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by dnm 13y ago
I had no idea that was even an option until I read your comment. Chrome on OS X shows the v-scroll bar for less than a second, and I missed it. After that, the only way they come back is to scroll. There was no visual indication that it
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by dnm 13y ago
I agree with the article and think Python is great for a first language. I asked my daughter's AP comp sci teacher: Why Java? A: because that's what the test uses.
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by dnm 13y ago
That's an interesting document. One would think that Coin would be used in "Card Present Transactions," however, none of the security features of a real card can be verified using a Coin, since they don't exist. Why wo
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by dnm 13y ago
> So what they choose to do instead is to purchase lots of US government debt. Isn't "purchase debt" the same as "give a loan?" Is he saying China is not buying US T-Notes and Bonds? I don't understand how
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by dnm 13y ago
I recently posted 2 reviews on Yelp (I'm not very active on it; this was probably my 2nd and 3rd ever). I gave rave reviews for both. One is filtered, one is not. I see a 50% failure rate in filtering, from my extremely small sample
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by dnm 13y ago
"Relationship status" is flat out illegal. The personal family stuff is just wierd. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=things+you+are+not+allowed+to+ask+...
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by dnm 13y ago
I needed an ambulance in a state park and they sent a fire truck too. When I asked the EMT from the ambulance why the firetruck, she responded "they're our toolbox."
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by dnm 13y ago
Flight path comparison today vs yesterday. https://twitter.com/sbaker/status/353611787750494208
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by dnm 13y ago
rsync
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by dnm 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand how this relates to the Guardian article. My understanding of that is that there's an NSL ordering Verizon to give electronic records of the calls to the NSA. The NSA isn't collecting, intercepting or monitoring
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by dnm 13y ago
It's also a performance boost when you're passing something non-trivial, to pass just the pointer, rather than have Go make a copy of whatever you're passing by value.
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by dnm 13y ago
I'm curious as to the technical details. I can't imagine why investigators couldn't get access to the raw Sun Pass database, which records tag id, toll booth, and a timestamp, if it works anything like my EZ-Pass system. From that, it's
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by dnm 13y ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/fausto-lopez-speedi...
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by dnm 14y ago
Wait, are you saying she was harassed? Because she overheard a conversation in a public place? Nothing I've read indicated that the jokes were directed at her. The impression I got was she just decided she needed to control the behavior
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by dnm 14y ago
a place to run the code http://codeazur.com.br/stuff/fc64_final/
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by dnm 14y ago
I've been an F1 fan since I watched Ayrton Senna get killed 10 minutes after I turned on my first race in '94. Weird, but I was hooked. The last time F1 was run at Indy in 2005 was a disaster. Michelin brought the wrong tires and 14 cars