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by chewxy 13y ago
Depends on your brita filter. If it's new, you will get fairly clear liquid that doesn't taste like wine. If it's old, your liquid will be slightly less dark red (tried with a SA Shiraz). Tastes terrible still. I personally w
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You can make your own white/clear Coca Cola too! I play with my food a lot and have experimented with this. All you need is an old/used Brita filter and a beverage carbonator (or if you're like me, you have some sort of multi
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by chewxy 13y ago
Here's the painful part: Douglas Crockford wrote a book called Javascript, the Good Parts. If Javascript were limited to The Good Parts alone, it has the potential to be a beautiful well thought out language. It would be quite close to
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I work in advertising. I have seen Ghostery rack up close to 300 trackers before. Piggybacked pixels... they're everywhere
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I like to think of it this way: Some languages allow you to shoot yourself in the foot easier than other languages, given the context and environment. Abuses and problems precisely show Javascript's defects. The more easily abusable a
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It does not however, preclude the possibility that the tool is in fact a bad tool, and that the tool is bizarrely the only tool we have. They say poorly skilled people blame their tools, and that highly skilled people who know their tools w
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Designing with Context(cennydd.co.uk)
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I think 'weirdness' in this context should not be conflated with 'norm'. Instead, as I read it, I think about it the same way you would think about the regularity of a language (to put it into compsci terms) I speak both
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You can download it yourself at http://wals.info/export . And given enough effort, you can quite quickly reverse engineer which 21 features were used.
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The disparity between what I can assume to be the local Delhi populace and the backpackers/travellers is huge. The Indian kids just want to study, while the adults want to own houses/shops. The travellers on the other hand, have m
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Fun fact: In Star Trek the Next Generation, Picard mentions that Fermat's Last Theorem had gone unsolved for 800 years. 5 years after that episode came out, Wiles showed his proof.
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by chewxy 13y ago
Source code can be found here (care of scotch.io) https://github.com/scotch-io/Star-Wars-Attack-of-the-DOM
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Star Wars: Attack of the DOM (CSS Hacks)(scotch.io)
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This ethical question is particularly interesting. Just to play Devil's Advocate, let's assume that Big Pharma is not involved. Rather, the people who are doing the research are honest researchers who gain utility through the act
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Python, Scala, Haskell consistently good(iq.brenbarn.net)
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That looks like 肉干 (rou4 gan1, or bak kua in hokkien). It's usually made of pork. I've tried those made of chicken and beef ones. They taste yucky. Stick with the pork ones. I'm guessing in trying to capture the majority musl
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by chewxy 13y ago
If you're willing to pay a bit more, there are companies like Ninefold But then again, that is just talk. I still use AWS and Linode religiously. The prices are really hard to beat
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Copywrong: Australia's copyright laws are out of touch with the digital world.(faircopyright.com.au)
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I got this email even though I do not have a SEOMoz account (or if I did, I must have forgotten about it)
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How coincident. Not 5 mins ago I was reimplementing trusted timestamping for a document to be opened 3 months in the future. Yours is infinitely cooler tho
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We've created one like that in the past (strangers for dinner). Similar ideas - use Facebook info to matchmake for dinner parties. The project failed. I am quite curious to see how this one goes
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The Chinese seem to have an obsession with submarines. I wonder why
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Opera had multitab browsing before Firefox did (or Phoenix). But then again Opera was paid software at that point. Nowadays I have a personal rule: If there are more than 10 tabs per browser, close until 10 tabs remain. Unless one of the ta
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There you go folks, out from the horse's mouth
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My dad gave me a similar advice too. Turns out this advice works with my personality: everything can be considered a puzzle and I have great fun working things out. I like figuring things out to understand them. Allows me to extrapolate o
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Fun fact: I posted this 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709231 , also around the same time (hour) as you. Mine didn't have "By Google" in it though since I was not sure about that. I'm not bothered so much by reposts thou
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Polymer Project - new JS library built on top of Web Components(polymer-project.appspot.com)
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Well, there is SAP, whose business model is "look at what the big companies are doing. You small time fella, you need the same thing to grow big as well" as well
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Computatational Learning Theory is a re-discovery of confidence intervals(normaldeviate.wordpress.com)
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It depends on complexity. This is my python stack: Simple stuff (API endpoint only, minimal routing, minimal cookie/session related stuff) - Bottle.py Simple stuff that needs really high performance squeezed out: Wheezy.web + gevent (this c

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