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by dbbolton 12y ago
What disturbs me somewhat about this copyright, besides its age and that is contrary to the basic underlying ideas of copyright, is the fact that the people who originally registered it did not compose the song, and the people who ostensibl
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“eikipedia.org” redirects to a click-jack phishing site(reddit.com)
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by dbbolton 12y ago
The article is basically describing leveled lists, which is what Fallout and the Elder Scrolls games use: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Leveled_Lists
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by dbbolton 12y ago
>“It seems that the average person doesn’t seem to be capable of generating a sufficiently interesting train of thought to prevent them from being miserable with themselves.” Aside from being unnecessarily harsh and condescending, I thin
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by dbbolton 12y ago
I wonder if I have something similar. Often times when someone spells a word or recites a number, it's as if I'm completely "spaced out" and don't get any of the information (while actively paying attention) unless
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Businesses being extorted for "tribute" of 1 BTC(reddit.com)
1 points by dbbolton 12y ago|0 comments
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They explicitly said it was to "motivate" students to finish, but I see that as kind of a cop out answer since it's also extremely convenient for them. As for withdrawal, yes, you should know what you can handle by junior yea
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by dbbolton 12y ago
The issue is that it was initially presented as an "up front" scholarship, but it is in fact a reimbursement. The difference is significant. Even the quote from your preferred article mentions that "up-front costs could be pr
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Starbucks admits it's not contributing to scholarship fund(komonews.com)
51 points by dbbolton 12y ago|18 comments
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Right, in practical terms it's up to Node to fix this (or go extreme and drop Windows support), but in a more abstract sense I still blame Microsoft for such a glaring design flaw in their software that they are unwilling/unable t
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What's the stupidest change you ever witnessed on a popular website?(reddit.com)
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This definitely seems more like a Windows issue than a Node issue.
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I actually recall reading somewhere that a good many of the survivors had a complete recovery and no longer suffered from depression (I think it may have been in a discussion about the documentary mentioned below), but I can't find any
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I remember reading a quote somewhere attributed to a person who survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Paraphrased, they said that at the moment they jumped, they suddenly realized that every single problem in their life was fixable e
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by dbbolton 12y ago
That is answered in the FAQ. >They do this because serving raw files from a git repo is relatively inefficient, so they want to discourage people from using their GitHub repos for static file hosting.
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by dbbolton 12y ago
I honestly can't even read the article because that GIF is so annoying. I have two different GIF-stopping extensions and neither of them works because of the way the elements are nested (I guess). I'm actually so irritated that
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by dbbolton 12y ago
A better title: "Why black-and-white thinking is bad for your diet and moderation is good". Actually, that could pretty much replace the whole article.
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>what's easily the best trackpad hardware/driver combination on the market. I've had a very positive experience with Synaptics on Linux. 99% of the more "advanced" features that people are likely to care about (t
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by dbbolton 12y ago
>We switched away from Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) because Value is a bit more confusing than Lightness. That's funny to me because I've always found HSV colors and color choosers to be a lot more intuitive.
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U.S. Charges Five in Chinese Army With Hacking(online.wsj.com)
1 points by dbbolton 12y ago|0 comments
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If you are on a low-end machine and can't afford a larger memory footprint, you should probably be using a lighter browser in the first place, but if you really want to use Firefox and block ads, one option is to just block them throug
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by dbbolton 12y ago
KDE, but it's still fledgling on Windows: http://windows.kde.org/
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Microsoft Had No Choice but to Yank Kinect From Xbox One(wired.com)
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Christopher Columbus Ship Santa María May Have Been Found(npr.org)
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by dbbolton 12y ago
Is it possible to order this soda online? A quick look on Amazon and Google Shopping turned up nothing.
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BasicCoin, a cryptocurrency in less than 600 lines of Python(github.com)
77 points by dbbolton 12y ago|38 comments
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Dutch Man pleads guilty to selling drugs For Bitcoin on Silk Road(justice.gov)
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by dbbolton 12y ago
>and things like replacing LaTeX greek letters by the actual greek letter, You can actually do that with conceal: http://ithaca.arpinum.org/2010/11/06/vim-conceal-for-ruby.ht... ‎ http://vimdoc.s
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by dbbolton 12y ago
>It turned out that Arthur was bipolar and had two significant drug problems. Then it's very likely that his extremely productive coding marathons were during manic episodes and/or while abusing stimulants. Certainly not someth
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by dbbolton 12y ago
They could have saved some time by trying to reproduce the bug while running `vim -u NONE`. The first thing I do when I encounter a problem in vim is to run it a) without plugins, b) without my .vimrc, and c) with neither plugins nor rc.

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