thomnottom

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by thomnottom 10y ago
Being confronted by a conga line of people whom you regularly speak out against is considered being attacked? Does he really believe these vicious conga lines of diversity will stop just because he quit?
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Wow, I've never heard of avocado-flower honey. What kind of flavor does it have?
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by thomnottom 10y ago
You forgot to add "under mysterious circumstances".
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by thomnottom 10y ago
A company still has to have money in order to operate. I would assume that even without money being the primary focus, they have to be careful about paying out too much or they will be out of business.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
It seems to me that these things happen somewhat regularly in the open source community, because it was built upon that concept.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
> I guess the question I raise is, given my experience "can you prove to me that I can absolutely trust you with all my data"? But the answer to that is "no". All of the time. No matter who you are asking it about. Th
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Ahh, gotcha. That makes more sense. The Lego comparison was confusing because of the existing marketplace.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Minecraft licensed to Lego a few years ago. Lego even just revealed another big set from Minecraft just this month.[0] [0] http://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-Village-21128?icmp=SHM_21128
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I read that as "searched FOR Croatia" and thought, "Man, they really do sell everything these days..."
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Thinking the same thing regarding privacy. I'm all for getting rid of passwords, but the idea of Google (and other service providers) keeping that much information on me would definitely push me to getting rid of smartphone. Yes, I kno
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Main reason I have Chrome on my boxes. I am not installing whatever zombie build of Flash still exists in the repos.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Thank you. I was sure I heard this story before and it was bugging the crap out of me trying to figure out where.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Will Microsoft be sending people over to my office free of charge to handle technical issues with regard to their store? Can I send over any questions from auditors and federal regulators concerning user access to their store?
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by thomnottom 10y ago
The 2K football games were superior at the time. Then they dropped their price significantly ($20 for 2k5 after 2k4 was a success) and EA decided they couldn't compete. So that deal was signed so that they wouldn't have to. And th
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by thomnottom 10y ago
The main knock against KeePass for teams is that it's all or nothing. We've had to create multiple databases for different job functions, which becomes a pain to maintain. Not to mention that anyone with access to the database cou
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I assume this is not the X Window replacement from Canonical.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Thankfully I think I read this article back in '94. I seem to recall a picture of a guy holding a shotgun and the satellite dish behind him. I don't remember any of the ads...
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by thomnottom 11y ago
Understood. I guess my point is that almost every data story can end with "should have had better backups" as the lesson.
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by thomnottom 11y ago
Ugh, that reminded me of the story of ReiserFS and Hans Reiser [1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Murder_investigati...
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by thomnottom 11y ago
And yes, I said that as someone who absolutely loves Miles Davis the musician.
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by thomnottom 11y ago
To be fair, Miles Davis regularly beat his wives...
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by thomnottom 11y ago
I don't see how that can be the biggest lesson. Someone at the service provider bypassed their own protocols in order to hand control of the system over to an unauthorized user. Even with local backups he would have needed to restore t
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by thomnottom 11y ago
One of the reasons I finally gave up on Windows was the horrible way they dealt with multiple monitors - especially with Windows 8. Oddly enough I've switched to a single monitor setup anyway.
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by thomnottom 11y ago
You bring up a very good point. Towns with more long term residents are going to have a lot more people who feel the need/desire/interest to get involved. I live in New Jersey, and a lot of towns are filled with more transient fol
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by thomnottom 11y ago
I thought it was about ostriches. So I should probably finish my coffee...
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by thomnottom 11y ago
Wait, he was using a work account on a company-owned device? I don't see how that can be called a "private message" at all.
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by thomnottom 11y ago
If people are so stressed by a cellphone, maybe they should look at how they prioritize their lives. I'm not saying people HAVE to have cellphones, just that it's very easy to have something like that and not make it the center of
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by thomnottom 11y ago
It's cliche to say someone like Bowie was timeless, but it is really true in his case. He was not only ahead of his time, but he was behind his time. The man was able to find new trends but also take old and existing ones and turn them
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by thomnottom 11y ago
Interesting, because I find dealing with high DPI significantly better on Ubuntu than Windows. And Unity works well for me, my wife, and daughter.
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by thomnottom 11y ago
About 30-60 minutes per day. Every couple of weeks I'll hit a point in one of the books where I'll just read the rest of it in a couple hours. Of course these numbers all depend on the books - this year did not include anything lo

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