Because YRO sounds better than "random disjoint legal issues tangentially and/or directly related to the field of computing, software, hardware, and online activities"?
I do, too... but banks are one of the few that legitimately do need your SS. They pay interest and will send you a 1099 at the end of the year. If you have a mortgage, then you really want them submitting a 1098, otherwise you are begging for problems with what is mostly likely your single largest tax deduction (mortgage interest). Like it or not, your SS is your tax ID, and you need for tax transactions.
But your health insurance, definitely. I went through this pain about 5 years ago when I refused to hand it out to the insurance droids. They almost blew a fuse, but by a miracle, it actually worked. Fast forward to now, and they send me a helpful letter telling me they're changing my insurance ID to something that's not my SS#, to prevent fraud. Thanks, but you already don't have it.
The only problem is many places want to use it for credit checks, and they'll refuse to sell you some service if you refused. I remember the last time I bought a cell phone I had to, because I didn't feel like paying a few hundred dollars for a "security deposit".
I don't know anything that should ignore whitespaces during merging. When you merge, it has to pick one or the other, and that whitespace might be in the middle of something where it counts (a string). You don't want to automatically pick up one or the other.
Ignoring whitepsace during analysis is altogether different. I seem to remember just using whatever diff tool (diff -w or whatever) I had available, since you could just diff while feeding version-extended pathnames.
These days I use tkdiff to do a graphical diff with TkDiff for analysis, that can ignore whitespace.
It's been a very long time. I seem to remember writing a short script that invoked findmerge and clearmerge to do it all. Definitely not a simple as CVS.
As for the screwing up on whitespace, no idea. But CVS does sometimes, too.:-)
And no, I don't prefer clearcase... that thing was like a tank without an engine: you'd just have a bunch of people inside turning the wheels.
Except, most importantly, imoprting a large CVS repository is most certainly NOT a breeze. And by large, I mean decades old, having gone originally from RCS into CVS.
I have a zero chance in convincing my coworkers to switch to svn if we cannot preserve CVS history. Period.
I've been trying for months to get a test import into svn, and still doesn't work yet. That that it takes a few days to import doesn't make it any easier - by the time, if it doesn't bomb out, it's done I've totally forgotten about it.
My PC is somewhat old, I am literally afraid to upgrade to any new software, for fear of it simply becoming 10 times slower. Last thing I want is to install Q2005, and then discover I need to buy an entire new PC to go along with it.
1. Banks buy other banks, and the software changes all the time. Example: my bank used to be BayBank, which bought Shawmut, then merged with BankBoston, then got swallowed by Fleet, and now was bought by BankAmerica.
2. I have family of 4, and manual entry is not an option. Manual entry used to work fine when I was in college, but now I have more expenses. Automatic entry is the difference between using Quicken and not using Quicken at all.
3. Different banks have equally bad support for downloading transcations. Last time I tried it, it dumps a file on somewhere your hard drive, where you have to import it in to Quicken. And, if you don't specify the dates EXACTLY or the names don't line up perfectly, you get duplicate transactions, and have to edit them all down. Do this a few times a week.
4. I have multiple accounts, from checking to a few credit cards to investment accounts. So repeat #3 a few times for each account, each with a different stupid web interface.
Compare with: press button Quicken, and have it download everything all at once.
You got it. Reading c.l.c will teach you a quite a bit about C.
To really learn C, try posting there. There first few times I got rightly ripped. Nothing like correct flaming to really teach you the language - where it starts and where it stops, what's portable and what's not.
Indeed. Once I went to an LCD at home, the CRTs at work were unbearable to look at. The CRTs got the boot shortly thereafter and I'm much happier since.
Me too. For one month. Then we used hacked phone card numbers. It was ridiculously easy. I remember the days of 4 or 5 digit combination customer ID/PINs that you could easily guess. You could have a computer do it if you really were lazy.
Growing up is not using the stolen cards anymore. Oh wait, that was ANI...
My niece was visiting, and for whatever stupid reason, her middle school requires everyone have a laptop. (Insert rant about kids and computers here; apparently, using IM to chat about cute boyz is a new class they didn't have when I was in school. But I digreess.)
I like to offer my net connection to guests so they can chat on vacation. So I point her to the nearest wall socket and ask if she needs a cable.
"No, I'm just using the wireless connection. There's like 2 or 3 of them."
Of course, at the time, I didn't have a wireless connection. But a few of my neighbors do: LINKSYS, LINKSYS, and, uh, LINKSYS.
So, I'm all for more range. More free net access! And, this means I don't have to let anyone's spyware-ridden box on my home network when they visit.
The really interesting question is: will Linux be able to carry Itanic, now that MS is starting to leave it behind?
Oh, Linux is not good enough for that. HPUX/IA64 will carry the torch!
HPUX on IA64 always seemed like, to me, putting a fleet of barely functioning tanks on deck the Titanic. On top of the paying customers. (You decide which is which.)
Hey now. His company makes TWO products. Yes TWO whole products. So don't go making fun of Joel until you too make 80 or 90 grand a year.
Joel was a program manager at Microsoft in the old days and did a lot of work on Excel, a raging success. His new company is profitable, regardless of the amount of products they make.
In all likelihood, he doesn't need to work at all, and could spend that same $80K on his next dinner if he wanted to.
Note how he seems to ignore that the word free is one of the most abused words in the English language, and Free software gets a negative connotation because of that.
Example: how many times have you seen an ad for a free cell phone... with the purchase of a one-year $600 cell phone contract?
How many times have you been burned by something that was free, because it turned out to be junk?
I'm so sick of seeing the qualification "Free software-- free as in freedom". Just call it something like "Freedom software" already, and distinguish it from the zillions of hucksters using the word free to cheat you.
Thanks for the insight, it's what I've suspected for a long time now.
I've been a DD drinker for a long time -- here in MA it's a bit hard to avoid it. But when I had my first Starbuck's I thought I had a bad batch. Way too burnt tasting.
I thought my tastes weren't sophisticated enough, and it was better coffee that I just hadn't appreciated yet.
Now, their frillyfrothycreamycandythingies aren't half bad. But most days I want a $1 cup a coffee, not a $5 dessert.
But I have to admit, sometimes it's a nice place to hang out. Just BYO coffee!
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I think it would be great if Moz got a certificate, or signed themselves. Great, because I know what that means. They have enough money from the fundraiser, do it, and stuff this guy.
But clearly, users don't give a shit.
Ever install any freakin' piece of hardware on Windows? Nothing is signed. I've seen printed instructions that show a pretty picture of the unsigned-code warning dialog box, and tells the user to press the yes please install this dangerous driver that might destroy my computer button.
This is not from Bob's Network Adapters 'n Peat Moss. This is Samsung. Lexmark.
So, as far as Joe Average is concerned, that dialog box is just another stupid thing getting in the way of scanning these nice pictures to send to Aunt Tillie. He's being trained to ignore security warnings.
Not only that, you can listen to the number of keystroke. Passwords are much easier to guess when you already know the number of characters. (That's why I type mine as blazingly fast as possible.)
My best passphrases are shell command sequences. Something like:
ps -ef | awk '/garble/ { print $3 }'
They're easy to remember too. It's pretty easy to come with new ones.
Imagine your laptop screaming 'I'm being stolen! I'm being stolen!' and paging security as the janitor walks out the door with it."
Yawn. It would probably get the same reaction as car alarms do these days: great, some idiot accidentally set off their car alarm again. Where's the coffee?
You are so right. Invisible rectangles, argh!
Someone says it's so you can abort the scroll, better do that with the ESC key or a chord-click. But it's not worth ruining regular scrolling for!
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Because YRO sounds better than "random disjoint legal issues tangentially and/or directly related to the field of computing, software, hardware, and online activities"?
But your health insurance, definitely. I went through this pain about 5 years ago when I refused to hand it out to the insurance droids. They almost blew a fuse, but by a miracle, it actually worked. Fast forward to now, and they send me a helpful letter telling me they're changing my insurance ID to something that's not my SS#, to prevent fraud. Thanks, but you already don't have it.
The only problem is many places want to use it for credit checks, and they'll refuse to sell you some service if you refused. I remember the last time I bought a cell phone I had to, because I didn't feel like paying a few hundred dollars for a "security deposit".
I don't know anything that should ignore whitespaces during merging. When you merge, it has to pick one or the other, and that whitespace might be in the middle of something where it counts (a string). You don't want to automatically pick up one or the other.
Ignoring whitepsace during analysis is altogether different. I seem to remember just using whatever diff tool (diff -w or whatever) I had available, since you could just diff while feeding version-extended pathnames.
These days I use tkdiff to do a graphical diff with TkDiff for analysis, that can ignore whitespace.
It's been a very long time. I seem to remember writing a short script that invoked findmerge and clearmerge to do it all. Definitely not a simple as CVS.
:-)
As for the screwing up on whitespace, no idea. But CVS does sometimes, too.
And no, I don't prefer clearcase... that thing was like a tank without an engine: you'd just have a bunch of people inside turning the wheels.
Except, most importantly, imoprting a large CVS repository is most certainly NOT a breeze. And by large, I mean decades old, having gone originally from RCS into CVS.
I have a zero chance in convincing my coworkers to switch to svn if we cannot preserve CVS history. Period.
I've been trying for months to get a test import into svn, and still doesn't work yet. That that it takes a few days to import doesn't make it any easier - by the time, if it doesn't bomb out, it's done I've totally forgotten about it.
Clearcase does it quite well, they call it unreserved checkouts. It's just that (last time I used ccase) it's not the default like it should be.
To the OP: you may have to quit. I failed to convince my coworkers, so I left. Now we do parallel development the Right way.
I'm already a member, but I don't use their checking. Sadly, inertia keeps me at my current bank. Well, that, and no ATMs.
But that still won't fix my quicken problem. In fact, it's likely my bank want work at all with Quicken.
My PC is somewhat old, I am literally afraid to upgrade to any new software, for fear of it simply becoming 10 times slower. Last thing I want is to install Q2005, and then discover I need to buy an entire new PC to go along with it.
Here's why:
1. Banks buy other banks, and the software changes all the time. Example: my bank used to be BayBank, which bought Shawmut, then merged with BankBoston, then got swallowed by Fleet, and now was bought by BankAmerica.
2. I have family of 4, and manual entry is not an option. Manual entry used to work fine when I was in college, but now I have more expenses. Automatic entry is the difference between using Quicken and not using Quicken at all.
3. Different banks have equally bad support for downloading transcations. Last time I tried it, it dumps a file on somewhere your hard drive, where you have to import it in to Quicken. And, if you don't specify the dates EXACTLY or the names don't line up perfectly, you get duplicate transactions, and have to edit them all down. Do this a few times a week.
4. I have multiple accounts, from checking to a few credit cards to investment accounts. So repeat #3 a few times for each account, each with a different stupid web interface.
Compare with: press button Quicken, and have it download everything all at once.
The price is the same- $6 a month.
Because FCKGW obviously means "fuck George W. Bush"?
To really learn C, try posting there. There first few times I got rightly ripped. Nothing like correct flaming to really teach you the language - where it starts and where it stops, what's portable and what's not.
Indeed. Once I went to an LCD at home, the CRTs at work were unbearable to look at. The CRTs got the boot shortly thereafter and I'm much happier since.
Me too. For one month. Then we used hacked phone card numbers. It was ridiculously easy. I remember the days of 4 or 5 digit combination customer ID/PINs that you could easily guess. You could have a computer do it if you really were lazy. Growing up is not using the stolen cards anymore. Oh wait, that was ANI...
My niece was visiting, and for whatever stupid reason, her middle school requires everyone have a laptop. (Insert rant about kids and computers here; apparently, using IM to chat about cute boyz is a new class they didn't have when I was in school. But I digreess.)
I like to offer my net connection to guests so they can chat on vacation. So I point her to the nearest wall socket and ask if she needs a cable.
"No, I'm just using the wireless connection. There's like 2 or 3 of them."
Of course, at the time, I didn't have a wireless connection. But a few of my neighbors do: LINKSYS, LINKSYS, and, uh, LINKSYS.
So, I'm all for more range. More free net access! And, this means I don't have to let anyone's spyware-ridden box on my home network when they visit.
Oh, Linux is not good enough for that. HPUX/IA64 will carry the torch!
HPUX on IA64 always seemed like, to me, putting a fleet of barely functioning tanks on deck the Titanic. On top of the paying customers. (You decide which is which.)
Joel was a program manager at Microsoft in the old days and did a lot of work on Excel, a raging success. His new company is profitable, regardless of the amount of products they make.
In all likelihood, he doesn't need to work at all, and could spend that same $80K on his next dinner if he wanted to.
How many times have you been burned by something that was free, because it turned out to be junk?
I'm so sick of seeing the qualification "Free software-- free as in freedom". Just call it something like "Freedom software" already, and distinguish it from the zillions of hucksters using the word free to cheat you.
Checkout TaxAct for free. Way better than TaxCut, cheaper, and more convenient.
I've been a DD drinker for a long time -- here in MA it's a bit hard to avoid it. But when I had my first Starbuck's I thought I had a bad batch. Way too burnt tasting.
I thought my tastes weren't sophisticated enough, and it was better coffee that I just hadn't appreciated yet.
Now, their frillyfrothycreamycandythingies aren't half bad. But most days I want a $1 cup a coffee, not a $5 dessert.
But I have to admit, sometimes it's a nice place to hang out. Just BYO coffee!
But clearly, users don't give a shit.
Ever install any freakin' piece of hardware on Windows? Nothing is signed. I've seen printed instructions that show a pretty picture of the unsigned-code warning dialog box, and tells the user to press the yes please install this dangerous driver that might destroy my computer button.
This is not from Bob's Network Adapters 'n Peat Moss. This is Samsung. Lexmark.
So, as far as Joe Average is concerned, that dialog box is just another stupid thing getting in the way of scanning these nice pictures to send to Aunt Tillie. He's being trained to ignore security warnings.
So selling newspapers is not commerical use, but selling tires is?
As someone said a few months ago, right the trash along with anything from .biz and .info!
Not only that, you can listen to the number of keystroke. Passwords are much easier to guess when you already know the number of characters. (That's why I type mine as blazingly fast as possible.)
My best passphrases are shell command sequences. Something like:
ps -ef | awk '/garble/ { print $3 }'
They're easy to remember too. It's pretty easy to come with new ones.
Yawn. It would probably get the same reaction as car alarms do these days: great, some idiot accidentally set off their car alarm again. Where's the coffee?
You are so right. Invisible rectangles, argh! Someone says it's so you can abort the scroll, better do that with the ESC key or a chord-click. But it's not worth ruining regular scrolling for!