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by baha_man 13y ago
"English pub food is paid for at the bar with your drinks, that you yourself walk away carrying." In my experience it's more normal that you order your food at the bar, and a member of staff then brings your food to your tabl
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by baha_man 13y ago
I heard that some people are pretty much immune to CS gas, the only reference I can find online is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACS_gas#Immunity
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by baha_man 13y ago
"There have been plenty of detailed studies carried out recently... that demonstrate how the life expectancy of a retiree drops the earlier they reitre." The main finding of the study you link to seems to be that early retirement doesn't i
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by baha_man 14y ago
"Debuggers will break on exceptions... Decent debuggers allow you to specify which exceptions you break on and which you don’t." This drives me mad in Visual Studio, if you specify a set of exceptions to break on, then later decide you need
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How to Travel Through 20+ Countries with Free Room and Board(fourhourworkweek.com)
1 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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My simple ways to be a happier, smarter 30-something(blog.asmartbear.com)
2 points by baha_man 14y ago|1 comments
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Human hands evolved so we could punch each other(newscientist.com)
1 points by baha_man 14y ago|1 comments
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IOS v Android: app revenues, downloads and country breakdowns(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 14y ago
Consider Dudley Code-right. He implements a feature which isn't well thought out, barely works from a user perspective , and has horrible usability. He comes up with a very elegant way to implement it. Boom, it's done, and nearly bug free.
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Precognitive Build Servers(michaelfeathers.typepad.com)
1 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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Why e-books will soon be obsolete(gyrovague.com)
5 points by baha_man 14y ago|2 comments
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Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?(dailymail.co.uk)
6 points by baha_man 14y ago|7 comments
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Amazon Ramps Up Global Expansion, Opens Massive Media R&D Center In London(techcrunch.com)
2 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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Snowflake Server(martinfowler.com)
73 points by baha_man 14y ago|33 comments
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Illegal GPS Jammers Are Widespread, Study Finds(techweekeurope.co.uk)
67 points by baha_man 14y ago|52 comments
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Frank Zimmerman and me: The truth about the troll who tormented Louise Mensch(independent.co.uk)
3 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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Standard Story Points(martinfowler.com)
1 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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Persistence, Facades and Roslyn's Red-Green Trees(blogs.msdn.com)
3 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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My Take on Unit Testing Private Methods(peterprovost.org)
1 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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Why are locked room mysteries so popular?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by baha_man 14y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 14y ago
As mentioned above, Homer and Marge are servers rather than people.
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The Long Tail of Technical Debt(michaelfeathers.typepad.com)
16 points by baha_man 14y ago|1 comments
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The Tyranny of the Diff(michaelfeathers.typepad.com)
81 points by baha_man 15y ago|52 comments
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by baha_man 15y ago
No, there isn't. From Stack Overflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/4760170/ ): "No. Why stop the user from copy-pasting their own password? Whenever you're looking at a security protection like this, it's important to ask yourself: Exactly w
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Do we really give introverts a hard time?(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by baha_man 15y ago|2 comments
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The Use/Build Fallacy(panopticoncentral.net)
2 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 15y ago
"A relative of mine was just denied residency at a prestigious hospital when the admissions committee found out through Facebook that she has children..." Would you care to elaborate on that?
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by baha_man 15y ago
This just isn't true. In today's game it's very common for a player with the ball, in the area, to go down after the slightest contact from an opposing player, rather than stay on their feet and shoot.
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Some great stuff I've tried recently (37signals.com)
1 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments

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