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by reduxredacted 16y ago
My question: Why didn't the guy with the height issue not use his real name, or at least a contactable pseudonym? I believe the answer lies in his statements about lacking confidence. I completely agree with you regarding meeting someone
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
I was pleasantly surprised by this particular entry (at least the currently held top responder, the 5' tall guy). I saw one element that struck home with me: I also get to hear female friends go on about what jerks all men are, how they ch
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
I completely agree. While sitting in my basement in a t-shirt and sweatpants, I happened upon a very interesting headline on Hacker News... (I'll stop, I'm no good at it) I found it really excruciating to read this article. I realize that
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
I was thinking the same thing, then I remembered a fiction story I read about an airliner "outsourcing the wing" (Airframe, Michael Crichton), so now I'm wondering if I had that impression from the fiction, or if I read it in a real-world s
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Well put. I learned to type on an old fashioned IBM typewriter when I was in middle school. We were taught the two spaces after a period rule and that's so burned into my mind that it takes effort to use a single space after a period. T
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Wouldn't this be mitigated by not using the same login information on the startup site?
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
There's various reasons that #3 is particularly useful, though I think the original writer was probably more concerned with links in e-mail or links on sites other than the site you're being asked to log in to (such as links from advertisem
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
I very reluctantly conceded this point a few years ago, but in a slightly different way. I've been doing JavaScript-as-a-kludge-for-whatever-server-side-framework-I-happen-to-discover-the-limitations-of for a while. I'm discovering that
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
If this happened to me, there is NO WAY I would let my credit card company off. ... verbal acceptance/rejection of the charges A very similar circumstance happened to me involving significantly less money. There are a few things I lear
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Off-Topic: Most stories about politics
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
How should one help someone who unexpectedly collapses? Exactly what you said. Walk up to the person and loudly ask "Are you OK?". If you get a response, then you can ask further questions and provide help. If you get no response, your
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Agreed. There's this nice gray area about what is "politics" and what is "politics, but with a huge element of ..." (I really paused for a second looking for the right words, and not coming up with it, I'll take your words if you don't min
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Isn't he a (not identified but rather planted) UPS guy? Either way, much better example than mine.
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
In all seriousness, this could have been the single worst way to respond to a complaint. The only conclusion I can draw is that she doesn't use a computer for much more than e-mail. I have a rule when communicating with a vendor or a costu
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
I'm going to guess that it was a fellow student. I'm not sure about New York, but it costs more than $8.00 in court fees to file a small claims action where I live. While it's true that people don't always act rationally with money, this s
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Couldn't help but remember a TV show from my childhood called Roc about a garbage man. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101184/ I couldn't remember any shows that centered around postal workers. Seinfeld had a regular character and a few ep
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
I think people often pre-judge others on their typing ability like some judge the intelligence You're likely correct, and I've found myself doing this with some of my coworkers, however, over time I've come to understand it for what it is
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
There is a little bit of over-simplifying going on in this article, but it was an interesting read, especially for an anti-dentite like myself. The problem is that people don't go to the dentist just to have cavities filled. My first trip
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
I read and enjoyed your original post from a purely analytical standpoint. Patio11 is a rather popular guy here and you rightly stated how brilliant his work has been. I cringed a little bit while reading the latter part of your post, but
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
It's an interesting idea but I have a few small concerns. Billing the site as a site where people can vote on attractiveness of the person giving the opinion would personally turn me off. Speculate as you wish about my attractiveness, but
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
No doubt! Though I disagree that it would work for tech companies, since that encompasses such a broad range of companies. A tech company that serves mostly enterprises may employ far fewer, yet more highly paid employees for customer servi
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Also, before someone mentions the x billion lost per year It's bizarre. Imagine a job where my customer complains about how ineffective my product is yet continues to shovel money at me. Wait, even worse, my product makes their customers
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
... and Slysoft releases new versions about as often as the folks who write No Script do. Thankfully, for a while, they had a lifetime upgrade policy. The funny thing is that I would have been a Blu-Ray early adopter if I didn't see this m
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Worth noting (again, assuming this is credible): Version 2.0 of HDCP is likely not affected. According to their FAQ: http://www.digital-cp.com/faqs "HDCP revision 2.0 uses industry-standard public-key RSA authentication and AES 128 encryp
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Catch-22. Credibility is less because it was posted anonymously as a dump of hex to paste-bin, therefore eliminating any authority that would come if this person was a well-known security researcher. If the author had credibility and wante
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Yeah, if you happen to live in a newly-wired building in a major city or suburb. The latter part of your statement is true. They're not wiring up rural areas. However, I live in a neighborhood that doesn't have a home newer than 30 year
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Pretty much the best we can do right now, is make is obsolete by proving DRM is useless The proof is in their own studies, really ... if they believe them. According to Big Media, piracy rates are incredible. It takes a few words in Goo
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
Just give it time. If there is useful content on Blue-Ray, people will use it and the experience will improve. I thought we would have been there by now. DeCSS came out at about the time my parents upgraded from VHS to DVD. My parents j
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
I personally hope someone writes a DeCSS for Blu-Ray so that we can uncripple this format. I've been using AnyDVD HD for a few years, but I have not had a Blu-Ray reader or writer until a couple of days ago and I have no Blu-Ray discs yet
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by reduxredacted 16y ago
"I'm really surprised by a lot of HN'ers reactions on this Wakemate thing indeed." It's difficult to tell why the reaction is so strong. Frankly, I never expected the January ship date to happen when I pre-ordered. My theory: Most of us s

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