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by dmckeon 13y ago
I use this as a firefox bookmarks toolbar item: javascript:void(document.body.background='')
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A performing juggler once told me (an amateur), after he showed me a technically challenging bit: There are bits you do for an audience, and there are bits you do for other jugglers. It sounds like Gatto liked the doing the technical bi
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Kuali – OSS for College Administration(chronicle.com)
1 points by dmckeon 13y ago|0 comments
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Officially, " to help small businesses build their potential to successfully compete in the federal sector " but effectively to promote businesses owned by various populations, either historically disadvantaged (minorities, women)
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by dmckeon 13y ago
tl;dr: US wants to hire agents and analysts with computer security skills, 6k positions with DoD and FBI alone, but private companies are paying more. Citizenship requirements and culture clash (.gov vs. hacker) are also factors.
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The U.S. Government Wants 6,000 New 'Cyber Warriors' by 2016(businessweek.com)
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Look good. Almost any increase in visibility would be useful to motorcyclists. Earlier attempts include the Vovedesky Cyberlight from the 1980s and more recently: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vololights/v
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by dmckeon 13y ago
There seems to be a sharp drop-off line running north/south just west of Mongolia & east of Novosibirsk. I wonder if that is from a side-scrolling artifact or drag/drop interface in the sampling (wild speculation there) or fro
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Comment first: project the document instead of documenting the project. In other words, write the comments first, then write the code, then review and tidy up both the code and comments. By writing the text first, you clarify the why befo
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Or put something like this into a shell script or function: info --subnodes "$@" 2>&1 | less and info(1) output will look a lot like man(1) output.
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Anyone interested in trying to explore the topic of climate change at NCPPR could probably apply for a summer internship in 2014 - here's a 2013 version: http://www.theihs.org/koch-summer-fellow-program/host/
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So, create a mutual fund that operates as a blind trust, and allow transfers free of capital gains tax into the fund when an employee is hired. For extra points, require everyone who gets a Federal salary to participate, including Congress-
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Where are you that workers have to pay a sales tax on their tips? On the question of USA-ian innumeracy, I noticed recently that a Darden restaurant had provided some pre-calculated tip amounts on the bill (just displayed, not added to the
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by dmckeon 13y ago
There has been, and may continue to be in some places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_%28form_of_address%29 I recall seeing a flight reservation form on a British Airways site that had a pulldown menu for either
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by dmckeon 13y ago
The title suggests 3D printing of trees, but the article makes it clear that the 3D printing is a means to a more interesting end - to create arrays of cells that then create the desired material. This will be amazing - imagine not a 3D pr
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Artists: We’ve been thrown under the tech buses(blog.sfgate.com)
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With the "...edu.org" domain, I hope you are prepared for confusion with phoenix.edu
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In theory, RFC 2142 answers this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2142 but in practice, any of the addresses listed there will be the targets of a lot of spam - so I would avoid using those as live working address
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by dmckeon 13y ago
I can recommend the "NoSquint" Firefox add-on that remembers your preferred text size for each site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/ My pet peeve on layout is when a pa
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by dmckeon 13y ago
For the political side, here is a per-county view: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/in-calif... On the practical side, a division into 6 parts avoids the usual North/South argument, or
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by dmckeon 13y ago
KeePass can run on Linux under Mono (and perhaps Wine?) to provide .NET, while KeePassX runs natively.
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Or, we could talk to people, invite them to events, and acknowledge their contributions. Just a thought.
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OTOH, California was the first of many US states to require disclosure or notification of personal information security breaches, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_breach_notification_l... and will soon be requiri
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The referenced articles seem to repeat assertions that this new drug may be {less|not} addictive without providing {pharmo|neuro|pyscho} reasons for those assertions. My guess is that people will be able to find old or new ways to abuse or
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That line has been running for over 2 millennia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
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Wide-spread gastro-intestinal illnesses - google "cruise" and "norovirus" http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/gilist.htm It is important to distinguish among cruise outcomes - I'd rath
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by dmckeon 13y ago
For OP: here's a commercial source, but read the disclaimers and ToS: http://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/ For all, background info on the USPS budget/deficit: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07&#
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by dmckeon 13y ago
The citation element relevant to Glass appears to be: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm which partially reads: Television 27602. (a) A person shall not drive a motor vehicle if a television r
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Dwolla Ends Support for Virtual Currency Bitcoin(digitaltransactions.net)
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Depending on OS, you might consider: rsync -aSH --delete --update /source/ /destination if both file-systems are Unix/Linux. -S Sparse files remain sparse. -H Hard links are preserved. Caveat: Big O(inodes). Not

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