orly_bookz

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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I believe someone making minimum wage will get all of their Federal taxes back, so they could probably just claim 99 exemptions and never pay that money in the first place. I'm not sure about state taxes as that may well vary from plac
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I don't know if all ERP software is like what I've seen but what I've seen is a hot mess. If your company is ever looking to move to the ERP space from a homegrown legacy system like we did, don't buy Infor. I'd rat
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Healthcare IT is one of the most backwards areas of IT to work in, I think, in large part because of the legal red tape around everything clinical. So you get a lot of people that say no automatically. Additionally, I think you get a lot of
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
That's a very nice service but I'm not sure I'd like to do it. When I did support for a university we very specifically could turn down items (mostly laptops) that were too grody to work on. Most of the techs used their own k
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I used to work with this programmer who would get free beta testers by doing this. Set up a meeting with endusers in one of our training labs and tell them they can complain about whatever they want. Then walk them through a 15-minute set o
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
They probably shouldn't though... I'm sure he'd pull an Elizabeth Bathory even if there's no proof at all that it helped...
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I'd like to summon James Otis, Jr: "I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is."
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
$25 (or $5/month) gets you a sticker pack with "FAIR USE HAS A POSSE" and "COME BACK WITH A WARRANT"... worth it. Oh, plus the warm fuzzies you get.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
With the exception of Church's days, that's like saying "water is wet."
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I thought /r/the_donald and /r/enoughtrumpspam were going to have a proxy war in /r/the_meltdown but it just turned into a gloating ring for TD folks. Then TD freaked out over /u/spez plus pizzagate g
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Very interesting, thank you!
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
It's a strange world we live in that people the world over might well get basic internet infrastructure (even if only a cell phone with limited service rather than high-bandwidth cable) while lacking other portions of infrastructure ma
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I'm very interested now in what these ethical considerations would be. Do you mean that if people put in bolts that it might somehow dilute the climb?
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I get your hyperbole but simply as a matter of course I'm gonna have to throw a flag: that's the fallacy of relative privation.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
"Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development" : http://www.svt.ntnu.no/iss/Indra.de.Soysa/POL3503H05/olson.p...
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
No. It's not. I'm not trying to be rude here but I don't know why you keep making arguments for me. I never said that nor the last thing you think I was saying. All I said was "hey maybe you're right there isn'
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
What? I'm not forcing anyone to do so nor even asking them to. As far as I'm aware, none of us are allowed to pick and choose what our taxes go to or else I probably would give more to the arts than, say, the military.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
You're right, they're not valuable in the capitalistic sense. They're valuable if you don't want to live in the world depicted in Brazil (1985), or Neuromancer, or pretty much any cyberpunk dystopia.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I'm not 100% sure why you're asking for a link to a product when I think it's fairly clear that he's talking about business solutions. Or to give a weak example: "we have system X and system Y and need them to tal
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I'm no expert but have always found the O'Reilly books helpful. Also... well I'm not sure what HN's policy is on sources/linking but let's just say that you could search right now for "Classic Shell Script
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
"So what's the deal with airplane food, amirite?" Wait... is the beeb starting a stand-up career in the 90s? Also, I've no idea why they bother with full meals. Just keep feeding people chips, cookies, nuts... the occasi
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
But but but... Obama stopped the influx of people into Gitmo! I mean, sure, he did that by just drone bombing the shit out of everyone instead but...
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I assume the point is as both a warning to others (us) and as a reminder to him. As someone who subscribes to the PKD definition of "hero," I quite like the article for this purpose. Had the author known a bit more about the drug
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Honestly, I don't believe that anyone in the modern era really got fat because they were following guidelines. I think it's much more likely the fact that we put sugar into just about everything, portion sizes having gone up, edib
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
That's true of everything, though? I mean a shitty $2 shirt wouldn't exist but for the power looms of the 19th century...
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Really? Skyrim, the game where if you place an apple in a bucket on a guy's counter and go do 200 hours of quests and come back... the apple is still there. That's not a persistent world? That's pretty much the only point of
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I do believe that Metal Gear Solid 2 predicted this back in, what, 2001? "At this point, Raiden is contacted by AIs of the Colonel and Rosemary, introducing themselves as representatives of the Patriots, who reveal that the true purpos
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
And yet the brains of Apple... the man who would take down the Android/Google juggernaut... was laid low by simple fruit.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
It's pointless until we're able to reverse entropy on a massive scale. Then everything throughout history that made it long enough to be recorded will have mattered. "There is only one god, and its name is entropy. And there
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
It's not that I disagree with you because I think this is probably correct but... I mean do we know that? As a sure thing?

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