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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Yes, I demand full and final information about what the heart attack I am currently suffering is going to cost me to be treated at this hospital.

If I think you are trying to extort me, I am just going to go to another hospital.

Comment · 8 years ago
Still no IPv6.
Comment · 8 years ago
Clock arithmetic.

Modulo 4: a clock with only four evenly-spaced marks on it.

17 is congruent to 1 (modulo 4) means:

Starting at the top of the clock, go clockwise one mark.

Starting at the top of the clock, go clockwise seventeen marks.

You'll end up at the same position.

That's congruence.

Comment · 8 years ago
Genuinely surprised that someone applying for an internship at NASA does not know who Homer Hickam is.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
1. Playing World of Warcraft all day, every day.

2. Stop.

Comment · 8 years ago
KeePassXC and Dropbox "just works," and it works on Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD, Android, iOS, ...

Dropbox can be swapped out with other storage services.

Comment · 8 years ago
Your transactions are recorded in the ledger FOREVER.

Are your addresses going to stay private forever? Are you sure?

Comment · 8 years ago
There are two certainties in software development:

0. A new technology will arise and it will be named 'X'

1. Eventually someone will write an article titled 'X Considered Harmful'

Comment · 8 years ago
If companies had to give a penny to Sun for every device which used Java, nothing would be written in Java.
Comment · 8 years ago
What?

Oracle threatens to sue people who use the word "Java" without paying them.

GNU would very much like you to use "GNU" to recognize the contributions of GNU software in providing a usable operating system around the Linux kernel.

How exactly does one remind you of the other?

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