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cracki
16y ago
if someone like the DCFS wanted to take my kids, i'd get the urge to poke them off my property with a loaded gun. i mean, US citizens have the right to bear arms, for the exact purpose of defending themselves against the government, or what
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16y ago
if email is to become the medium for instant messages and "phone call" messages, some things will have to change. if someone phones me (or sends an SMS), they know they'll reach me right now because my mobile phone is always on. if someone
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cracki
16y ago
did the both of you coordinate this?
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16y ago
the author compares linux suspend/resume to a clingy pet. at home, it works alright. resuming at work, the volume keys don't work. suspending on weekends will just not work, like it wants to stay in. i'm not sure if the author validated the
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16y ago
in scheme, the ' is the syntax for a quote. i'm guessing they use it here as syntax to symbols , but in some of the example code, i see it in front of list-like things too...
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16y ago
you can expect a person to ask if something is unclear. no speech recog system has done that yet. speech recog is orders of magnitude behind humans in accuracy. understanding is another thing entirely. i don't mean philosophy but the prob
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16y ago
i just set the default encoding of my browser to latin1 and disabled auto-detection. it doesn't work most of the time because the browser doesn't have to detect anything because of encoding tags in the page code, but it's handy if i have
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16y ago
A. definitely. i don't know if i'm a realist or a pessimist, but aren't they really the same?
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16y ago
it's called "file sharing", minus the DRM and accounting.
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16y ago
you should do something about that lawyer problem. ask the aussies how they tried to deal with their rabbits.
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16y ago
counting brackets will get you in trouble if you have to read over strings. there's no way around a real tokenization.
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16y ago
that "official statement" is not sourced by techie-buzz.com. where did they get that from?
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16y ago
Companies should hire drones. Companies shouldn't hire people with a life. Is that your conclusion?
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16y ago
reads like advertising. where's the technical meat?
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cracki
16y ago
Gaia hypothesis, or something like that.
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16y ago
the example does not show his "improvements" on the 1-digit/L-letter shapes...
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16y ago
> Smart writing [...] in the profanity-laced angry rants you’ll find on someone’s blog. I'm thinking of Zed Shaw.
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16y ago
which android version? do you mean the "menu" hardware button, or the "home" hardware button? on android 2.0.1, holding the menu button does nothing. long-press only does anything on the home button (-> task switching). holding the menu
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16y ago
nice background color. and they presume to talk about usability?
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16y ago
actually, it's a reference to asimov's "last question".
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16y ago
i'm just curious because i heard the exact same structure used by a native speaker from the US, and on other occasions from other possibly native speakers. i speak english as a second language and don't know what to think. as to my lack of
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16y ago
yeah, right...
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16y ago
a question about your sentence structure. why did you write "i wonder what is ..." instead of "i wonder what ... is." did you mean to write "i wonder: what is..."? where are you from? the structure you used common there?
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16y ago
they aren't preferences either, because preferences can change easily.
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cracki
16y ago
and if you like to compete in something that lets less than 10% win (prize = admission).
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16y ago
please fix the URL, or did you intend to point at the #comments?
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16y ago
blah blah blah. there's a troll blog spouting the same content-less bullshit. http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/ there you go. unless there's some substance behind this, it's basically FU
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16y ago
why do you single out XHTML? a markup language is not relevant to the problem. besides, XHTML never caught on. otoh, HTML5 is doing great.
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16y ago
"mount" a "scratch monkey"... i don't think it's such a good idea to mount the monkey that scratches you.
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16y ago
nah they won't. products are dumb on average. you're probably on the right slope of the bell curve and can't fathom how gullible the other side of the hill is.
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