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by dubfan 14y ago
A quick test by one of my coworkers confirms that it does fix the GIF crash.
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by dubfan 14y ago
How about western/northern European mythology (Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, etc.)? The worlds you name take a huge amount of influence from these.
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managed to avoid pretty much any fees by following the guidance of very helpful employees If their fee structure is so complex you need help from employees to get around it, they aren't "great".
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by dubfan 14y ago
Comments from this article's last appearance on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991173
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Why the Red Delicious No Longer Is (2005)(washingtonpost.com)
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by dubfan 14y ago
Even if they are similar cases (an assessment I disagree with), I doubt Auernheimer will get nearly as much sympathy among the hacker community given his history of trolling and malicious behavior, compared to Swartz's history of creative a
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by dubfan 14y ago
I had the misfortune of being tasked with developing a tech demo for an embedded version of Tizen for one of the Tizen stakeholders. Despite the insistence by the client that Tizen 2.0 was demo-ready, it quickly became clear that it was in
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by dubfan 14y ago
Ah, a Mises Institute article, definitely a non-biased source not trying to push a certain socioeconomic agenda. </sarcasm>
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by dubfan 14y ago
Except when it does snow, and the entire city shuts down because they don't know how to deal with the snow (same thing happens in Seattle and Portland)
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Women on OKCupid tend to rate men disproportionately low. There is an OKCupid blog post showing the distribution of the ratings they give men, and they are strongly skewed towards the lower end of the scale. This is one of the many reasons
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by dubfan 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameSpot#Gerstmann_dismissal GameSpot terminated their Editorial Director after giving a game a less-than-glowing review. However, this occurred before CBS purchased CNET.
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by dubfan 14y ago
"Just rooting the phone" is sometimes much easier said than done, even for technically savvy people. I tried to root my LG Thrill (an absolutely horrid phone, so bad LG abandoned it 6 months after release instead of fixing its very serious
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by dubfan 14y ago
Or he could just call back, ask for a supervisor and negotiate a free repair. Nintendo is pretty good about this sort of thing. They routinely give free repairs even to people who don't really deserve one (e.g. continuous problems with phys
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by dubfan 14y ago
Don't you know? Ron Paul is supposed to be the darling politician of hackers and nerds. You aren't allowed to say anything bad about him here.
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by dubfan 14y ago
Ah, an Infowars article. Always a credible source.
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The territory you're referring to is called Bir Tawil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil
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by dubfan 14y ago
They may know intuitively what a browser is, but they don't always know it as a "browser". When I did public-facing tech support, I found I encountered much less confusion when I told people to "pull up Google" or "go to Yahoo" versus "star
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by dubfan 14y ago
The child was going to camp. Is it reasonable to expect the parents to spend the money and time to fly to and from the destination? When I was eight years old I flew unaccompanied between Butte, MT and Los Angeles. It involved two different
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by dubfan 14y ago
I believe the author is referring to the copyright symbol (the c with a circle around it). This article could have used more thorough proofreading and editing.
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Where was the groundswell of outrage over the warrantless wiretapping program? Who is protesting the use of National Security Letters with no due process or oversight? Americans celebrate freedom and privacy but are complacent and apathetic
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by dubfan 15y ago
"You should start thinking of security for your email as roughly equivalent to the sort of security you'd want on your bank account. It's exceedingly close to that in practice." Actually, I want (and arguably already have) better than that.
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by dubfan 15y ago
How do you know that these things would not happen if you weren't a woman? How do you know that you are only invited to speak at events to fill a quota? These are things you simply can't know and will never know. Yes, OK, you are a polymath
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by dubfan 15y ago
From the link: "AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications."
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by dubfan 15y ago
Good work getting a political article up to the front page.
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For Paul to claim that someone could hold a "scientific opinion as gospel" shows that he has either forgotten his scientific education that he no doubt received during his Ph.D. candidacy, or that his meaning was lost in his sweeping rhetor
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by dubfan 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JyvkjSKMLw - In this video he claims he does not "accept the theory of evolution as a theory". While he doesn't come straight out and use the tired "just a theory" attack, it sure sounds like it. http://ww
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by dubfan 15y ago
The only alternative to Comcast where I live is 3G, which would require giving up online gaming and streaming video. It also is not significantly cheaper than my current plan with Comcast. This isn't acceptable to me. The local telephone co