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by wnissen 10y ago
Except every bill in the legislature is called "An Act to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated." It's not a mistake, the official version is the annotated version. There's no daylight between the mythical "u
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by wnissen 10y ago
Wait, can't you enforce the number of guests with Instant Book?
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I've wondered this myself. Someone with a dozen 5-star reviews is essentially providing no information and should be removed from the equation.
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I have repeatedly had poor experiences with Wal-Mart and Target online. The first time was when I found that the website "inventory" had nothing to do with the in-store inventory, so the "in stock" item was not only comp
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by wnissen 10y ago
Yep. With the exception of some intravenous Valium right before my wisdom tooth surgery, I've been fortunate that opiates and do not get along. The pain relief works, but I also feel like I'm going to throw up. Then about 45 minut
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He did. You are still required to accept returns if buyer claims the item is not as described.
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Or the first night FedEx operated, sorting the packages on a single table in Memphis.
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Love, love, love the pseudonyms chosen, by the way.
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"Elton John has another habit, a habit he has had since he was an adolescent. Every new-release day, he goes shopping for records. If in England, he does this on Mondays at an HMV in London. In the United States, it's on Tuesdays
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by wnissen 11y ago
With that style of driving, the minimum speed is also far more likely to drop to 0. And when one person is stopped, everyone behind them is stopped. Even for people who don't normally drive that way, add in a cell phone and that's
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by wnissen 11y ago
Big or not, when they're making you an offer they are on their best behavior. I would not expect anything like that level of attention after hiring.
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by wnissen 11y ago
While Comcast is horrible (why is the DNS always down when Google provides excellent DNS for free?) having Amazon customer service seems like it's much better the the alternative. Since many people have Comcast as their only choice for
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Comcast Internet, but with Amazon customer service(amazon.com)
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by wnissen 11y ago
It is true that there are two concepts conflated in "the cloud". The first, and by far the most important from a technology standpoint, is the ability to grow and shrink pools of storage, servers, databases, etc. simply by pluggin
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by wnissen 11y ago
Furthermore, there are numerous court cases that say that, e.g., letters to the editor may be printed in the newspaper, even the absence of any explicit permission. IANAL, but I'd be really surprised if there's any license or attr
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by wnissen 11y ago
Exactly. Bill Gates came late to the game. He pretty much had to conquer the whole world before developing an interest in philanthropy. Now it's his "real work" and I guarantee you he'll be remembered more for that than
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by wnissen 11y ago
What it does not say on the tin is that the companies will sell your address many times over, resulting in a torrent of spam. I have my own domain, so I can see exactly where those spam originated. Then I used the site a few years later, wi
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by wnissen 11y ago
The number of extra, unnecessary clicks spawned by the lack of a back button must be in the trillions. It's the one thing I truly miss about Android. But the back button is really the industrial design side winning over the UI side any
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by wnissen 11y ago
I like this: "Ninja buffers the output of each command and prints it without mixing output from multiple commands, meaning error messages will be printed as a group after a build failure, and not mixed with other concurrent build outpu
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by wnissen 11y ago
Correct. China makes a lot of stuff, to be sure, but most of it's pretty low value, like toys and raw materials. The iPhones are actually the exception, statistically. The US still makes just as much stuff as it ever did, just with far
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by wnissen 11y ago
This was 2007, but Paul Graham describes Boston VCs as being slow to act, so they stopped doing Demo Day out there. http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
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by wnissen 11y ago
The first few times it was really slow, but recently it's only added a couple seconds to the transaction. I really think this will be a non-issue in a couple months.
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Right, otherwise it would have been just AO, not AOL.
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All excellent points, and I would add that it changes the semantics of the code when it comes to threading, which is will be a more and more major issue going forward. If the variable is declared outside the parallel section (such as a for
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by wnissen 11y ago
One exception "NL.1: Don't say in comments what can be clearly stated in code Enforcement: Build an AI program that interprets colloqual English text and see if what is said could be better expressed in C++." Pretty funny stu
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by wnissen 11y ago
I think that you are right about the price of art, but maybe not about craft. I don't have the time or inclination to design and letterpress my own stationary, but someone with the right equipment and skills can produce something far m
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by wnissen 11y ago
Exactly, this is not at all like when eBay changed from people selling stuff out of their garage to mostly regular retailers. In that case, the nature of the merchandise didn't change, and the service actually got better because you we
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The JVM probably calls fork() and system(), no? Not allowed. Dynamic thread creation? Not allowed. And 50% of your flops go away unless your program uses the BG/Q-specific "double hummer" floating point instructions. These ar
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It is a technical limitation. Oftentimes the platform is so specialized that only a tiny handful of compilers are ported to it. Say, just gcc, g++, and gfortran, and xlc, xlC, and xlf. And just one version at that. Java would require portin
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Yeah, what would really be depressing is if we were ranked based on the artifacts instead of the impact. It's really hard to tell from the plaques and detritus who was out there providing the shoulders for others to stand on.

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