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by oz 15y ago
Because pornstars are more notable among the masses than scientists. I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but it is true. Ask most people to name a scientist, the only one they can name is Einstein. Ask most men to name pornstars, they
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by oz 15y ago
I'm a former fundamentalist Christian who wrestled long and hard over this exact issue a few years ago. Allow me to elaborate: There is a sizeable group of Christians who practice what is known as 'spiritual warfare.' Basically, this worldv
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by oz 15y ago
"Why is he somehow more "important" than all the other people on the bone marrow transplant list?" He is not more important in an objective sense. Most people would agree in an abstract sense that all lives are equally valuable, but w
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by oz 15y ago
That's why I preach VMs. They can go wild on those - just teach them how to create and revert to snapshots. They'll love you forever :)
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by oz 15y ago
Pull network cable? Pfthah! We disable the port at the switch... SW1(config)#int Fa0/1 SW1(config-if)#shutdown 1w4d: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface FastEthernet0/1, changed state to administratively down 1w4d: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN
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by oz 15y ago
You're being downvoted because of the 'spoofed email' line, but I understand where you're coming from. "Spend 32 hours over a weekend quarantining and disinfecting an entire network because some dickhead decided he needed to bring in his m
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by oz 15y ago
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. But in a well-run network, they wouldn't be able to install the software in the first place.
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by oz 15y ago
Thanks. Believe me, the practices you see preached on HN (which I personally agree with) are so far removed from the typical enterprise it's not even funny. Agile programming? Um, no - waterfall. Continuous deployment? Are you crazy? But pl
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by oz 15y ago
"I can't imagine it would take more than a cursory look at Notepad++ to vet it." This, right here, is the issue. You simply don't know what is involved. "I can't imagine why you need to draw blood to see if I have AIDS, Doctor" The specif
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by oz 15y ago
I'm also a programmer, and agree completely - I think devs should have admin rights on their boxes, and at the very least access to VMs for testing Ultimately, it's an issue of trade-offs: I guarantee that since you're allowed to go wild on
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by oz 15y ago
Well that's fine, as long as you're willing to accept the blame when things go wrong. But most companies simply don't work that way.
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by oz 15y ago
I was a sysadmin for a financial services firm, and then for a Big-4 accounting firm, so I may have some perspective: 1. "For starters, I was not allowed to use my own equipment. They rattled off some gibberish about security and support e
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by oz 15y ago
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks! On the point about how they cook for cameras, I remember reading years ago that most ice cream ads actually used mashed potatoes!
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by oz 15y ago
This is slightly off-topic, but is perhaps the best opportunity to clarify something I've recently started wondering about, and will no doubt be valuable to others on HN: I've been studying web design for the past few weeks, and naturally b
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by oz 15y ago
"It's not important to get things right/perfect. It's important to get things going" Not realizing that fact held me back for years. When I wanted to learn / do something, I would obsess over finding absolutely the best tutorial / process
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by oz 15y ago
My mantra for the past 2 weeks has been that there's never been a better time to learn to code, simply because the resources are so abundant and available. I'm self-learning web development right now. Between HTML Dog, W3 Schools and Googl
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by oz 15y ago
Interesting stats! Thanks for sharing. Something tells me that the majority of those using IE are those forced to at Microsoft-only shops, like I was until recently.
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by oz 15y ago
I'm not a particularly emotional guy, but something about this story just got to me - especially the part where they launch and it's sold out in 6 hours. After so much....so much slog...finally. Ok. Time to man up. BTW, notice how the story
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by oz 15y ago
Wow, I never new the creator of ViewText was on HN! You have NO IDEA how much your site has helped me, particularly on my crappy BlackBerry browser. Thank you.
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by oz 16y ago
I'm a sysadmin at a Big 4 auditing firm. Adobe products are the bane of our existence. Acrobat 9.4.1 takes over to install. Oh that's right, there's a vulnerability in that version, so now we're gonna have to push 9.4.2 When a user's Flash
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by oz 16y ago
Here in Jamaica, the equivalent of USD $38 gets you 20 Mbps down/1.5 Mbps up. You can get 50 Mbps down for USD $105, and 100 Mbps down / 5Mbps up for USD $129. It's not bad at all, all things considered.
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by oz 16y ago
In Jamaica, Nokia phones, particularly the lower end models, are perceived as being very reliable. Drop them, throw them, wet them up, and they just keep on going. Battery life is good, too.
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by oz 16y ago
I got away scot-free. Good times.
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by oz 16y ago
Ah, Crash Bandicoot. My younger brother hogged our Playstation with it all day, when I wanted to play Metal Gear Solid. Well, at least until I told my Fundamentalist mother that there were Satanic symbols in the game. That put an end to tha
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by oz 16y ago
I read HN daily from my old BB 8800. Not perfect; but serviceable. I think www.ihackernews.com also has an optimized mobile site.
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by oz 16y ago
I too remember that comment, particularly the bit about creating. It came across with a force that just's not normal, and got me writing poetry. Thanks DBM.
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by oz 16y ago
Simple as that, my friend. Well said. One time I was watching HGTV with my sister. A couple bought a new house because they wanted a kitchen witha view of the ocean. She was incredulous, but I told her that's the very point of money-doing w
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by oz 16y ago
I don't intend to spend my life working for the big payoff. I like PG's concept of 'compressing your working life down to a few years.' Like I said to a work colleague, "Who wants to retire at 65, when you're old and geriatric, with barely
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by oz 16y ago
No, you don't. I'm really tired of anti-money meme. Why is it so difficult for people to admit that many things in life come down to money? This isn't about being Gordon Gekko. You could have the purest heart, but it still takes cash to
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by oz 16y ago
Or the Taelon Commonality, for Earth, Final Conflict fans.

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