Comment Re:Google already has the technology to fix this (Score 1) 132
Yeah. They destroy legitimate businesses with their wonderful algorithms...
You went long on Demand Media stock, didn't you?
That butthurt's gotta burn!
Comment Re:Aaaaahahaha ... gotta love it: (Score 1) 136
He might as well have said '640k should be enough for anyone.'
Comment Re:Sue me! (Score 2) 36
I invented the "One Click" wheel.
Pfft. I invented the wheel with round corners.
Comment Re:But it wasn't for "national security" (Score 1) 353
When has there ever been a culture, in the history of the earth, that dispensed fair trials to the masses. Ever.
What made the United States experiment unique was not that it gave the average person justice. It's that it gave the average person a CHANCE at justice.
Go ahead, yuk it up, get all sarcastic and bitter, spell it "Amerika" and all. That chance at justice is something that 99.99999 percent of the people who have walked the face of planet never had.
Comment Re:That's actually 1250 MB/s. (Score 1) 149
Network speeds are always properly measured in bits.
Comment Re:Oh? (Score 1) 4
Ah, thanks.
Comment Oh? (Score 1) 4
[cryptic response]
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 5
Hooray! Congrats!
Comment Never had one burn out (Score 1) 278
I've never had a CFL fail. I've been replacing incandescents with CFLs whenever a bulb burns out. My oldest CFL is 7 years old and my newest is a little under 1 year old.
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 5
Many of us are still living! Just a bit dispersed here and there.
Journal Journal: Circular Refuge on reddit 5
It's a happening place. There are upwards of 3, maybe 4 posts a day!
You should join us, if you like.
http://www.reddit.com/r/CircularRefuge
(message mods to join; can't let the riffraff on reddit in! Just our very own special riffraff.)
Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 272
Some of the stupid interviewing criteria that my colleagues and me [sic] had to deal with boggles my mind.
Ahh, reminds me of the Angry Aussie and his response to pointless interview questions:
For instance, there was the putz I had to see this week who thought he was being really clever. It seems as though someone gave him the book of Microsoft interview questions and he was eager to show off his new "knowledge". This style of interviewing gives you abstract questions that have no relationship whatsoever to the work you'll be doing. Or to the real world.
Proponents say they're trying to see how creatively you can think. Normal humans say it's a waste of time.
Comment Re:Come on Google (Score 1) 71
For the random people that use Orkut like others use Facebook, it really is not a lot of time to figure out what to do with potentially gigabytes of information. That holds particularly true for anyone that is not technically savvy.
How long does it take to slide over to Google Takeout and download all of your data?
A few minutes? An hour?
When Goog crushed Wave, I downloaded all my stuff in a matter of minutes. Couldn't really do much with it, but it lowered my White Hot Rage down to Red.
Comment How to Fail (Score 1) 536
- 1. Rewrite your code
- 2. Fix all the bugs you introduced that didn't exist in the original
- 3. (and ongoing) Run into all the edge cases that were discovered and solved years ago in the original code.
- 4. Spend tons of manhours and tie up your talent pool rewriting just to get where you are now instead of adding new features.
- 5. Embrace your FAIL
Comment Re:Well the SCOTUS did leave a hole (Score 2) 286
This is why companies are always advised by counsel to have document destruction policies in place. Otherwise, yes, cleaning out your mailbox can retroactively become destruction of evidence.
