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by CanSpice 12y ago
This is essentially a copy of the original press release from 1996: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/06/
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by CanSpice 12y ago
From 44 meters away?
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The key point is "consciously and happily". Different people have different situations going on in their life. If you're a 23-year old single employee, you might decide that you are willing to work 60 hours a week because you
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by CanSpice 12y ago
They're programming languages that people use to solve programming problems, just as Java is.
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by CanSpice 12y ago
So to run a smoke test using a language that's already installed on the computer Tim Bray is using, instead of just typing something easy into a terminal, he needs to download an entirely new application, set that up with his project (
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by CanSpice 12y ago
All of those examples work for me with Chrome 35. One thing I would love on HN is the reluctance to say something is "lame" because one example doesn't work for one person on one browser. Instead of being dismissive, why not
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by CanSpice 12y ago
There are already cheaper solutions to this: http://www.drinkspikedetector.com/howitworks.htm for example.
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by CanSpice 12y ago
If you click the star next to the ingredient name, it tags that ingredient as "recipe must include this ingredient", so you can click all of the stars to do an AND. Edit: And if you click the star a second time it tags it as &quot
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by CanSpice 12y ago
It's difficult to RTFA when TFA doesn't even load.
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Like most anti-spam legislation, this will both hurt legitimate businesses trying to send email to people they've done business with in the past, as well as do nothing to stop spam. Spammers are still going to spam. They don't car
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Epic Games makes the Unreal Engine.
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by CanSpice 12y ago
The images there all have ALT tags, so that should be okay. Images comprising only text is (obviously) more bandwidth-heavy, though, so that could be seen as a bit of a mistake. It's not a design mistake though, it's more of a &qu
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Yeah, I saw @Stammy's tweet too. https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/473536229531586562
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by CanSpice 12y ago
So? What does that have to do with anything? It's illegal in the United States to import these drugs into the United States. Amazon is based in the United States. What does it matter if they're legal or not in any other country? T
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Did you happen to read the whole thing? > Does Dubia look too damn nice? Unrealistic? You came here to see the consequences of our current ecological irresponsibility... So here's Dubia, the worst-case poster child for global warmin
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Forgiving works when the other person has expressed regret for their actions and doesn't repeat them. Neither apply in this case. I too voted to keep him banned.
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> Then they must find a copy of the virus, examine it and add it to the list of virus definitions used by their software. Strictly speaking, this isn't true. The major AV companies use file behaviours to try to stop viruses as a fi
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by CanSpice 12y ago
That's not Twitter's fault though, that's Tweetdeck's.
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Why are the rocks in the centre "fused together"? Gravity. What other force is there that makes the Moon spherical and holds it together? The point you make about the tidally-locked orbit doesn't hold. Tidal forces are there
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When the article title includes the words "every programmer", that's a really large set of programmers. I don't think a programmer working on embedded systems needs to know about SEO, nor do kernel hackers, nor do scient
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Except it shouldn't, because when you have a leap second occur, suddenly you're off by a second. A day is a day, it's not 86400 seconds.
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That coupled with the header graphic on this post (graveyard with what's probably Jesus on a cross but could be misconstrued to be a lynching) gives me all kinds of uncomfortable feelings.
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Are you thinking of the Time Traveler Essentials Shirt? http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=...
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Watch out for this if you try it in a city, because you could run afoul of bylaws and angry neighbours. In Surrey, British Columbia, a family tried doing this. They had piled up bark mulch and manure, and one of their neighbours complained
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by CanSpice 12y ago
For those of you who might be looking to move away from Moves, you could give Breeze a try. It's only available for the iPhone 5S (because of its M7 chip). It was announced last week by Runkeeper: http://blog.runkeeper.com&#
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Not a joke. Some appliances have what's known as "Sabbath mode", because of the Jewish restriction on doing work on the Sabbath. From Wikipedia: "When an oven is in Shabbat mode, the standard six- or twelve-hour automati
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by CanSpice 12y ago
Also mentioned in that link is Shared Services Canada, which appears to be a division that's tasked with bringing the various departments' IT infrastructures under a single umbrella. From their website ( http://www.ssc-s
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You probably want to read this: http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/ Particularly the section titled "You can’t possibly measure that, can you?"
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Little known fact: Hawaii's record high temperature (100F) is the same as Alaska's record high temperature (100F), and both are the lowest record high temperatures for the 50 states. Alaska's record low (-80F) is a little bit
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by CanSpice 13y ago
Judging from this story ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/ca... ) it would appear that the Ontario courts are pretty firmly on the side of non-competes being unenforceable. "In short,

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