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by nfoz 11y ago
I ordered a laptop from Dell, providing no information about my small employer. I ordered it from my own laptop but it was on my work's WiFi when I ordered it. They called to confirm some BS about the order, and mentioned my employer&
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by nfoz 11y ago
The best example I know of is Papa Carlo: http://lakhin.com/projects/papa-carlo/ I had been working on an incremental-compiler-generator in C++, but suspended the project recently because it's a lot of work.
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by nfoz 11y ago
> This is a great example of the government being inefficient at getting things done. I don't see any reason that "being government" had anything to do with this category of error. I'm also not sure that "ineffi
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by nfoz 11y ago
I typically agree with that sentiment..... but then I think about all the information that Amazon has about me: e.g. political and religious views, cosmetic and OTC pharmaceuticals....... I'd really rather I could buy things anonymousl
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by nfoz 11y ago
Broadway Technology | Software Engineer | New York, Austin, Seattle, Waterloo http://www.broadwaytechnology.com/careers I love working here! We’re a technology company, built and run by engineers. Stable and growing fast.
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by nfoz 11y ago
> Dear Facebook overlords, when will I meet the girl I'll marry? Facebook's ability to answer that question may be somewhat related to their ability to construct the outcome. They're integrated with the major dating apps,
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by nfoz 11y ago
Mechanical Turk?
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by nfoz 11y ago
I've been using it for year, and never thought of that as a problem. My fingers are always holding it from behind (they're not just down low) so it's stable. It did take some practice to get used to the keyboard -- same as
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by nfoz 11y ago
The Blackberry Passport is one of the more innovative modern phones IMO: http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-passport/ove... The physical keyboard is also a touch-screen, so you can make gestures acros
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by nfoz 11y ago
> The primary purpose of media news is to make money My main news sources are: - CBC (Canadian crown corporation), - BBC (UK Royal Charter), - TVOntario (Ontario crown corporation), - Democracy Now! (independent non-profit), - PBS (indep
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by nfoz 11y ago
Fair enough, but the keyboard is why I regret my Chromebook which I also use daily. I thought it would not be a big deal (and I did manage to remap Power to Del -- just don't hold it too long!). But missing F11/F12, home/en
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by nfoz 11y ago
It's missing: `~[]{}|\ I wouldn't be able to type some of my passwords or URLs on this thing. I thought the Chromebook keyboards were bad enough.
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by nfoz 11y ago
> we just don't have everything done yet, I wrote everything on my own. Scrollbars work perfectly when you don't write anything.
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by nfoz 11y ago
One of the things I love about this movie is how much it got right . The general attitude of the time, the feeling that we had in that era. This film shows what it feels like to spend all night reading through hexdumps trying to solve
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by nfoz 11y ago
Broadway Technology | Software Engineer | New York, Austin, Seattle, Waterloo http://www.broadwaytechnology.com/careers We’re a technology company, built and run by engineers. We're small but growing fast. Emphasis o
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by nfoz 11y ago
> there is a team of about five or six back-of-house kitchen staff (or as I like to imagine, magical elves) who are hidden from view and prepare the food. There’s also one attendant on hand to help the tech challenged. So no, it isn&#x27
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by nfoz 11y ago
> In a free rental market, you would see some current SF residents leave because they're not willing to pay market rates, but the market rate would drop as a result. In other words, long time residents would move out to make space f
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by nfoz 11y ago
Along with a red LED glow along the door handle!
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by nfoz 11y ago
The Math-DSL's like Matlab, Julia, and Mathematica would like to chime in and say 1-based indexing translates better with math research/lit.
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by nfoz 11y ago
> (ever find yourself needing to use two mice at once?) Yes, two-player competitive Lemmings on my Amiga 1000 was friggin awesome. Shame that PCs still haven't caught up.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Do you think it's ethically appropriate to look at the leaked data? Do you think it's ethically appropriate to analyze the leaked data, and publish those analyses for personal gain (which is what this site did afaict) Do you think
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by nfoz 11y ago
> Out of curiosity, why did you put your blog on the .xxx domain? Maybe it helps to point out how silly it is to filter based on the TLD.
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by nfoz 11y ago
I'm not "demanding" the content. You're choosing to send it to me. I'm not walking into your store, I'm surfing the web, you're throwing your "goods" (if you see them that way) into my home. M
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by nfoz 11y ago
> It may be your browser, but it is their content being served via their infrastructure. It costs them real money to create and host this content. Then they shouldn't send me that content if they don't want me to do whatever I
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by nfoz 11y ago
Wow. Just imagine all the opportunity for social engineering, with a name like that :)
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by nfoz 11y ago
Then it's not "for everyone", is it?
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by nfoz 11y ago
And the problem is that we're going to blame the hackers, rather than the car manufacturer for creating such a defective product.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Browser vendors / web standards continue to expand the set of functionality that a browser provides. Each time they do so, they increase the attack surface.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Where can I see the leaked document?
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by nfoz 11y ago
I am extremely against advertising, but even though this is money being spent towards something that offends and antagonizes me, I still think that fraud in the industry should be called out and fixed.

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