Let’s see, in Cuba you can’t buy a computer because the government is afraid you’ll use it in subversive ways, but in the US, according to Senator Hollings, et al., you will only be allowed to buy the computers that have the technology to make sure you don’t do something subversive like infringe copyrights. Which one is the free democracy again?
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If you work in tech long enough you will, inevitable, come across a fix that leaves you going “Why would anything be designed to do THAT?” Or, as I tell coworkers when I come across one, “I don’t know why it works, I’m not even sure why those two things are related, but it works,…
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Don’t you hate when you spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out why you can’t delete a file out of a directory only to discover that you forgot to give yourself permission to do that when you created the directory to begin with? A simple fix, yes, but it really makes you…
From Alex Scoble: Don’t pack rat! This is a good idea. Here’s an example, I started this job and moved into this office about 6 years ago. The person who held this postion previously, was a big time pack rat. I have never been able to fully divest myself of some of his stuff. I…