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by drothlis 16y ago
I had Lasik on both eyes in 2005. Before that I had ~6 diopter short-sightedness in both eyes, with slight astigmatism. The difference is magical and 5 years later it still amazes me. At a check-up one year later I had 20/20 vision, and hav
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by drothlis 16y ago
Yes. When I had mine done, it took 10 minutes at most, and there were 15-20 other patients scheduled for the same day.
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by drothlis 16y ago
To answer my own question: No, it doesn't.
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by drothlis 16y ago
Doesn't the Go compiler flag as an error the fact that there's no "{" after the "if(blah())"? (On the same line, I mean.)
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by drothlis 16y ago
Yes, very frustrating. HDNL has only successfully delivered me 1 package out of 3 this year. Have had no trouble with Royal Mail. I no longer use Amazon, until they offer the choice not to use HDNL. Amazon's statement on the matter: "Curren
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by drothlis 16y ago
That's a rather provocative interpretation of what I posted. I was merely pointing out that the birds thing is a relatively small issue, and if you really care that much about them you'll have to sacrifice much of the modern lifestyle. For
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by drothlis 16y ago
Do windmills kill “huge numbers” of birds? Wind farms recently got adverse publicity from Norway, where the wind turbines on Smola, a set of islands off the north-west coast, killed 9 white-tailed eagles in 10 months. I share the concern of
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by drothlis 16y ago
I interviewed with these guys a while back and the interview was, dare I say it, fun. :-)
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by drothlis 16y ago
Do we have to keep the "Design from Kiwi Grove" footer?
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by drothlis 16y ago
In a similar vein is Elements of Programming by Alexander Stepanov (designer of the C++ STL) and Paul McJones: http://www.elementsofprogramming.com/book.html
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by drothlis 16y ago
Yes, you can create a new branch from any tag (or indeed any commit).
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by drothlis 17y ago
I love the great despisers, for they are the great venerators and arrows of longing for the other bank. --Nietzsche (Thus spoke Zarathustra)
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by drothlis 17y ago
Seaside (Smalltalk web framework) provides something similar to this, where you can access the Smalltalk browser (i.e. IDE & Debugger) directly in the web browser. Whether or not you'd actually develop this way, is another question. Unf
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by drothlis 17y ago
I will second the recommendation of the "Sustainable Energy – without the hot air" book, and mention that it is free to download from the above site. It looks at the debate from a technical perspective, with extensive appendixes containing
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by drothlis 18y ago
Read the article, particularly the table at the end. After 1 year of experience, the years of experience make no difference to your rank, except for people with an "average of scope and skill" of 1 (out of 6).
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by drothlis 18y ago
Or wondering why an obviously-rich foreigner is so stingy as to haggle down a few cents that mean nothing to him.
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by drothlis 18y ago
In Colombia the "war" on drugs _is_ often real horrible armed conflict.