smhinsey

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541.
by smhinsey 18y ago
for the purposes of a conversation about loathing, i think you're presenting a false equivalence here. in such subjective terms it's hard not to admit that despite whatever flaws it may have, target has at least not had books written and mo
542.
by smhinsey 18y ago
Are you in DC? I'm in the Arlington office for the time being.
543.
by smhinsey 18y ago
Sounds like we might work for the same news organization with a content sharing agreement with TC. I was appalled/not surprised at all when that happened.
544.
by smhinsey 18y ago
Bittorrent isn't sequential, so it'd be tough to say with any certainty that you have established a buffer. I'm not sure if this is something that's recently changed or not though, I'm no expert either.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
If the deployment ever grows to cover more of the site, this sounds like something that would be rife with abuse, and even though it doesn't sound like that's the plan, it's interesting to think about how you might want to solve that. One o
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by smhinsey 18y ago
i can't come up with much in the way of existing not for profit infrastructure institutions. do these exist in some form i can't think of? the closest i can come up with is a rural electrical co-op but i'm not sure that's quite the same thi
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by smhinsey 18y ago
I would like to see a "profile" style portal which can be linked to any relevant Federal programs I am involved with, from Social Security to my tax burdens with the IRS. Primarily I would like this to be a single-service type situation whe
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by smhinsey 18y ago
I thought BSD was a shoe-in for this as well, but if you view source you'll see the hallmarks of ASP.NET (viewstate and control naming), which throws me.
549.
by smhinsey 18y ago
Tell me about it. Mine was $430 and I had a serious double take. On the up side, a decent chunk of my music was purchased with the gift cards you get from having an Apple Visa card.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
Are deliveries still getting through despite the weather or something? I've heard this a couple of times and it confuses me. It seems like I'd be more likely to use Amazon if the weather was beautiful because I'd rather not spend those days
551.
by smhinsey 18y ago
Lincoln was before Grant, obviously, but yes, that is the story. I'm not sure if it's apocryphal or what, but I believe it to be true.
552.
by smhinsey 18y ago
that's a pretty interesting insight that i think casts this activity in a different light than it was presented. good find.
553.
by smhinsey 18y ago
Powershell is at least also available on XP.
554.
by smhinsey 18y ago
It's my belief that the "how" is as important as the "what" when it comes to your business. If you don't put the same quality of thought into how you execute on your solution, your value proposition is that much harder to emphasize.
555.
by smhinsey 18y ago
To be fair, his support of the bailout was basically along the lines of "this isn't great, but we have to do something."
556.
by smhinsey 18y ago
It looks like they've solved one of the biggest problems of the first model, which is the fact that the bottom corners are both acute, so there is no easy and comfortable way to hold it for long periods of time.
557.
by smhinsey 18y ago
I agree about the name, but at the same time, DogPile was able to be successful for a time (maybe they still are? I have no idea) with what is arguably a worse name.
558.
by smhinsey 18y ago
I came across this much more helpful summary on reddit: http://blog.headius.com/2008/08/qa-what-thread-safe-rails-me...
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by smhinsey 18y ago
I have thought at times that allowing the definition of constructors in interfaces would go a long way towards solving this problem. It's much easier to manage dependencies with cleaner patterns when you don't have to define some ugly Confi
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by smhinsey 18y ago
What are the implications of this? Any pointers to more substantive conversation on the topic? ("enterprisey check list" doesn't say much...)
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by smhinsey 18y ago
You can download Opera for the BB (at leas the Curve, whatever model that is) but I honestly found that I preferred the built-in Browser app over it, and I am a long-time Opera user. Trying to use the mobile Opera is when you really start t
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by smhinsey 18y ago
Color schemes I can take or leave, but what really bugs me about my Kindle is the fact that both of the bottom corners are sharp. I have yet to be able to come up with a comfortable way of holding it that doesn't result in the corners diggi
563.
by smhinsey 18y ago
If I'm not mistaken, there actually was a McGuyver episode where he made a dialysis machine out of spare parts.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
I found it an easier read than Cancer Ward, for what it's worth.
565.
by smhinsey 18y ago
Can you point to a case where the police broke into someone's home, the homeowner shot the police, and was subsequently cleared on self-defense grounds? Or do you mean some yet-to-exist GRU/NKVD/KGB-alike entity rather than, say, the FBI ex
566.
by smhinsey 18y ago
Whoever does their PR earned their check today.
567.
by smhinsey 18y ago
I wonder what connection, if any, this has with their acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer. FAST has always been relatively weak on the semantic side, but the technology stack is completely different from what I imagine Powerset is run
568.
by smhinsey 18y ago
I am no fan of his, but I don't think that his statement is too off-base if you look at it from Microsoft's perspective. They see a non-.NET platform trying to poach users from them. However, I'm not sure at all that that's the right view,
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by smhinsey 18y ago
I don't use the service either, but my understanding is that while yes, you could use a standard RSS reader such as Google Reader or NetNewsWire to aggregate this info, but if you did, you'd be likely to start wishing for more custom suppor
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by smhinsey 18y ago
In some sense, isn't Twitter email with message length limitations and multiple interfaces? Is there really a need to store this in a highly relational single storage way? I'm not enough of a power user to have seen the nuances around the m

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