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by root 10mo ago
Oh that seems difficult. In Finland the postal service uses right hand drive cars.
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by root 6y ago
COBOL has MOVE ... TO ... which seems to be the logical order for a command named MOV/MOVE.
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by root 6y ago
Famous British philosopher Andrew Zaltzman put it like this: if you leave a man alone in a room an electric socket he will eventually try to stick his dick into it.
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by root 6y ago
BASIC only ruins you if you have no intellectual curiosity. BASIC was my first language and with each new language I’ve learned since I’ve always been excited at the new possibilities and paradigms it opened up.
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by root 6y ago
A stencil machine. We used it to print the school newspaper. Just by writing this I can smell it.
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by root 7y ago
The bullet proof thing is just a gimmick to give you a retort when a retard questions your manhood for driving an eco friendly car.
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by root 7y ago
That should be “Fuchs”.
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by root 7y ago
I’d say that at heart they’re a utility company rather than a tech company.
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by root 15y ago
Care to give an example where a study with strong self selection bias is still scientific?
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by root 15y ago
If they were volunteers the study would have a very strong self selection bias and therefore not be scientific.
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by root 15y ago
Thank god I'm self employed and decide myself when and what to exercise. I can't imagine having to dance to the pipes of these corporate clowns. 18 people being scrutinized by their bosses collectively lose 150 lbs (25 of which are accounte
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by root 15y ago
The following cover from Astounding springs to mind: http://up-ship.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/feb59a.jp...
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by root 16y ago
>but it IS called the "Pro" for a reason Exactly, the money you safe on hardware you'll lose on support issues. If I were still a student I'd probably be running a hackintosh but my time now is too valuable to dick around with such a s
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by root 17y ago
In the early nineties I used to start extra early so I could get my work done before the Americans started hogging mainframes.
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by root 17y ago
See, its so easy that 75 million people already learned how to use it.
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by root 17y ago
When the kids got a Wii I bought some Wii points just to get the browser. I used it once. An app that requires me to sit pretty much exactly in front of the tv to be able to control it just isn't all that useful to me.
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by root 17y ago
220 billion doesn't sound all that big to me. Let's say there are 100,000 firms that use Cobol, that would mean 2.2 million lines of code per firm. Since even a fairly trivial report coded in Cobol is easily 1000 lines (source: ran wc on my
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by root 18y ago
It is ok as long as only friends read it, "Haha, look, Johnny used a swear-word, he's such a witty guy" they'll say. But there may come a day that someone who doesn't know you reads that comment, without knowing you and your colorful person
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by root 18y ago
I definitely do not discard it. Another solution that sprang to mind is that the softness of the hood makes it possible to put some kind of airbag(s) over the engine. Though this probably has a rather complicated set of problems (when to fi
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by root 18y ago
Cute, but in this form it will never be allowed on European streets. If you hit a pedestrian they will smash their head right into the engine block, so it is never going to pass safety standards. Still, the idea is nice, does anyone have an
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by root 18y ago
I don't know, using "Fusion" to market a product that runs multiple OSs via Boot Camp seems like asking for trademark trouble about VMWare Fusion.
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by root 18y ago
It may not be all that useful to you or me, but it would be all my wife and youngest son need. I would count it as a big plus in a purchasing decision.