timdev2

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by timdev2 13y ago
Both "GNU" and "/" are hard to pronounce.
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by timdev2 13y ago
Evidently, only if you fail to do it regularly.
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by timdev2 13y ago
This is a threaded discussion platform. If you're going to make an impassioned "me too" sort of reply, it's best to respect the context and make that clear. After all, this is the internet.
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by timdev2 13y ago
> Do we know for sure that the charges he is alleging are actually illegal? No. We don't know their legality. As far as I can tell, there have been pseudo-legal rulings on the subject. But the existence, never-mind the substance,
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by timdev2 13y ago
>> hey, non-US citizen here. > That is YOUR hard earned tax money at work AGAINST YOU. The guy you're yelling at is a non-US citizen who's point is "for the love of god, you ignorant american, how did you not see wha
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by timdev2 13y ago
> Every time a document like this is released, the logic is to assume that the document applies to all Verizon customers (which it does not), then to assume that all telecom companies have been given similar documents, then to assume th
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by timdev2 13y ago
Honestly, you can say that about a lot of popular music. Disco, anyone?
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by timdev2 13y ago
At some point, probably in the 70s, Frank Zappa began obsessively multi-tracking nearly-all performances (at significant cost back then). This led to a bunch of interesting output, including things like compositions based on an improvised
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by timdev2 14y ago
> By passing text to something that replaces new lines with br the implication is that it is now safe to drop into HTML I don't see how that's implied at all. After all, the function is named nl2br, not html2text.
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by timdev2 14y ago
tier != product
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by timdev2 14y ago
"regular personal gmail can handle sending out email with a different from address" for now
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by timdev2 14y ago
After two decades, it (still) doesn't suck.
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by timdev2 14y ago
Surely you're oversimplifying and playing a bit dumb. The fact that an in-state business has to collect sales tax, and an out-of-state entity doesn't, coupled with the fact that it's not feasible to enforce sales/use tax against individual
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by timdev2 14y ago
I suppose the argument is that taking phone or postal orders should count, but never has, because it wasn't worth it to try to collect those taxes.
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by timdev2 15y ago
My father was an EE who for some years ran his own 1-man shop. His cards said "VP Engineering". His reasoning was that he mostly used the cards at trade shows, "VP" made it look like a bigger company, and while it made him appear senior, "
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by timdev2 15y ago
Validity is completely orthogonal to utility. It's trivial to craft a broken page with an invisible buy button that validates. I don't know of any major ecommerce site that validates.
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by timdev2 15y ago
But as the article mentioned: "Prosecutors in this case have stressed that they don't actually require the passphrase itself, and today's order appears to permit Fricosu to type it in and unlock the files without anyone looking over her sho
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by timdev2 15y ago
I think that's kind of the point, isn't it? Make elected office unattractive to those motivated by the thought of megabux. Of course, such lavish pensions would still create gravity for the self-serving types who just don't think as big.