Bobby_Tables

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by Bobby_Tables 13y ago
If you're in danger of getting fired over a commit mistake, you have more and bigger problems than this article can fix. These are good tips, nonetheless.
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
The iOS App Store does the same thing with changing the rules in the middle of the game, but it is not subject to potential irrelevance because it is the only place to get software for iOS devices. So the obvious solution for Apple is to m
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
If every user makes the same error, it isn't user error...
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
Am I the only one who thinks Carreon wants to be the new Jack Thompson?
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
They need these sort of things to cover their bases in case the real reason for firing you isn't something they'd want to explain to anyone outside the company. (At least that was the case the one time I was fired.)
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
I don't know that it's possible to make such a comparison, since the people who are fighting for these intrusive government checks and databases ARE religious terrorists.
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
Ok, now I don't feel so bad about having worked on a system that was confounded by people having the letter ñ in their name. (Surprisingly, it had no problem with someone else whose middle initial is the number 8.)
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
It could very easily be real. I was in a Fantasy Football league on Yahoo a few years ago, and there was a player named Keith Null who played briefly after another player was injured. His name just showed up as Keith.
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
When AOL first started allowing screen names longer than 8 characters, I knew someone who registered the name "My Documents". That got some ... interesting emails from people trying to save their downloads.
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
I'm in the process of learning Backbone and just read about Meteor, so I might be completely wrong on this. But it seems like Backbone and Meteor are trying to solve different problems, and aren't mutually exclusive. Backbone is server-ag
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by Bobby_Tables 14y ago
He wasn't cracking their DRM so that he could watch content he purchased at his leisure on the device of his choice, or so that the information could be free, or anything of that nature. He was cracking their DRM to put a competitor out of
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
Having worked for both a content farm and a news organization, I'm not sure what is so revolutionary about this. The content farm I used to work for was making semi-automated publishing decisions based on future popularity of the content o
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
This isn't a partisan thing. Some Democrats pretend not to support SOPA/PIPA as well.
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
Why do I have the feeling that he's still going to vote for it when it hits the floor?
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
GOOD CALL. This is why I should not post on HN while waiting for my tests to run.
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
What annoys me to no end is that the counter-argument to the "Google is smart enough to build it" canard is legal, not technological. Child porn is illegal in this country, full stop. If it exists, it's prosecutable. An MP3 of a Justin B
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
Actually, he probably didn't have any other option to watch the game on TV. NYC (and especially Manhattan) residents very rarely have a choice of cable providers. If you're in a Time Warner building, no other cable company can provide ser
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
I'll believe they "OPPOSE" SOPA when I see a commercial during SportsCenter with Danica Patrick talking about the evils of internet censorship and telling us to contact our Congresspeople.
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
There are lots of people on the internet with lots of money. The internet needs to lobby as hard as the MPAA does.
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
Lamar Smith needs to be sent a very clear message, in the form of a landslide defeat in the next election to someone along the lines of Darrell Issa. What would it take to make that happen? How do we (the tech community) recruit someone t
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
I'll believe it when I hear it from Regretsy...according to their blog ( http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/06/breaking-news/ ), they know as much about the resolution as we do...
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing!
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
This doesn't make a lot of sense for Manhattan, because the grid doesn't have a center point; there's no numbering convention for streets south of Houston or avenues east of York/A. It would make more sense for cities like Miami or Salt La
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
Sort of. It does have some publicly-traded shares but the Ochs-Sulzberger family has majority control and their shares are not publicly tradable.
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
At the very least, a successful criminal prosecution would make you feel better. And it would likely advance your cause...I'm not sure if an extortion conviction would be admissible in a civil trial for something like this, but even if it
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
Depends on your intent. If you quit your day job to work on it and were hoping to make a living, then it's absolutely a failure. If it was a side project you were working on in your spare time, and you made it to learn and/or have fun, ma
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
This isn't a big deal in terms of being revolutionary. I doubt they're doing anything differently than anyone else...load-balancing web servers is a pretty well-solved problem at this point. What's a big deal is that Linode already has ma
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
5mbps? You're lucky. I live in a densely populated area of another major city in the US, and I can't get anything faster than 3mbps from anyone, no matter how much I'm willing to pay...
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
Depends on how you define "help". The reason there are so many unemployed JDs is that there are too many lawyers, and allowing people who didn't go to law school to take bar exams would make that problem even worse. On the other hand, if p
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by Bobby_Tables 15y ago
Nitpick: you're referring to at-will employment, not right-to-work. Right-to-work laws mean that you can't be forced to pay union dues as a condition of employment. At-will employment means that you can (theoretically) be fired or quit at

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