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Comment · 12 years ago
Which is even safer than using it on your desktop.
Comment · 12 years ago
Most people have not read what you have read.
Comment · 12 years ago
I haven't seen the original post that the girl sent, so how can we even judge her?

And I don't expect my private message to become public, do you? Of course, messaging an unknown like that, you have to be more careful.

Maybe she just had a bad day, the message came at a bad time.

Comment · 12 years ago
The funny thing is, to me the 20 something does come of feeling entitled, after posting this personal message everywhere because she did not get here way.

Now obviously the original lady was a rude, but so what? Somehow being rude to someone is grounds for public evisceration these days? Of course being publicly humiliated is way worse than being rude to someone.

Comment · 12 years ago
The choice isn't giving $3000 to be a voluntourist, and give $3000 to a charity to hire locals to do the work. The other choice is to go to Europe and blow $3000 having a good time.
Comment · 12 years ago
Nothing is ever as easy as any article points out, articles summarize and tantalize.
Comment · 12 years ago
>Didn't he have a job, for many years, at Yahoo, before starting WhatsApp?

The article missed a trick, should have said:

"Whatsapp founder goes from being penniless and naked (just being born) to a billionaire."

Comment · 12 years ago
So what size classes should someone have stepped in? 70? 100? Not to mention that having so many in a class was probably a H&S hazard.

It seems more Escalante was the one not prepared to compromise in this instance.

This is exactly the sort of thing unions should step in to solve, so you will have to find another example of why unions are not all good. There are plenty out there.

Comment · 12 years ago
If your java applet just said hello it consumed so many resources. It took minute just to load java, what a stupid idea that was.
Comment · 12 years ago
I can still remember the client wanting the underlined links removed from the website. I explained that this was how everybody new what a link was, but it didn't fit the style. The first time I heard about this css thing. It was tables all the way down in those days, and there was talk that this wasn't the best way to do things.

Yet still to this day, something are only manageable with tables. But with have display:table-cell now, so it is all different.

Comment · 12 years ago
Sure, but you would also have to bring along a phone/tablet to show it off, or laptop/adapter.

Then how would you prove it had that much data? You can fake a sd card right now to show it has a huge amount of data on it.

I can hold up a piece of dust and claim it can hold 20tb, but no one will believe me.

Comment · 12 years ago
Why do people say that? Apples and oranges are very comparably, just as these to apps are very comparable.

Just because you disagree with one datapoint doesn't mean you can't compare them.

Comment · 12 years ago
Why is it unusable? Is it too slow to work? The good thing is that this will improve, even the cheapest processors will get faster.
Comment · 12 years ago
It seems like you could have talked about some things very easily. They guy may have just been looking for some reason to take it upstairs.

If you can't think of why you deserve a raise, maybe you don't.

Comment · 12 years ago
Probably prioritises them very low, so they do not rock up in a lot of searches. Maybe puts them on the old server in the corner of the room.

There is a website that lets you search minus the million most popular websites, and it is very different.

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