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by tnuc 15y ago
For management to be right they should take away the paper towels and install a hot air hand dryer.
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by tnuc 15y ago
And I still can't use the multimedia keys on my keyboard to control it while minimized.
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by tnuc 15y ago
One of the saddest parts of filling in these government forms online is that some of them time out after 15 or 20 minutes. I helped someone fill out few of these once because they were having trouble. Even when I had all the information in
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by tnuc 15y ago
It will go back to being clickable when Google has a graphic/special logo. Hopefully Larry will put back the aliens... :)
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by tnuc 15y ago
I printed something at a FedEx Kinko's once. Hopefully never again.
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by tnuc 15y ago
Oh the irony. If only the web app about web apps was usable.
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by tnuc 15y ago
Lets not forget Topsy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)
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by tnuc 15y ago
The title is misleading. It should read; "Using free adwords credit to extend dropbox accounts doesn't work" Google is trying to attract real customers not people who want to game the system at Google's expense. No money was ever paid, it w
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by tnuc 15y ago
The Hipmunk write up is more or less what I think of it. The data it presents is great. It looks great, nice bells and whistles. But it doesn't really improve over kayak. In fact it is slower and in some ways less useful. There is still a l
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by tnuc 15y ago
Warren Buffet once wrote about gold... It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars wou
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by tnuc 15y ago
I am always a bit perturbed by lists such as this. I have worked with people that would be categorized as a "script kiddie" and the work they put out is far more useful than what has been done by someone who has a doctorate in computer scie
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by tnuc 15y ago
A short history of _American_ money.
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by tnuc 15y ago
>what exactly service did you talk about in the top comment? Skype.
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by tnuc 15y ago
>I know about SkypeConnect, and it's only usable for particular types of businesses. I didn't mention skype connect. >the win/win for sype/sip providers is only when the calls go through PSTN beween them. Do you really think the ope
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by tnuc 15y ago
>so, there's a huge world of SIP telephony, and another huge world of Skype users. And they don't talk to each other. They do talk to each other, users pay for the privilege. Think of it as a win/win for skype/sip providers. Just not a
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by tnuc 15y ago
The economist had review last week. A link for those that may be interested. http://www.economist.com/node/21543122
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by tnuc 15y ago
The admission process to Harvard sounds very much like a scene out of Gulliver's travels. -- The ceremony is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state, where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity, very different from th
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by tnuc 15y ago
The biggest mistake made here is the inconsistency. He was invited to do business training yet has no job to go back to. At least he didn't do anything stupid enough to get banned for ten years. Next time: Try being nice to the border guard
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by tnuc 15y ago
I thought Al Gore invented the Internet? :)
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by tnuc 15y ago
My entire working day revolves around a list in front of me that I treat just like this. Post it notes just aren't big enough for the amount of items I have to do most days.
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by tnuc 15y ago
How did you disable this "bullshit personalization of search"?
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by tnuc 15y ago
>if you google SPYW on Bing... You don't "google" on bing, you "bing it".
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by tnuc 15y ago
>I shouldn't bother with any of the payment options in the first place. Many people on HN don't pay for any content. It's no secret how they do it but there is probably something in the rules that would see me stopped.
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by tnuc 15y ago
Shouldn't a content provider have choice as to how you get to watch something? By making it so you can only watch it on demand through your cable TV channel Fox gets money from you in a number of different ways; The ads that screen before a
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by tnuc 15y ago
Are you saying cats have no empathy? :)
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by tnuc 15y ago
They can't really deny you entry if you have a US passport. Yes they can charge you/confiscate if you don't cooperate/unlock your data. You might be better off hiding it in plain view, it's not like they're going to do much more than a curs
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by tnuc 15y ago
In general, yes I would say the same thing. I am certain a German article on the economic situation in Greece is going to be quite different to an article in a Greek newspaper. My intent wasn't to attack Americans or American media so much
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by tnuc 15y ago
Pretty much everything written by one country's media about another country is propaganda. There is just as much propaganda in American media as there is in Chinese Media. Does Rupert Murdoch support SOPA or is it the fine informed editors
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by tnuc 15y ago
The article is well written but a little light on facts. From my bad and distant memory; The terms of the contract stated that you had to give X amount to the collective from your land, anything over and above this you kept. The X amount wa
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by tnuc 15y ago
At a company I used to work at they used to put the new engineers through kindergarten. They had a few tasks that needed doing and the way to get these tasks done needed a little bit of resourcefulness. One of the tasks was to get a set of

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