thelastidiot

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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Did Javascript become the babelfish of all languages?
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Unless you specifically ask for a new number, not at all. What's even worse it that the cvv is changing (checksum with the date and card number) but the transaction can go thru without cvv submission in most cases.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
It's even worse than you think. Because even if you put a credit card to back up your payments (easier now that PayPal has a deal with VISA), and you are hoping that a passed expiration date on your card will block a transaction from h
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Strange you would have to suggest that. To me, it shows how some American people can't even imagine that living in another country (or even lying about it) would be taken seriously.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Profound question: can you act unethically against unethical people?
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Not if there is fraud involved.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
And interestingly "9 to 5pm" CENTRAL time. So here is my theory. Most service calls for the same company will be 24/7 out of India, Philippines, etc, where cost is low but ROI is good. Then cancellation done in the USA at &qu
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
>>> Please listen closely, our menu options have changed. You are missing the "as". Please listen closely, as our menu options have changed. I know it by heart and can hear the same voice over and over again in my head. C
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
This would have been a welcome change when I tried to break my marriage with Verizon. 3 phone calls later and 2 months passed they were still charging me for the my cell phone service and it took repetitive attempts to straighten things up.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
That's funny because that's exactly how I felt about learning OCaml, except that I reverted to Python instead (and retrospectively wondered what the heck I was doing toying with such a mess.) You got to find a language you feel co
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Just like Wayne Knight's character Nedry in Jurassic Park, where do you put a stop on what needs to be paid to keep things safe? It's a dangerous game to place a price on safety if the sole determinant is the loyalty of the indivi
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
I do know about this restriction. You can get your physician to write you a note stating that you need an assisting device for locomotion purpose and show this to the officer trying to site you.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Lyft is doomed. They just can't keep up internally with what Uber is pushing into innovation. The boost Uber will get with their IPO will leave Lyft in the dust. Everyone needs an Avis and a Burger King I guess.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
It doesn't make any sense at all. It's not like we are living in Vienna or Paris. It's freaking California with Stucco walls and cheaply made buildings.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
One sensible plan would be to make Apple Map available on Android so they could capture twice as much data and user feedback than they can today. I hardly can see Apple winning that big data game vs Google. What's next? Fixing Siri and
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Yes, these data are all available, if you are willing to pay to get those.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Your aunt doesn't know better then. As some others have pointed out, it's now Chinese made and the Q&A on all products out of mainland China is just a gamble.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
I wonder if someone in China was thinking the same? Because the reality is now it is Chinese.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Is this still relevant?
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Sure, go play with it and report when you are done. It's always a matter of time for something claiming to be the last one to become irrelevant and forgotten.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
They are Erlang's forte. But the common denominator is the current programmer assigned to the task. A 10x developer will invariably take any language and make it shine. Try that with Erlang on a team of Java developers and you are on f
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
A long time ago, I took on a huge learning task to port the Erlang VM to another language I needed close binding to. The discovery on how the runtime is built and dependent on other libraries and over the years layered and spaghetti implem
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Most docs for technical projects are written that way these days. The author of an api, project or solution will assume an unquestioned adoption "because it's free" from the randome audience with no specifics on how they are
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
It's great news for justice. These guys should do time. I read back in March (I can't find the link but I think it was the Economist) that the case had been dismissed.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
>>> "They set up shop in an abandoned McDonalds, offered to them as free space." I didn't realize there were such a thing as an abandoned McDonalds.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Kudos for deciding not to adopt a proprietary solution on public cloud.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Right on. You caught exactly what was missing from this non-objective article. Pure Kool-aid. No pitfalls.
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Com... cough cough, cast! That's an interesting theory and discussion topic. I was just wondering today what are my options about switching to a better ISP with all this net neutrality gone by the window and Comcast asking me to return
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
I second what you noticed. I now see myself with a WTF expression on my face when I am trying to figure out what happened with the linear timeline and all that junk I pretty much don't care about inserted in what I am interested to rea
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Case study my arse. Just reads like an ad pamphlet.

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