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by dougk16 14y ago
You could also say the total loss is 10K to the merchant, assuming he has a reasonable expectation of making that 3K profit...that is getting a little abstract about it though.
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by dougk16 14y ago
Laugh if you will, downvote if you must, but, as with many things, I trust to my dogs' opinion in the matter: they stretch before physical activity, and so do I (for other reasons of course too). I don't dispute the short-term performance g
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by dougk16 14y ago
If you're open to the idea of targeting HTML5, either for the web or embedded in an app, I'd recommend http://www.sencha.com/products/gxt/ . This is built on top of GWT, which is basically a Java->JS compiler and which has its own widg
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Ask HN: Any good CMSs for showing off creative works?
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Peak Battery: Why Smartphone Battery Life Still Stinks, and Will for Years(techland.time.com)
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by dougk16 14y ago
Yea, I should have written the disclaimer that it all depends on what you're playing, what kind of amplification, etc. One instance of where electric exposes technical mistakes more is with accidental string bending, like when you're trying
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by dougk16 14y ago
An electric guitar is physically easier to play (easier on the fingertips, finger muscles, etc.) and more forgiving of technical mistakes, IMO. Whether that means you'd like it more for starting out is up to you. :)
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by dougk16 14y ago
One theory on why the author might be having a little trouble with OkCupid comes down to this sentence: "Unless your parents are Jewish and they threaten to disown you for not having a Jewish boyfriend...yea, you may not want to message me
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Mysterious fairy circles demystified: it's termites(phys.org)
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by dougk16 14y ago
A little old, but here are some internal use cases for GWT at Google: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!topic/google-... I don't think it comes down to not liking JS. JS has its uses, but you get quickly diminishing productiv
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by dougk16 14y ago
Another valid complaint is that dev mode runs quite slow, particularly if you're developing something like a game. I read an article about how they are addressing this so that dev mode runs almost as fast as the compiled result, but can't f
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by dougk16 14y ago
At least one paradigm, is that you ask an object to do something for you with its internal state and return the result, instead of getting its internal state and doing the operation yourself. And instead of setting state directly, you have
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by dougk16 14y ago
Right now, somewhere in the world, there is a person who has an empty bank account (or no bank account!), and is perfectly content.
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by dougk16 14y ago
"they are just as fast to open with a little practice" Agreed. I think the banning of switchblades just pushed knife manufacturers to innovate, creating opening mechanisms which are just as fast, with fewer moving parts, and are actually ea
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by dougk16 14y ago
I don't know about no protection. It would prevent most transmission from male to female, as I understand STI's (it's been a while since sex ed class). True that it wouldn't help when there's open sores and such on the penis though.
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by dougk16 14y ago
Hmm, cool problem...maybe a small circular patch, kind of like a band-aid, and you stick it right over the meatus (the "eye" if you will). The band-aid itself has an elastic reservoir in the center that fills up just like a condom's. That w
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by dougk16 14y ago
"with ruthless moderation" Yea, but that seems to just push the problem one degree away..."Quis custodiet ipsos custodes"-type situation. I've been part of a few niche forums over the years that have ruthless moderation, and it's not a fun
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by dougk16 14y ago
I don't know, some fluffy arguments and self-back-patting here, but I have to tentatively agree on one point. Out of the 11 designers that I've worked with, 7 were rock solid and came from a programming or art background, with the artists d
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by dougk16 14y ago
An article will appear a year from now..."Perpetrating fraud with large-scale machine learning." Just kidding ;)...Looks awesome and easy-to-use, congrats on launching.
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by dougk16 14y ago
"except they don't deliver on Saturday" Neither will the US, probably, soon ( http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/06/171264853/rep... ). I don't think that includes packages though, which is all I care about. One less day of junk m
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by dougk16 14y ago
Great idea. The website is a little bare, so I don't have a great feel for how you're solving the problem, but it's a problem that definitely needs solving, so at the least you've got step 1 down. :) One minor pain point for me with many
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by dougk16 14y ago
As I said below, it would be more of an insurance policy than an investment, but I'm still willing to believe it's a bad idea for that reason as well. I don't plan on buying enough gold that it becomes a logistical challenge to store though
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by dougk16 14y ago
I didn't mean to imply that I would expect to make money from buying gold (if that's what you mean). Even if gold prices were expected to drop, I'd still be interested in buying it as an insurance policy. No matter how severe a crisis, once
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by dougk16 14y ago
I've been thinking about this lately, and, at the risk of sounding like a doomsday kook, this seems to make sense to me (perhaps in a milder sense) no matter where one lives. My plan is, if I ever get over $X in my account, where X is some
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by dougk16 14y ago
John Scalzi's "The Human Division" is another serial that Amazon has really been pushing me to buy that I can only assume is worth it. Second for Wool being excellent.
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by dougk16 14y ago
Fun read, well-written. I can relate to this somewhat. I recently proofread a paper discussing new applications for hermite polynomials (for english mistakes), and I was blown away by the years of study it would take me to even begin to und
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by dougk16 14y ago
Cool idea, and nice execution. Although, I generally work in environments where I have auto-complete or documentation integration of some kind in the editor itself, so it's been quite a while since I've used a cheat sheet...maybe for MySQL
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by dougk16 14y ago
Cool...definitely a tough challenge...even computers have a tough time with it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem ).
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by dougk16 14y ago
Oh, another question, what happens when the kiosk is at capacity, or something doesn't fit? Even if you reserve space in the kiosk at the time of order, packages can come in different sizes than you expect, and even then, the delivery men
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by dougk16 14y ago
I've always just had packages shipped to my place of employment or even a neighbor/friend if there was some problem with shipping them to my residence. Do services like Bufferbox or Swapbox have any advantages over these practices?

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