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andrewingram
16y ago
I totally agree with the experiences thing. Assuming you're not saving up for a house or something, what better thing to spend your money on than a new experience? A lot of people suddenly become frugal when confronted with the price tag of
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16y ago
My parent's address structure is: House Name, Road, Village, Town, County, Country (if applicable) Post Code. My address structure is: Flat Number - Building, Road, City, Country, Post Code Some multi-input address forms require that I ente
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andrewingram
16y ago
I like this, its awesomeness increase proportionally to its silliness. It's also interesting that even on a planet as big (or objectively as small) as ours, you can only go a few levels deep with this kind of research.
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andrewingram
16y ago
Yup, I was slightly surprised that it's not more widely known.
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andrewingram
16y ago
At work I developed a wsgi script that use Python Imaging Library to resize images on demand. You can see it in action here: http://dyn4.media.forbiddenplanet.com/products/2148557.jpg.s... http://dyn4.media.forbiddenplanet.com/products/2
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andrewingram
16y ago
It looks like my calculations were in fact way off. Though when I plug that into google I get a different answer because it assumes imperial gallons for me. However, this answer is much more interesting and restores my faith in ridiculous n
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andrewingram
16y ago
Unless my maths is very much off, if you made the oil into one long cuboid 1 atom across, the length would be 88 light years. I was kind of disappointed by this, I was hoping it would be longer than the known universe.
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andrewingram
16y ago
It's largely to do with the fact that there seems to be such amazingly varied environments within a days travel of San Francisco, not to mention lots of exciting activities that come from such a massive bay area and coastline. I'm sure Lond
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andrewingram
16y ago
Weird, I live in London and really don't see the fuss. San Francisco looks much more enjoyable.
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andrewingram
16y ago
Honestly I don't think they're putting themselves out of the reaches of a startup. It's more than possible to justify the cost if the service is going to be genuinely valuable. The problem is that the 30 day free trial probably isn't enough
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andrewingram
16y ago
I was going to make this point on the OP but my comment wasn't posted (yet?) There are ways around it (define all your background images at the end of the CSS file for example), but I think it's a bit early to be declaring data-urls the hol