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by pdubs 14y ago
Swappa's great, but it still goes through Paypal. Probably a better crowd on there than EBay though and they allow negative feedback.
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by pdubs 14y ago
I ended up getting a knockoff XBOX game and it was pretty painless to get it refunded from ebay.
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by pdubs 14y ago
Since this is really just educated fiction, if you like this you'd probably enjoy most of the stuff written by Alastair Reynolds. Not "hard" scifi exactly, but maybe "firm".
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by pdubs 14y ago
Keep in mind CyanogenMod is a community project, not some business or startup. Public and private are a bit more relative under those terms.
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by pdubs 14y ago
Torvalds has a masters in CS. "Never" is a strong word, but the rest of the paragraph you're harpooning makes a different point than the one you're refuting.
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by pdubs 14y ago
I also know of a lot of tech people with the ideas and the skills, but no idea how to successfully execute them. I'm on the tech side of things, but I've experienced what a good PM can do for a team.
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by pdubs 14y ago
So...a firewall?
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by pdubs 14y ago
Well at least they come right out with it and explain exactly why the free space is what it is.
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by pdubs 14y ago
I know you mention tool support I think it's worth mentioning that if you're using the MS stack Visual Studio is really, really good.
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by pdubs 14y ago
I agree it's strange and I'm not sure how the letter of the law is being applied to Coursera, but it seems like this wouldn't even let a qualifying religious program give a B.A. or B.S. in Theology, more you'd be able to get a "certificate
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by pdubs 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that's there to exempt things like seminaries. >Subd. 4.Statement required; religious nature. Any degree awarded upon completion of a religiously exempt program shall include descriptive language to make the religious na
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by pdubs 14y ago
I can get the top 100 albums for free on Youtube essentially. Spotify would simply lose my $10/mo. That said, I'd gladly pay more, maybe $20/mo for an expanded catalog and an iota of dedication to improving their Android app.
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by pdubs 14y ago
> I don't need my password to update apps As an Android user who was recently given an iPad for work, this one step stopped me from installing probably 10-20 apps. I'd be on a site, think "oh there's probably an app for this", realize I
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by pdubs 14y ago
I spent a while trying to do a path traversal exploit to set password.txt readable, trying various encodings along the way. I head-desked when I realized I could just upload a PHP script.
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by pdubs 14y ago
I have to say, watching the Dragon rocket abort the launch after the engines were firing and before the rocket left the pad was one of the more impressive things I've seen.
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by pdubs 14y ago
I believe the Musk has stated that scenarios like this are one of the reasons that he plans to continue putting a portion of his personal fortune into the company, so it can ride out the (inevitable) hard times.
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by pdubs 14y ago
I suppose someone with a bullshit threshold high enough to take a polygraph would do better in a government agency than someone who wouldn't.
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by pdubs 14y ago
Complete guess, but it might be harder to maintain overland cables running through the Rockies than undersea cables.
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by pdubs 14y ago
>Obviously, the longer the flight, the more inefficient this transfer becomes. However, it's a purely linear degradation with a hard upper limit.
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by pdubs 14y ago
Honestly EA is "terrible" gaming company, but I can't complain too much about Origin. I got it when Battlefield 3 came out and I have had 0 issues with it. There's plenty to harp on EA about without picking on Origin.
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by pdubs 14y ago
Similarly, Valve Software was recently estimated to be worth around $3 billion...and they have a money-printing machine with Steam. "Yammer sold for 1/3 of one of the most successful digital distribution platforms."
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by pdubs 14y ago
Since Mr. Balasubramani has some background in writing (as mentioned above), it might just be a unique bonus to the service he offers.
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by pdubs 14y ago
Free* advertising and publicity for The Oatmeal. I found the letter quite entertaining, further embedding The Oatmeal in my mind since even his lawyer appears to have a sense of humor. *I know lawyers aren't free, but he'd be paying a law
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by pdubs 14y ago
The thing is that, according to the DailyDot article that's been posted around here, the account that lead to The Atlantic being banned was posting hundreds of links to The Atlantic and their subsidiaries. What's non-trivial about detecting
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by pdubs 14y ago
So...? I guess I naturally assume that most companies with a marketing department try to get their content popular on social media. Sure some site users may break the ToS by trying to game it...so ban the user. A halfway-decent anti-gaming
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by pdubs 14y ago
BusinessWeek.com, Phys.org, ScienceDaily.com, TheAtlantic.com are all banned sitewide? The Atlantic is a pretty well-respected publication, as is BusinessWeek. Why a content aggregator would ban actual content is beyond me.
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by pdubs 14y ago
The worst part is that it comes by email, which is plaintext everywhere. However, "encrypted in a database" is not "plaintext". It's certainly not ideal or recommended, that's for sure, but it's not the worst way to handle passwords. If p
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by pdubs 14y ago
I don't get it. The jury found that Hoff's statements on the blog were "not untrue", but he's guilty of "tortious interference". Could someone with a better understanding of civil law clarify how exactly that works?
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by pdubs 14y ago
Yeah that whole computing services/cloud thing is pretty behind the times...
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by pdubs 14y ago
Amazon...and their P/E is around 175.

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