CoreDumpling

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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Heh, that's rather humbling. But then, if I may borrow the wisdom of Cato the Elder: "I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one."
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
This seems to be extremely common among artists and musicians, which I suspect is because their livelihood is tremendously dependent on reputation as it is hard to objectively judge their work. They have very high standards to meet and ver
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
In spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people. I'm sure the cake [1] they sent to Mozilla was a gesture of honest goodwill. [1] http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24004
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Seeing that you require an email address, the first thing I looked for was your privacy policy. Unfortunately, the lightbox screen doesn't scroll in my browser (Opera 10.10) so I couldn't skim through all of it.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Because it's actually a decent language when you take away the DOM cruft? It's actually remarkably similar to Scheme [1] with very flexible arrays and real first-class functions. [1] http://www.crockford.com/javascript/little.html
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I wonder if they are complying with GPL. The "secret cyber-weapon" can't be so secret if they are also supplying source code, right? Then again, I'd imagine it would be tough to put legal pressure on the DPRK when the combined diplomatic e
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I wonder how this will affect Flash apps that I deliberately keep in the background. It sounds like Pandora, Grooveshark and their ilk can probably survive intact, though it might be harder to load a Youtube video and listen to its soundtr
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I would say that the postscript of that license is the one thing that I consider missing from the original WTFPL. If I'm giving away my software for free without restrictions, I sure as hell don't want to get sued over it.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I'm curious: what do you mean by "casual research"? Do you see Duck Duck Go as the free alternative for individuals who don't have a spare $10k lying around for a subscription to LexisNexis, ProQuest, etc.?
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Practically speaking, JavaScript is already a requirement to get Flash embedding to work correctly across all browsers without the headache -- hence tools like SWFObject, flashembed.js, etc.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
A stackoverflow for medicine could have enormous benefits, but considering how much "blind leading the blind" goes on there I'd be terrified if this is applied to a field with immediate consequences to people's well-being.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Aside from the ones that took something that was correct and turned it into something blatantly wrong, you do raise an interesting point. However, I'd maintain that if you end up with linguistic inconsistencies and it's affecting your bott
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
> Most online places charge about $10 per trade. I think the OP is talking about index funds, not stocks. If you invest in the fund that your broker manages, there usually isn't such a "purchase fee" for index funds, only some of the m
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I've even had trouble when I asked someone else to review the translation work. Sometimes these people have a tendency to want to justify the cost of hiring them, so they will go through the document correcting irrelevant "mistakes" and ot
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Could this be intentional? There might be a legitimate reason to select/copy/paste the text here. RE: Firefox text selection -- there is a browser-specific CSS rule that controls for that: -moz-user-select https://developer.mozilla.org/en
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
As someone who has worked with many incompetent translators and often had to completely redo their jobs, I'm a bit surprised that you're willing to risk getting total crap from these random people. Perhaps this isn't a problem for you if y
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
It might be an "oops" from a single programmer, but I thought a high-profile site like this would at least go through some basic code review. The bug isn't that subtle, either.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
From what I've seen in the US, a lot of Chinese medicine is actually FDA-approved as "beverages" -- supposedly they are safe to drink, but it's up to the user to believe whether or not there's any medicinal effect. Placebo or not, I can say
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Related: "... Thus there is a 1.8% chance that none of the molecules you are (still) holding in your lungs came from Caesar's last breath. And there is a 98.2% chance that at least one of the molecules in your lungs came from Caesar's last
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
On the one hand, I have to salute them for diversifying their offerings and broadening the reach of the Flash platform. Like it or not, there is still a lot of Flash content that's actually worth having on mobile devices. On the other hand
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
As someone who supplies $400 hammers to the government I assure you that $395 of that is the cost of all those man-hours needed to produce all the docs and ppts needed to explain why they need that hammer, what kind of nails it can pound, w
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Personally I find it amusing that after all these years, storage has surpassed CPUs in terms of the ratio of price / volume occupied. I wonder how this will trend in the future.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
But if it's procrastination because I'm trying to avoid it (because I'm not good at it), isn't that the perfect opportunity to bring in the "marketing guy/gal" cofounder to do that work for me? Ideally, you would then only have to actively
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Some of us don't quite have the luxury of fixing our tools (MSVC++ I'm looking at you). Considering the sheer complexity of languages like C++, it's unsurprising that there will be problems here. I've been a blamer of tools as well, but I'