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by ejr 12y ago
Tinsey nitpick: It's Spammers. There is no apostrophe before the plural 's'. The graphic has it correct. Sorry, that bothers me :-) The rest of the article was fascinating.
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by ejr 12y ago
I'm mostly an office worker and make crafts at home that I sell online - most boring daytime endeavour yet. I too am a "wantrepreneur" and I'm thinking of getting something started soon. Nothing "tech" though.
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by ejr 12y ago
I took this to mean code correctness and thus a measure of stability and security as added benefits. Generally assurance implies some level of confidence that the application will behave predictably even in the face of unpredictable inputs
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by ejr 12y ago
There are several ideas in play that skirt this idea, however none have widespread adoption as far as I'm aware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network Frequency hopping, spread-spectrum technologies h
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by ejr 12y ago
I had a flashback to the days of web portals. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, I like that they're trying something because complacency is never a good thing. You have to try things to see if they work. I think the biggest al
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by ejr 12y ago
This may sound like heresy, but I think Internet Explorer has the right balance between tab space and the URL bar. It's not perfect, but it is smaller than in Firefox and Chrome, while still being usable. I'm waiting for a complet
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by ejr 12y ago
There are halo benefits to the side projects as well. Some experimental or otherwise "daring" functionality in a side project can become invaluable within the browser core at a future date. It's a bit like an external stimulu
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by ejr 12y ago
Funny you mention, I did have a similar project on the back burner. The following were all the measurements that were supposed to be sent back in CSV format : "station","town","district","lon",&qu
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by ejr 12y ago
My dad did years ago while in good health, but it's quite hard to keep up with family obligations and such. This makes his feat even more astounding. This kind of tenacity reminds me of Marion Stokes whose story was linked here before
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by ejr 12y ago
If anyone is curious, the particular station style - box - he has his instruments housed in is called a "Stevenson screen" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen It's has double-louvers on all fo
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by ejr 12y ago
If you're on OSX, there's Lime Text, which is Open Source http://limetext.org . Linux cross compile is apparently working and a Windows version is in the works as well. https://github.com/limetext/
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Resistor mesh(rosettacode.org)
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Casio F-91W(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ejr 12y ago
The Archive project has been busy getting these as quickly as possible. https://archive.org/details/justintv You may find a lot of those videos have been saved. I think there was a limit on which videos were actually s
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by ejr 12y ago
"Open" is still a very new concept in government. While words like "oversight" and "transparency" have floated around parliament, there was still very little precedence previously and old, ingrained, attitudes
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by ejr 12y ago
A lot of the reviews now are purely trolling. Streisand effect in full swing, but I expect many of these will be removed by Yelp since they aren't from people who were actually guests. I'm sure that violates Yelp's TOS as wel
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by ejr 12y ago
If modern routers are delegated to router duty only, this wouldn't be a problem. However, routers these days are for all intents and purposes, specialised home servers with shared media streaming and the like as well. These are value-a
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by ejr 12y ago
My news is a bit delayed, but from what I know of WA, the political atmosphere is a bit frayed. Local government is hampered by a complex web of bureaucracy and the state government may not be willing to play along. I'm sure there are
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by ejr 12y ago
Bootleggers in the old American cities didn't suddenly stop serving their clients after prohibition ended either. Legalisation is very new and there aren't enough dispensaries to bring the price down. The article itself mentions :
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by ejr 12y ago
Thank you. I would use it right now actually as I do have some spreadsheets with Google. There are some I'd rather use locally like this and it would be just a nice extra. It would also avoid the need to maintain a network connection.
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by ejr 12y ago
Thanks for writing this. Do you have plans to extend this to any locally stored spreadsheets? Ex: Excel, Calc (Libre and Open Office) and so on. I imagine even XML based documents would still present some vendor quirks to overcome.
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by ejr 12y ago
Yes, exactly. When I tell people where they need to send funds, their first question is "do you have a PayPal account?" Western Union, Moneygram and such are all highly inconvenient for both parties. And services like Stripe aren&
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by ejr 12y ago
As much as people complain about them, I still haven't found a service that matches their reach or ease. Let's face it, PP is a de-facto bank without any of the regulations, requirements or safeguards.
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by ejr 12y ago
> James Randi, in his wild, younger days, would spray real bills with spray starch to cause a little chaos at the bank. Terrifyingly devious while causing no physical harm. I wonder if pranksters these days are just as imaginative. Or pe
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by ejr 12y ago
nobody cares about this in this thread. I care. The branding, no matter how good looking it is - and it is good - must in the end enhance the product. But if the product itself is confusing, the branding and styles can only do so mu
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by ejr 12y ago
Ah yes, a hover state to show the owner's cells would be perfect.
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by ejr 12y ago
I seem to have lost my bits :-) Somewhere out there are 2 blue boxes that I can't tell apart from a sea of other blue boxes. This is thoroughly fun!
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by ejr 12y ago
I imagined to be like ice which does make crackling noises when it freezes due to expansion, except cooling rocks will shrink causing the same. Re-solidifying rock would probably sound louder and the acoustic signature may travel further.
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by ejr 12y ago
T-shirts as a service - TSaaS? It's selling black V-neck t-shirts? What exactly am I looking at here? Is this is a stealth project with a malfunctioning cloak? I wouldn't get caught dead in a black t-shirt, not because I think the
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by ejr 12y ago
I'm grateful this post was made as it allowed me to find the NASA flight rules http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/news/columbia/fr_generic.pdf However the commands are a little haphazard and as Gabe (gkop) mentions, not

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