jeffcutsinger

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by jeffcutsinger 13y ago
> DNT, on the other hand, is something all Firefox users will have enabled by default It's opt-in. My guess is that the gap between people willing to install an add-in and people willing to dig into their settings and check a box is
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by jeffcutsinger 13y ago
If you clear metadata, the following pathological case results in an inconsistent read: * x = 0 and y = 0, starting out in the "good" state with metadata cleared; * client A reads x with no metadata, then for whatever reason blocks or is de
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by jeffcutsinger 13y ago
Next time you see a story about sexism against women (redundant but needs the clarification here anyway), watch its movement. Yeah, it may get up in the top for a bit, but you can watch stories that are older with fewer points and comments
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by jeffcutsinger 13y ago
I can't wait to see this buried beneath older stories with fewer points and comments, the way every story on sexism gets buried here. Oh wait this is about how awful women are to men. Never mind.
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by jeffcutsinger 13y ago
Because, as the OP says, he spends more time programming than doing SysOps.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
> Forcibly sodomize Stay classy.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
It's also been shown that when they do ask for higher salaries or raises, they are perceived in a negative light whereas men who do so are perceived in a positive light. So they don't ask because if they did it would harm them.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
It's also been shown that when they do ask for higher salaries or raises they are perceived in a negative light, whereas men who do so are perceived in a positive light. So they don't ask because if they did it would harm them.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
I'd prefer for it to not. It's better to use nginx or stud to provide HTTPS on top of an HTTP app.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
There's always Feng Office. I can't speak to how fully featured or mature it is. http://www.fengoffice.com/web/opensource/
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
> Admittedly, if you haven't read 1984 the Orwell reference probably went over your head. Thanks for pointing this out. I did go through high school, so I'm hip to your extremely erudite reference. > "Manichean" is a word you should
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
Incidentally, this is Hitlerian argumentation style. Instead of making a straightforward argument, you load it with emotional baggage to support your Stalinesque worldview.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
> The fact is that the tech industry is a super-easy target for people to jump on, and this is wrong on so many levels it is barely worth writing about anymore. Yeah, let's just stay silent and the problem will fix itself.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
Scientists can quadruple dip for all I care. It's such a tiny concern, and I'm sure they actually need the money. Corrupt politicians and financial institutions? There's something to be worried about.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
> That said, if you really care about customizability, you can always jailbreak your iPhone ... * Yes, you can, for now. There are no guarantees this will happen with future versions of iOS. * If you jailbreak you are forever a fugitive
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
Fever looks interesting. However, the video that walks through installing recommends changing the permissions on a folder and its contents (complete with executable code) to 777. O_O Not sure I trust you with my feeds.
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by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
> Pi, for example, cannot be written as a fraction. Pi cannot be written as a decimal either. Decimals _are_ a subset of the rationals. Any rational whose denominator has a prime factor other than 2 or 5 cannot be written using decimals