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   by callahad 17y ago

   Rsync.net is a fantastically awesome service. Check out their FAQ: Will you support my use of X ? Yes. If you are using X with an rsync.net filesystem, we will support and troubleshoot your use of it, regardless of how complex or esoteri
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   by callahad 17y ago

   The US is fine with dual-citizenship, it just doesn't encourage it because it can make certain policy issues a bit more awkward. Sources: ".U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one citizenship or another.
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   by callahad 17y ago

   Just consider it a preloader for your other Mono apps. Once you go to launch Banshee, all those dll's are already mapped and ready to go! And hey, it happens to take notes, too!
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   by callahad 17y ago

   Hold on. You've been here for almost two years. You registered 8 months and 11 days after News.YC launched. You are in no way a newcomer. PS: Cool, an excuse to use Wolfram Alpha! It does calendar computations quite nicely. "Feb 19, 2007 to
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   by callahad 17y ago

   Using a Mac for a month completely changed my perspective on PDFs. They're fast, look great, and integrate well into the system. In fact, all standard print dialogs even have a "PDF" button for quickly saving anything that's printable as a
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   by callahad 17y ago

   If you're in a position to fire, you're in a position to have some sort of responsibility for the success of the company. Don't view it as babysitting or coddling; an employee that is motivated and engaged will be more likely to exceed the
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   by callahad 17y ago

   The upside of a top tier education is in realizing that you can always improve your work in some manner. The pitfall is when that sentiment morphs into your work being inadequate. A year later and I'm still wrestling with accepting the thin
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   by callahad 17y ago

   And no more API keys!
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   by callahad 17y ago

   They definitely have Apple, as well as a number of other common English words.
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    by callahad 17y ago

    http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/appletmlist.html Some amusing entries: Aperture, Apple, Aqua, Bonjour, Boot Camp, Capitals, Carbon, Charcoal, Chicago, Cocoa, Exposé, Gadget, Inkwell, Instruments, Keychain, Keynote, Leopard, Logic, Ne
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    by callahad 17y ago

    That's actually addressed by the original post: The memory used by a VARCHAR or VARCHAR2 data type is dependent on the actual size of the contents, not the maximum size specified. For example, one million email addresses defined
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    by callahad 17y ago

    What would you gain from limiting it to 64 characters, versus complying with the RFC?
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Argh, they got the clock wrong again . The video shows the time as 10:08, but the clock widget displays 10:23.
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    by callahad 17y ago

    There was some decent discussion over at Metafilter when this was brought up [1]. In particular, one poster dug up a journal article about Brooke [2], including this juicy tidbit in the abstract: "Dental and bone ages are pre-teen, while t
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Not a technical term; Threadless is a t-shirt company.
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Sadly, my employer is going the opposite direction and planning to implement "strong user names" and mask both fields. This is in response to users with access to sensitive information leaving passwords written down near their workstations.
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Oh, wow, you're completely right. That connection eluded me; thank you!
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Why is Monty's choice of which empty door being random important? Isn't the fact that he always opens an empty door alone sufficient? If you select the correct door, switching will yield an empty door. If you select an empty door, switching
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    by callahad 17y ago

    I think it's a reasonable statement, if the following premises are accepted: 1. It is easier and quicker to develop a correct solution in a higher level language than a lower level one. 2. Expressiveness / abstraction come at the cost of ti
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    by callahad 17y ago

    I wonder why the author left V and Y out of the source string? And of course, a Python equivalent: import string, random def gen_random_string(length=10): chars = string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits return ''.join(rando
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Woah, LuckyCal looks great! It's like emergent group calendaring! Now I just need to find the discipline to use some sort of calendar in the first place...
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Honestly, I feel like Amazon wants to own the e-book market badly enough that they were forced to introduce their own reader. Once competing hardware shows up, I'd put my money on Amazon dropping or scaling back the Kindle to focus on conte
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    by callahad 17y ago

    I wouldn't go that far. Zimbra was the first client I was willing to use over Mutt. It taught me the value of Gmail-style conversation threading. It has strong IMAP support, and a reasonable J2ME client. It never ate my data, and I was able
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    by callahad 17y ago

    It's preferable when you want to fit in with existing Java infrastructure. I can prototype something in Jython and then deploy it on Tomcat just like any other Java application.
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    by callahad 17y ago

    I picked up a Dev Phone 1 (G1 / HTC Dream) last week, knowing full well that more refined devices are in the pipeline. I'll probably replace it for day to day usage in the not so distant future, but it'll stay relevant as a lowest common de
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Neither; only trying to increase awareness and mindfulness that comments similar to his have very unflattering (and often unintended) connotations.
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Understanding that this is in jest, but similar sentiments cause real issues in STEM fields, as well as in society at large. Please consider exactly what you're saying before posting.
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    by callahad 17y ago

    But who could you switch to? Your only other GSM option would be AT&T, which was also compromised [1]. [1]: http://www.eff.org/nsa/faq#8
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    by callahad 17y ago

    I'm doing the same. For search results, Bing works. I prefer Google's prominent ranking of Wikipedia, but I've been able to find what I need on Bing in all but one case. However, before this week, I was completely unaware of how frequently
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    by callahad 17y ago

    Look at the links. The main link is directly to the PDF. The [scribd] link is to Scribd's rendering of the document.