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by alaithea 16y ago
This link is a little old and I haven't tried it, but here you go: http://torrentfreak.com/use-bittorrent-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-...
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by alaithea 17y ago
I'm not sure how much team size is relevant here. You're still creating project history through a series of discussions and decisions, things that a bug tracker can record quite well if used properly. Every team also has turnover. Having yo
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by alaithea 17y ago
This is similar to how one of my English TA's in college taught me to write essays. Perhaps this is standard advice, but to hear it so plainly put was new to me. Paragraph 1: First sentence: Your thesis statement. Follow it with several sen
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by alaithea 17y ago
There seem to be differing opinions on that. A bit of a Googling suggests that you wait until the cord has stopped pulsing, which might be as soon as a few minutes. I'm not sure why the risk of infection would increase with the cord intact
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by alaithea 17y ago
You don't clamp it. You wait (IIRC) 15-30 minutes before doing anything to it, to give it enough time to drain. The immediacy with which the cord is routinely clamped and cut rose quite a bit in the 80's and 90's. It only makes sense that y
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by alaithea 17y ago
I agree that it sounds like meditation. In a yoga class I attend, which combines an hour of light flow yoga with about a half-hour meditation (first about 20 minutes prone on the back, and then 10 minutes sitting cross-legged), I often ente
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by alaithea 17y ago
> Why is a purposefully acquired taste superior to one that didn't require effort? Some songs are instantly likable, often because they are simple and their hooks are easily grasped. I would compare them to children's songs. You know th
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by alaithea 17y ago
When I saw the husky puppy, the first thing I thought of was Philip Greenspun and his Samoyeds. http://philip.greenspun.com/ Funny coincidence that he mentioned him in the article, as one of his forerunners. Maybe it wasn't coincidence.
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by alaithea 17y ago
In my limited experience, in tech companies, they tend to work just above project managers and shape product development and direction, by interacting with clients and the industry at large. But this is still a rather vague idea of what the
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by alaithea 17y ago
I wish they had gone into what genetic markers got assigned to which diet types, but that might be a bit too much for the BBC. A quick search of Google Scholar is not turning up a likely candidate for the paper.
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by alaithea 17y ago
Everyone in the study was on a diet, but they put some people on the "wrong" diet for their genome. They were the control. The 2-3 times more weight lost was comparing those two groups in the study, not comparing to people outside of the st
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by alaithea 17y ago
That's actually a drug originally developed for glaucoma. The eyelash-growing part was a side-effect.
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by alaithea 17y ago
Stopped reading at gratuitous religious reference to "God-given" gifts.
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by alaithea 17y ago
Works now, thanks.
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by alaithea 17y ago
It looks really cool; if only I could get it working. Anybody else having trouble with the Ubuntu PPA? I can sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dreampie-devel/ppa just fine, but when I do apt-get update, the dreampie stuff comes up 404.
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by alaithea 17y ago
Eddie Bauer makes a great wrinkle-free oxford. No ironing is a beautiful thing.
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by alaithea 17y ago
Whether a suit looks good for your height just depends on the proportions of the suit compared to your body. A short guy can wear a suit just as well as a tall guy (or vice versa), if he has the right length jacket. This is because the jack
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by alaithea 17y ago
Upvoted for your mention of dressing to signal your respect for others. It seems many geeks rarely think of this. To many geeks I have known, their down-dressing is about their comfort and desire to buck mainstream culture. That's fine, but
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by alaithea 17y ago
Here's an interview with the founder, which includes a screenshot of a message view. http://www.emailserviceguide.com/2009/10/interview-with-jere...
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by alaithea 17y ago
Not just like with libraries. Library books are free. As an avid library goer, I'm tempted by the Kindle, but I don't actually want one. I get 95% of my books from the library, so for people like me, a Kindle is just a way to spend money mo
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by alaithea 17y ago
I'm not sure they have any. Their marketing and communication tend to be pretty minimalist. I happen to like it that way. You can always get a free guest account to try it out. Or if you ask nicely enough, one of us who have accounts might
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by alaithea 17y ago
I find it to work pretty well, as long as I keep it trained by moving stuff that gets past it into the Junk folder. You can fine-tune lots of its settings (change thresholds, etc.) in the control panel.
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by alaithea 17y ago
I pay a small amount yearly for an account at FastMail ( http://www.fastmail.fm ) They have a very solid IMAP service, and a robust (though not Gmail-fancy) web interface. In the five years or so that I have had an account with them, I thin
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by alaithea 17y ago
I love how he describes the two types of geeks. I would argue that there is something in between the two, but it's eloquent nonetheless. "The second type is tech-inflected liberal arts types." This makes me laugh, because I probably have to
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by alaithea 17y ago
I'm not worried about what happens at application, but what happens when it breaks down and comes loose from the surface. The former may be in a controlled environment, but the latter may not.
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by alaithea 17y ago
"Just" silicon dioxide? Ever heard of the irreversible lung disease, silicosis? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
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by alaithea 17y ago
I think some of this problem could be averted by better communication skills on our part. If I notice someone repeating something to me, maybe it means they don't think I've gotten it, so the best response would be to say it back to them
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by alaithea 17y ago
One of my pet peeves is when people repeat themselves too often. Maybe I am more computer than human.
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by alaithea 17y ago
We have an eeePC at our house. It is one of the seashell models and only 3-4 months old. About two weeks ago, the power supply blew. Once we got a replacement power supply and were able to turn the eeePC back on, the screen had a large, wav
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by alaithea 17y ago
Depending on the OP's expectations and attitude, saying that it will take a lifetime could be a bit discouraging. Some say that seven years of dedication is all that is really needed to reach "mastery" in most subjects ("mastery" is of cour

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