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MikeTLive

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    Comment #17220399

    Years ago the (obvious to me) revelation that all these different services and tools are showing slices and summaries of the same larger article. Twitter is a headline publisher. S…

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    Comment #16467161

    more like finding that McDonalds and BurgerKing use SEXTON to source their burgers and that HAYMARKET sources to Wendy's.

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    Comment #16361714

    Facebook stopped being about friends and has become groups. Sharing is not between friends but between interest-groups. the worst is when your friends share garbage, and you view i…

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    Comment #14991249

    doesn't say it must not accept anything other than a letter or a digit and so, to cover future leniency changes, i would not be surprised to see poetic-license taken such that they…

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    Comment #14963259

    they screwed up my award winning office design. common section down the middle with individual offices on opposite walls, large enough for pair programming, one end of the alcove h…

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    Comment #14957846

    Generic neurological drugs are not reliably consistent. The allowed variations and additives can and do play havoc in some people. Even something so simple as coloring can be a pro…

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    Comment #14613468

    would be amazing to see the Rubic'sCube and Chess speed solvers burn this algorithm into their heads and start a competition to replicate a provided item.

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    Comment #14613455

    [TL;DR] you should read before assuming

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    Comment #14376598

    pick the statistic that fits your personal narrative and political party leanings. then proclaim all the rest as bogus. change stats as required when required to suit your narrativ…

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    Comment #14126561

    I really like your style, that you communicate directly and in detail to issues that come up. Do you also record these posts with the software for others to find in the future - wh…

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    Comment #13658375

    If you have money you should be able to buy your way to the front of the line? Poor people should just die anyway. They are a burden on the rest of us. Send them to the work houses…

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    Comment #13568734

    reading these comments has me convinced that more than one commenter is a consumer of child porn.

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    Comment #13469278

    While I agree to some extent, I find it funny that I've somehow been around long enough to not realize people needed your example acronyms and names to be defined. Including the re…

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    Comment #13438842

    the first thing that impacts your future success is the luck of the conditions of your birth. you have no control over this. hard work MAY make up for this, however having a "bette…

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    Comment #13208259

    Rt.53 in Hingham,MA has a suicide lane. This is the appropriate name for a single track bidirectional lane for turning left. It is not used for passing. Great fun when people enter…

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    Comment #12240612

    Appelbaum: So the people blocking adoption of the metric system weren't backward-looking traditionalists, but cutting-edge industrialists? Mihm: That's correct. While the anti-metr…

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    Comment #12240601

    The English system of measure is based on offsets to make retooling factories easily done in house. It's very similar to metric paper sizes. Look into the history it's actually qui…

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    Comment #12190629

    This sounds very much like occupational burnout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout The eroding self confidence and inability to perform mundane tasks. If not addre…

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    Comment #11877180

    microsoft publisher - licensed from the authors, rebranded, then given away killing the entire windows market for the original product on windows or any other platform

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    Comment #11745841

    The same questions a human will ask can be encoded into your admin automation. It is only as powerful or accurate as the process allows. If you don't already have a procedural flow…

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    Comment #11698379

    Google for "external PCI card cage" these have been around for over 15 years.

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    Comment #11681197

    if you really want to go nuts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util-linux read all the pages, explore all the man pages, then experiment and learn.

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    Comment #11680509

    take a walk through /usr/share/doc or go to the source: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux

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    Comment #11630082

    you have a very strange format to your communication. many times you stick the tail end of one sentence into parenthesis, only to close them after entering another sentence. where …