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by bcg1 12y ago
I find this useful. Quick way to exit firefox and save the state of all your tabs in one quick shot :)
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by bcg1 12y ago
The title of this post is misleading IMO. Real title of the story is: "Why A Mortgage Is Not Actually An Inflation Hedge Itself, But Can Provide Access To Investments That Are" I don't even think his argument is totally corre
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by bcg1 12y ago
Seriously, you're more than correct. To say this is a straight up advertisement disguised as a puff piece would be kind. That said, I do regard the Microsoft Natural keyboard one of the greatest keyboard designs I've used, but eve
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by bcg1 12y ago
This is a great tool in my experience as well. I would add that it is not only useful to phrase your criticism as a question, it is also useful to try to think through the possible answers, because there may be a logical one. Doing this can
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by bcg1 12y ago
I think that this assertion is not quite unlike correct.
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by bcg1 12y ago
I love this project, I think it is wonderful. I'm not sure of the practical usage but I don't care, it just strikes me as smart, and looks very nice.
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by bcg1 12y ago
I've not had a cell phone for over 10 years, except for a period of time when my job wanted me on call, so they paid for a blackberry... even then however I very rarely used it except a way to check my email without having to get out m
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by bcg1 12y ago
My apologies, sometimes I forget we all come from different backgrounds. But if you start by reading Cecil Rhodes' will and think through what that might mean, you might start to understand why I think it doesn't matter if it is a
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by bcg1 12y ago
I think that's the point though... Wikipedia at least attempts to solve the byzantine general problem by allowing anyone to edit/review articles... I doubt the same could be said for Encyclopedia Britannica (which I suspect had mo
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by bcg1 12y ago
To nitpick, Java's JIT compiler compiles Java bytecodes to machine code, but I know that javac does to the type of optimization that you are describing. There are plenty of scenarios though where it can't/won't do that o
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by bcg1 12y ago
+10 if I could, re "Expert C Programming"; excellent read, even if you aren't a C programmer
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by bcg1 12y ago
Sort of... technically only the '+' operator only applies to strings... however it is essentially the same issue as the pull request, from what I can gather (I assume the issue comes from allocating a new array with size length+1
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by bcg1 12y ago
I'm not a ruby dev, so I guess maybe my perspective is not that great on this particular issue... but hats off to the dev with the fix, indeed this is how free software collaboration is supposed to work in my opinion. Even the dev with
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by bcg1 12y ago
This is pretty much my understanding as well. OP, everyone hates taxes, but I would not recommend having a flippant attitude about not needing professional assistance with your situation. Especially with FATCA in effect. YOU NEED PROFESSION
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by bcg1 12y ago
Sort of reminds me of Huxley's "Brave New World" when they traumatized the young children to recoil at nature so that when they grow up they never want to take trips out to the country, and so that they would spend all of the
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by bcg1 12y ago
You could be right... but I can remember when CVS was a huge improvement... and then when SVN was the bomb... sometimes it seems like the only thing that stays the same is the fact that everything changes.
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by bcg1 12y ago
Not only that, most of the framers of the Constitution likely had high quality classical liberal arts education, not the watered down public school training that exists in USA today. To think that they never thought about how technology mig
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by bcg1 12y ago
This actually might make sense is a warped sort of way, if you interpret the "being necessary to the security of a free state" as literal and integral to the 2nd amendment... it is hard to argue that stun guns would be useful in d
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by bcg1 12y ago
Thanks for pointing this out and for the link. I'm sort of surprised to see that sort of opinion published in the tech media. I agree with everything the author says... including how nice Github is to use, and I too use it all the ti
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by bcg1 12y ago
However she gets it, hopefully she takes it with a grain of salt.
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by bcg1 12y ago
Economists and central banks debating inflation targeting is a somewhat ridiculous distraction... much of the data they use is based on surveys, adjustments, theoretical models, or comes from inherently biased entities such as banks and gov
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by bcg1 12y ago
The food vs. fuel argument is total propaganda anyhow. As mentioned above, most US corn is used for cattle feed ... and incidentally is only DIVERTED for ethanol production. Even if it wasn't, over 90% of the corn produced in the US
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by bcg1 12y ago
This is true but actually not as much of a problem as self interested make it out to be. Other than the propaganda reason (i.e., to make people think "85" is the octane) the reason that it is called E85 is that it is only 85% etha
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by bcg1 12y ago
sucks because of "engineering reasons" - wow, thanks for the comment Corn-fed beef is not high-quality protein, it is usually feed lot beef laced with antibiotics, andreline and cortisol.