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by __alexs 14y ago
Were they using a speaker selection system designed to try and increase equality in the line up like for example JSConf EU have in the past? http://2012.jsconf.eu/2012/09/17/beating-the-odds-how-we-got...
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by __alexs 14y ago
> The first point is that NI is pretty much unavoidable anyway, so including it doesn't really make you look great. Only really low-level tax evaders try to get out of NI and PAYE. IANATL but do Starbucks even have any PAYE or NI tax to
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by __alexs 14y ago
s/Louisiana/Some guy from Louisiana/
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by __alexs 14y ago
So what? Just test the commit after you've made it. You can always reset and try again before pushing.
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by __alexs 14y ago
That would explain all of the crazy rubber banding that always seems to start and stop at exactly the same spots.
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by __alexs 14y ago
Does that Padlock really have anything to do with DKIM or SPF? I thought it was just some magically hard coded thing for eBay and PayPal messages. My own DKIM signed messages certainly don't get it.
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by __alexs 14y ago
This. Very odd. The real problem is that they are showing a tiny period of time. Global warming levels out a bit now and then and then keeps on going. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Temperature_Anomaly... around 1965-1975 i
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by __alexs 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
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by __alexs 14y ago
Is a* more or less infinite than .*?
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by __alexs 14y ago
You kind of can using partial function indexes already but it's not very flexible.
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by __alexs 14y ago
Can you explain some more? That sounds like what the ORM Models already do.
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by __alexs 14y ago
> Would it have been industry sexism that meant I wasn't a developer? No. It would have been lack of exposure to the possibility at a young age. Not being told that certain opportunities are open to you because of your gender is sexism.
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by __alexs 14y ago
It's boring and doesn't really make any sense. What is that pictograph for sellers meant to mean? Why is there 1 picture of a person for ~3 million active users? The layout is also oddly inconsistent. It goes from having "NNN" and "MILLION"
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by __alexs 14y ago
Sexy nurses, adorable baby Halloween costumes ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2012-Noahs-Ark-collection-Pinky-... ) and handbags.
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by __alexs 14y ago
> Money quote: "That’s like buying a car based on how much it weighs. It’s irrelevant." Car manufacturers are constantly going on about how the latest model weighs X% less than last years. Lower weight usually means better handling and
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by __alexs 14y ago
Samsung-LSI is part of Samsung's semiconductor division, it has little to do with the their consumer electronics section.
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by __alexs 14y ago
I commonly see advice to block all ICMP traffic which is even crazier. I think perhaps the general suspicion of ICMP might be related to things like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death which are now mostly irrelevant. Some sor
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by __alexs 14y ago
http://keccak.noekeon.org/files.html The C code appears to be public domain. Which might be a problem in regions in which public domain is not a thing but should otherwise be fine for use in most projects.
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by __alexs 14y ago
"The most incredible thing" about something that isn't actually especially incredible is by definition not going to be that exciting. What were you expecting? Each program is actually a VNC client that connects to a server that has super se
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by __alexs 14y ago
Price elasticity of demand is not linear.
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by __alexs 14y ago
Yes because there is no evidence that such differences are anything but a result of variables such as socio-economic status, how stable your upbringing was and the amount of calories you had as a child.
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by __alexs 14y ago
> Just because we strive for gender equality doesn't mean every job has to have exactly the same gender ratios. Actually for pretty much any job not based on manual labour it does mean that. And even then it's mostly because we don't ha
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by __alexs 14y ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/27/cameron-... Women (and other humans) are allowed to be angry about both perceived and actual injustice. TFA isn't even an actual emotional outburst. It's a reasoned account of something
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by __alexs 14y ago
> "most of the Web sites sampled for the Akamai IO Beta are focused on a U.S. audience." Also if you aren't a "major site" how much do you care that most their mobile users are on iOS? Maybe that means you should be pushing Android comp
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by __alexs 14y ago
In some locales, sure, but not in general. Worldwide: Android beats iOS slightly. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201108-20120... Europe: iOS beats Android slightly. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-eu-monthly-201108-
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by __alexs 14y ago
No i'd argue that your are attributing too much value to the logo and that the artist was underpaid.
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by __alexs 14y ago
chroot would probably be sufficient. Barring some sort of code execution vuln in the compiler you can only load stuff off of the filesystem. Having the actual CPP available is nice because some bits of libc are only macros.
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by __alexs 14y ago
Coming 2013 apparently. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229171/HP-Hynix-to-...
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by __alexs 14y ago
Why does _ need to be special cased like this? In Python this works with any variable name. e.g. >>> p = { "Alice": ["g", 1, "a@a"], "Bob": ["b", 2, "b@b"]} >>> [(name, email) for name, (unused, unused, ema
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by __alexs 14y ago
> SPDY compresses everything, together, by default. So does TLS 1.0 on ~42% of HTTPS servers. [1] > I wish that I liked SPDY. You're welcome to hate SPDY, it's just equally bad as HTTPS when it comes to this particular attack. [1]

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