JonRB

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by JonRB 10y ago
Excuse my ignorance but I am at a loss for what BDE could possibly stand for.
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by JonRB 10y ago
During my young naïve programming days (which coming to think of it haven't really ended) I thought to myself "Why bother using some third party database when I could just store user information in text files, the OS handles that
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by JonRB 10y ago
I'm still seeing this - I wonder what their metric is for figuring out these things.
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by JonRB 10y ago
As a fellow layman I imagine that's where incredibly skilled demolition work comes in. There are some wonderful videos of very precise building demolitions out there.
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by JonRB 10y ago
Do you know where I could read about this? I can't find anythign about it at all.
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by JonRB 10y ago
For what it's worth, I know that the British emergency passport is pretty close to yellow - It seems to look more beige on the internet than I remember it though.
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by JonRB 10y ago
And Amazon's other service, found at alexa.com
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by JonRB 10y ago
This has apparently actually identified my antipode. I also feel like circling entire continents doesn't count...
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by JonRB 10y ago
What isn't necessarily considered here is that (In Switzerland, at least) many people don't actually have a loaded gun - Some places will offer to keep your gun, ammunition or both in another location, which saves you having to se
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by JonRB 10y ago
That's not going to get confusing at all! http://www.alexa.com/
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by JonRB 11y ago
I believe it means Apple/Amazon/Google/Facebook/Microsoft I was also unsure and searching for it basically only gave HN things.
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by JonRB 12y ago
People often cite Switzerland in gun arguments but leave out the fact that in Switzerland, owning a gun is an outcome of completing compulsory military service for men - Which means that they are trained in proper safety etc.. I recognise t
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by JonRB 12y ago
I like to think you use some sort of machine learning - You feed it the first few profiles which you do by hand to give the learning some data to start on, then let the machine do its magic.
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by JonRB 12y ago
I've experienced this too - I seem to get a few people joining my gameserver from that ISP and I notice the DNS appeared as 'localhost'. Not ideal and I imagine it could break certain things. I always assumed it was a misconf
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by JonRB 12y ago
Having four independently controllable rotors is probably a lot more stable.
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by JonRB 12y ago
While I fully agree that for video type media, I find that Flash is still pretty important for online games. Sure, those games could be remade in HTML5, but until then it's nice to be able to play them with comparatively little issue.
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by JonRB 12y ago
As a part of my university coursework I modeled forest fires with a grid but mine had varying densities of forests and each tree affected an area around it, not just adjacent cells. It's a really interesting thing to try and model if y
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by JonRB 12y ago
The power goes into the bottom piece so that gravity ensures good electrical connection between the pieces. I imagine here may still be a solution but your 4444 piece needs to be the base. (on second thoughts, you could probably get away wi
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by JonRB 12y ago
I had Capsela (I, for whatever reason have always called it Capseula) as a child, too. Some of it was donated to me by a neighbour and some was purchased. That, along with Lego and knex made up my 'constructive' learning. I also h
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by JonRB 12y ago
This ties in well with the fact that the US has not ratified the appropriate Geneva convention on destroying civilian supplies ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth )
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by JonRB 12y ago
I was hoping for a bit more with regards to significant pronunciation differences. Not just spelling differences.
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by JonRB 12y ago
The one thing I really took away from this (and unfortunately not entirely relevant) is that American English also has it's own SPELLING of Aluminium, not just pronunciation. It makes the difference in pronunciation make a lot more sen
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by JonRB 12y ago
Something I find annoying with this is that on mobile (haven't tried other platforms) it goes back to the top of the page when a sweetalert opens.
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by JonRB 12y ago
I seem to recall reading about a scale model of the solar system somewhere in the northern hemisphere that 'included' the nearest star in Australia somewhere... Anybody else heard of this?
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by JonRB 12y ago
What happens if the download is cancelled/aborted/ruined/interrupted during transfer? Is it still possible to download it?
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by JonRB 12y ago
If you're like the majority of exchanges that come to my university and have a pass/fail condition, I'd aim to pass your units and just take full advantage of the fact that you're in a foreign country. Enjoy yourself, ge
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by JonRB 12y ago
You may be thinking of rainymood?