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Comment · 10 years ago
How much is that in Schrutebucks?
Comment · 10 years ago
Didn't Futurama already do this, or something close to it?
Comment · 10 years ago
As a back-end guy, whatever they use that lets me use a clean, well-defined API is fine in my book. They can bloat it up as much as they like as long as I don't have to see a single line of HTML, CSS or JavaScript. JSON is bad enough.
Comment · 10 years ago
I bet sewer sludge would be even cheaper, but that practice was banned for a reason. I fail to see how iron oxide is much better.
Comment · 10 years ago
Judging from the very harsh sentences masters who are caught (let alone brag about) dumping waste overboard, you'd rather think there's a conspiracy in favour of rather than against these jackasses.
Comment · 10 years ago
Funny, but the subtitles are obviously fake.
Comment · 10 years ago
Since those things are already so riddled with DRM, why not simply make the internal builds phone home to an activation server that only allows IPs assigned to Microsoft?
Comment · 10 years ago
Is he a drug addict, an imbecile, or is it just a speech impediment?
Comment · 10 years ago
Can't speak for BMW keys, but every VAG key I've had has been horribly flimsy. Don't use it to open bottles or you'll be locked out of your car.
Comment · 10 years ago
I can understand why the big banks are reluctant to re-write the big systems now that they have painted themselves so far into the corner, but what I don't understand is why they seemed so disinterested in the massive advances that were made in the 1970s that would have made COBOL and IMS long obsolete already then.
Comment · 10 years ago
In a sane world wiping liquids off of smooth, hard surfaces would be the same domain whether the material under whatever the wiper is attached to is in the liquid, solid or gaseous phase.

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