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by vb6lives 7y ago
Product Manager will let you know what people are requesting but sometimes the requester is a clueless manager. Working tech support will tell you what real users are having trouble with and sometime they have really great ideas for feature
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by vb6lives 7y ago
Never gonna happen. The bulk of their business comes from the "good" guys
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by vb6lives 7y ago
The exploit is so severe they are releasing patches for xp and server 2003
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by vb6lives 7y ago
Ballot boxes ended up in rivers and lakes when it was pen and paper. You need both. This is a good start.
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by vb6lives 7y ago
I'd say being thrown in prison qualifies as "violence".
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Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops(theregister.co.uk)
594 points by vb6lives 8y ago|360 comments
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by vb6lives 8y ago
John Gabriel has a decent one: Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Or GIFT for short.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Mom and Pop used a rigged machine to cheat customers out of their money.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Because every idiot with access to the internet can instantly spread any nonsense they want to millions of people. In the past, this type of nonsense was filtered by editors and such at media companies.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Shallower === cheaper
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by vb6lives 8y ago
They tried to lay fiber in 2in trenches instead of typical 6in trenches. Then left when it didn't work. This isn't Goliath beating David. This is David throwing a rock, missing, and going home.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
My kids still sometimes make fun of me for losing to a chicken. I've done battle with it multiple times over the years. Where is the switch to toggle the mode?
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by vb6lives 8y ago
We've had success with direct communication. Tell your users to call or email of they have questions or problems. Then personally speak with them. You will find loads of valuable things you can do for them or find significant pain poin
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by vb6lives 8y ago
It is a calculated gamble. We've seen this so many time in so many industries.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
They have more than 5000 orders for this model of aircraft. Each one costs approx 120million. Which means there are approx $640 billion dollars on the line. It is imperative that Boeing keeps it's reputation and grounding flights would
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Not really. Knowing how to write an "if" is a lot different than wanting, or being able, to code professionally. What we really need is basic computer literacy since most jobs will use software to accomplish things. Coding skills
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Those days never existed. Which is why certs, app stores, and walled gardens exist.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
It did both. Databases are big scary things to many people. They made it accessible by using a spreadsheet as a user interface.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Nothing happened to it. If you like your one liner, keep using it. You don't have to use this tool.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
The led panel is flexible. LG has a 1mm screen you can roll up in a tube.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Because you are making a ton of assumptions. I'm sure there are some spammers using this service. But I'm sure there are lots of legitimate users too.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
What is the environmental cost of building and running physical banks?
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by vb6lives 8y ago
The domain likely has tradeshows, trade publications, bloggers/influencers, etc.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
This is key. People will talk a big game and then make excuses why they can't pay. Make a version and sell it.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
They got a click. Mission accomplished.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Yes
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by vb6lives 8y ago
> Having a conversation was a learning experience for him and his team? Of course not. It's boilerplate CEO speak. It's a way of "answering" the question without making any commitments and seems to terminate any furth
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by vb6lives 8y ago
It's going to be slow, even for basic tasks
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by vb6lives 8y ago
It's a tool for motivated non-programmers to get things done.
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by vb6lives 8y ago
Someone will forget their laptop, or won't have wifi, or the power will die, or the link doesn't work or won't have the right pdf/doc reader, or will respond to that notification they just got distracting everyone with t

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