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by baha_man 18y ago
http://www.deadmansswitch.net/about/ "Since this service is provided free of charge, it comes without any warranty, neither express nor implied (even the actual sending of the messages is not guaranteed, but we'll do our best)."
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by baha_man 18y ago
" p.s. does it annoy you that i don't capitalize any of my letters on here? " Yes, yes it does. Unless you're a cockroach who can't work the shift key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel
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by baha_man 18y ago
"We haven’t even yet said what the really Big feature of Sapphire will be - the thing that motivated us to develop it in the first place (we will only give the full details when we are closer to having a working implementation)." I will do
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Announcing: Real-world Functional Programming in .NET(tomasp.net)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
'...usually my answer is on the first page' The founders intend that eventually the answer you're looking for will show up as a stackoverflow.com question in the first page of Google results. They get more advertising revenue, the purporte
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by baha_man 18y ago
'It was illegal to own gold.' From http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/gold_never_illegal.html : 'Presidential Executive Order 6102, April 5, 1933, made it illegal to "hoard" gold. The order exempted anyone whose "usual and customary" bus
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Warning about the article "SQL Injection" in current "PHP Magazin"(christopher-kunz.de)
5 points by baha_man 18y ago|1 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
'5. Still reading? I thought you'd wizened up by now?' http://www.answers.com/wizened&r=67 wiz·ened (wĭz'ənd) adj. Withered; wizen. http://www.answers.com/wise phrasal verb: wise up Slang. To make or become aware, informed, or soph
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by baha_man 18y ago
'I'm a devoted FF user, and have been forever.' That's interesting, as according to Wikipedia version 1.0 of Firefox was released in February 2004. [1] 'But the response to Chrome shouldn't be to launch new features.' Which new features ar
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Java subList Gotcha(teddziuba.com)
4 points by baha_man 18y ago|1 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
'Hasn't Joel even argued that shutting down the computer should be unnecessary in the future anyway?' Yes, he was also complaining about there being 9 options to chose from when leaving your Windows Vista computer: http://www.joelonsoftwar
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Review: Common Lisp Quick Reference(lispcast.com)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
"It takes so long to file the papers into my filing cabinet... I file them into individual folders for bills, insurance, mortgage, etc." I can't quite see how this could be such a time-consuming task.
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by baha_man 18y ago
"You'll also notice that Microsoft recently has been putting on some very compelling web content that is only available if you use Windows and IE." Does anyone know what this 'compelling web content' is? "Google's greatest fear - that Micro
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by baha_man 18y ago
Carcassonne was restored in the second half of the 19th century, see the wikipedia article above.
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by baha_man 18y ago
I get rid of everything except the address bar. Previously I didn't even have that showing most of the time, as there was a keyboard shortcut to hide and show it (which has since been removed). Once you've taken away all the clutter, Firef
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by baha_man 18y ago
'I always thought IE and Firefox could be slimmed down' Have you tried Opera? I use Windows and FreeBSD, so as Chrome isn't availble on FreeBSD yet I'll probably run Chrome on Windows and Opera on FreeBSD.
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by baha_man 18y ago
Looks like it doesn't run in Wine, guess I won't get to try it out until I go back to work tomorrow.
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by baha_man 18y ago
It would be more interesting if he'd actually tried this himself, and was blogging about the success or otherwise after the event. I can't access the link at the moment, so I don't know if the other guy actually gave it a go or not.
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by baha_man 18y ago
The good thing about reviews on Amazon is that they are by other customers who actually had to shell out for the product. If there was any suggestion that they were being written to get freebies, wouldn't they lose whatever credibility the
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by baha_man 18y ago
'What if your new rock group appeals to fans of the B52s?' Then it's going to appear in the 'Customers Who Bought Items Like This Also Bought' section when I'm looking for B52s stuff on amazon. 'If you have a massage service that is the per
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The End is Not for a While(xkcd.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|1 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
I think the site is supposed to be for very specific technical questions, in which case there is less likely to be a 'seductively wrong' answer. Unfortunately most of the questions don't fall into this category, and either can't be answe
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Every Sunday is the same(sethgodin.typepad.com)
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by baha_man 18y ago
I'd never heard of 'English' units before, we call them Imperial.
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Learn to run?
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by baha_man 18y ago
So was the problem with the Mars Climate Orbiter caused by mixing up 'English' or Imperial units with metric units? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_unit http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by baha_man 18y ago
You might find this link interesting, I had the choice between PRK and LASIK and went for PRK based on Professor John Marshall's concerns: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2000/jun/06/healthand...
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Why does everything suck?(lispcast.com)
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by baha_man 18y ago
Link to the report: Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on "Gold Farming": Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/w...

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