throwaway1460

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by throwaway1460 13y ago
> Someone is still putting flowers there. Some day soon, leave a flower yourself with a note — just what you said here, ‘nice guy, got shit done’. Let them know that someone else remembers him.
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by throwaway1460 13y ago
The earliest commercial electric distribution systems in the US used direct current. This was the only technically viable option at the time, but voltage drop made it necessary for power plants to be close to the user -- even in expensive l
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by throwaway1460 13y ago
Having once worked for Intel, that seems about normal for vital information to pass from one fiefdom to another. The poor sap manning the forum wasn't saying "we're not telling you", he was saying "they're not
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by throwaway1460 13y ago
> not like any of these huge companies are going to pick up and leave and > build their giant new campus out in the middle of the desert or something. Or something. Typically a programmer's daily work product can be mov
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by throwaway1460 13y ago
> Apple's new spaceship building (in the middle of a faceless suburb) > will cost $5 billion and have 2.8 million square feet of space … that no employee below VP level can afford to live near. It's OK, though;
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by throwaway1460 13y ago
Adblock Plus optionally (and by default) permits some ‘non-intrusive’ ads. https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
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by throwaway1460 14y ago
>Who discovered the vulnerability? >Mitsumasa Kondo and Kyotaro Horiguchi of NTT Open Source Software Center while conducting a security audit. I'm not surprised. Some years ago I worked for a company that had NTT as a customer, and