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1051.
by wott 11y ago
> Honestly explain this to me: in what sense do we not need advertising? In each, all and every possible sense.
1052.
by wott 11y ago
I took me a while to figure out that I would never find your interesting advice on 'smalltalk' in your last 3 sentences.
1053.
by wott 11y ago
Invest? Invest what???
1054.
by wott 11y ago
Each parameter (declared or hidden) that they inject in their calculation is carefully designed to decrease the inequality. No wonder they obtain a measurement with less inequality. Anyway, they did not really need all to go to such great l
1055.
by wott 11y ago
Eh, it is otherwise the same as a $50 oven but this one also burns money! It takes a 2.5 GHz quad core CPU to produce an awesomely accurate imitation of an analogue iron bell "Ting!", what did you think?
1056.
by wott 11y ago
We seem to have much in common :-) I use WindowMaker, I moved half of my machines to BSD, the remaining is Gentoo, except one Debian server I do not dare to touch much (but systemd is pinned out). I am very disappointed (this is an understa
1057.
by wott 11y ago
In my country, everyone in engineering and programming is hired through a trial period of 4 to 8 months. So what? I'd rather have this being used more often as a real trial and not have to go through the ever humiliating process of tot
1058.
by wott 11y ago
You meant "surface technician", did you not?
1059.
by wott 11y ago
> Can a candidate lacking the technical skills go deep into details the way the parent commenter describes? That's what most bosses/salesmen excel at doing everyday.
1060.
by wott 11y ago
Themes: 1 United States: masters of the Universe 2 China: evils commies, but biggest capitalists 3 India: H-1B source 4 United Kingdom: mother of colonial masters 5 Japan: funny robots 6 Russia: evil soviets conquering the free world 7 Cana
1061.
by wott 11y ago
Same in France. About webcams, AFAIK, the exception is either because people and car plates cannot be identified clearly for the image quality (and frequency) is low, or because they asked for a special authorisation.
1062.
by wott 11y ago
Is it allowed in the USA for an individual to film public space?
1063.
by wott 11y ago
Because anything S. Royal says is pointless. She's notoriously incompetent on every subject she talks about and she doesn't care about being incompetent, since she believes that her irrelevant condescending babble will hide the fa
1064.
by wott 11y ago
All right, so nowadays software engineers cannot read specifications, cannot program and correct their mistake without a debugger, cannot do anything without an IDE, cannot do anything without copy-pasting (from SO) and read their data from
1065.
by wott 11y ago
I still consider it this way because it means someone loves, cares about what he is doing, and generally does not have much delay pressure, which allows him to take time to refine his word. And I use the word "professional" in a d
1066.
by wott 11y ago
What I never understood is why in these days we are not able to have a product that would be spread on the teeth (let's say a yearly application) to protect them from most of the major aggressions. Each time I had a tooth "cured&q
1067.
by wott 11y ago
4 days ago, I read a Mozilla employee writing "Seamonkey does not interest anyone inside Mozilla. Who would nowadays use a Netscape-like tool?".
1068.
by wott 11y ago
"A return to my technology routes " ... ... Sigh.
1069.
by wott 11y ago
French authorities did not put him on trial, several islamic organisations and one human rights organisation did. And they lost, as it was requested by the prosecutor, who represents French authorities.
1070.
by wott 11y ago
> Know the rules before you break them. Yeah, well, none of his "calculations" made sense to me. Actually, there is no calculation, just random figures dropped randomly. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY he gets 4V at the end of a 4m