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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Once downloaded a copy of Hound of the Baskervilles, broken into chapters as separate files. Each chapter was almost exactly the same length, within a few hundred characters, showing that it had been serialized first and chapters were size
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These days shorter fiction is almost always published as part of a collection, unless you are selling on line or self publishing in print.
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> extreme padding First drafts tend to be verbose. Poor editing contributes to that kind of prose slipping through into publication. As to huge page counts, mysteries are similar to science fiction as genres but I don't see a push
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If you follow the publication of big name writers, there is a tendency for their later works to get longer and longer, and, as you say, harder to read. Examples include Robert Heinlein in Science Fiction, James Michener in general fiction,
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And Bell System customer and repair service was pretty good when they were the only game in town.
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You do know there is also a Spanish language, where "Lee-bray" is pretty close for an English speaker.
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Some destinations don't have street numbers or even a street. Example from some time ago: United Nations New York, New York was sufficient. Or Macy's Herald Square New York, New York These days with t
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Learned that during the GW Bush administration, the Federal Government was ordered to interact with the government of Puerto Rico, as much as with possible, in the same way as an equivalent interaction with a state government. So it is clos
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Same way someone always knows how to correctly pronounce their name, even if you think it's wrong or it's not how the country of origin pronounces the name. Off topic for this posting but FORTRAN became Fortran around 1990, but it
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Each of the territories have slightly different statuses. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is "closer" to being like a state than any of the others.
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Not to mention countries without post codes at all.
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A few parts of Chicago near O'Hare airport are in DuPage county. In California a city by law cannot cross a county line. San Francisco has a unified city/county government. That's why it's the Board of Supervisors. I t
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Greenland now has a semi-autonomous status under the Danish monarch, so not part of Denmark. So it is similar to the former Dutch colonies in the Caribbean in that respect. And there are also +45 minute time zones. Not just India. Includi
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Politically they are two of fifty states of the United States, and on an equal footing with the other 48. Geographically, Alaska is part of North America, and Hawaii isn't.
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Whoa, whoa, you mean the programmers are supposed to look things up instead of the first idea that pops into their head about how things work. I'm as guilty as everyone else about this.
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Companies that handle online sales either buy or have someone whose duties include figuring out how sales tax matches address. Here in California many areas have sales tax surcharges and the ZIP may not conform to the boundaries. For mail
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Good article - just wish it had followed the canon and been titled "Falsehoods Programmers Believe . . .". Hats off to patio11 for that title. The Bay Area was mentioned. There's plenty of chaos there as, for example, schoo
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When Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Falling Water home was being built, the contractor realized Wright had too little reinforcing rod in the section of the house cantilevered over the creek, so added more against Wright's orders. Oth
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I too found out I'd been doing my shoelaces wrong. YouTube set me straight. For HTML, these are good recommendations. Sometimes, like for technical writing where there are various distinct and important formatting choices,
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It's a large book but has very little fluff or padding in it. Covers a huge amount of ground. I learned a lot from it back when I did some Windows work back around 2000 to 2005. Also MFC.
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Or prepare four or more servings. Put in refrigerator or freezer depending on how fast they will be consumed. So the 20 minutes, let's say, turns into 30 but split over four or six meals, so it's not so bad.
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Clean? I rinse them under running water. This isn't a TV cooking show. It's just home cooking. I should mention that the mushrooms are always cooked well.
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Some localities, especially with HOAs, forbid what you are doing.
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Good ones are loopable so there is no discontinuity when they repeat. And the size of those files implies they are probably minutes in length, at the very least, so you probably don't notice the repetition.
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TY for the recommendation thinking about doing this again, will look into it.
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Recipe I described. You have to know how to chop an onion and mushrooms. How to break up a lump of ground beef. That could be "learned" in 1/2 an hour if you don't want nice TV chef uniformity in the veggies.
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Einstein published General Relativity when he was 35, and after that he did important work but nothing quite as world shaking as the period 1905-15. So he may have been projecting his own disappointment into a general statement.
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I think you won the Internet for the day.
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No, it is Linear A. Remember the Klingon saying. > A programmer who releases open source lacking a man page and info file has no honor.
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That's another way. Fruit/veggie balance up to you. Add Spirulina powder or similar if you want. Do you find the Vitamix ones reliable. I've run though a number of blenders from other companies and had them fail after a wh

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