Wonderdonkey

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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
I've seen this kind of sentiment a lot. But it seems like if you want to bring people into the fold, you might stop calling them names and pointing out the wrongness of their previous beliefs over and over. Show some human understandin
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
This is really interesting because there seem to be two camps on this. A lot of stories are reporting the asteroid as missing, while others report pictures taken by the Dubai Astronomy Group. One of those camps has it very wrong. http:&#x2
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
Here's another, equally replicable secret to a higher salary: Go for a walk. Run into a billionaire. You both get knocked down. Tell the billionaire to watch where he's walking. The billionaire stands up, says, "Hey, kid, you got moxie. I'm
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
Journalism isn't supposed to be fiction. The information comes from some place other than the journalist's mind, and often that information originates in a press release, though that absolutely should not be the end of a journalist's resear
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
If I weren't in a different profession, I'd say we must work for the same company.
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
I get that pain too sometimes, like a bruised bone in the tip of my fingers. It doesn't seem to happen when I get a good mechanical-switch keyboard. But when I'm on a bad keyboard, like a laptop keyboard, and I have to bang the keys hard or
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
This article is from 2012. The simulation is lagging. What kind of hardware is this thing running on?
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
aditgupta, What I saw of this was pretty neat. Have you considered adding Common Core alignment for high school students/teachers who would benefit from it? Heads up: I left the site, and it didn't remember me when I came back. I forgot my
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
This man really did not pay attention. I've rarely seen Apple stock rise the day of a press or investor briefing no matter how good the news. In fact it has often been the opposite. In fact, now that I've looked over just the last year, mos
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
This writer should have qualified "news" as general consumer news. Professional/trade news, tech news, science news, health news, environmental news — all of these have a direct and sometimes meaningful impact on our lives.
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
This is the closest he's come to keeping his campaign pledges to reverse the idiocy of the Bush era, but he failed, and then he even reversed his own executive order in 2011. Like suspension of habeas rights, like warrantless wiretaps, like
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by Wonderdonkey 13y ago
As I was reading this, I kept thinking, Is this a satire of the American government? But no, it was just some jingoistic piece singling out one foreign country. I accept that the Chinese government is terrible. It's the incredulous "it woul
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
Tradehill reported it was a DDoS. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/339410,virtual-currency-bitcoi...
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
"Sorry, we are sold out of this item." Aw.
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
Same here. Did it three times, each time with the same error. No confirmation e-mail.
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
Yeah, I was just kind of curious to hear what other premium users were experiencing. I assume anyone who goes premium has a need like mine. Oh well. Lesson learned: Don't talk smack about a Y Combinator company on Y Combinator. The propriet
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
Same here. I was planning to buy a HERO3 Black Edition and several accessories with my tax refund. Not now. Use DMCA, lose me as a customer.
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
The issue isn't what hoops you should jump through before you publish a story. It's what you as a reporter need to do to serve your reader best — period. You have to distinguish between reporters who should be out in the field — political a
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
Am I the only one who thinks Dropbox isn't very good? I only seem to see positive comments, and that just doesn't make sense to me. I'm a premium Dropbox user with multiple terabytes of storage. (We deal with large files that have to be sha
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Browser extension provides a fresh perspective on "the cloud"(github.com)
3 points by Wonderdonkey 14y ago|0 comments
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
You're awesome. Thanks for the link and the enlightenment about that site!
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
That guy's wrong about double-hyphens. That's historically been MLA and APA style for an em dash, and it's also an adequate substitute in cases where the full em dash is unavailable or when the software doesn't support extended characters.
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
I live in Southern California. I thought it would be hard to find when I first went looking, but the first Albertsons I went in had a giant stack of it. Do you have any grocery stores with a kosher section or an "international" section? Tha
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
Read: Nothing will come of this. President Obama also said he would veto CISPA, close Guantanamo Bay, curb ICE, pull troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, end indefinite detention, defend labor rights, stop hiring former lobbyists in the Whit
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
Fentimans' sounds awesome. I've had a lot of other cane sodas like Boylan's. My kids and I used to raid Bevmo's soda aisle once a week to try new things. That gets expensive though. Passover Coke is nice and cheap by comparison. I never tho
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
This time of year you can buy "Passover Coke." It's made with cane sugar. It has no corn syrup in it whatsoever, while Mexican Coke actually has a ≈70/30 cane/corn mix. You can tell it apart from regular Coke by its yellow cap printed with
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by Wonderdonkey 14y ago
Same here. Diacritics also cause problems. Korean characters don't show up at all.