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by wernercd 12y ago
Ender's Game. I haven't read it recently (I have audio-booked it though), but I've probably read it ~25 times. (Often to refresh as new books come out, still often to just refresh). It amazes me how, even in a book as simple,
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by wernercd 12y ago
"The great thing about the web is links. Some times you click them and they take you places. If the place it takes you asks you to open an app instead... that's a bad experience" This is the grandparents quote to the person I
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by wernercd 12y ago
Why would you think it's a good experience? I can't count the number of times I'm annoyed when I click on a link to a website - say, clicking a link on news.google.com or a link here - get moved to that website and BAM there
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by wernercd 12y ago
I'll second that in a heartbeat. I have a good friend that always struggled with money - rent, food, you name it... yet somehow has an expensive car with expensive insurance. He makes 1/2 what I do (or less) yet somehow drives a c
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by wernercd 12y ago
As long as one (or more) of those clunkers isn't hiding under un-mowed grass and surrounded by broken garden gnomes :)
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by wernercd 12y ago
It was more than just "being a mechanic". It's * being a mechanic (so you don't have to pay $500 for a $200 job). * having a job with flexible hours (This happens on the way to McJob and your late? McBye Bye.)
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by wernercd 12y ago
How do you handle (Do you?): * not more than 2 identical characters in a row (e.g., 111 not allowed) * Name/Username in password (Name: Chuck Norris, username: ChuckNorris, Password: ChuckNorris#1) These are reasons why I don't l
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by wernercd 12y ago
Depends on what you define as "Order". "Most popular to least popular" is no less an order than "1...500"
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by wernercd 12y ago
Bit dated, but interesting: http://www.csparks.com/bmw/CarPriceVsIncome.xhtml
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by wernercd 12y ago
"[3] Pay an intern pennies to do pounds worth of work! Yay!" And that's why they are (or could be) losing customers... charging a premium for intern work. I know what my skill was worth straight out of school... vs after putt
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by wernercd 12y ago
Color me ignorant... What is the difference between Watson, Cortona, Siri and Now? What does Watson have that those services don't?
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by wernercd 12y ago
"3." There is a picture about 2/3 of the way through the article that shows the iterations she's went through and some of the changes for color-deficient people. http://pix-media.s3.amazonaws.com/blog&#x2
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by wernercd 12y ago
Why make the rules complicated? So you can make more money from the lawless idiots! Of course! Same reason for Red Light Cameras and Speed Cameras. Safety? Maybe as a side effect... but we need those monies to make up for budget shortfalls!
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by wernercd 12y ago
You need to atleast go into the preferences to select extra lists (if you want them) and to disable whitelisted sites (also, if you want to do that since ABP enables "some" ads by default). (I'd probably enable the whiteliste
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by wernercd 12y ago
http://www.broadbandmap.gov/number-of-providers/wireline/bot... Then click "unserved" to show those areas... Interesting stuff... * Unserved = red * served ~ 2-6 providers = green * white = one provid
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by wernercd 12y ago
Why can't it be both? Mind-share AND money.
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by wernercd 12y ago
MS is closed source? People Bitch. MS moves to open source parts? People Bitch. Can't win...
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by wernercd 12y ago
Because we tried to use white lines and people complained that was racist and that we shouldn't give into White Privilege. #BlackLinesMatter /s
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by wernercd 12y ago
Your focused on moving heat from "Power Plant" to "Home". That's not where/what the OP is talking about. He's talking about installing solar devices to collect heat at the place of business/home and u
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by wernercd 12y ago
This. At the end of the day, what job/pay/perks do you want? If jobs require you to jump through some hoops, then they will be jumped through - within reason.
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by wernercd 12y ago
That wouldn't generate as many clicks...
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by wernercd 12y ago
It's amazing that you can complain about something... and then get that rich off of it. Definition of hypocritical.
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by wernercd 12y ago
Uses go to Google.com to not pay for search... yet Google makes oodles of money. I've never paid for StackOverflow, TheDailyWTF or CNN.com yet somehow they all keep running. Using website X witout paying doesn't mean website X mak
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by wernercd 12y ago
Not needed... USA is the only place worth reporting on so it's implied.
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by wernercd 12y ago
"Do you want to install our Android app?" ugh. If I did, I'd be LOOKING YOU UP IN PLAY! Probably the most frustrating thing. Rooted phone, with adblock installed, using Chrome.
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by wernercd 12y ago
Security through obscurity? 70% of the time, it works every time...
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by wernercd 12y ago
That... and I shiver to think of the amount of buggy code being churned out. 150k lines of crappy code isn't something to be proud of. More code = more points of interaction = more bugs. Caveat: This is assumption based. I assume that
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by wernercd 12y ago
aka "Thanks for giving us what we want, but you're so evil that I can't get past the $ in the name Micro$oft." Stay closed source? People bitch. Open source the software? People bitch. Can't win.
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by wernercd 12y ago
It depends... I know that most of what I learn in cooledge is "worthless" - but the paper itself holds some value. I got an AA in CIS and immediately took the first job within range (I live in farmland, so programming jobs aren&#x
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by wernercd 12y ago
Nice theory... but they went the opposite direction with Nokia. I don't think they'd have any issue purchasing Xamarin and importing/re-branding.

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