Shalhoub

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by Shalhoub 10y ago
> We ban accounts like this one that are created just to violate the guidelines. Please don't do this. Surely you mean, rather than come back with a logically worked-out refutation, you ban accounts that don't conform with the
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
Yes I have read the article, but I'm still confused as to the who and the how of his $50 million fortune vanishing. Could someone please put the salient details into a single paragraph.
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
The problem is - some people never come back from their ayahuasca trip. https://youtu.be/uzpey20hQwE
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
"Within 10s of the forward stick input, the A330 had reached a 17˚ nose-down attitude. Its automatic high-speed protection system was triggered 3s later" What exactly did this 'automatic high-speed protection system ' do
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_T._Martin_III "Prosecutors have stated that the stolen classified information includes the names of covert intelligence officers" Just who in their right minds keep the na
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
> Not sure what your comment has to do with mine. Someone doesn't agree with your comment, but rather than come back with a refutation they voted you down instead :) And someone else don't agree with my comment .. modded down -
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
I do appreciate long form writing, but not when it's done badly, as in all the salient details are scattered about the page. That article would be good as part of a biography. Having never heard of Jane Jacob, I too had to consult wiki
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
According to my limited understanding, some time back Poettering called for udev to be subsumed into systemd. When systemd.udev breaks something his response is. It shouldn't be in udev in the first place, it isn't my problem, we
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
"Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers" You mean 600 traders replaced with a High Frequency Trading (HFT) computer. http://bertdohmen.com/hft-algo-computers-crash-fx-markets/
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
In this article, the opening paragraph actually tells us why Jane Jacobs is culturally relevant. without all the irrelevant digressions. I mean what the heck does her boss being unable to attend a conference got to do with urban architectur
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
'What Killed the Linux Desktop' by Miguel de Icaza
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
"Ric Weiland, Bill Gates and Monte Davidoff at Microsoft wrote MOS 6502 BASIC" as copied from the source code for BASIC for a PDP-8 .. http://www.voteview.com/gates.htm http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.co.
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
Microsoft Research: 'Each year Microsoft Research hosts hundreds of influential speakers from around the world including leading scientists, renowned experts in technology, book authors, and leading academics and makes videos of these
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
> Identity politics are garbage. I agree, stand-by to be down-voted into oblivion. Besides journalists should report the news instead of being the news or creating non-issues as in a lot of cases. I call it the oprahfication of the commo
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
"Was Snowden a Russian Agent?" .. no, he was an outside contractor with a conscience, illustrating the perils of outsourcing your spying. Why an IT functionary would need access to the raw files to do his job just beggers disbelie
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
Pardon my confusion, but I thought that some time back Microsoft abandoned the effort to write all their stuff in managed code under .NET ..
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
> First product that comes to mind is facebook and their gender selection. Personally I could care less as to what gender identifier you would want to be designated as. But I'm sure that the Facebook management would issue much apol
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by Shalhoub 10y ago
"there is a challenge and responsibility to build products in a way that serves and supports customers who are the most vulnerable." No product is going to cure people of anything and certainly no commercial company has that kind