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12y ago
What a terrible article. This guy needs to look in the mirror and reflect on his sexist bitterness.
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12y ago
Funny, just this last week, Amazon's carrier either left a package for us on the sidewalk, or just didn't deliver it. They marked it as delivered, but didn't ring a bell, or leave a note, and we never saw the package. We had
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12y ago
<b>Hangouts really is best-in-class as far as I can tell</b> My S4 updated from gtalk to hangouts, and I loathe it. It now crashes quite regularly, sometimes multiple times in a single chat session, and included a stupid bu
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12y ago
Right, group messaging for people you know . I don't see anonymous group messaging as anything other than weird political blasting, anonymous dick pics and an outlet for road rage. You also shouldn't be on facebook when you'
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12y ago
Do you seriously think that wouldn't just turn into a chatroulette insta-dong service?
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13y ago
Thats not true, I'd be worried they would piggyback it into some crappy google glass hybrid.
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13y ago
Kid Icarus on 3ds was completely unplayable as a lefty.
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13y ago
Get the Saturn USB re-release from about 2006. They are white with blue buttons (ugly, I know -- they should have kept the black and grey). They have a "Play Sega" sticker in the middle. Do NOT get the "saturn-style" kno
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13y ago
I bought 1 a few weeks ago. I got a notice last week that they rejected it and would be returning my money. They have still not returned my money, and their customer service emails just return an automated "we are looking into it"
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13y ago
I got a das keyboard at home and at work. Its awesome, and I'd recommend a mechanical to anyone who works on a keyboard for a living. I would never buy anything like this from Atwood, though. His 'expertise' in software, pers
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13y ago
Yahoo has a long history [1] of crap acquisitions. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yahoo_acquisitions
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13y ago
The Book, TECS [The Elements of Computing Systems] is great, but the version I have was missing a lot of stuff. There were certain parts of the hardware design that were missing or not really completeable with what was provided, and not a l
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13y ago
Because most software engineers aren't very good.
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14y ago
"I am a Strange Loop" had quite a bit of fixation on his wife's death as well, I'm glad to hear he has re-married.
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14y ago
Surprised they didn't mention the original Duck Hunt nintendo game from 1976: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUmcG3iors
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14y ago
Because the Japanese love porn?
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14y ago
You think that's bad, you should check out physics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything Statistics is more about data sets and interpretation than "right" vs. "wrong".
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14y ago
The author is not suggesting that Stripe handle taxes, he is suggesting that Stripe have an option within plans to handle different tax rates, rather than having to create a separate plan for each district that has a different tax rate, and
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14y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but I hope this is going to be followed with "Why Proofread?" and "Why Edit?".
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14y ago
Well, if nothing else, I'm sure he can find solace with all his money, spaceships and sports cars from his sport car factory.
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14y ago
Yeah, that example just stuck with me since I've been trying to dig up all the tracks related to the Demigodz/Def Jux beef, which is all pretty hilarious. Especially 10 years later. I came across the rapgenius page trying to find "we're fam
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14y ago
Rapgenius is good in the way StackOverflow is good: A novel, well-executed UI to a kind of website that has been done to death (in this case its lyrics sites). Not to mention good SEO. It also suffers from the same problem, which is that th
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14y ago
Because highly specialized jobs are a vast minority. OP was talking about retail jobs, not "database scaling specialists".
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14y ago
Innumeracy should be treated like Illiteracy.
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14y ago
Right, except that the problem is the client drops and you have to jump through a ton of hoops to get back to the service, which terminates the connection as soon as you drop. Its not really an issue of 'lag' as it is 'not recovering'
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14y ago
I played through Arkham Asylum on the PC and Arkham City on the OnLive console, and found it ... adequate. I tried the beta and it didn't even work, but went back when AA was 99 cents and was impressed that they were even able to make a rea
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14y ago
I worked there for about 3 years in the mid 00's. Everyone still had door desks, and all-hands frequently mentioned the fact that they were less cost-effective than actual desks, but they still used them as a reminder of frugality.
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14y ago
Yeah, Peter Thiel also thinks college is a waste of time, because you could be working at making a bunch of money instead. The fact of the matter is, without the continuous research and application of this type of "momentous waste of brain
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14y ago
Right, but in an MVC web-app, the Controller defines the "end-point". Meaning it should end there. The composition of different pieces of functionality should be happening in the area of the business logic. I understand the motivation, and
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14y ago
This sure looks like MVC, but they call the Controller "operations". The MVC abstraction has an issue with web applications, since the request-response cycle doesn't provide feedback as directly as the hardware-monitor-software cycle that t
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