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by qbrass 9y ago
Another news article fails statistics. Windows usage went up a bunch because a bunch of kids got out of school for the summer. Since they're pretty much all on Windows boxes, the percentage of Steam users who are Mac and Linux users we
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by qbrass 9y ago
the bug is line 1486 of ui-generators.js < if (jobTitlePositionIndex >= jobTitle.position.length) { --- > if (jobTitlePositionIndex >= jobTitler.position.length) {
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by qbrass 9y ago
Top job is Chief Technical Officer, but there's a (guessing bounds error) bug that causes it to stop valuing your work when you're supposed to be promoted from Computational Administrator to Screen Technician.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Hope that cough isn't because you tried to find out and now have pulmonary edema from inhaling the fumes.
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by qbrass 9y ago
They don't need to nor do they intend to.
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by qbrass 9y ago
They have enough dammed water to do it with hydroelectric for a week to win a record.
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by qbrass 9y ago
>Its funny how giant douchebags who are trying to "mitigate their risks" never seem to perceive the risk of everyone realizing they are giant douchebags. The market doesn't really care if you're a giant douchebag so i
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by qbrass 9y ago
Harrison Ford did well outside of Star Wars and could afford to walk away from it. Mark Hamill's career hasn't gone as well. He would be foolish to not embrace it, even if he hated it with a passion.
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by qbrass 9y ago
She's not captain. She's first officer. edit -- So that doesn't really help her.
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People still do.
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by qbrass 9y ago
And locally, this could make food safety a guarantee. No it doesn't. If a farm has a bad harvest, there are other farms a store can buy from. If the store has a bad harvest. They're competing with their own customers to buy food f
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by qbrass 9y ago
>I've always found it weird that de Raadt is admired for being abrasive, and Torvalds is pilloried. It's because most of the people who get upset about Linus, have never heard of Theo. The ones who have, tend to think he's
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by qbrass 9y ago
FWIW, the proximity fuse was a World War 2 invention.
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by qbrass 9y ago
It doesn't matter if you accept the babysitter's excuse or not, CPS is taking your kids away from you either way. That's the proper analogy.
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by qbrass 9y ago
The quote was about people showing interest when they learned what was going on, not the people working for them. By the time you find out they're not getting paid, you've already expressed enough interest to have someone use you
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by qbrass 9y ago
More likely, there was already a bunch of people on Tinder trolling people for fun, who came across this and wanted in on the deal so they could troll people and get paid for it.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Made even worse since it probably wasn't the authors who gave it that headline.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Just antagonize some other country into to using their bombs and save even more.
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by qbrass 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quong_Wing_v_R
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by qbrass 9y ago
This is self-mutilation on the scale of trimming your fingernails or shaving.
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by qbrass 9y ago
It's not ungrammatical. You're just expecting a different usage of the word song, so it looks wrong. Had it been "Tanzania bans song and dance for two years," you wouldn't have batted an eye.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Sure you can. They're doing such a good job that you didn't notice them.
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by qbrass 9y ago
I don't believe it's a specifically human flaw, but one of social creatures. Humans are just really good at providing examples.
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by qbrass 9y ago
She would have been fired for spending a lot of money on infrastructure that wouldn't be noticed long before she succeeded in revamping Yahoo Mail.
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by qbrass 9y ago
I have a close relative that works for the company that invented the valves in them. They used to make stuff like keyboard membranes, until China ran the price down too low to compete. An employee figured out how to make a cheap valve using
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by qbrass 9y ago
If the clones of individuals can accrue minor errors until they've diverged enough to become a breeding pair and still be considered the same organism. Why would the result of them melding their DNA together make them a new organism?
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by qbrass 9y ago
And when it becomes a multi-celled organism through various mutations? If you could trace your lineage back to the first single-celled organism, would that make you the oldest lifeform on the planet?
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by qbrass 9y ago
I was kind of expecting a flappy bird volume control to be there. If you want to buck the mini-game trend. Just have a simple up/down button that bumps the volume up or down a percent, but requires a reboot first.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Then you find a job someplace that isn't trying to screw you out of thousands of dollars a year.
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by qbrass 9y ago
That's not why they were bad. They built up decades of expectations and not only dropped the ball, but threw it to the ground and decided to write what sells toys instead.

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