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by smhinsey 15y ago
For what it's worth, Toyota built a plant in my hometown and of the 4 people I know who got jobs there, all of them eventually quit due to the anti-union shenanigans pulled by management. They are a good company, but not without their flaws
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by smhinsey 15y ago
To be clear, this is on their blog, not "printed in the Paris fucking Review."
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Is there a version of Firefox that plays nicely with the new full screen app features? 5.0.1 kind of falls apart with it, but I just can't give up TreeStyle Tabs to make the leap to Chrome, which is a good citizen.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Additionally, there's Chirpy, which seems to be broadly the same set of features, minus intellisense. http://chirpy.codeplex.com/
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by smhinsey 15y ago
> So you'd happily see thousands of people killed as long as it proves you right? Recent American politics in a nutshell, I'm afraid. Football with words, but also stealth bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Excellent link. This phenomenon has been driving me up the wall on another site I frequent and that article captures it well.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Absolutely, but it has a lot fewer airports. This is what I mean by scale.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I think we should be looking to learn from everyone, but at the same time, the scale of the problem is so vastly larger in the US than Israel or pretty much anywhere else we could look to that I fear the lessons won't translate well.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
If it makes you feel any better, the ease with which something like this could be pulled off, and the fact that no one has tried it, combine to make me believe that the terror threat is vastly overblown to begin with.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I'm not even sure what they could do to fix it. Maybe design some sort of tunnel that has a system of baffles? The lines seem too big to secure in most airports.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I have long thought that the security lines themselves are far more at risk than the actual planes. If you fly through any relatively large airport during a busy time, or even just an unlucky time, you'll sometimes see lines with hundreds o
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by smhinsey 15y ago
It would be more surprising to me if they weren't working on something like this.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I think strongly typed views are an area where things fall down due to lack of guidance rather than design. I don't think a view model is the same thing as the model in MVC. In my MVC apps, I use them pretty much exclusively, but they exist
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Interesting, I've never heard of LightSpeed. I'll be honest that I have a near-zero level of trust for this type of software from vendors in the .NET space, but I'll definitely give it a look.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I wonder if this is going to push the NH guys to do an official migrations package. You can already come pretty close to it just using the schema migration APIs, so they have a lot of the pieces. I'd love to see some competition in what I t
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Given the roadmap there, I'd say that the wait won't be terribly long. I have been very impressed with the turnaround times on new versions of MVC so far. The feature that seems most likely to cause issues with a release would be Recipes be
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by smhinsey 15y ago
One thing that I have learned from Microsoft over the years is that this kind of statement is worth about as much as the ink it takes to print it. It may be true for WP7 in the immediate future, but it has no bearing on WP vNext or whatever
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Is there a way to get to this through gmail's navigation?
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I'm not the most social person to begin with, so I gave it a lot of time, but I just totally failed to make any non-work friends because of stuff like that. I've been here for ~4 years and am so ready to get out West. Of course, it's never
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Funny, I also lived in Cambridge for 5 years (mostly the Inman area) and had the exact opposite impression, and in fact, I'm in the process of trying to find a way to leave DC because I think it's cold in exactly the same way you describe.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
That makes sense. I think the reason I can't remember the name is that it has no real connection to what I'm trying to accomplish. I think Ninite is fine for a company name, but maybe you could use a product name or something to more firmly
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I just recently rebuilt my workstation and wanted to use Ninite but I couldn't remember the name and couldn't find it via search. This is the second time that's happened, although the first time was before the name change, so I don't really
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Yeah, the types of problems we had (I sort of wrote about it elsewhere[1]) were just totally inexplicable. I forget the precise specifics but one of them was something along the lines of things that would work one day but not the next, etc.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I think this could be huge. My experience with building on the FB platform has been so dramatically negative that I gave it up and really no longer trust them (I'll take a look at this new platform they're working on, of course) as a platfo
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by smhinsey 15y ago
The DHS is huge now. It covers everything from stuff like ICE to the Coast Guard. If you ask me, TSA is the tip of the DHS iceberg. The whole thing is suspect, top to bottom, and probably ought to be scrapped and done over.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
Wow, I should've looked at that, that is stunning, considering that the FBI actually regularly solves crimes. I imagine if you paid what it really cost to have screeners with that level of training we'd be talking about a pretty hefty incre
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by smhinsey 15y ago
To be clear I didn't mean that there are not literally enough people to hire to do the job. I should've been a bit clearer but what I was really getting at was the massive scope and cost of such an agency with staffing requirements like tha
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by smhinsey 15y ago
The TSA already seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for their screeners. Given the tremendous discrepancy in the number of airports in Israel vs. the United States, how are we supposed to come up with enough people who are as qual
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by smhinsey 15y ago
'Who watches the watchers?' is indeed a good question with the TSA. It's not clear based on their behavior that anyone is doing much watching over there, unless you count watching out for #1.
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by smhinsey 15y ago
I'd say Anna Karenina is a good alternative. It's always been my personal favorite of his.

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