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Don't feel insulted; it's the way US companies behave. Not your fault.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Don't feel insulted
Even though you try to, I don't feel insulted.
However, the point is in the US, you CAN do something about it. You never have to settle.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Even though you try to
WTF gave you that impression?
Taking a poke at people who hike up price to five times what they should be, the first chance they get, is not taking a poke at the 250,000,000 decent US people.ZurdoDev wrote: You never have to settle.
How do you figure that?
Can you somehow make them charge what the USB 3 devices are really worth?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Can you somehow make them charge what the USB 3 devices are really worth?
Yes. I can make my own and sell them cheaper. America!
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Send me your business card, when you're set up.
(If you go through gofundme or whatever, you can tell them that you've already got one faithful customer.)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We have a product that for reasons that only make sense to marketing, has what is known as "the dongle farm". It looks something like this:
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+-----+ Each dongle represents support for one 'thing'. For customers with multiple machines, this lets them move 'thing' support from one machine to another. Fortunately, the pinhead software types on the product didn't have to solve this problem. The hardware folks and the marketing wabbos, after a drunken orgy of TLA schtuppage, decided on this solution.
Software Zen: delete this;
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C-P-User-3 wrote: Used to be $8 and you get 8 ports.
...and did you like those $8 hubs?
In my experience, the good USB hubs are powered, and a lot more expensive than the cheapest ones you can find--but the same can be said for most things.
If they're not powered, good luck actually using 2 or 3 devices on that 8-port hub.
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Excellent observations.
What I found was that the powered one that I had was defacto un-powered.
I was able to use an external keyboard, a mouse, and usually 2 or 3 thumb drives.
After awhile (don't have an accurate number of days/weeks/months) the physical plugs started losing their ability to physically connect.
Then again, for $8, and the thing lasting 2+ years, well, pretty good value in terms of price/performance.
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I had to remove all the bad foods from my house...they were delicious!
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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The IoT fridge restocked itself? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Not sure if this has been posted here before.
I was unable to watch it at work because tears were streaming down my face as I was laughing at this: Let's deploy to production - YouTube[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 31-Jan-19 7:53am.
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Is this next job interview? I bet he didn't get the job.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I odn't care who ya are that's funny!
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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... Because you're laughing too hard to read the subtitles!
Great stuff!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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By now this video (with different subtitles) has turned into such an old meme it shouldn't be this funny.
Shouldn't.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: tears were streaming down my face as I was laughing at this
Absolutely! 
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True story of Fallout 76! 
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A colleague of mine used to work for a well know software games company.
He has vowed never again to work in the software gaming industry after his experience - I heard bits of what it was like and for an industry that provides "entertainment" to other people, the amount of suffering it creates in its employees is just one huge brain***k of cognitive dissonance given the goal is to create happiness for its customers.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yeah, I heard condition are not the best.....
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That's funny stuff right there.
Is that a real translation of what he said or fictional?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote:
Is that a real translation of what he said or fictional?
Fully fictional
That was a show in spanish local tv... the guy was called "el risitas" and is explaining a joke / anecdote.
modified 31-Jan-19 1:19am.
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Spanish risa -> English laugh
risitas -> small laughs -> English "chuckles"?
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