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691.
by waqf 14y ago
The word "executive" is confusing at best in the submission title, because we don't have the "three branches" mythology in the UK. Maybe just simplify it to "UK govt knocks back projects ...", if you don't want to get into the details of t
692.
by waqf 14y ago
May I be the first to say, what could possibly go wrong?
693.
by waqf 14y ago
According to Wikipedia, numerous organs have a stop labelled 64', and exactly two in the world have a true, open 64' stop (that is, have a pipe that is literally 64' long): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_stop#Notable_organ_stops
694.
by waqf 14y ago
I would rather say that Oracle tried to present "dynamic" as a word which refers to what dexopt does. Because there was no dispute over what dexopt does, only over what "dynamic" means.
695.
by waqf 14y ago
Steve's extra-evil twin? Or did you mean "Joe jobs"?
696.
by waqf 14y ago
Well now, it depends. If I let someone use something of mine that is licensed and restricted by the government because of the potential for misuse, such as a gun or prescription medication, then I am responsible inasmuch as I helped them c
697.
by waqf 14y ago
what are your references for: (i) selling your information to governments (emphasis added) (ii) strong supporter of CISPA?
698.
by waqf 14y ago
Good news everyone! Chrome now supports multiple profiles. So you can have one to log into Google services, and one for the rest of the web.
699.
by waqf 14y ago
If they're an accomplished spammer they won't hesitate to experiment. After which it's yet another hoop which obstructs only the bona fide users.
700.
by waqf 15y ago
And when "intelligence" suggests that it might happen in the US, will they start banning children from planes?
701.
by waqf 15y ago
I agree completely. In this case the force that has rendered them dysfunctional is called "being sidelined by senior management".
702.
by waqf 15y ago
That department is called PR. The problem is that they can be rendered dysfunctional by the same forces as can any department.
703.
by waqf 15y ago
I wish I could pay $400/mo for access to a transit system with five times the operating budget of the $80/mo one I currently experience.
704.
by waqf 15y ago
If we're imagining clean, fast buses, I don't see why they shouldn't come equipped with toilets of at least McDonald's quality.
705.
by waqf 15y ago
4 cylinders isn't the norm any more? I knew I didn't stay up to date with the automotive world, but blimey.
706.
by waqf 15y ago
Can't it be both?
707.
by waqf 15y ago
Brazil fingerprints U.S. citizens only, as a calculated return of the insult.
708.
by waqf 15y ago
Are there no consumer protection laws in your country or state? Or small claims courts? (This is the odd thing I find in reports from the U.S. ... usually there are some such laws, and I have friends who claim to have used them successfull
709.
by waqf 15y ago
Sergey, Larry and Eric already have majority control of the company between them, so what difference does the stock split make? I can understand disapproving of the dual-class stock structure on principle, but I don't see why people are sud
710.
by waqf 15y ago
Yes, it's because they oxidize when exposed to air.
711.
by waqf 15y ago
The problem "nowadays" (meaning, with business models like Apple's or Google's) is that common sense is an expensive commodity compared to the opportunity cost of making one arbitrary decision or another on an individual app. And the legal
712.
by waqf 15y ago
"First edition" ≠ "first printing". The edition number is always explicit, because for a new edition the pages are re-set. For a new printing the pages are (traditionally) not re-set, which is why the printing number has to be encoded in s
713.
by waqf 15y ago
The claim "my country does not" would be more compelling if you named the country.
714.
by waqf 15y ago
I am intrigued that whole-body scanners were not mentioned once in the article. I am choosing to assume that Hawley's opinion of them is something he doesn't feel comfortable publicizing.
715.
by waqf 15y ago
When I read "Jonathan [has] a fiancé", I have to ask myself whether: 1. Jonathan is gay, or 2. the author can't spell.
716.
by waqf 15y ago
Disclaimer: although I really do code in proportional fonts, using emacs is only a 90% solution. It's harder to navigate code when hitting the up/down keys causes your cursor to jump left and right because emacs' proportional-font implemen
717.
by waqf 15y ago
In most cases there's little reason to have the code in monospaced font either. People really just need their blocks (and their continuation lines) to be properly left-aligned, and that works fine, because even in proportional fonts, a tab
718.
by waqf 15y ago
I think you're one step behind. Many economies have already transitioned from factory work to clerical work (and customer service). The question now is what happens when those jobs are done better by machines.
719.
by waqf 15y ago
I guess they would have preferred if you'd forwarded some fun facts which didn't contradict theirs. Something like "91 is the only prime number that isn't blue", perhaps.
720.
by waqf 15y ago
It seems to me that in that case they did, indeed, not want to be enlightened. (Of course, not wanting is relative.)

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