drndown2007

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by drndown2007 15y ago
This made me chuckle after just reading a rant about someone leaving Linux and going back to Windows because of all the secret handshakes and tribal knowledge required.
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by drndown2007 15y ago
Actually, I agree with it. I'm a Linux noob, and even I (the target idiot?) can't find anything in the latest version of Ubuntu without having to constantly search. The older version was quite discoverable for me though. I'm also looking
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by drndown2007 15y ago
Nothing against Optimizely (I'll go see what it is after I post), but man I'm getting tired of the cutsey -ly names. This is one fad I wish would fade away.
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by drndown2007 15y ago
That works in theory. But have YOU read all the fine print when opening an account with your bank? I haven't either -- everything we do is based on some common sense and trust. If we had to verify everything we did with everyone we did i
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by drndown2007 15y ago
LOL - lots of folks defending TV :) I completely agree with Josh though. In my case, I haven't watched more than 30 minutes of TV (usually zero) in a week for probably 10 years now. Instead, during the evenings I worked on my business whi
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by drndown2007 15y ago
A friend and I were discussing this once. I don't like horror films because of the gore. He told me that when he first started watching them, the gore creeped him out and made him uncomfortable. After years of watching them though, it do
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by drndown2007 15y ago
As I mentioned above, Authorize.Net's CIM (Customer Information Manager) works in a similar way -- you send the credit card info from your website to Authorize.net (and never store it in between) and you get a token back which you can store
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by drndown2007 15y ago
They also have CIM, Customer Information Manager, where you send the credit card info (thus never storing it yourself) and you get back a token. Anytime you need to charge that card, you charge the token instead. PCI compliance is then on
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by drndown2007 15y ago
So did mine, but that was 1994 so it didn't seem so bad :) (which is another way of saying that context is _very_ important, like year, what part of the country, web programming vs kernel drivers, DBA, etc)
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Leave. Your hard work is being wasted there. I was in almost an identical situation. When I left the company folded, but funding was getting short anyway (the first time a check bounced I used that as my excuse). The boss won't be happy
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Am I the only one saddened by the fact that this would have been a piece of cake back in high school/college, but can't remember how to do them (integrals) anymore? :(
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by drndown2007 16y ago
And what exactly is going to make that tide rise? Nothing is free -- everyone has to work. We have to sacrifice our time and energy to survive and have some comforts. There's no way around that one.
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Is it just me, or are we seeing a lot of hip new Web 2.0 sites that are going under lately? Is lack of an actual business model the culprit?
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by drndown2007 16y ago
>highest concentration of pure happiness and elation on this planet Very well said. This is just fantastic. I hope the Egyptian people get everything they're hoping for. How exciting!
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by drndown2007 16y ago
gokhan's comment is buried quite deep, but needs to be seen: "Check the FAQ first: http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3109-questions-and... . But could this be because they don’t see the benefits of ‘our’ way of life? If they knew,
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Thanks for sharing that. After reading about how the Christians and Muslims are protecting each other, I think Egytians in general must be pretty awesome people.
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by drndown2007 16y ago
I assume (hope) there must be some smart people somewhere starting to work on some sort of P2P/mesh internet replacement that could work with all the wireless routers out there in order to prepare for the day when something like this happen
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Are you sure? When I login I seem to see 5-10 posts from a list of 100 people (well, admittedly less since I've ignored so many). I you were my friend, how could you know _you_ were in that 5-10 posts that _I_ see -- you don't know how ma
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by drndown2007 16y ago
BUT when you just throw it up on the wall, you have no idea if anyone read it. And chances are, most of them didn't (didn't check in regularly enough, or they did check in, but your post wasn't one of the top 10 that was put on their page,
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by drndown2007 16y ago
I agreed with much of it, until he inferred the " 'repertoire of infidelity' among low-income men" is because they don't have good jobs. "Does it matter how they approach procreation, how they juggle 'doubt, duty, and destiny' when they are
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by drndown2007 16y ago
My son saw this and wants to patent bricks now. I'm so proud :)
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Anyone have any idea how much it would cost? I'm in for $100 or more
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Does that mean you still have a Commodore 64? (Seems like everyone upgraded -- I mean, 64 freaking K!!!). Course you only got to use 49K of it, but still!
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by drndown2007 16y ago
I loved the TRS-80. We had some in my Jr High. We had an assignment to create some large ASCII art via hundreds of print statements and then print it out on the dot matrix printer.
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by drndown2007 16y ago
I'd love to know what the success and failure percentages are for Silicon Valley startups. I'm sure there are overall higher successes in raw numbers, but in per-VC dollar invested, or per-developer capita, I'm skeptical. Maybe it's just m
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by drndown2007 16y ago
It's OK if you have a plan for how you'll make money. If you're just building something cool, and figure, somehow..., later..., you'll make money, that's what he is saying is not OK. DHH at 37signals would probably agree too since that's h
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Very insightful. Thanks
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by drndown2007 16y ago
Do you seriously think there are no effects at all? How can you be so naive as to think this hasn't and won't change anything when such a giant portion of the population is experiencing sights/sounds/shows that no other generation ever has
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by drndown2007 16y ago
I recall reading that the original study indicating red wine was good for the heart was based on studies of a chemical in the wine which was given to rats as part of the study. To get the same amount the rats got, and assumably the same be

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