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by drags 16y ago
Here's a great explanation of a) what promises are and b) how the promises/deferreds code in the $.ajax method is being refactored out for general use: http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/deferreds-coming-to-jquery
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by drags 16y ago
I didn't notice until I went to my parents' house for Christmas, but the iPhone has made package management a huge selling point on the desktop platform as well. I showed my parents the "Ubuntu Software Center" and they immediately unders
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by drags 16y ago
Caring for parents and grandparents, paying off college loans and servicing a mortgage are all tax-deductible activities. I'm not saying it isn't hard to make ends meet with all those obligations, but a tax hike would disproportionately aff
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by drags 16y ago
I use SuperGenPass with a strong master password. It's not perfect (a malicious website could use Ajax to fish for my master password on a sign-up form), but it gives me a single password to remember, different passwords for every site, and
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by drags 16y ago
The Mint offers free shipping on coin purchases of greater than $300, I believe. Shipping 300lbs. worth of goods tends to be an expensive business.
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by drags 16y ago
It's not impossible , it just means that any individual would be able to censor a photo they're in from other individuals of their choice. Whether that's desirable is open to argument, but it's certainly possible.
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by drags 16y ago
3% is about one day's worth of service. Seems pretty fair to me to refund for the amount of time the service was unavailable.
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by drags 16y ago
Also, just in case anyone else gets ideas, political activity at SFO is restricted. You'll need to request a permit from the Security Access Office first. See: https://www.sfoconnect.com/operations-security/sfo-operation... Also the Rules
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by drags 16y ago
The BBC miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is wonderfully done; have you seen it? Highly recommended if you like the book.
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by drags 16y ago
I'm flying for Thanksgiving, I plan to get to SFO a little early and hand out some of these flyers that a Flyertalk user created: http://www.dontscan.us/downloads.html They're not perfect, but pretty accurate all-around. Whether you prefe
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by drags 16y ago
One implication of this statement is that some people hold back from committing sexual assault in large part due to societal pressure. Perhaps true, but not much of an excuse on a moral level.
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by drags 16y ago
It sounds like it happened a public pub where many of the conference goers were congregating (planned or not).
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by drags 16y ago
I love this idea, but I'm almost always using canvas with a bunch of click/hover handlers. If I export as a PNG I lose the ability to make things interactive. Is there any way to couple the performance advantages of server-side processing c
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by drags 16y ago
I always opt-out of the back-scatter machine, and none of the TSA officers at SFO or BOS have ever seemed to think it anything out of the ordinary. The impression I've gotten is that they see the two methods (pat-down and back-scatter) as r
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by drags 16y ago
Craigslist has RSS feeds that respect categories/search terms: http://www.craigslist.org/about/rss :) You're technically not supposed to use them for search engines specific to housing, but Craigslist doesn't seem very serious about enfor
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by drags 16y ago
Love authlogic; it's such a well-constructed library. Just the other day I borrowed the method they use for getting access to controller functionality like cookies and params. It's the sort of thing I've always done by passing the controlle
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by drags 16y ago
And not to be dissuaded from pushing forward because someone bigger than you claims to be nearing completion of a competing product. Harvard (FAS) does indeed have a facebook, but it's ugly, slow and has all-or-nothing privacy settings. It'
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by drags 16y ago
Jason mentions how the old payment structure led to a "happy few and frustrated many." I have a hard time believing there's enough revenue from the contributions of the few to significantly improve the compensation for the many.
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by drags 16y ago
I know that you can track whether a user has viewed an email with a 1px image; are there other ways too? Since a lot of email clients have been blocking external images for a long time, I figure either the quality of the metric must be pret
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by drags 16y ago
The code on the screen in the utility code scene appeared to be PHP, given that every variable began with a $.
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by drags 16y ago
We (i.e. society) have a history of overemphasizing purely genetic characteristics (beauty, birthing of male heirs, etc) when considering the "value" of women. The ugly girl at the dance metaphor seems designed to tap into that strain for s
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by drags 16y ago
If, however, the shareholders DO prefer the lower offer, couldn't they call a special meeting to instruct the Board to take the lower offer? Or, along the same lines, I imagine the Board could certify the question to be decided at a special
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by drags 16y ago
Kozinski has a history of striking down overzealous Mattel IP claims. "If this were a sci-fi melodrama, it might be called Speech- Zilla meets Trademark Kong." http://notabug.com/kozinski/mattel_v_mca
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by drags 17y ago
On the psychology, I think it's more a positioning problem than a cost problem. For instance, I'm more than happy to pay $0.10 on Lala to listen to a song, but that's because all of my purchases are collected in such a way that they're easy
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by drags 17y ago
The tradition of unrestricted Senate debate has been a part of the Senate since the inception of the republic. In fact, prior to 1917, there was no mechanism for ending debate so long as any single senator desired to speak. And given that C
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by drags 17y ago
I took Sandel's course a few years ago at Harvard and most of these scenarios were very familiar. Philosophy/psych undergrads conduct surveys on these scenarios constantly. The thing that stuck out most to me about this project was that som
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by drags 17y ago
Sorry, you are correct about US intervention in Afghanistan. I intended to limit the scope of my response to the Eastern bloc, not the entire Soviet sphere. Poor choice of words on my part. The reason I can be pretty sure there wasn't much
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by drags 17y ago
It's more accurate to say that this had little to no track record in the former Soviet sphere. The US had essentially no involvement (often to the despair of Soviet bloc citizens) in any of the three major uprisings (1956, 1968 and 1980-89)
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by drags 17y ago
1980-89 is pretty weak on their reading list, which would provide some insight to your question of how to overthrow a police state without external forces. Reading Timothy Garton Ash's work on Poland (The Polish Revolution is a good startin
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