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by wildgift 14y ago
I'm not sure what it's about, but here's the ITU website: http://www.itu.int
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by wildgift 14y ago
Unfortunately. However, to trust a company is very risky, for obvious reasons.
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by wildgift 14y ago
While I wouldn't put it that way... I think it's true that Google is not a disinterested beacon of freedom. They align with it for their own purposes.
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by wildgift 14y ago
smh... that doesn't jibe with reality. Reality is that there are different people, with varied skills, and the economy demands different people and skills at different times, in different places. There are barriers of culture, race, langu
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by wildgift 14y ago
I'm middle aged and just median income, because I did things like retire a while in my 20s to just live and learn. I have some regrets, but not many.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Agreed - when I started doing contracts solo, I found that I had around six hours of code in me, pretty much all in the morning and early afternoon. The last 2 or 3 hours I spent on "business" issues or writing scripts to help the business
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by wildgift 14y ago
There's an exception to the 40 hour week called comp time. You get paid for excess hours by being given paid time off. The 40 hour week is already legislated. If you work over 40 you are supposed to get overtime. Overtime needs to be req
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by wildgift 14y ago
The only exempt jobs are in management, and in very well-paid programming jobs. I don't know the amount, but I imagine it's six figures or nearly that. Sysadmins and programmers who don't get overtime are having their wages stolen, basica
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by wildgift 14y ago
Yes, typically, the Republicans collect more at the federal level. Local races are different, and there's a mix. Dems generally get many more small donations, and that's why the bundlers category is full of Dems.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Why are people moving to vim? I've used it for a long time, but mainly because used vi back in the late 80s, and it was the most familiar cross-platform style of editor at the time. I don't think it's that much more (or less) powerful tha
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by wildgift 14y ago
Even on a private computer, having it stored in a file can be bad, because if another process gets on there and reads the storage, it'll get the data.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Persisting localStorage seems to be controlled by the setting to delete cookies after exiting the browser. If i have it set to delete cookies, it deletes localStorage. if i allow it to keep cookies after quitting the browser, then it pers
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by wildgift 14y ago
The Apple Newton was out around 1994.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Mainframes are also hundreds of computers running scalable software. The hardware facebook uses is not commodity - it's a stripped down PC. I think google still uses commodity PCs, but I suspect they alter the power system. The use of th
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by wildgift 14y ago
I think the PCs are in decline among lower-income individuals and working class people who don't need to read a lot or write a lot. They were never that popular a purchase in the first place, but because they never got deep into the games
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by wildgift 14y ago
I think Motorola put their money behind PowerPC, a RISC architecture. I think it was a smart move on their part, because, while PPC didn't do so well on the desktop, it got into embedded products like video games and network hardware. Toda
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by wildgift 14y ago
That's interesting. Upvoted. My sense is that this takedown is supposed to send a message to the larger internet media companies. The small ones could be easy pickings, but the big ones like Netflix, Apple and Google are what the entertai
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by wildgift 14y ago
It was a bipartisan effort carried out mainly for the entertainment industry. The reason why there were more Dems is largely because the business is in California, and is heavily unionized. The employees in the entertainment industry tend
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by wildgift 14y ago
Logic and politics don't often go together, at least on the surface. Behind the scenes, there's a logic.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Except in the rust belt cities, the situation in other cities isn't like in Detroit. The current problem is the movement of poor people to the suburbs and exurbs. This is caused by middle class people moving into the cities.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Detroit was built up by the auto business, and as the business has become more international, has shrunken as different parts of the business have moved to other cities and other countries. The sense of anarchy is a function of low-density
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by wildgift 14y ago
I think it needs to be repeated that pretending to know something isn't the same as cheating on a test. People cheat on tests because it increases the final score. That score contributes to the final grade. That grade determines ones rank
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by wildgift 14y ago
I find this to be the case for me, too. I'm a network tech at a non-technical (very non-technical) workplace. We're constantly dealing with new situations, new tech, a fast-changing media environment, and new requirements. I'm honest when
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by wildgift 14y ago
I think the writer was being intentionally "smart" in that first paragraph to underscore her point. It's one long sentence with too many clauses; though it's not muddled, it's definitely more challenging to read than the paragraphs at the
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by wildgift 14y ago
Maybe female executives tend to choose to work in start-ups that are more likely to succeed. At least that's somewhat implied by the content of the generally sexist blog post at WSJ. So the question is really: what kinds of startups have a
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by wildgift 14y ago
I switched to xubntu, and use xfce4 on top of debian too. xfce4 is kind of nice, kind of half-busted, but overall, it feels like an older style desktop, which is what i want.
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by wildgift 14y ago
The people who write and deploy software to limited markets appreciate it. Have you seen how many Windows 2000 deployments are still out there? It's the same with BSD and Linux - there are a lot of 10+ year old systems out there doing use
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by wildgift 14y ago
I think the high price subsidizes the free fitting.
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by wildgift 14y ago
An imbalance of power isn't "nitpicking". In this situation, it's not incumbent on the women to educate the men. It's a bar, or a party, not a classroom. The men are being told about the problem, and need to get their act together. Maybe t
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by wildgift 14y ago
An invitation to a pillow fight is not "hitting on" a woman. It's being really weird. Of course if the guy is weird, then, in a way that's understandable, but he should know that his opening line line sucks, and will not get a positive r

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