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by steverb 14y ago
To clarify, there is broadband up here in hills, but it is very unevenly distributed. I lived near the top of a mountain in the same area, and was finally able to get cable after pestering Comcast for a few years. The guy that bought the la
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by steverb 14y ago
I believe it is the same thing, but I won't swear to it. That it did it at all was news to me.
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by steverb 14y ago
Or part of the broke. You can try and help fix the system (and probably fail) while your children suffer, or you can opt out of the system altogether and make sure your kids have the best education you can provide for them. Many people make
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by steverb 14y ago
Syncing music from iTunes to Windows Phone now. That's a nice way to help break the iPhone lock in.
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by steverb 14y ago
I thought they were switching back and forth between the HTC and the Nokia... I wasn't really paying attention, but I'm sure I saw a big yellow phone at some point.
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by steverb 14y ago
I'm surprised they didn't cancel to keep from competing with the hurricane. On the other hand, there's not much other news than the hurricane, so it might be a smart move.
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by steverb 14y ago
I remember being the guy on the other side of the counter at a small mom and pop computer store in the mid nineties that catered to local small and mid-sized businesses. We always had fresh coffee and pastries, huge leather bound chairs to
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by steverb 14y ago
As a color-blind developer I find this unnerving.
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by steverb 14y ago
I'm in the same boat. I'm personally holding out for the Surface Pro, but the RT is very tempting.
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by steverb 14y ago
The author is obviously pointing out the he (or she, I didn't look) sees the surface as being more than a content consumption device and possible contender as a desktop/laptop replacement. No need to be overly (and wrongly) pedantic.
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by steverb 14y ago
Legally. ;-)
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by steverb 14y ago
For 90% of the working world, I'd say that is a true statement. I personally need compilers and geeky utilities, but my boss could probably get by with a browser and a copy of MS Office just fine. My bosses boss definitely could.
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by steverb 14y ago
How about a FAQ? "It looks and behaves like a traditional SQL database from the outside but under the covers it's a revolutionary database solution." Doesn't tell me a whole lot. Please explain what is revolutionary about it.
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by steverb 14y ago
Oddly enough, I bought a MacBook last year, and there was no way for me to not buy OSX. I don't need it, and I don't want it. I installed Windows 7 immediately after getting it. Of course, I knew that when buying a MacBook I would end up pa
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by steverb 14y ago
Definitely paid much less in my area then. By about half.
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by steverb 14y ago
Wow. They charge 8 cents per text? Yeah, their API should come give you a massage at that price.
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by steverb 14y ago
I had totally forgotten about that, although I have seen WebForms used in an MVC site as well. I did NOT intend to imply that it was a replacement for WCF. I meant to imply that it is a replacement for the WCF REST Starter Kit, and if MS di
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by steverb 14y ago
They're not really. WebAPI is built on top of MVC, but uses some different base classes (which is annoying as hell at times). [Edit] Plus what vyrotek said [/Edit] I think it has more to do with getting uptake among the WCF crowd than anyth
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by steverb 14y ago
Of the three I would recommend the Software Craftsmanship Group. There's beer, and last year we did a intense scotch tasting. Plus it's technology agnostic (although samples tend to be in .NET because Knoxville), it focuses less on technolo
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by steverb 14y ago
On the dev side, there's a crap load of .NET work. I get two or three emails from local recruiters every week. Unfortunately, half the jobs are at companies you will not want to work at for more than a year (ignore what anyone says about tu
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by steverb 14y ago
I don't know why you would be bitter. I said you sound bitter. You began your parent comment with what basically amounts to an ad hominem attack against the people of the area by implying that they are hostile to the open exchange of ideas
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by steverb 14y ago
You sound a bit bitter. Anyone relocating to the south should realize that you are moving into the bible belt. This is not California, and this is not New York. Please don't make the mistake that just because people think that behavior that
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by steverb 14y ago
Awesome, another Knoxvillain on HN. I feared I was the only one. Decent pay here in Knoxville isn't all that difficult, but you do have to hustle and build up a bit of a name for yourself before you can reasonably expect to pull in anything
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by steverb 14y ago
Anyway I can invite other players by sending them a link and not use facebook?
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by steverb 14y ago
SEEKING WORK in Knoxville, TN or remote. Have you ever paid a consultancy or freelancer for a product and while what you got back technically worked it turned out to be made entirely of duct tape and band-aids? Me too. That's why I'm here.
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by steverb 14y ago
It may not be worth the effort, but you can still get replacement parts for them. Or just go with a new Unicomp.
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by steverb 14y ago
I'm still rocking my 1990 IBM Model-M. These things are truly indestructible.
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by steverb 14y ago
It may be that services were the wrong way to go for your organization. My experiences are almost completely opposite to yours. Bear in mind that I've done this mostly for larger organizations, so I think there may be an economy of scale ef
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by steverb 14y ago
In my experience of having used a WP7 phone for the last two months, I'd say a twitter app is almost useless on the windows phone. Twitter is already baked into the the people hub, as is facebook. I would appreciate a proper Google+ app tho
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by steverb 14y ago
Does the military's use of the term to apply to anyone doing construction irk you as well? http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjobs/a/21.-uJZ.htm

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