Marcus316

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by Marcus316 11y ago
When the Queen is placed, it becomes Black's turn. Black is not in check, but is in a situation where there are no legal moves for Black to play (his pawns cannot advance, and the king has no legal squares to land on. Because of this,
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by Marcus316 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the first 256 bit key listed in his output is/was mine. It was a key generated and used as a test (years ago). It has never been used to access my Github account. Also, my account is pretty bare as it is. To be saf
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by Marcus316 11y ago
Not sure where you got the idea that it is entirely the child's choice what he learns. What I got out of the article is that the child's interests, strengths and weaknesses are taken into account to produce an individualized curri
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by Marcus316 11y ago
Tried this picture: https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11040377... Told me age 25. I'm flattered. ;)
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by Marcus316 12y ago
I've never used a keyboard/driver which had this functionality (CAPS Lock only affects letters on any system I've used in the past). However, I believe the SHIFT LOCK key that existed on some typewriters functioned in the fas
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by Marcus316 12y ago
The story of the original Tilde Club is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8432703 Sadly, I was slightly too late to join the original, but there are now a number of similar clubs with available space. Tilde Town is
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by Marcus316 12y ago
I'm not on freenode or any of the main IRC servers very often, so I can't comment there, but there's a bit of a resurgence of IRC for me via http://tilde.town , one of the many tilde servers that sprung up after h
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by Marcus316 12y ago
Please note, closed questions can also be removed from the site. I have a single Gold Badge in the SO world. It was awarded for an answer that I gave which earned more than 100 up votes[1]. Sadly the question to which I responded has since
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by Marcus316 12y ago
There are a few comments here and directly at the article which mention the concept of a balanced work area, with open spaces as well as private spaces. So far, nobody has given an example of this. I happen to work in a balanced office. Our
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by Marcus316 12y ago
My son's school (Junior Kindergarten to Gr 5) uses iPads as part of their learning environment. We (the Parent Council) are helping fund the purchase of AppleTV devices for the classrooms so students can share what they're doing o
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by Marcus316 12y ago
Are other search engines complying with this EU court ruling? Or do other search engines just not matter?
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by Marcus316 12y ago
Interestingly enough, I did do a quick Trademark search, and it turns out that, while the "James Bond 007 & Gun"[0] is a registered trademark in Canada, the name "James Bond" is not yet trademarked[1]. There is a sea
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by Marcus316 12y ago
So, yes, it seems that James Bond has entered the public domain in Canada. I wonder, though, what kind of legal hammers would be brought down upon someone who tried to do any sort of adaptation or reproduction of the work in another medium.
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by Marcus316 12y ago
Memory has always been an interesting topic to me, and the "method of loci" as described in the article is something that fascinates me, particularly because I've never been able to really do it (not for lack of trying). It h
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by Marcus316 12y ago
And then there's Quebec and their Language Laws. Quebec takes "language as culture" to an extreme, sometimes ...
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by Marcus316 12y ago
I missed the live briefing ... is there a replay somewhere that I can watch?
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by Marcus316 12y ago
It's a little surreal reading about gamers. I am geek, through and through, and I have always enjoyed video games, but I don't seem to belong to gamer culture, as far as the internet is concerned. What happened to the social aspec
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by Marcus316 12y ago
It's starts at about 1:15:00 in Episode 88.
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by Marcus316 12y ago
Have you, perchance, read "Voyage From Yesteryear"? The "economy" described is rather interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear
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by Marcus316 12y ago
Perhaps such a ruthless track is beneficial to Matt, and if so I bid him good fortune. It would be of terrible hindrance to my own productivity, though. I am at heart a social person. I require a balance of social interaction and thoughtful
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by Marcus316 12y ago
That could be a lot of research. Given the nature of the books I tend to buy (usually no single item over $15-20, but in bulk orders up to $400 sometimes), I have little incentive to spend much time researching for "good deals" ac
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by Marcus316 12y ago
I've never bought a book online from Amazon, interestingly enough. I HAVE bought books online from indigo.ca (more often than not I just go into the local store if it's a more popular book, as it is almost certainly in stock). Cer
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by Marcus316 12y ago
I tend to agree with you about 40h/week for work. I have been pretty lucky in life and have never had to work more than 40 regular hours in a week (barring some reasonable on-call time, of course; nothing too exceptional). I have advan
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by Marcus316 12y ago
I don't disagree with your assessment of the book and its ideas. The book is not very deep on any level, technical or emotional. For me, it doesn't have to be. It's a light, fun read that I can scramble through and smile abou
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by Marcus316 12y ago
To be honest, I get pretty much everything I need from any of the bigger Grocery stores, which all carry more than just basic groceries now. Most anything else, I get from Home Hardware or Canadian Tire. I confess, though, I get most of the
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by Marcus316 12y ago
Target only bought the leases, it seems. Hudson Bay Co. still owns the "Zellers" discount brand name, etc. A number of Zellers stores stayed open the whole time, even though the idea was to wind them all down by March of 2012, I t
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by Marcus316 12y ago
While this is still amusing, and poignant, I don't believe the goal of the original link is to encourage people to try and compete with modern languages. For those of us (like me) who learn best by trying things out, a PL project is a
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by Marcus316 12y ago
It's funny ... their big push into the Canadian market brought a few stores to my area ... almost everything in the store is priced higher than the alternative stores here. I don't see much advantage to them, and have bought nothi
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by Marcus316 12y ago
This is an interesting project, and I'm going to have to give a bit more time to it in order to wrap my head around a few things. One thing that makes this a more difficult language for me to really get behind is the (required?) use of
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by Marcus316 12y ago
262144 and I missed ... and I'm not going to try and beat that. Nifty.

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