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by thomasz 15y ago
Lets not overblow things. They don't kill random people, they carry out pranks which can cause emotional and maybe financial distress, that's all.
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by thomasz 15y ago
"Randomly selected moderators assign points of either −1 or +1 to each comment, based on whether the comment is perceived as either normal, offtopic, insightful, redundant, interesting, or troll (among others)."(Wikipedia) Interesting appro
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by thomasz 15y ago
I don't want to risk wasting 45 minutes listening to a crackpot, and honestly, there are quite a few indicators for lunacy in the first few minutes. Can you give a few bullet points to help me decide if it's worth to watch?
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by thomasz 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/538/ Really, if the government wants to shut bitcoin down it's that easy.
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by thomasz 15y ago
Pardon my french, but this a shallow phrase. Typically enterprise UIs has dozens of input controls, not because the Developers suck but because they need a lot more input than the google search page, a media player or something like that. T
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by thomasz 15y ago
No way. Say I bought 49 coins for 49$. I wouldn't use them to buy one month of vps. I would convert them to ~1400$ and use 118 of those good old dollars to buy the service, tell myself how clever I am and spend the rest on cocaine or some
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by thomasz 15y ago
No, it's encouraging the customer use an established, stable currency which doesn't force him to closely monitor the exchange rate. Usually, he doesn't want every transaction to be highly speculative.
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by thomasz 15y ago
A little bit off topic: I was curious if you can really do something with bitcoins aside from speculation. It turns out that there are some places that accept bitcoins. But it seems that actually _using_ bitcoins as a currency instead of a
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by thomasz 15y ago
To be fair, it should be a lot less expansive to get a complex UI running for 90% of a typical user base with silverlight, provided that your business model allows you to ignore the fsf crowd. In the context of those touchy-feely applicat
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by thomasz 15y ago
That proves the point. They have to invest their wealth in stock, real estate etc. instead of putting it in a chest/thumb drive and burying it on a lonely island in order to keep it.
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by thomasz 15y ago
Basically... to people who enter data into those 200-and-more-input-controls UIs, accountants who do horrible stuff with excel, secretaries who struggled hard to learn how to create a standard letter in MS Word 2003 and don't want to go thr
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by thomasz 15y ago
It is also an important demonstration to business users and developers that their billions of dollars invested in keyboard+mouse oriented applications won't be made obsolete over night.
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by thomasz 15y ago
Granted, being a police officer is certainly a more risky profession than programming, but I'm not sure that the chance of getting killed on the job is higher for police officers than for truck or cab drivers.
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by thomasz 15y ago
15 bucks a month sounds very reasonable...
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by thomasz 15y ago
How is Azure working for you? The last time I've looked into it, the documentation was rather sub standard compared to the MSDN base line.
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by thomasz 15y ago
you should work on your about page. Do a five minute usability test and ask five random people what puppet does. Hint: The only clue is hidden in the book ad at the very end of the page.
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by thomasz 16y ago
So, how many Apple computers can I buy in the Apple App Store?
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by thomasz 16y ago
> You know it is Don't forget that he is a 16 year old brat.
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by thomasz 16y ago
> At least using cookies you CAN opt out (via browsing settings and plugins). All that will happen is that the tracking networks will switch to browser fingerprinting making tracking harder to control and more opaque. It's been a little
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by thomasz 16y ago
Strange things happen if people go overboard about an heretic statement that was never made . Calling "corporate capitalism and bigoted conservatism" a "brutal authority" doesn't mean that he is placing it in the same league with Cambodian
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by thomasz 16y ago
One might wonder how the Berlin Wall fell without those antibodies. And examples like Libya and Iran demonstrate that social media will not save you from a regime determined to mow down unarmed civilians with automatic weapons.
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by thomasz 16y ago
> is it safe to assume that the German police are quite a bit more sensible than their American counterparts? It depends. Gun ownership isn't nearly as common in the US, so they can safely assume that a 17 year old blackhat won't pull a
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by thomasz 16y ago
This was written in May 2007. C# 3.0 was released in August. We are talking about c# 2.0 here. No Lambda syntax, no Linq, no Type Inference, no nothing. Anonymous methods were clearly intended to handle events, and even that was discouraged
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by thomasz 16y ago
Last time I checked it was crawling around 2.5 % market share.
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by thomasz 16y ago
The whole article is very self-centered. The Tunisian revolution didn't start because Wiki-Leaks informed them that they live under a kleptocratic and oppressive regime. They already knew that. I also doubt that Anonymous assistance was ess
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by thomasz 16y ago
Phones are usually "bought" for 1€ with a 24 month contract attached. At the end of the contract, the lock is lifted and you can use your phone on all networks.
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by thomasz 16y ago
Locked Phones are the norm in Germany too. If this holds true for France too, the vast majority of mobile phones in Europe is being sold locked. I don't know the details about the "illegal" claim, but normally those things are governed by E
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by thomasz 16y ago
> At my job, just because something leaked through Wikileaks doesn't mean its unclassified. We still abide by all the rules and you can get in a lot of hot water for talking about something off of Wikileaks that you do not have need-to-
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by thomasz 16y ago
Uhh uhh, bad news for Karl Kot ("Karl Shit") and Daniel Düsentrieb (Gyro Gearloose).
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by thomasz 16y ago
> Companies now are looking for more fans because it means for them more coverage. The news they publish on their page will show up on the user page. But what will happen if all of the companies that exist in earth and other parts of th

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