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  1. Re:Stop calling it 'blood moon'! on The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Suddenly, it's been called a blood moon for quite some time...

  2. Re:What time zone is the 10:20 PM? on The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There's only one west coast, in the whole world? really?

  3. Re:project manage then on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 1

    Not only that, it would be late every week

  4. project manage then on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 1

    cause we all know there aren't enough project managers who could coal mine

  5. touch screens in cars, bad idea? on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think touch screens are kind of dangerous in a car. I know what my dials and buttons do and can control them by feel while watching the road. touch screens not so much

  6. Re:iTunes on Are DVDs Inconvenient On Purpose? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    iTunes is only useful for apple people.
    So I will complain about it, Netflix works on my TiVo, my PS3, my android phone, my android tablet, my computer, etc.
    iTunes only works on my computer, if I have it installed. And since iTunes insists on installing all these extra services that don't do me any good, I don't
    have it installed.

  7. not really sales, just the first sale on Are DVDs Inconvenient On Purpose? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    because physical media has that whole first sale doctrine which allows the rental of the physical goods, virtual goods not so much.

  8. Everyone else is doing it on Cisco Plans $1B Investment In Cloud · · Score: -1

    Next we'll have Sysco offering cloud services... aside from the gassy remains of their food services

  9. Re:Still Worth It on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    That seems somewhat disingenuous to me, almost like purchasing in bad faith if you intend to read and then return the book, for example

  10. Re:but it does work on my machine on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    There's the implied "so it should work on your machine, so it's broken on your end"

  11. Game developers of late: on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Our multiplayer servers can handle the load on release day

  12. Re:Should be: Lies Bad Programmers Tell... on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Don't use hard coded values, ever... you're almost halfway there

    for example
    logfile = c:\logs\log.log

    Yeah, that won't work once you move to a different platform for example.

  13. Re:Doublethink on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 2

    I have hammer, problem is nail

  14. Re:but it does work on my machine on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Then there's some undocumented/missed configuration on your machine that doesn't translate to the dev or test server

  15. more lies on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    * I need root access
    * This brand new shiny framework/tool/whatever that does the exact same thing as seven other things we already used in previous projects is better than those others.
    * I don't need to think about performance
    * I can fully test all the use cases myself.

  16. Re:Terrible Article on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 4, Insightful

    None of these hard coded values will make it into production, we'll rewrite those entire sections and use property values and external variables to define them.

  17. Re:Still worth it on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    I think it was October last year, right before xmas kicked in

  18. Re:Still Worth It on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    Why yes, Kindle software runs on many devices, you don't get access to the Kindle Owner's Lending Library unless you have an actual kindle registered to your
    account

    As the site says,

    The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is available to Amazon Prime members—paid Amazon Prime, paid Amazon Student, 30-day free trial, and customers receiving a free month of Prime benefits with a Kindle Fire device—who own a Kindle device.

  19. Re:Depends on what you use on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    for $99 a year they would want to expand their Android video player to work on most or all phones and tablets, and add any device that can read Kindle books to the book lending program.

  20. Re:Still Worth It on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    you had to pay for a device to read it on, too.

  21. Re:Still Worth It on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    maybe if they offered it to people who don't own kindles...

  22. Re:Still worth it on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    Best Buy is hardly a local seller, they just have a local presence

  23. Re:Still worth it on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    add that to the sales tax additions in Indiana, and I have been shopping around again, a lot.

    (yes, I know I should be paying use tax anyway)

  24. Re:Still worth it on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    I guess the part where the AC states "but honestly even if I were paying for the normal 7-10 day shipping it'd come out to more than $100 a year"
    No, shipping is free if you go over $35, and it's easy to create a list of stuff you need that can be the "filler" item that puts you over.
    If you can wait 7-10 days then it's not such an emergency.

  25. Maybe if they shipped better on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    When I can place a single order and get each item in its own huge box with lots of padding and empty space, maybe they can work on that too