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by blago 9y ago
I literary spent 10-15 minutes trying to find a way to call a phone using my contacts. And I'm a software developer, I do these things for a living. Still not sure what I did it.
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SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite(space.com)
174 points by blago 9y ago|95 comments
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by blago 11y ago
The first thing I do is turn on db and http request logging. Sometimes this alone can be quite a challenge.
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by blago 11y ago
I use a combination of grep (to filter), awk (for projection), and xargs (to execute) to achieve similar result but it probably takes a little longer to construct.
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by blago 11y ago
Do you have to make it personal and insult your opponents? EDIT: I cannot conceive a possible reason why this comment is down-voted. Penalizing well meaning and polite discourse is counter intuitive... in the universe I live.
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Sunni and Shiite: Do you know the difference? Take our quiz(csmonitor.com)
1 points by blago 12y ago|0 comments
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The Dark Science of Interrogation(bloomberg.com)
52 points by blago 12y ago|25 comments
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by blago 12y ago
I would love to see an Inception style movie script inspired by temporal integration.
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American Gothic in the palette of Mona Lisa: Rearrange the pixels(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
3 points by blago 12y ago|0 comments
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by blago 12y ago
I've had the same idea on the back burner for some time. My primary concern was - and still is - copyright.
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Elon Musk says he lost a contract when SpaceX didn’t hire a public official(qz.com)
3 points by blago 12y ago|1 comments
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The reason airplane food tastes bad.(qz.com)
2 points by blago 12y ago|0 comments
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Today is Rubik Cube's 40th birthday(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by blago 12y ago|0 comments
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by blago 12y ago
I just dodged a slap in the face from my petrified girlfriend on her way back form the door :-) Sounds like it works even without headphones.
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by blago 12y ago
I have a street address in Anaheim CA
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by blago 12y ago
I live on 3 continents and my life would't be possible without https://www.postscanmail.com/ Much cheaper then Earth Class Mail.
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by blago 13y ago
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.” Just for the record and off topic, this is known as the Hanlon's razor. It's usually attributed to Robert J. Hanlon, not Napoleon Bonaparte.
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by blago 13y ago
There is a bookmarklet for this: javascript:(function(){ document.body.style.width='600px'; })()
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Let's say I have a 10,000 mile long extension cord.(reddit.com)
2 points by blago 13y ago|0 comments
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by blago 13y ago
The second video is a dud too. Towards the end, Bryan Cranston admits that indeed, he married at 23.
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Permanently retire daylight savings time and change to two time zones.(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
2 points by blago 13y ago|0 comments
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Somalia Government Shutdown Enters 22nd Year(newslo.com)
3 points by blago 13y ago|0 comments
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by blago 13y ago
Neat. This is what Wikipedia has to say: "For the groom's coffee, the bride-to-be sometimes uses salt instead of sugar to gauge his character. If the bridegroom drinks his coffee without any sign of displeasure, the bride-to-be as
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by blago 13y ago
"Even a five second delay" Optimizing response times seems like a better, more universal approach.
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How surveillance technology helps us find lost civilizations(io9.com)
2 points by blago 13y ago|0 comments
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by blago 13y ago
This is great. Thank you.
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by blago 13y ago
Chris, I'm not really invested in any of that, and this is hardly the right thread...
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by blago 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. This was my aha moment: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/world/europe/06bulgaria.ht... I happened to be born in Bulgaria and keep current with events. This is what struc
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by blago 14y ago
"Why didn't the romans invent the internet?" Simply put you could't beat the bandwidth a messenger, traveling on a transcontinental network of roads ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana ), changing horses every few hours. Sem
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by blago 14y ago
I am a US citizen and I had a similar experience. About a year ago I spent a few months in Asia while working remotely for my US employer. Reentering the states (after an almost 24 hour trip), the border agent really didn't like the fact an

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