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Re:Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @06:03AM (#8728633)
Can't you just save an empty bag, and then fill it with any beans you want?

My general thoughts about companies trying to implement DRM is that there's always some stupidly simple hack around it. Like this Keurig hack. I guarantee that within a week or two of this coming out someone will just find another way to hack around the DRM.

Better mousetraps just breed cleverer mice.

Re:Wire – Modern Communications Network on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:18AM (#8692647)
"What we need is another messaging app" said nobody, ever.

It looks pretty, but this is yet another app in the long list of "Skype killers" or "Voice/video/text" messaging. It seems like it's the default goto for anyone that can't think of something more interesting these days.

Re:Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes (1994) on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @08:08AM (#8561579)
You'll often get consecutively numbered runways that are parallel if there's already a C/L/R on that heading.

For example, DFW has 17L, 17C, 17R, 18L and 18R all with the same magnetic heading (176/356). Everything really is bigger in Texas. :)

I guess I am wondering more: what sort of work would make you say "hey, I want to go work there!"

I guess I'm trying to figure this out in reverse. I know I'd leave whatever I'm doing to work for, say, Google because Google (really: I needn't say more, right?).

But what makes Google so attractive? Some of it is the bragging rights but a lot of is that they work on cool things and give you free reign to do cool things.

I am in the same industry and am looking for a change. But I have to define what would make me happy in a day job. My hobby is programming. My job is programming. But there's something soul-crushing about programming at a bank.

Ask HN: Programmers, what are your min requirements? What is your utopia?

This account is a throwaway as I wanted to ask this semi-anonymously.I've been thinking over the past few years about what my minimum requirements are in a working environment and what my ideal would look like, but I honestly have no idea -- not really.I've got 10+ years of coding experience at a major corporation -- non-tech -- and I'm getting rather bored. I'd like to do something new: it...

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