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by nhebb 14y ago
Of course cost of living estimates are just for singles and couples without children. Add a kid or two and the cost of living differences will become more pronounced.
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by nhebb 14y ago
What I envision when I see some of these - Waterfall model: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow... Bubble sort: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow... Recycle bin: http://99designs.com/
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by nhebb 14y ago
My daughter's chemistry teacher had the class research this. Unfortunately, my daughter thought it was just "stupid nerd humor" and missed the point.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Someone please tell Microsoft this. They're trying to compete in everyone else's market, while kind of forgetting about the one they dominate. Developers wanted a linker for .Net; they never got one. Viable market penetration of any given v
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by nhebb 14y ago
And I never use the Edmund Burke quote, "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it" . I've never liked that phrase because it's overly simplistic. The vagaries of human nature and the shear number of variables that influence w
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by nhebb 14y ago
It may be a ploy to get users to switch to Office 365, which does include Outlook. Since Office 365 is subscription based, it will be more profitable to Microsoft in the long run.
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by nhebb 14y ago
IBM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gerstner#IBM
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by nhebb 14y ago
I read the Gawker piece [1] on Violentacrez, and I think saying that he was "simply sharing controversial photos" is a bit of an understatement. [1] http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the...
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by nhebb 14y ago
> is there a Republican analog to Nate Silver? No, not directly. RealClearPoltics ( http://www.realclearpolitics.com ) aggregates polling data, but it doesn't analyze it. Sean Trende does some analysis of the polls, but he is a lawyer a
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by nhebb 14y ago
> Every morning I read a number of websites devoted to technology and programming to see what is new. I looked over at his sidebar hoping to see a blogroll. Remember when people used to do that ... about 5 years ago? I wouldn't call i
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by nhebb 14y ago
>Old as fuck. So is algebra, and yet, every year millions of people learn it for the first time.
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by nhebb 14y ago
> Test your changes independently, and make incremental changes That was my take-away as well. I'm prone to accumulating a list of changes that I'd like to make to my site and then, when change fever strikes, I do them all in unison.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Something about the lighting makes it look odd - like a showcase at a furniture store.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I've noticed that when I'm on a laptop with a glossy screen, the difference in background colors are a lot harder to distinguish.
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by nhebb 14y ago
A lot of that cost is due to the import duty plus VAT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#United_Kingdom
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by nhebb 14y ago
This story doesn't sound plausible on two fronts: 1. Would the "system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands" really be externally accessible - directly or indirectly? 2. I did a Google News search on this and didn't
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by nhebb 14y ago
And it's still available for download: https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/turbopascal
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by nhebb 14y ago
> What if you volunteered some time in a developing country and met someone who’d never spent a moment thinking about Chandler and Monica? Most organizations that send volunteers to developing countries are either evangelical or are l
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by nhebb 14y ago
Making a website, creating a setup file, and setting up payment processing and license delivery really isn't much effort - especially when you don't have to pay a 30% commission to the app store.
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by nhebb 14y ago
On a related note, the folks at LLBLGen wrote a post on getting a non-WinRT desktop app listed in the Windows Store: http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2012/09/12/the-windows... The process looks completely messed up and will likely tu
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The Windows Store... why did I sign up with this mess again?(weblogs.asp.net)
58 points by nhebb 14y ago|15 comments
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by nhebb 14y ago
> 1. The Windows app store is Metro only. They allow Desktop Apps as well.
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by nhebb 14y ago
They don't ask your permission, but they do respect robots.txt files as well as noindex, nofollow.
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C.E.O.’s and the Pay-’Em-or-Lose-’Em Myth(nytimes.com)
2 points by nhebb 14y ago|0 comments
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by nhebb 14y ago
Re http://sleepyti.me : One small issue is that sleep schedule is calculated after setting the hour and minutes, but before getting a chance to set the AM/PM.
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by nhebb 14y ago
> The documentation uses a fluid width layout which hurts readability on wide screens I agree with this, but I still think the golang documentation is well designed for usability. If you compare this page - http://golang.org/ref/spec
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by nhebb 14y ago
The other general feeling is that even when a case is legitimate, the plaintiffs often get very little per person from the settlement, but the lawyers make out handily.
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by nhebb 14y ago
They've been offering this service for several years: http://www.fedex.com/us/office/online-printing.html
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by nhebb 14y ago
My theory is that there is a direct correlation between the quality of free software and the likelihood that developers directly or indirectly use the software for their work. The exception is utilities, but for non-dev business tools, comm
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by nhebb 14y ago
Another mystery appears. I wonder what happened in 1993-1994 to get his migration path off by 90 degrees. http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewImage.do?id=10079&aid=47...

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