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SDGT

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"Proper attribution of a specific quotation is an action reserved for Tories and Anti-Federalists!"

- Benjamin Franklin

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    Comment #8209330

    Cue the "Prost" engine popping up on GH in a week.

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    Comment #8194363

    Ah, I read that as "Iran didn't have an isolated system", in that they for some reason had a lapse of judgement. Like a "See, the government even makes massive, obvious mistakes" t…

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    Comment #8194021

    Stuxnet happened via thumbdrive. The air gap was already there. (and failed)

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    Comment #8176046

    The third and most important reason: They have someone to blame when shit goes tits up. Response time may still be abysmal, but "dammit we payed a million dollars for this!"

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    Comment #8169141

    > Can you point me to an institution that's managed to consistently pull that one off? Sure, hoards of shops founded and run by developers with PM's who have actually done the grun…

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    Comment #8147469

    I don't think they're quite competing with directly with Walmart, but only due to the targeted demographic. Walmart targets everyone, which usually results in more of a sway toward…

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    Comment #8126471

    Best practices are to not use pull unless you certainly know you should. Things should be fetched then merged with two separate commands.

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    Comment #8126464

    > Impractical for single repository of libraries Submodules? I actually think an entire repo of libraries is the wrong way to go. With the git model, we have however many repos act…

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    Comment #8120796

    SEEKING WORK - REMOTE Location: Northeast Ohio. PHP Full Stack developer. I really don't want to write a full resume out here. I'll do/ learn anything. Currently working (salary, f…

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    Comment #8106175

    It's the steam model. "Why not buy this game if it's only $5?" 20 minutes, 10 purchases, and $50 later with another set of titles to stale in the library.

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    Comment #8047733

    You might like some of the Heroes of Might and Magic games. The last one I played was III, so it's been over 10 years, but they were always fun.

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    Comment #8036216

    I think my PM's have this printed out on a cheat sheet they bring to each meeting. It embarrasses me when we have techs from other companies doing training or demos and management …

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    Comment #7968635

    My last 2 months have been on 4 hours of sleep per night. Yeah it works, but God does it suck. This has occurred out of a need to get work done, so I wonder how many others found t…

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    Comment #7928791

    > I even know people who deliberately did "out and back" jumps to leap-frog over others at the same original company. This is commonly known as a valid strategy at the place I work…

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    Comment #7907391

    That's why he used the word "needs" and not "status quo".

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    Comment #7884061

    > Doesn't this method of including dynamic data in the index.html page prevent it being served from a CDN? if your cdn is serving static html pages then yeah probably. If it's just…

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    Comment #7884029

    Depends on how you're using angular to inject views. Vanilla angular views are requested, parsed, bindings added, and then presented. It's one request for the html, all the rest ha…

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    Comment #7878500

    Please don't mess with my ability to scroll through content. Additionally, having content in between the nav breaks is infuriating, and my scroll bar is gone.

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    Comment #7868978

    Yep that happened to me as well after spinning on the page for 30+seconds.

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    Comment #7868664

    A lot. We'll pretty much take care of whatever a company needs as long as it isn't .net. We're predominately a PHP shop that deals with Magento and Drupal dev, but we also do full …

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    Comment #7868589

    I work a full 8-5 salaried job, have a side job from 6-whenever I sleep, and am starting a consulting gig with a friend of mine. All bootstrapped, all while still having security. …

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    Comment #7868544

    Here's the LKML listing, because that little asp classic site seems to be having some slowness, and they didn't really include much more than a small summary, which is about as big…

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    Comment #7859152

    > ...paying money to a third party for mojang's work Is this really the case though? Aren't these people paying for a specific economy type created in game? they could go play any …

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    Comment #7855301

    Agree, it's like life is a constant game of "maintain the status quo", and we measure innovation by how pissed people get that had already invested in said status quo. I just calle…

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    Comment #7823820

    I make clear ice cubes two ways. 1. Boil water twice beforehand 2. Strap a vibrating "toy" to the tray and put it on a solid flat surface in the freezer. Neither of these solutions…