tomjen

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by tomjen 17y ago
Thomas Jefferson is allowed to boast, but Franklin didn't build his own house.
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by tomjen 17y ago
Simple: They forgot to invest in people who can lobby their side in Washington. Microsoft had the same problem in the 90'ies. If you aren't spending 20% of your income on lobbism as a big company, you are a sitting duck. A startup don't hav
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by tomjen 17y ago
I don't run antivirus, instead I configured a secondary account and then removed the admin privileges on my primary one. This has the added effect of preventing Skype from installing annoying browser toolbars.
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by tomjen 17y ago
Chickens are better for that purposes, since their excrements are some of the best fertilizer around. They also smell better than the goat.
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by tomjen 17y ago
My guess is that it is actually illegal.
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by tomjen 17y ago
He wrote it in 1948, which is post Mickey so it is still under copyright. Not that it matters, as you pointed out.
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by tomjen 17y ago
I don't mind what you do - nor do I think the parent does - but techchrunch is not a porn site, and it is not a blog about porn, when they write about porn it annoys those who come there to read tech news.
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by tomjen 17y ago
May he rot and burn in hell, and may all the world forget he ever lived.
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by tomjen 17y ago
Not really, as inflation is properly damaging more than this negative interest.
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by tomjen 17y ago
You get a job because you want to make money. Whether you write Java stuff for bigcorp a or bigcorp b doesn't matter, they are going to require the same skills so they are "commodity" work places. You get a job there because you love to cod
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by tomjen 17y ago
You might get that if you worked at some place I wanted to work more than the average place, but for the average firm, why bother?
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by tomjen 17y ago
Find a convenient tin-pot dictator and make sure to give him a good amount of money to keep out of your affairs.
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by tomjen 17y ago
That is a good one, though I fancy this more: "Good friend for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here: Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. Epitaph on his tomb, probably self composed" -
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by tomjen 17y ago
I have long wanted a "ban Scribd" option for my google resposes. It used to crash my firefox whenever I left their site too.
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by tomjen 17y ago
My mother is better than your mother then, she had the good sense to use a throw away email account.
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by tomjen 17y ago
Agreed. You are already paying for bandwidth (which is _inside_ the datastore, and so should be free). Additional limitations are simply stupid.
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by tomjen 17y ago
>Why make a pit-stop at C? Optimizing C compilers and platform independence properly. There have been a lot of research involved in making C compilers very fast, so you get to copy that for free.
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by tomjen 17y ago
People often come up with water as an example, but it fails on many levels: In many cities the "native" water is full of chlorine If you travel to a foreign country, you may not be able to drink the native water at all If you are not at
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by tomjen 17y ago
It doesn't reflect the value of a wordpress plugin, since the value of an item is the most the market will pay for it before going for an alternative. The only thing this price means is that it is difficult to make money by giving away stuf
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by tomjen 17y ago
Yeah, right. Operation Market Garden, anyone?
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by tomjen 17y ago
Take out the nukes and then demand the hostages handed over unharmed. If they as much as flinch you nuke the country. The only way you can deal with that guy is to play hardball and be very predictable.
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by tomjen 17y ago
The problem is that they were captured on the border - which could very well mean that they weren't even in NK.
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by tomjen 17y ago
Well that figures. We can't have a big corporation that actually makes money with out government help. That would just make Obama look stupid.
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by tomjen 17y ago
And this is why it should be legal to shot bureaucrats on sight. How petty do you have to be to prevent a homeless man from bettering himself?
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by tomjen 17y ago
Depends - I hate having to keep track of a thousand different usernames, so I think it makes sense to stick to one.
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by tomjen 17y ago
Except that the primary users of FB are twenty somethings who generally aren't that willing to spend money on stuff online. Besides the biggest customer of any micro-payment system is going to be the newspapers (that may or may not work for
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by tomjen 17y ago
NO. The poster is an idiot, but there is no excuse for using that thoughtless form letter.
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by tomjen 17y ago
Now we only need one that go the other way so I don't have to use git to clone stuff from github.
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by tomjen 17y ago
I think the mandatory showering was a joke. (Three times a day is insane anyway)
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by tomjen 17y ago
If a lion is to beat a crocodile, it must stay out of the water. In this case they did the right thing. You comply with the governments legal request, then dig through their trash and find ugly stuff you can throw at them. Then with that in

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