dRother

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by dRother 16y ago
The fact that they are using rails demonstrates more newbie-style cluelessness, to me. Not even remotely a good choice. But, the sort of things 4 guys fresh out of college with no experience would think was the obvious choice.
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by dRother 16y ago
To the average person who hasn't encountered this word much, it is reminiscent of 'spores' and 'diarrhea'. Clearly, not the best branding.
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by dRother 16y ago
I think anyone might find it confusing when they search for something specific and their words are automatically changed - except for spelling fixes.
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by dRother 16y ago
It has a lot to do with Reddit in that Reddit was available, better, and already fairly well known. It's not like the article could possibly go "How Digg's Whatever Benefited Mixx.com". Reddit was basically standing there ready to soak up
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by dRother 16y ago
Oh no, you mean they have to go to Starbucks or something?
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by dRother 16y ago
I, too was annoyed when Google changed to automatically 'fixing' your terms a few years back. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes they TELL you at the top, sometimes they don't. It took me a while to figure out that single
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by dRother 16y ago
I have seen a blank page on Google, too within the past couple of days. Never saw anything of the sort before. It was when I clicked to try a search on News, and I couldn't get that search to come up with anything different - until I turned
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by dRother 16y ago
I'm sure they do that on a bit by bit basis, when they're isolating one transaction at a time, but are you sure that when they 'freeze' an entire account, they reverse all of the transactions?
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by dRother 16y ago
I totally agree. But still, these people are serious in a way. It's generally the hobby or very-very entry level range. The thing is, they'll spend plenty of money on supplies and marketplace fees, but have this aversion to purchasing somet
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by dRother 16y ago
Ha, that's funny. I work with web advertising for micro businesses and some people just will NOT pay even $10-20 for a web ad to be designed.
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by dRother 16y ago
It's not 'virtual' money. We're not talking tokens here, this is actual money.
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by dRother 16y ago
Directing to the original source is more authoritative and informative.
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by dRother 16y ago
Their site really is slow as can be. I dread not being able to dig something up in my email, that means I have to go use Paypal's search - each page can seriously take 10-15 seconds to come up.
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by dRother 16y ago
Look how they recently froze $10m that was donated to Burning Man. Seriously, how does they review process work, exactly? They could try Googling the customer and find out it's an internationally famous festival that has been going on for y
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by dRother 16y ago
Sure, rebooting is often the most straightforward way to fix runtime issues because it resets everything. In this case, sounds like resetting the clock would have been just as effective. I'm sure these days, you'd have something like the eq
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by dRother 16y ago
If the US, EU, and Japan are doomed, who isn't? I don't think the answer is China and India. China's plan seems to be to lurch full steam ahead (no pun intended) into our style of entirely non-sustainable petroleum and coal fueled over-cons
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by dRother 16y ago
I think you're seeing a knee-jerk reaction to what is seen as a knee-jerk reaction to Microsoft. The truth is, MS clearly sucks beyond any hope. People are sick of hearing it, though, so especially if they use Windows and don't know any bet
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by dRother 16y ago
Are there attractive, single members of the opposite sex involved with this? If so, just let me know which colleges I should apply to.
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by dRother 16y ago
NO, I did the opposite. I had a successful, promising career dong something totally unrelated, and decided I'd had enough and it was time to do something new. Now I'm a software dev.
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by dRother 16y ago
I think that's reading a lot into this paraphrasing.
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by dRother 16y ago
Why say 'better'? That's a value judgement. Better informed and more logical is good enough for me, and somewhat hard to dispute.
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by dRother 16y ago
The less compilation, the better.
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by dRother 16y ago
Oops, RMS probably would have punched me for that. Okay, look into 'free software' and the phenomenon known as 'GNU'.
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by dRother 16y ago
I wonder if that has changed recently? I recall hearing about this issue in the past in regards to Office and Wine.
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by dRother 16y ago
You might want to look into the concept 'open source' and study the phenomenon known as 'linux'. It sounds as if you've never heard of either one.
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by dRother 16y ago
Good move. I had a girlfriend whose father worked designing guidance systems for rockets. He couldn't speak a word about his job to his family, and it was apparent that his conscience struggled with the fact that his engineering handiwork w
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by dRother 16y ago
I think MacOS is close enough to a commercialization of Linux for the desktop to count as that. (I realize it's not based on Linux of course, but the result is very similar).
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by dRother 16y ago
Me too, I was thinking about how I was looking for an upgrade to the Linux UT 2003 a while back and couldn't find it on the official site. I decided downloading it from some random place was risky, and here was almost my reinforcing, valida
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by dRother 16y ago
It makes sense in terms of physics. Start at 0, red, the beginning of the visible spectrum, and the number increases along with the wavelength, all the way through violet, the other end of the visible spectrum.
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by dRother 16y ago
And maybe hire some experienced programmers/project managers to architect the system first? My experience with the code put out by fresh CS graduates is that it's a bit naive and by-the-textbook, not surprisingly.

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