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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Okie doke, well, the main point being that Microsoft usually doesn't just want you to buy one thing and call it a day. Ya gotta buy the server-class license for the OS. And then ya gotta buy a quantity of client licenses for the Profes
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
The full paper seems to be more of a study of studies, in that it mostly cites other research projects, and groups together studies that hold water. http://m.brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/08&#x2F
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Business hammocks!
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
If you weren't familiar enough with Microsoft's products to immediately recognize that the acronym "AD" within the context of Microsoft anything, means Active Directory, then you are thousands of dollars, and possibly mu
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Rice is not "dust" and sand is not "dust" by any stretch of parlance. These things will fall on the ground and you'll hear them hit the floor in a quiet room. These things will not float on windless air, suspended i
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in... With great reluctance, Eisenhower agreed to let American officers use their nuclear weapons, in an emergency, if there were no time or n
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
...and when you're ready to write your own book, here's a helpful text that can guide you through the lumber selection process, before you start producing the pulp that will go into the paper for your book: https://www.
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Would " have " ...and Google isn't a nonsense word, btw. It's a homophone of the word "googol," to the effect of invoking the idea of a vast, large number of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
It's technical people of some notoriety being vaguely clever about high-brow qualifications, and at a certain level of humorousness, involves recursion.
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
There's also making up words, that works too. You mean, like "blip-blooper"?
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Until, of course, it becomes completely clogged. Ultra-fine filters are going to get locked up by debris quickly. Fortunately, you can probably replace a graphene filter quickly with plenty more freely available/easily producible graph
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
A quick Google search shows that there's also some similar activity on the internet, and the campaign is not just the billboards: https://www.google.com/search?q=kate+of+gaia&tbm=isch Lots of low budget Youtube vid
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
The tone of the article suggests that an iPhone is made of these elements, moreso than it does that they are made with these elements. has about 75 elements in it It's like saying the natural gas and the oven belong on the p
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
After a while, this never ending river of UTF-8 characters and RGB pixels gets a little old. You realize all the time you've spent whiling away so much time, imagining that it's all building up to something even better than yester
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Learning is lovely, but without the advatage of being able to directly apply what you've learned toward actually improving your life, it's all just so much education porn.
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
According to King at the Ames Lab, an iPhone has about 75 elements in it, two-thirds of the periodic table. I'm really going to need some percentages of mass here. The thing that lands in the box. Not the catalysts, and su
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Yeah, that seems to be the sound of it. > By Ellen Nakashima Did she make a mistake when reporting? Seems like an editor should have caught the error in the headline. Meanwhile, maybe it's an effort by this media outlet to do
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Which community would that be? Being an insightful guy and a good public speaker has value. Especially in a technical field. Your talks on things like elliptic curve cryptography are solid talks. Like it or not, you could probably t
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
1,000 times one million is a billion, is it not? From the article: Mossack Fonseca also had at least 2,400 United States-based clients over the past decade, and set up at least 2,800 companies on their behalf in the Bri
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Claims of humblebraggadocio is the HN counterpart to calling out an " edgelord " elsewhere. As a word, humblebrag is irritating to see in use, even if you are not its target.
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
You could tell, open handed, that people would not be interested in the idea of the product, by the way it was executed, by the undertones of its justification for existence. It was a product mandated for the sake of a company's bucket
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
I just really don't like the name of the company. WeWork sounds so much like WeComply, or WeReEnslaved, or perhaps WeHaveNoSpine. I'd much rather dwell 8 hours a day in a place run by a company called CompulsoryDungeon or Itineran
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
Uh, pretty obvious that Google Plus just wasn't a product that could stand on it's own merit. Just like Microsoft's terrible tablets weren't done in by any other tablet maker, and were cursed with enough problems to get
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by wonkaWonka 10y ago
She has such a pretty face, and what a personality!
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by wonkaWonka 11y ago
I just hate the concept that there exists such a stratification, such as the "front end" developer. I similarly hate the distinction "qa developer" which seems to the ear like parlance for a hobbled, maimed version of an
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by wonkaWonka 11y ago
I stopped reading when I got to the part where you said you stopped reading.
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by wonkaWonka 11y ago
you are so fucking clueless... Tractors hardly need any of that technology. It really irks me to see comments like yours. You clearly don't work in this field since your comments come off as someone with all this great knowledge about
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by wonkaWonka 11y ago
I was with you, right up until you said "Out with the old, and in with the new." You're first paragraph is spot on. But. The next step is, DIY tractors, as if they were hot rod motorcycles, since, let's be honest... Trac
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by wonkaWonka 11y ago
God, what a name. A hyphen might be in order, as in: schema-less ...at first I read it as she-males.
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by wonkaWonka 11y ago
They'd probably like to avoid developing a reputation as a crappy video decoder. There may have been some bickering amongst the peanut gallery about it.

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