick to insult me for citing "a single study from an
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by neild 16y ago
I remember reading the Slate article you're citing when it first came out. It's a fairly amusing one, which can be summarized as: "Wealthy person without a lick of business sense opens the 'café' of his dreams, declines to do any work hims
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by neild 16y ago
I like the distractions of a good coffee shop. I like being someplace with music playing and people wandering through. It provides engagement for the parts of my brain I don't use when working. My favorite coffee shops are loud enough t
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by neild 16y ago
Coffee shops are pretty much the opposite of sure-fire money losers. This article is a few years old, but: The failure rate for new coffeehouses is a mere 10 percent, according to the market research firm Mintel, which means the vast majo
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by neild 16y ago
Verizon advertises the Droid, not Android. And the Droid brand belongs to Verizon. The fact that "Android" and "Droid" are becoming synonymous for many people is very, very good for Verizon.

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