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by davegardner 12y ago
So I guess we can say with a high degree of confidence - "That's no moon".
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by davegardner 12y ago
Strong demand for a crowdfunding campaign perhaps. However it's really a drop in the ocean if you compare their 18k funders to the estimated 259 million tablets that'll be sold in 2016. Edit: I jumped a year ahead. A better compar
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by davegardner 12y ago
Does anyone know how well search engines cope with ligatures? If they don't I expect it won't be long before we see spam sites using ligatures as a way to hide their spamminess.
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by davegardner 12y ago
The punchline of this video is the fact that she thinks that the historical Jesus was white.
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by davegardner 12y ago
Yes it's not such a problem when it's just my 5 KW system. However here in Perth, Western Australia there are a lot of sunny days, so domestic rooftop solar systems are very commonplace now. In my case there's some signific
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by davegardner 12y ago
The same issue exists with grid connected solar panels. My solar panels are designed to stop working whenever there is a power outage. This is a legally mandated requirement here and is very annoying when it happens on a beautiful sunny day
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by davegardner 12y ago
> I think this was something to do with the dark ages when in the western world, drinking water with alcohol was better than drinking water with bacteria and other pathogens. I've read recently that this has been debunked. See http
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by davegardner 12y ago
My experience has been the opposite. I've taken a job working remotely from home in part so that I can be a bigger part of my children's day to day lives. I would probably be earning around 130-150% of my current salary if I'
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by davegardner 12y ago
I don't think men and women would have equivalent salaries in the Mad Men universe.
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by davegardner 12y ago
Their leave actually looks pretty generous: 18 days (or 4.5 weeks) paid time off 1 week off for the holidays (in addition to paid time off) https://teamtreehouse.com/jobs/at-treehouse-3b0b0839-71a0-4f...
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by davegardner 12y ago
I expect there'll be a new set of businesses built up around custom engine noises. If the manufactures don't make it easy to load your own MP3, then you'll probably be able to take it to a car mod specialist.
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by davegardner 12y ago
I'm a regular whole blood and plasma donor and I'm quite sure that I'd be much less likely to donate if I was being paid for it. I'm not really sure exactly why I feel that way, but I guess that if you put a dollar value
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by davegardner 12y ago
Years of lower than average rainfall have made this a necessity in WA. We've now got two desal plants here that currently provide 27% of our supply. The supply drawn from dams now only makes up 33% of the total. The plan is to transiti
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by davegardner 12y ago
Why didn't _you_ examine it more deeply before you posted wild conjectures about what was happening? Surely you could try it on another machine - or ask a friend or two to test it.
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by davegardner 12y ago
Not reproducible for me either. Have you seen it happening on more than one machine?
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by davegardner 12y ago
No brown is the colour the wood was painted afterwards. In the context of this story, I'd say your platform is walnut.
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by davegardner 12y ago
That's not very helpful on a touch device
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by davegardner 13y ago
The Foundation won't be around forever. Its been setup to spend all of its funds within 20 years of Bill and Melinda's deaths.
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by davegardner 13y ago
Your choice of people to respond to doesn't do a lot to support your criticism. According to his profile cletus is originally from Australia, but now lives in NY and works for Google. I don't know him personally, but given his emp
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by davegardner 13y ago
Back in the late 90's the US was fairly high on my list of travel destinations. At the time I didn't have the finances to visit. Because of stories like this, it's slipping so low on my list that I'll likely never get th
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by davegardner 13y ago
I really think they should have taken a towel with them.
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by davegardner 13y ago
A health insurance plan isn't much of a perk for many countries outside of the US that have universal health care. In that scenario I wouldn't care if that was only available to in-country employees, the same way that I wouldn&#x2
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by davegardner 13y ago
I'm in Australia and see the same results as ryanjshaw.
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by davegardner 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. The effort involved means the hourly rate is fairly dismal. But right or wrong it immediately establishes you as an expert and certainly stands out on a resume.
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by davegardner 13y ago
Sorry I can't get my hands on the sales volumes easily anymore. For us the royalties ranged from 5% and 15% depending on various conditions. For example: - 12% from standard sales in the US and Canada, - 5% from standard sales elsewher
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by davegardner 13y ago
Interested to hear about his experience with traditional publishing. $12,000 was the advance paid on the book that I co-authored and published through Wrox back in 2008 (and again in 2010). I think it took around 12 months to earn out the a
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by davegardner 13y ago
Greens are a good option also. Scott Ludlam, a current WA Greens senator, was very vocal in opposing the previous censorship efforts.
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by davegardner 13y ago
Just one of many good reasons to vote Greens in the senate.
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by davegardner 13y ago
Elop only joined Nokia towards the end of 2010. Nokia was well and truly on their downward slide by then.