nitid_name

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1. 91.▲
   by nitid_name 14y ago

   Isn't decline the only thing to do after a peak?
2. 92.▲
   by nitid_name 14y ago

   Am I the only person that images my manufacturer's HDD when I first get a new box? I thought that would be fairly standard operating procedure for any geek who wants to avoid this sort of crap.
3. 93.▲
   by nitid_name 14y ago

   Are you certain about that? I thought the whole point of HFT was to use small shreds of information to play the liquidity gap between sell and buy orders.
4. 94.▲
   by nitid_name 15y ago

   I knew a guy back in college we called "6-8" because he was 6'8" and we weren't terribly creative. He lofted his bed, but found that he couldn't sit comfortably under it... so he put a winch on it. When the project was finished, every singl
5. 95.▲
   by nitid_name 15y ago

   >I envision a 'browser' that can track my behaviour, watch what I do, show me more detailed history info, make 'history' part of my 'search' results, adapt my search to my behaviour and more. Perhaps Google will be the ones to do this,
6. 96.▲
   by nitid_name 15y ago

   [Sigh] Pencils aren't used because some graphite would rub off into the air and muck up the filter.
7. 97.▲
   by nitid_name 15y ago

   If it's dying, you may as well plunder it...
8. 98.▲
   by nitid_name 15y ago

   Some methods of wealth creation are positive sum games, like a free market trade between two parties that enriches both. Some are negative sum, like "rent seeking" behaviors. The problem is that the positive sum creators (e.g. Warren Buffet
9. 99.▲
   by nitid_name 15y ago

   Or maybe their governments aren't the giant, half-the-world's-military, country whose laws Twitter has to respect...
10. 100.▲
    by nitid_name 15y ago

    The largest factor for Airline profitability, at least historically, is the cost of fuel. Airlines that sign a 1/2/5/10 year futures agreement at exactly the right moment can save an extraordinary amount of money compared to their competiti
11. 101.▲
    by nitid_name 15y ago

    There are some fuzzy matching plugins for 404 handling, like Apache's mod_speling (note the missing l).
12. 102.▲
    by nitid_name 15y ago

    I'm not sure I'm a big fan of what it would take to fix this. Namely, "speed loaders" that sit in memory and eat up RAM. I've already seen what adobe's PDF speed loader can do on a system. Frankly, I'll manage my applications myself. Are yo