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by nhebb 14y ago
I think Quattro was the #2 (behind Lotus) for a while - ahead of Excel. Borland just seemed to have an uncanny talent for running products into the ground.
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by nhebb 14y ago
They made DB2 in the early 80's. DB2 has always seemed like the quiet giant in the database world. They even have a free Express edition [1], but I never hear anyone talking about it. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/downloa
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by nhebb 14y ago
Direct link: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/treehouse-3-million In short, Treehouse is giving away 2,500, 2-year long subscriptions to college students. College students can always major in CS. With the down economy, personally I would fin
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by nhebb 14y ago
I understand that it's anti-Muslim, but is that "hate speech"? If it were an anti-Christian video that showcased Jesus as a pedophile and philanderer, would it be labeled as such? It's free speech.
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by nhebb 14y ago
If it's straight-out political censorship, then they should rename it OurTube instead of YouTube. I say "if" because I'm not familiar with the video. I've seen a lot of meta reports about it, but I haven't seen a summary of the video's cont
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by nhebb 14y ago
A week ago I had funds held for a dispute and received this message from PayPal today. So it is a policy change, not just a PR move.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I looked at the source image and there wasn't any more to the image. Of course, the only reason I checked is because I had the same feeling, so I didn't like the panning. It didn't feel responsive, and I had to move the mouse all the way fr
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by nhebb 14y ago
I don't think you deserved to be downvoted for your comment, but I think it's to be expected with new languages. When C# first appeared, I searched a few job boards out of curiosity. The "#" symbol wasn't recognized, so I tried "c-sharp". T
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by nhebb 14y ago
This sounds like Solipsism Syndrome [1]. I used to experience it in my Fluid Dynamics class, convincing myself that no one in the world could possibility give a shit about this stuff, so it must be all taking place in my mind. http://en.wi
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by nhebb 14y ago
Interesting results, but I'm skeptical as to whether the sample results can be extrapolated to the U.S. internet population as a whole.
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by nhebb 14y ago
The same situation happened to a family member of mine. He was 19 and his girlfriend was 17. Her dad got mad at him one night, called the cops, and had him arrested for statutory rape. He is now a registered sex offender. They went on datin
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by nhebb 14y ago
I only have one wish for improving HN: randomly rotate the top comment. As it stands, the discussion usually veers off into a meta discussion around the first comment. At the time of this posting, the thread is 14 hours old and has 239 comm
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by nhebb 14y ago
I spent a good portion of my career as a manufacturing engineer, so I just wanted to chime in with a few thoughts on the article and the comments I've read here: - Broadly speaking manufacturing can be lumped into to production models: high
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by nhebb 14y ago
As an Industrial Engineering major, the old joke was that "IE" stands for "Imaginary Engineering".
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by nhebb 14y ago
Even though the slow leak of these stories in the tech press is not good PR, Twitter has mind share, so it may not matter. Celebrities, journalists, and typical tweetoholics probably don't care.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Wait, does this mean that the Eggo Nutri-Grain waffles are not healthy for my kids? But what if I add "farm fresh" butter and "fat free" syrup? My world is spinning out of control.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I noticed the same flaw, but lets cut to the chase. I sell a flowcharting tool. According to Google Analytics, ~40% of my visitors are running displays with a screen height of 800 pixels or below. Adjusting my browser window size accordingl
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by nhebb 14y ago
FYI - I don't know if that quote is real. It was a post-WWI Cold War quip that has been attributed to many people (even Bob Hope).
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by nhebb 14y ago
@cdoxsey - Nice work, but you might link to an installer that doesn't include a text editor. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the target audience already has their preferred text editor installed. Edit: After reading the first few
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by nhebb 14y ago
Coca-Cola is the top selling carbonated soft drink maker in the world, but PepsiCo still makes an awful lot of money.
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by nhebb 14y ago
If you didn't click through to Andrew Chen piece, I recommend reading it before jumping to conclusions. "Outsource you monetization" struck me as daft - until I read what Chen meant. The examples he cites are are about leveraging existing s
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by nhebb 14y ago
> It’s also extremely important to not keep your less.js file operating during production mode. I'm curious about this. Is it more than just a minor performance hit?
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“Me-too” products are fine(businessofsoftware.org)
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A Rich Neighbor Named Xerox(folklore.org)
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by nhebb 14y ago
No, it's not hard at all. If you follow this simple mantra - I like people who are nice, and I don't like people who aren't. ... then it cuts through the political, racial, religious, sexual orientation, and other divisive issues that ten
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by nhebb 14y ago
I'm a libertarian (small "l"). I'm liberal on most social issues but conservative on fiscal issues, so I tend to vote Republican. Do you know how many times media figures have implied that I'm a racist by proxy because of that? Calling some
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by nhebb 14y ago
The html [1] does. If you don't like the wording, you can fork it and change the text. https://github.com/resume/resume.github.com/blob/master/view...
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by nhebb 14y ago
> The desktop is being left behind by mobile. I don't believe that. I think mobile augments people's computing, but I haven't seen any data to indicate that people are actually replacing desktop with mobile.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I tried that too, along with Paul Ryan's speech (which got 0.14 - Your text shows only a few indications of 'bullshit'). Then, I tried the copy on my landing page and got a 0.25. It's shameful to realize that I'm a bigger bullshitter than t
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by nhebb 14y ago
"Playing sports" - under the Leisure details - is probably the catchall category for exercise.

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