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by parfe 15y ago
Just checked and the university I work for has a few spam links. I figure the hundreds of independently maintained public facing servers make universities particularly vulnerable.
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by parfe 15y ago
Two way street. 125 pound girl might not be accepting of someone more than double her weight.
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by parfe 15y ago
I never had a fully functional install of JDEE, so I won't compare it to eclipse. Configuring JDEE itself gave me nightmares. From what I remember, I would set variables to the proper VM and experience no change. At the time I gave up on
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by parfe 15y ago
>Eat healthily and avoid alcohol I'd include abstaining from a regular caffeine habit as well. It will mask sleeping problems, and can increase stress and anxiety which lead to a loss of sleep which leads to more caffeine! http://stre
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by parfe 15y ago
Jdee is a pile of garbage which made me quit emacs twice before finally ignoring the package altogether on my third (successful) attempt to switch. While other deb packages exhibit the same symptoms from time to time, jdee specifically doe
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by parfe 15y ago
The smallpox vaccine that eliminated the disease certainly had lesser know and effective predecessor as early as 1770: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox
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by parfe 15y ago
Google: facebook pepsi Not sure how more integrated into google search results facebook could get.
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by parfe 15y ago
From not a very good trader: I think, even if you include dividends, any money in MSFT has been completely stagnant for 10 years (and may have actually lost value). IBM stock paid dividends and nearly doubled in the same time period.
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by parfe 15y ago
9oliYQjP did a pretty good job.
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by parfe 15y ago
> In fact, it would be nice if you specifically refrained from making a comment arguing about whether his death was important in the middle of a thread where everyone else is offering their condolences You just highlighted exactly what
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by parfe 15y ago
What purpose do stories like this serve? People consider asking for details to be rude. Other than tabloid style storytelling drama, why else should strangers care? This man died young, but so did the local 19 year old young woman killed
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by parfe 15y ago
Why?
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by parfe 15y ago
You come off both condescending and lazy when using the Socratic method with peers. Either clearly state your positions or take the downvotes. Socratic method works in a student-teacher relation. By using it here on the message board you
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by parfe 15y ago
Same happened with Nintendo. Largest losses in three decades. "Nintendo had a $690 million foreign exchange loss in the first six months of the fiscal year that began April 1, the company said." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/busi
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by parfe 15y ago
I heard the situation explained as Italy and Greece had systemic spending/borrowing issues before joining the Euro zone. Everyone knew this and thought once those countries no longer had their own currencies they would shape up. Unfortunat
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by parfe 15y ago
In Firefox you can go to View -> Page Style -> No Style.
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by parfe 15y ago
I think the idea is that you spend most of your time at home, work, or school. Places which you generally have full access to the wifi network.
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by parfe 15y ago
A message seeking comment was left Thursday on a media telephone line at Seattle-based Amazon.com. Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako said last month the company believed "the sales tax issue needs to be solved at the federal level." And that
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by parfe 15y ago
How is sales tax calculated? The sales tax quoted at checkout is based on the shipping address you provide. The amount includes both state and local taxes, when applicable. Looks like Lot18 solved a problem amazon claims it cannot.
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by parfe 15y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ I haven't set up a style for google reader (yet) but Stylish extension for Firefox does a good job letting me customize sites. I don't use it on every site, but places I view regula
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by parfe 15y ago
tl;dr summary 1) I was a popular guy in school. Ridiculously popular. 2) Although I was popular (even if I didn't hang out with the other kids), I am still a good guy because I hung around the weird kid in school. He still acted weird, bu
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by parfe 15y ago
After seeing some other comments I went and looked into it. It seems Winer is the one who thinks he invented RSS. Reality seems to say multiple competing XML formats for content syndication existed around the same time. Someone took some
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by parfe 15y ago
From another post of his: "About open source and whether I have the standing to discuss it, I've made a huge contribution to open source with the 2004 release of Frontier under the GPL. I was releasing code long before the terms free soft
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by parfe 15y ago
I thought this would affect the bootloader. Gnu Grub would need to be signed.
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by parfe 15y ago
Reddit attempted this but gave up. From what I can remember, the personalized stories were not noticeably better than random. For instance, here on news.yc, I posted in a Iphone thread today, but I don't actually want Iphone news highlighte
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by parfe 15y ago
Now you can actually own the device. A win consumers should not need to fight for. edit: I take it back and agree wholeheartedly with cryptoz. Now you don't need permission from Apple to run some of your own software on a device you paid f
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by parfe 15y ago
If you read the recent thread about RMS you will see a large market exists of consumers who don't want the power to make decisions. They don't even want that option to be available. Quotes like: - Why would I care? I don't know anything
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by parfe 15y ago
"If she had just said Yes it wouldn't have been rape!" Apple restricts end user rights. I cannot believe you found a way to blame that on the GPL. I want a piece of software on MY phone. Apple says no. The GPL receives the blame? That
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by parfe 15y ago
Reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938270 That story started as a female blogger attacked for being a successful female in tech. It's an easy simplification. Meanwhile, I followed that story and it turns out (unrelated
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by parfe 15y ago
You made the claim NPR Syndrome exists yet provide no examples besides hearing classical music discussed and a made up straw-man news story about Global Warming and puppies. Then tell me I should just assume NPR Syndrome exists because you

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