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by engtech 14y ago
My old Kitchenaid dishwasher had to have the mainboard replaced 4 times. One fix I found online was that if you have a hotter than normal water supply, the exhaust vent isn't big enough to let all of the steam out so the board gets wet. The
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The top five best centers for six degrees of hollywood separation are: Dennis Hopper (2.802166) Harvey Keitel (2.812642) Donald Sutherland (I) (2.819748) David Carradine (I) (2.819993) Udo Kier (2.826828)
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Turns out that Kevin Bacon is only the 444th best candidate for being the center of a six degrees search of Hollywood. http://oracleofbacon.org/center.php
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does anyone know if "Not interested" on Netflix factors into the ratings at all? Because I want to use it to hide the 100s of movies I've already seen that Netflix keeps showing me.
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yup, there's Not Interested right on the website. I'll have to see if it also works that was on the iPad when I get home. Stupid Boxee.
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It was a comment to the goodfil.ms guy, because they link to imdb not rotten tomatoes, and it's trivial to also support rotten tomatoes.
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I use iPad / Boxee and I haven't seen the button. I'll install Silverlight and try out the web site to see if it's there. It might be yet another feature that Netflix Canada is missing (like instant queue).
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One thing I would love to have is the ability to "hide" movies. Often when I'm looking for movies to watch, I'll go through the process of looking it up on RT, if what I see there makes the decision that it's some direct to DVD crap, then
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I saw the IMDB link. Add the end of any description: Read more on External IMDB External Wikipedia
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Thank you! I've been a Canadian Netflix subscriber for a long time now, and I've been thinking of dropping it because the Canadian Netflix is a wasteland.
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FYI, if you have the IMDB ID for a movie, then you can link to Rotten Tomatoes using that IMDB ID. Using the IMDB ID number, "0079501", you may access the Rotten Tomatoes Mad Max page using the following URL: Mad Max: http://www.rottentoma
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It's an interesting series of articles.
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You made a mistake with your submission and put the link into the description box instead of the URL box.
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it feels like a good idea, right up until the point where you cd into a directory with 100s of files while you're using a slow vpn collection.
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I got into a 20 minutes argument with a coworker once about why it isn't a good idea to put spaces in filenames (my argument being that it can sometimes break handcoded argument parsing in homegrown unix scripts when the escaping of the spa
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I assumed it was A-nonymous when I read the article, but on re-read I think you are correct. That probably explains why the story hasn't exploded more like other stories about Anonymous or Lulsec have.
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title didn't convey the content of the article, or why it would be of interest to HN. I thought it was political stuff at first vs tech news. A better title might be: Anonymous' steals Romney's tax return for blackmail extortion
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"monkeys mindlessly following a script" -- social engineering is a script that is ridiculously successful at achieving its goals. Humans are always the weakest link. What's ironic is that if it hadn't been for all the FUD in the 90s against
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It was a huge time sink. I stopped blogging when my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and getting away from "trying to be popular on the internet" gave me the distance to see that I wasn't getting anything out of it. I also changed
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I understand why they put the responses on the left and right, but that really made the article hard to read, especially since the candidates often had different text lengths for each of the questions.
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No, Swords and Sourcery is "retro". This is ugly. But ugly has nothing to do with good.
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There's time, you just have to figure out where else you're spending it. Cut out any free overtime at work, cut out TV, cut out video games and books... and there's a lot of time. I think it would have been a different story for the Luca Re
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Aaron SW's latest series of articles have informative about tackling the hard problems. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve Made to Stick is an excellent read on the subject of branding and marketing. http://www.heathbrothers.com/made
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visualmess was informative, thank you.
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Quantum chip breakthrough in the next 3-5 years(theglobeandmail.com)
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the save file thing is a huge issues for their platform One of the best mods I have installed for New Vegas is CASM, which saves the game every 10 minutes with a rotating number of autosaves. Very helpful if the save file jumps from 500k to
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this should be "Ask HN"
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Very well written, although given that it's a commentary versus thesis I don't think it'll make it to the front page.
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and don't even get me started on that we need to be able to resell "used" content as individuals. The current fiasco of "losing" all your electronic purchases on death because they're non-transferable is criminal abuse. There's a big differ
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The reason why piracy can continue to exist is licensing agreements. Content providers need to offer a flat rate for resellers, and sure, they'll have the occasional exclusive and better deal to specific online stores. But compare this to a

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