shithead

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by shithead 15y ago
They forgot to mention that they really appreciate that taxes are always discussed in terms of "income". The truly rich have no pesky income - that's for the servants. They just have property and expenses, which their accountants, lawyers a
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by shithead 15y ago
The f_c_book brigade will be here soon to downvote you. They really hate to be called out as creeps and liars.
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by shithead 15y ago
used her father's address to enroll her two daughters in a better public school outside of their neighborhood. After spending nine days behind bars charged with grand theft, the single mother was convicted of two felony counts Slightly in
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by shithead 15y ago
Depends on what you want to be. An artist or craftsman needs a good apprenticeship, or perhaps to build a good portfolio, and can easily blow away academic credentials. But an engineer should have the chops one gets from doing the academic
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Oracle in stiff competition with SF smut merchants(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by shithead 15y ago|0 comments
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by shithead 15y ago
[Arrington's title was changed to the more explicit "Facebook: Brutal Dishonesty"] I did not expect better of that company. Crooked is as crooked does, and that sorry bag was born crooked. What I'm really sad about is Google going down the
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by shithead 15y ago
http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/01/brutal-dishonesty/ : "A method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain." – Facebook Patent application dated September 22,
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by shithead 15y ago
That creep Zuckerberg must be laughing his ass off. He could not have bought such a dumb move to help keep users on F_c_book.
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by shithead 15y ago
Google+ is Google itself. Hey, Larry Page, read my lips: DO NOT WANT! No one wants Big Brother watching their every move, forcing a single ID on mail, maps, search, videos, blogs, etc. Asses may well just have signed the Google d
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by shithead 15y ago
I posted the link to the comments because they're even better than the piece, which was not bad (and is linked at the top of the comments page). The one titled "Too many developers" may be right: [...] My John Harvey-Jones fix: bin 90% of
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Facebook's complexity will be its doom(forums.theregister.co.uk)
10 points by shithead 15y ago|3 comments
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Brutal Honesty(uncrunched.com)
10 points by shithead 15y ago|0 comments
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by shithead 15y ago
Banksters have played it like drug dealers: "Have a loan" . "Buy our stuff" . "Interest rate is now 30%" . "Tut-tut, we have to call Bruno" .
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by shithead 15y ago
One score and twice four years ago (more or less) some guys brought forth a few modems, that they screwed to computers, which then conceived Usenet in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that on the net nobody knows you're an ass (unless
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by shithead 15y ago
Q. How do you know that Mark Zuckerberg is lying? A. His lips are moving.
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by shithead 15y ago
That turd already stinks so bad the banksters will give it a wide berth upon flush, lest they be slammed with lawsuits for negligence.
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by shithead 15y ago
Also good for fixing timely releases of source code ... the Amazon guys are sticking the public with an old version fork ...
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by shithead 15y ago
[...] my hypothesis that the number of bugs can primarily be predicted only by the total lines of code [...] I still haven’t found any studies which show what this relationship is like. Does the number of bugs grow linearly with code size?
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by shithead 15y ago
Being a pessimist, I foresee many owners bending the casing just enough to make it useless ... If not that, a grain of sand down the shaft will probably jam it good. And, to be a complete spoilsport, "how it will look in fifty years" must b
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by shithead 15y ago
If I knew what an "attention metal" thief was, or just "attention metal", I'd agree. Effective sarcasm demands flawless execution, and they're losing that. Nowadays one can often find misspellings and sundry grammatical errors in their text
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by shithead 15y ago
Fifty years ago, a 'harmless' sedative was withdrawn from the market because babies were being born without arms or legs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide Once bitten, twice shy.
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by shithead 15y ago
> sacrificial lamb Scapegoat, in the vernacular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating : a she-goat with a silver bracelet hung from her neck was driven forth into the wasteland ... They'll make it gold, and probably spare the s
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by shithead 15y ago
> But he most likely had some strong inside information. He's been watching the show for a couple dozen seasons now. The scripts aren't quite Coyote and Road Runner class, but it is possible to make good guesses about what the character
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Trust Issues(laphamsquarterly.org)
2 points by shithead 15y ago|0 comments
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by shithead 15y ago
Would this "bashing" be tolerated against any group other than Christians? The 'intellectual fight' for 'enlightenment' is the thin veneer the anticlerical Jacobins lay on their murderous ideology. Loot the Church, rape the nuns, kill the c
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by shithead 15y ago
> the Googlers publication thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013314 > not a fair apples-to-apples comparison Speaking of apples, will the next up be "Apple papers", linking to http://daringfireball.net/ ?
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by shithead 15y ago
The British empire has the distinction of being the first founded on systematic piracy.
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by shithead 15y ago
I wish some people would bless us with dates on their timeless essays. (You too, Peter Norvig.)
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by shithead 15y ago
> Also: what kind of lame anti-technology terrorist group posts its statements on the Internet? Good question. I'd say it depends where one draws the line. Some people draw it at horse-drawn buggies (and they may be right), others don't
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by shithead 15y ago
> things William Gibson wrote about in fiction 20 years ago Greg Bear, 26 years ago ( Blood Music ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

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