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by damon_c 13y ago
It would be interesting to have the various consumer chess programs play each other a few hundred times to see who wrote the best chess bot.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Apple removing an app from the store has no effect on installations already on people's devices. This may have changed with iOS 7's auto updates.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I once travelled through about 8 countries in Asia over two months. I was recently looking at the backpack I had used for that trip and remembered that it was literally half filled with lonely planet/history/language books that m
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by damon_c 13y ago
I don't have time for all that marketing stuff... I'm too busy freelancing!
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by damon_c 13y ago
Isn't "enrage" a bit strong for the feelings feel people in response to a website update? Or, are people really enraged? Do people feel enraged when there is no more toilet paper or they are out of milk? I thought rage was
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by damon_c 13y ago
Given the relatively small overall market cap and even smaller circulation of bitcoin, if McDonald's decided to issue change in "McCoin" it would probably take days for that to surpass bitcoin in the metrics on which his argu
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by damon_c 13y ago
If you're using or considering using class based views, I have found Django Vanilla Views to be pretty much a pure win. They really make class based views feel so much more natural. I'm not going back. http://django-v
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by damon_c 13y ago
People like their freedom but possibly a bigger problem is the cost of commuter rail. The car is by far the cheapest way to commute to the city from the suburbs. For example, a peak hours train ticket on the busiest commuter train in the U
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by damon_c 13y ago
I used to look at those "guitar player wanted (under 30 only)" ads on craigslist when I was in my late 20s and be confused about why there was such a hard line on the people's rock band aptitude. When I got to be around 35 I
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by damon_c 13y ago
It was the right decision if you had been counting cards and you had information that the next card would be an ace.
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by damon_c 13y ago
It's good mouse training and thus it is relevant to the content of the presentation. (even more annoying on a tablet)
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by damon_c 13y ago
Google places API makes my customers happy!
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by damon_c 13y ago
I signed up with DreamHost a couple of years ago and they sent me my password in plaintext in the confirmation email. Am I wrong to have walked away immediately?
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by damon_c 13y ago
It seems that acqq meant to ask where you might find exactly 1/10, 1/2 or .1 of something in nature. I'm thinking maybe in stoichiometry?
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by damon_c 13y ago
This summer: One man looked too deeply into the source code of his compilers and didn't like what he found.
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by damon_c 13y ago
because burying 80 million dollars would take a few hours and a lot of space...and probably a few big black barrels or something. burying bitcoin can be done with a flowerpot.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I didn't make it up... It was Microsoft's internally used phrase. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish The irony I was pointing out is that while at one time, Microsoft's Windows e
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by damon_c 13y ago
It's really ironic that Microsoft's OS is being bailed out on its lack of apps by the web. Embrace, extend, extingu..... Embraaaaaaaaaace!!!
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by damon_c 13y ago
That seems really smart. Also, I believe photovoltaics lose efficiency at higher temperatures so bouncing the ir/thermal would be good. If they're not doing this, there must be a good/obvious reason why not.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Sounds like you two should meet up for a coffee sometime.
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by damon_c 13y ago
If you look further down: http://django-vanilla-views.org/#inheritance-hierachy-django... It looks like that view which is a "CreateView" uses a ModelForm as its form. ModelForm's save methods return an inst
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by damon_c 13y ago
"three beings". Hahaha. Really any more description than that and you're being something-ist!
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by damon_c 13y ago
Why not allow beating requesters the ability to offer a reward to be split by all those who accept the assignment? or you could have beaters bid on the job... this could be bigger than eBay!
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by damon_c 13y ago
My gf wants to make a mobile app that helps homeless/impoverished people share good dumpster eating locations.
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by damon_c 13y ago
It's great that he has that kind of free time with as much going on as he has.
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by damon_c 13y ago
What about the underwear bomber? Why are we allowed to search for underwear without federal scrutiny, and why are we still allowed to wear underwear on planes? Is there a line somewhere?
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by damon_c 13y ago
I'm not an expert with either redis or Memcached, but in my personal usage, Memcached is functionally at least equal to redis for the things that it does well like LRU caching. I find myself continuing to use it for those things just t
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by damon_c 13y ago
FYI: I get a 404 on this link.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I've been forced to use C# for the last week. I'm so sorry scripting languages, I'll be back soon! I miss you!
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by damon_c 13y ago
Can't you wait till he gets back so he can have a good vacation?...Although I've seen the whole "got fired upon returning from vacation" thing happen a few times. That sucks too! Sorry for both of you.

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