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by baltoo 18y ago
From the FAQ: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/creative/bonobo-conspiracy.php#stri...
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by baltoo 18y ago
You learn something new every day. Though I must say that "usually" doesn't really ring true to my ears. Perhaps it's the way nutrisionists talk, but is it really "usually" that way? If someone presents a jug of a liquid and says "luckily f
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by baltoo 18y ago
I'd say that idle and bored are not the same thing ( http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i21/21b00601.htm ). In the same vein meditation is not the same thing either. From my point of view it's about being mindful about one's surrounding without
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by baltoo 18y ago
> Luckily for babies, breast milk is 50 percent fat. My memory and Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_milk#Composition ) disagree. It about a magnitude lower than that. (In humans that is, of course. Not that breast milk is
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by baltoo 18y ago
Perhaps not Goddess of Programming, but The Lady (of Discworld fame) could maybe be apt for a Goddess of Startups.
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by baltoo 18y ago
Wealth is neither here or there. Or did you mean intellectual wealth? Well, I'd say that newspapers, in print or online, or blogs are all in writing. Thus more or less equal in potential power. There we seem to at least mostly agree. I gues
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by baltoo 18y ago
VAT is for each member state. There are common rules on how to handle things when products cross borders in different ways, but the taxes themselves are lifted by each member state and the actual percentage differs between product groups an
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by baltoo 18y ago
Perhaps newspaper reading is not so common and complacency is more widespread in the US, I don't know, but some forms of media are more suited for more in-depth analysis while others are not. I'd say that the newspapers format gives the pub
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by baltoo 18y ago
It could very well be the single biggest one. In europe they'd probably need deals for each and every country. (Which require money and time.) The same would go for the rest of the world. (Also, the farther away from American culture the le
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by baltoo 18y ago
Then perhaps the bailout money would be better spent in reskilling the people that will get layed off?
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by baltoo 18y ago
I'd say that in Sweden "identifying" oneself as Christian should be interpreted as having a value-system based on the traditional Christian one. What would be the alternative to identify oneself as Christian? As atheists? Where non-belief
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Pixlr - the online image editor(pixlr.com)
105 points by baltoo 18y ago|48 comments
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by baltoo 18y ago
First time I've heard of it. Where I come from it's the other way around. Salting before tasting just means you generally like more salt than most and the host couldn't have predicted that. Salting afterwards is a (faux pas) critique.
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by baltoo 18y ago
I firm outside can hide oceans of internal insecurity. This is so true and such a cliché that we often suspect people with too firm outsides to do just that.
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by baltoo 18y ago
Isn't a fundamental problem that form is function? With that I mean that in the end the form of the UI is part of it's function. So are other parts, e.g. "content" is part of the UI's function as well. This would imply that there's no true
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by baltoo 18y ago
Yes
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by baltoo 18y ago
When presenting designs to clients some firms add a "pink rabbit" to it, i.e. something that's just too obvious to be ignored by the client. The discussion will then be steered to what to do about it, how to change it, what color it should
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by baltoo 18y ago
In Stockholm, Sweden you can pay transit fairs for busses and the subway via SMS ( http://sl.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=4920 ). SL (the ones running the bus service) have removed all money handling from the busses as a way of increasing secu
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by baltoo 18y ago
I'm located in the northern parts of Europe so perhaps that explains it but I routinely and deliberately use foul language in technically oriented internal documents. The rationale being that it should be harder to copy'n'paste and edit it
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by baltoo 18y ago
Or countries close to each other simply have more in common with each other culturally. This would result in something looking like "bloc voting" as well. Does anyone even think it's possible to determine a songs "rating" objectively?
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by baltoo 18y ago
a.k.a Work Hard, Play Hard
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by baltoo 18y ago
(As a new member of this forum I'm a bit shy to add to this thread, but here it goes anyway.) I suppose you've both seen the writings of Alan Carter ( http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/ ) and it seems to me that it just might be a way