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by talmand 10y ago
>> with hundreds of miles of flat empty cheap land in all directions to keep housing prices down near zero. I can assure you that housing prices in that area are not near zero, even with all that land that is not necessarily available
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by talmand 10y ago
Depends on cost of living.
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by talmand 10y ago
>> Why a 100x price increase for just making the bandwidth wireless? Because they can and will continue to do so as long as they can.
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by talmand 10y ago
I'm confused by your response. I haven't claimed anything along the lines of your response nor am I implying anything about Angular nor JS. I simply just communicated my results from completing the tutorial.
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by talmand 10y ago
My results of the hello world tutorial in Angular2 was 53 requests, 4933.49KB, and loaded in 1.74s on local dev, according to browser dev tools. All for one html file that had one h1 element. Plus, it started out broken. I had to search els
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by talmand 10y ago
If an alternative is not named, does that change the value of the opinion in any way?
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by talmand 10y ago
No, it's just that I feel that asking someone questions about their work has an element of questioning their competency. I encounter it all the time with my work and it doesn't bother me. I expect it. I see it as a way for both si
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by talmand 10y ago
Then it would seem we are likely saying much the same thing in a different way. I apologize for my confusion.
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by talmand 10y ago
I get them every day already. I, for one, am not offended by it. EDIT: actually, I'm exaggerating here. I don't get them every day literally, but I encounter them quite a bit.
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by talmand 10y ago
But wouldn't IT buy and set up the new domain?
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by talmand 10y ago
I like the strangeness of the situation. If private company does A, it's not about free speech because that's a government thing. If private company does B, look at this company protecting our free speech! I wish as a society we c
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by talmand 10y ago
Technophobic? The industry that keeps insisting on just uploading PDFs of their menus instead of maintaining a proper website? No way.
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by talmand 10y ago
I'm referring to people relying on an automated unchecker, which is my point.
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by talmand 10y ago
At what point would you start asking questions then? Because questioning anyone about their work is us asking for them to show us how they are right. That is questioning their competency on the topic at hand instead of just accepting what t
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by talmand 10y ago
Asking questions is what I'm talking about. Going with "he knows what he's doing" is not asking questions.
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by talmand 10y ago
I reserve the right to question the competency of anyone at any time concerning any topic, whether they are considered an expert or not. I'd rather that have that attitude than having "he knows what he's doing so he must be r
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by talmand 10y ago
What if it's "check this if you don't want it" or "uncheck this if you want it" instead?
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by talmand 10y ago
I worked for a company that offered a software product that was paid on a monthly subscription. Since a number of the companies in this industry were seasonal, we made it possible within the software to make their own license inactive. No p
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by talmand 10y ago
To some people the unlocked car is the valuable item and not the crap inside it. Not that door locks would stop them anyway. Reminds me of a joke. I leave my car with a sign hanging from the mirror that clearly states that no valuables are
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by talmand 10y ago
The TSA has actually increased the danger by creating even larger targets of opportunity than just the airplanes. At busy times there are likely 5 to 10 airplanes worth of people standing in one spot before they get past security.
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by talmand 10y ago
Are they not able to make Win32 APIs private and only allow access to a chosen few?
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by talmand 10y ago
Sometimes you do have to blame the user though. As an extreme example; if I take a hammer to my computer and when it eventually fails can I blame the faulty hardware?
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by talmand 10y ago
>> so I can download game mods from some unknown source that have full access to everything on my PC I think that's more on you than the OS.
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by talmand 10y ago
Just because it's perceived as good for A doesn't mean it's automatically good for B.
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by talmand 10y ago
I'm confused, what does Microsoft's office and development products have to do with this discussion about Steam and third-party software?
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by talmand 10y ago
Intent goes a long way in many things concerning legal cases in many places around the world.
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by talmand 10y ago
I've heard this recently and it only seems to me it is too easily used to create a bad mix of people on a team to tackle problems.
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by talmand 10y ago
Why wait? Start it yourself. With a little imagination you can get it started before we even have the capability to achieve asteroid mining. After all, there's a star naming registry that will name a star of your choice to be recorded
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by talmand 10y ago
>> But playing board games, working out/running or even just watching mindnumbing TV. Maybe not the TV part, I suppose depending on what it is exactly, but the others I would count towards bettering yourself.
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by talmand 10y ago
That is very true, for several reasons. If it is determined a bad shoot, the officer may face such charges as well. But police privilege is necessary, because otherwise everyone will simply look the other way. No one will accept the potenti

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