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Comment Re:First Fridays - Los Angeles Natural History Mus (Score 1) 131

by Sneezer on Sunday January 11, 2015 @03:27PM (#48788421) Attached to: Museum's Adults-Only Nights Show That Alcohol and Science Are a Good Mix

I would much rather see Mastodon in front of a deer hoof.

Comment Re:Why not do a bad job of it? (Score 1) 135

by Sneezer on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:59PM (#44108255) Attached to: Perspectives On the Latest IBM Layoffs

Why not simply do a quick & dirty bad job of it?

because it's a small industry, and the chances of your earlier choices coming back to haunt you are quite good?

Comment Re:How does it compare (Score 3, Insightful) 144

by Sneezer on Friday December 30, 2011 @01:48PM (#38540168) Attached to: 2011: Record Year For Airline Safety

> How does it compare to rail/car/ship travel?

Airplanes are much, much faster.

"Hello, airplanes? Yeah, it's blimps. You win!"

Comment ob xkcd (Score 0) 194

by Sneezer on Saturday July 30, 2011 @01:34PM (#36933820) Attached to: Unified NoSQL Query Language Launched

http://xkcd.com/927/

Comment Re:How Does It Encapsulate the Source Code? (Score 2, Informative) 220

by Sneezer on Friday August 27, 2010 @03:02PM (#33396108) Attached to: Many Hackers Accidentally Send Their Code To Microsoft

The reason the article doesn't explain how Microsoft crash dumps work is because no one understands them.

This guy seems to be closest to understanding of anyone I've found:
http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2009/05/11/pdb-files-what-every-developer-must-know.aspx

Comment Re:While I agree that anonymity is a good thing... (Score 1) 780

by Sneezer on Friday June 25, 2010 @02:21PM (#32694098) Attached to: SCOTUS Rules Petiton Signatures Are Public Record

> John Hancock famously signed his huge ass signature on the Declaration of Independence because he WANTED it to be known that he supported it.

Snopes does not agree: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/hancock.asp

Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain 680

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @11:54AM from the I-bought-the-law dept.

Brian McCrary just bought a website to complain about a $90 speeding ticket he received from the Bluff City PD — the Bluff City Police Department site. The department let its domain expire and McCrary was quick to pick it up. From the article: "Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department's website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city's nose. Now that McCrary is the proud owner of the site, bluffcitypd.com, the Gray, Tenn., computer network designer has been using it to post links about speed cameras — like the one on US Highway 11E that caught him — and how people don't like them."

Comment Re:As someone working on a massive project... (Score 1) 310

by Sneezer on Sunday October 11, 2009 @10:40PM (#29715071) Attached to: Platform Independent C++ OS Library?

i agree with the parent's other points but i strongly disagree with this one:

Use autoconf to handle platform idiosyncrasies.

autoconf is gross and difficult to use on Windows.

i use CMake at work and like it well enough. it works well enough with Qt that KDE uses it for their build system.

Submission + - Cursive writing may be fading skill, but so what? (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

antdude

on Sunday September 20, 2009 @06:41PM

antdude writes: "Yahoo! News reports on how cursive writing may be fading skill, especially with schools going away from it and more computer usages."

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