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I've always been impressed by Amazon.com's recommendation system. Sure, it gets a little weird when they know exactly what I want before I know what I want, but it sure is convenient. I'm sure you Linux folks (like Tom) appreciate it just as much. In fact, I'll bet you didn't even know how much you wanted No More Bottles For Bunny! ...
In my teenage years I went down south to visit some of the good 'ol boys in the Vinson clan (that's clan with a "c," though I have my concerns that some of them might be members of a clan with a "k," too). Regardless, we went to their church for some light gambling, where bingo cards were advertised as being "$5 each or 5 for $25." I'm not kidding. That's still a better special offer than Bob D. was offered on audible.com, though...
Jamin doesn't trust traditional filesystems. You can keep your FATs and your NTFSs; he'll stick with paper. Of course, file storage takes up more physical space in this case, but copying a file is as easy as setting the printer to print and collate two copies every time a file is saved. The only issue he has is that booting from the scanner takes several days.
If you're working on a feature of an application that is hidden off in a dark, cobweb-covered corner that maybe one in ten thousand users will ever use, you might be a little lax about it. Maybe it'll stay out of the smoke testing plan, maybe it'll even be forgotten by the time the software ships. A good example of an insignificant feature would be the ability to select a background color in a print preview screen. A bad example of an insignificant feature would be creating a new document.
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Dave T. sent in this message that I've been trying to figure out. As I understand it, FontLab's import failed because it couldn't find the reason the import failed... but it wouldn't have a reason to fail to begin with. It's as though it predicted a failure that didn't actually happen, which caused an error. I swear, this'll lead me to trepan myself like the guy in that movie Pi.
Trying to follow news and current events the old-fashioned way is not so easy. Analog media like “newspapers” (I’d have to check Ye Olde English Dictionary, but I think that’s what they’re called) lack hyperlinks and require the reader to physically “turn” the “page” in order to continue reading a story. It’s crazy. And not only that, these ancient relics have no ability to handle errors like Page Not Found. Oli D. is still struggling to find Page F5 amongst F1, F2, F3, F4, F%, and F6...
Everyone has rebellious impulses. Doing the exact opposite of what signs, your conscience, authority figures, or common sense tell you to do is always more fun than obeying them. Honestly, the "Do Not Feed the Tigers" sign at the zoo might as well just read "Fun Prohibited." Sometimes you have to listen to the Avril Lavigne in your head and just, like, totally reject authority!!
(Submitted by Nit)
Before popup blocking was a common browser feature, I developed a high level of skill manually blocking popups. I could zoom the mouse over a window and close it almost immediately after it appeared. This became second nature, and after getting used to it, I became incapable of not closing popups. Similarly, I subconsciously check "Do not show this message again" boxes and uncheck "show this message next time [x] starts" any time I see it. If this is what I'm missing out on, I'll deal with it.
(Submitted by Ben)
Despite the fact that we work together and literally sit within arm's reach of one another, I was overjoyed when Alex made me an author on this site. "They'll talk about ya in the papers, kid. Stick with me and you'll go far," he said. Of course I'm paraphrasing; "Jesus, this is taking way too much time out of my day. Can you write an article so I don't have to?" might be a little more accurate. Still, I was honored to have the opportunity for several reasons:
(Submitted by Chris)
It was a big day for the Human Resources department at George's company: they finally moved their myriad of documents and forms to the company's Intranet. While they could have simply uploaded their Word files directly, they opted for a more Web 0.1 approach: they printed off the documents, scanned them in, and uploaded the resulting PDFs.
With an offer like this, Dan Q. would be an idiot not to spend £100,000.00 on several copies of Sage Instant Accounts 12 (Google cache) from across the pond. Order now and get it before whatever the hell Red Nose Day is!
S. B. S. knows that employment scammers are waiting around every corner. Your neighbor might be one. Your coworker. Even your grandmother is probably running work-at-home scams on the internet! S. B. S. fortunately wasn't taken in by this one from Monster.ca:
Christian K. needed to wash his Nitro, which according to Google is probably either a Dodge car, snowboard, fishing boat, punk rock album, sexy movie guide, or web development framework. Anyhow, he had no outside spigot to use in his apartment complex, so he needed a way to hook it up to his kitchen sink. Google tried to correct his search, and I have to admit that I'm more than a little afraid to check this out in Google Image Search.
Mar 07
