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by nocman 13y ago
There is nothing childish about cereal and toast. He didn't say "Lucky Charms" and "toast loaded with grape jelly". I eat a low carb meals also, and I totally get not wanting a sugar crash due to eating a carb-loade
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by nocman 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you are objecting to (or what exactly of dmourati's response you were agreeing with) . I never claimed that Cygwin was UNIX. Far from it. However, Cygwin gives me enough of a UNIX-like environment
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by nocman 13y ago
I realize this is too late (I've been away from the computer for a few days), but I'll respond anyway. NO that's NOT what I meant. I meant that I wouldn't release software that was designed to run on, say Windows XP&#x2F
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by nocman 13y ago
Real friends don't let friends use Windows without Cygwin. :-D Seriously, though. If you have machines with lower-end resources, who wants to to wait on a VM. Plus I wouldn't trust testing to a virtualized machine. I wouldn&#x2
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by nocman 13y ago
Actually, I'm kind of glad that the link said "video". Because I might not have clicked it if it didn't, and I almost just closed the tab when I saw the video wasn't available. Amusingly, I'm also glad that th
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by nocman 13y ago
Hopefully you don't mean to imply that just because something has been around for more than 20 years (much more in this case) that it is inherently insecure. Conversely, you hopefully don't mean to imply that technology that is ne
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by nocman 13y ago
Yeah, I was going to say something similar. You'll never get a compiler to be as intelligent as a human being. At best you'll get human intelligence rapidly applied by a computer to a problem. The computer will be able to do th
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by nocman 13y ago
One thing this does not take into account -- seeing your parents in person is not the only interaction that is meaningful. Yes, I agree that seeing them in person is a good thing to do, but for some people that is difficult to do, and very
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by nocman 13y ago
Just came back to this. Thank you! I needed a good laugh (and I will be increasing the view count on that video!).
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by nocman 13y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and disagree with you :-D I know that the Toastmasters folks will ding you for saying "Um" or "So", etc. And yes, if it is too common it can be annoying (sort of on along the li
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by nocman 13y ago
How to get me to turn off Adblock: 1) Make ads that aren't annoying 2) Make ads that are low bandwidth 3) Make ads that don't take over the whole page (hiding the real content) 4) Don't show offensive ads (pornography, crude
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by nocman 13y ago
If by "server image" they mean image(s) of the hard disk partition(s) (that's what I suspect they mean) -- easy. If the server is using LVM or some similar technology -- you can take a snapshot while the server is still runn
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by nocman 13y ago
Wow. How did you use your floss card to prevent yourself from being killed? I'd love to hear that story. (I'm taking the word "literally" ... um ... literally here) :-D
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by nocman 13y ago
hehe. You've got that problem too, eh? Oh, and you're very welcome. BTW, the post should read "he doesn't much strike me as ...", "not he doesn't much struck me as ..." -- one of the problems of
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by nocman 13y ago
"Every one of the downvotes this post gets are because this post runs counter to the HN echo chamber." It seems ironic to me that you make this statement (which would you could not possibly know to be true without being omiscient)
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by nocman 13y ago
Thank you sir! I needed a good (and audible) laugh!
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by nocman 13y ago
Ugh. Ratatouille was the first Pixar movie I saw that was an utter disappointment (no, I haven't seen them all, but I've seen a fair number of them). It was so far from "feel-good" cartoon flick for me. Much more "I'll never get that two
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by nocman 13y ago
"but take Facebook" ... PLEASE! :-D (with apologies to Henny Youngman -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Youngman )
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by nocman 14y ago
You muffed the URL -- here's the one that works http://nestgrid.wordpress.com/nestgrid-paper/ :-D
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by nocman 14y ago
I used to think the same thing about Lisp syntax. I wondered how anyone could like it at all. For the last several years I've done a lot of coding in Scheme, and I have to admit, I've grown to really like it. I think the primary reas
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by nocman 14y ago
Do you know all about batista's personal life, all his responsibilities, all of his schedule? While it is possible that he could do the work and choses not to, I don't think you have enough information to say that he definitely can do it
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by nocman 14y ago
I figured the "yeah but it's free software" thing would be part of the comeback. My response is that Firefox being free is completely irrelevant to my point. I'm the owner of the computer. You should never install anything on my computer
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by nocman 14y ago
Your analogy is flawed. To make it complete, the fictional fire alarm company would not come to you at all. While at your house originally installing the fire alarm, they would grab the key to your house from where it hangs by the door, ma
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by nocman 14y ago
Personal time lost to fixing problems can always be annoying. However, not all debugging situations are like that. There is something terribly satisfying about digging into a problem on a production system that rears its ugly head once a m
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by nocman 15y ago
vimdiff, that's why. (or whatever your editor of choice calls its synchronized side-by-side diff mode)
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by nocman 16y ago
Ah, that makes more sense.
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by nocman 16y ago
I'm not sure what part of the title you think is misleading, and I definitely don't think anyone is being particularly unfair to Rackspace. On the plus side, I think it was a good idea to bring this change out in the open early, and for th
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by nocman 16y ago
"Watson can understand and answer better than the vast majority of humans on this planet." Only for extremely limited definitions of "understand".
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by nocman 16y ago
I fail to see how the article, and particularly that quote in any way peg Wall as a Deist. Or were you rather arguing that he is a theist (not a Deist)? Deism and Evangelical Christianity aren't even close to the same thing: http://en.
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by nocman 16y ago
One other potential problem I see with this study is that it doesn't seem to take into account that not all employees put in the same amount of time for an employer. For instance, some employees work only part time. So if 80% of your work

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