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Devilboy
18y ago
Identical twins reared apart are much more similar than fraternal twins reared together. And to me at least it makes a lot of sense. If you share almost 100% of your DNA with someone else, I'd expect you to look the same on the outside - th
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18y ago
I prefer to call it 'The Krudd Filter' (after our Prime Minister)
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18y ago
World peace
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18y ago
Reportedly pallets full of cash was shipped to Iraq in cargo planes to finance the war effort.
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Devilboy
18y ago
I believe that marketing firms have some sort of price gauge per person depending on how much information you have on each person (and other factors)
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Devilboy
18y ago
But cops are getting bigger...
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Devilboy
18y ago
I believe they've just changed the law... http://photondetector.com/blog/2009/02/16/photographing-poli...
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18y ago
The only problem I have with southparkstudios.com is that it's not 'available' in my country (Australia)! Back to allsp.deltavid.com for me I guess.
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18y ago
About 30 minutes ago this story hit the front page of Digg. Now I can't find it anywhere... X-Files theme song The main thing that keeps me from loving Digg is that there's no way to block users and their submissions. If only I could bloc
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18y ago
Thats also Adobe's fault (Youtube vids = Flash)
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18y ago
The question here is: How do we KNOW that methodology X makes us more productive developers? To answer this question you need to know more about productivity than just a highly subjective 'yes' or 'no'.
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18y ago
Yea common sense these days: Don't look like a tourist. If you're walking down the street with a backpack, moonbag, camera and a tag around your neck you're just looking for trouble.
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18y ago
'Only some of us can learn from other people's mistakes. The rest of us ARE the other people.' -- Forgotten
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18y ago
'CSS vs Tables' already falls under 'Religion'
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18y ago
I feel very uncomfortable with all the financial derivatives - and derivatives of derivatives and so on. It becomes so abstract that it loses connection with what is going on in the real world processes. It seems counter-productive to me.
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18y ago
Could anyone recommend a cheap, small GPS unit that would work with this?
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18y ago
http://i25.tinypic.com/22yzwh.jpg
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Devilboy
18y ago
I've been experimenting with gmail and tags but it's not much better than just using a spreadsheet at the moment.
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18y ago
I think there is definitely room - in niche markets like traditional advertising where photos and other artwork comes from multiple sources, and where automation can really save money for your clients.
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18y ago
Holy crap it sounds like he really wants to get things done around there! I hope that's a good thing.
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Devilboy
18y ago
you bastard
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18y ago
I perform insertions of multiple denominations by pre-sorting the new bills and then just merge with wallet bills.
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Devilboy
18y ago
We use the paid gmail system in our office and it's the best thing that ever happened to our email infrastructure! Pretty cheap and super easy.
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18y ago
Yea I agree. Technically he could be correct, but he's fighting a losing fight. These things are clearly not against the law in every country and so to try to ban them on the internet will just move it out of America to countries that do al
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18y ago
If I read TFA correctly, Biden was sworn in privately earlier and thus was president. Rice wasn't though.
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18y ago
This one by Phillipe Stark is my must-watch TED talk. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philippe_starck_thinks_de... He talks about how he approaches his work and about what drives him to excel. I watch it every few months, it gets bette
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18y ago
I recall reading somewhere that most pro traders can't even beat the common index funds.
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18y ago
Yea, just add the quirky English translations like in 'Iron Chef' and I'll watch it all day long!
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18y ago
I mentioned this in another comment, but the guys from Peopleware did exactly that: http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S... The also conclude that small offices with 2-4 people and a door that can close is best.
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18y ago
Check out the classic book 'Peopleware'. They have several chapters with empirical evidence that the open-plan office is bad for software engineers (or anyone that needs to concentrate and work in 'flow' mode) It sounds like your open-plan
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