I have to admit, I've made number of commits with "." as the message. No excuse, beyond it usually being a minor change well documented in the code ( I always write comments ) and me being utterly buried under work...…
This thing helped me with networking immensely in college. Nice to see it still exists.
I see vice asking to load shit from 12 other domains. Which one is neilson?
https://www.requestpolicy.com/ is useful in this regard as well. - Firefox plugin to block cross-domain content. lots of websites pull shit from 20+ 3rd party domains. An obnoxious number of sites block/don't render…
Thanks for an informative post. I was under the impression OpenOffice was dead post-fork. Colour me wrong...
I use plain text editors mainly and agree with the author's premise about cutting the cruft/using a focused tool. The cost complaint doesn't really fly though. Those times When I need something to be in Doc format, I…
>Everyone did. Developers he stole from stole it from someone else Except perhaps the dev with the initial idea? Stealing someone else's idea might be widespread, but it doesn't make it right.
"Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg." "..standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins.…
Honesty. Some guy comes in with half a cornfield stuck to the undercarriage of their vehicle, who should pay for the suspension work? I deeply feel we should each be responsible for our own stupidity. If it is submitted…
I worked as a service writer for a couple years. I _never_ saw a warranty claim refused based on owner abuse. Not once. There were times it should have happened, but I could _not_ code a work order as "owner abuse".…
> just inconceivable. Unless the primary goal was to transfer tax dollars from the unwashed to the privileged.
I could see an argument for colocating this type of enterprise in a secure data centre. There are places with 24/7 surveillance and 24/7 armed staff on site and they are going to do the security better than your average…
As far as this dude, with his aging eyeballs is concerned, the colour's meaning, if any was irrelevant. I mean, the information was interesting enough to me to try to read it, but I frankly can not parse what looks like…
Depending on your target demographic, and the nature of the SaaS, incorporating to give the appearance of stability and scale may be beneficial if not essentially a requirement. If you're trying to sell something any…
This is truth. I have seen this from both sides, and it is something you _need_ to know if you are interviewing people. The very best people for the job will have options. The very best hires don't _need_ your job. Not…
nothing to do with airbnb, but these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London spring to mind when you say 'disrupted'. - It is on the surface almost a communal effort, with profit and loss being spread…
>get rid of the red light cameras because they increase rear crashes. A better solution would be enforcing a sane minimum yellow light timing on camera intersections. Shortening the yellow to the point where the normal…
>Adsense seems to do pretty well (~$12 billion/year). No offense intended, but profitability of the entity selling the advert space does not mean return was generated for advertisers.
>> Message to QNX people; would it be possible to re-instigate the tradition from the late 90s second this. I was really impressed with QNX - I played with it a bit and stopped when the licensing changed.
1968: Get busted at protest, get searched for weed. 2014: Get busted at protest, get searched for data. We're living in odd times.
May I suggest Elbonia for such uses? http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-30/
>> but for the rest, stop complaining and find a place to sit down with your laptop. Exactly that. I carry an n900 as my daily use phone/pda and it works great as a "better-than-nothing" device for ssh…
I don't think they want all of Ukraine, just the Crimean peninsula. Socially and geographically, this is a different situation than Georgia, where ethic Russians are a small minority and the borders are large as opposed…
The oldest rule in the world: http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Faustrecht.html Doesn't make it right, but we're about to see it in action.
The difference being in my mind that I won't turn to an article in Britannica and find it randomly defaced, or deliberately seeded with biased information. Wikipedia is awesome, but gotta use it as a jumping off point…
I have to admit, I've made number of commits with "." as the message. No excuse, beyond it usually being a minor change well documented in the code ( I always write comments ) and me being utterly buried under work...…
This thing helped me with networking immensely in college. Nice to see it still exists.
I see vice asking to load shit from 12 other domains. Which one is neilson?
https://www.requestpolicy.com/ is useful in this regard as well. - Firefox plugin to block cross-domain content. lots of websites pull shit from 20+ 3rd party domains. An obnoxious number of sites block/don't render…
Thanks for an informative post. I was under the impression OpenOffice was dead post-fork. Colour me wrong...
I use plain text editors mainly and agree with the author's premise about cutting the cruft/using a focused tool. The cost complaint doesn't really fly though. Those times When I need something to be in Doc format, I…
>Everyone did. Developers he stole from stole it from someone else Except perhaps the dev with the initial idea? Stealing someone else's idea might be widespread, but it doesn't make it right.
"Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg." "..standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins.…
Honesty. Some guy comes in with half a cornfield stuck to the undercarriage of their vehicle, who should pay for the suspension work? I deeply feel we should each be responsible for our own stupidity. If it is submitted…
I worked as a service writer for a couple years. I _never_ saw a warranty claim refused based on owner abuse. Not once. There were times it should have happened, but I could _not_ code a work order as "owner abuse".…
> just inconceivable. Unless the primary goal was to transfer tax dollars from the unwashed to the privileged.
I could see an argument for colocating this type of enterprise in a secure data centre. There are places with 24/7 surveillance and 24/7 armed staff on site and they are going to do the security better than your average…
As far as this dude, with his aging eyeballs is concerned, the colour's meaning, if any was irrelevant. I mean, the information was interesting enough to me to try to read it, but I frankly can not parse what looks like…
Depending on your target demographic, and the nature of the SaaS, incorporating to give the appearance of stability and scale may be beneficial if not essentially a requirement. If you're trying to sell something any…
This is truth. I have seen this from both sides, and it is something you _need_ to know if you are interviewing people. The very best people for the job will have options. The very best hires don't _need_ your job. Not…
nothing to do with airbnb, but these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London spring to mind when you say 'disrupted'. - It is on the surface almost a communal effort, with profit and loss being spread…
>get rid of the red light cameras because they increase rear crashes. A better solution would be enforcing a sane minimum yellow light timing on camera intersections. Shortening the yellow to the point where the normal…
>Adsense seems to do pretty well (~$12 billion/year). No offense intended, but profitability of the entity selling the advert space does not mean return was generated for advertisers.
>> Message to QNX people; would it be possible to re-instigate the tradition from the late 90s second this. I was really impressed with QNX - I played with it a bit and stopped when the licensing changed.
1968: Get busted at protest, get searched for weed. 2014: Get busted at protest, get searched for data. We're living in odd times.
May I suggest Elbonia for such uses? http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-30/
>> but for the rest, stop complaining and find a place to sit down with your laptop. Exactly that. I carry an n900 as my daily use phone/pda and it works great as a "better-than-nothing" device for ssh…
I don't think they want all of Ukraine, just the Crimean peninsula. Socially and geographically, this is a different situation than Georgia, where ethic Russians are a small minority and the borders are large as opposed…
The oldest rule in the world: http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Faustrecht.html Doesn't make it right, but we're about to see it in action.
The difference being in my mind that I won't turn to an article in Britannica and find it randomly defaced, or deliberately seeded with biased information. Wikipedia is awesome, but gotta use it as a jumping off point…