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by faboo 15y ago
Ah, yes, that does make a lot more sense. And I definitely agree that $10k is more the size of a rainy-day fund than a "here is my pile of tax evasion money" stash.
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by faboo 15y ago
I imagine they're referring to the fact that a person born to parents with U.S. citizenship is also a U.S. citizen, whether they ask to be or not, and whether they were born abroad or not.
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by faboo 15y ago
Ten grand in cash ? Wikipedia says the median household income in the U.S. (in 2005, though I can't imagine it's sky-rocketed since then) was about $44k (that's 1 wage earner, family of 3 (or so)). So $10k every six months would be nearly
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by faboo 15y ago
Plus, using an off-the-shelf device means there's a whole bunch of stuff you don't have to build from scratch - even if it also contains a whole bunch of stuff you wouldn't have built if you did it from scratch.
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by faboo 15y ago
I'd second ViEmu. The price is a little steep (or was three or four years ago), but I used it through the trial and it was pretty comfortable. These days I do a lot of my C# coding in Visual Studio, but have a shortcut key to open the curre
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by faboo 15y ago
omnicompletion, by default, completes against words in any file currently open in any buffer. But it's also now pretty programmable, though I don't I currently use any of the languages that have good support built out for them.
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by faboo 15y ago
It is an interesting (and also important) line. Generally, it is services that fall under the category of "public good" that are provided by government (in a capitalist nation anyway). These are things that, by their nature, a) must be affo
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by faboo 15y ago
And created by Czech playwrite Karel Čapek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Ro... Noteworthy, I think, because it'd seem natural for a technology to be named by the people who created it, but that isn't always th
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by faboo 15y ago
The adage actually makes more sense if you reverse it: "You can't eat your cake and have it too." That is, once you've eat the cake, you can no longer hold it in your hands. It's (generally) used to refer to a situation where one stance or
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by faboo 15y ago
I don't see how that prevents spam bots better than a "don't be a spam bot" policy. Plenty of spam bots with real sounding names follow me twitter.
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by faboo 15y ago
Technically, they ask that your display name is what your "friends, family, and coworkers" call you. To an extent I find it odd that somebody thinks that all three of those groups would necessarily call you the same thing. My google+ profil
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by faboo 15y ago
Indeed! Our dishwasher has membrane buttons on the front to operate it, and everyone in our house has accidentally turned the washer on by accidentally leaning on a button.
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by faboo 15y ago
It's not so much that they know the format... they are the format. Joel Spolsky (who used to work on Excel and now runs Fog Creek) talks about the issue here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
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by faboo 15y ago
In general, law enforcement has to get very specific warrants accurately indicating where they're going to search and what they hope to seize. This includes both physical locations and, usually, computers. Additionally, case law makes a dis
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by faboo 15y ago
I had a lot of love for SimCity on the Atari ST as a kid, and was ecstatic to find Lincity a few years ago. It isn't a remake of SimCity, really; it's very much the Freeciv to SimCity's Civilization, but I've played a lot of it off and on.
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by faboo 15y ago
Hell, an automatic loan with an _unreasonable_ interest rate would be better than a $30 charge on a $5 overdraft.
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by faboo 15y ago
I can think of a few practical reasons why (I can think of non-practical ones too, but I assume that's not what you're after :) 1. .Net and Asp have not insignificant upfront costs when compared to a stack based on Ruby, PHP, or practically
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by faboo 15y ago
Which, to me, seems to be an admission that the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology isn't actually a scientific journal. An initial experiment/study is only a part of the process. If you get extraordinary results out of an experime
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by faboo 15y ago
Quite true. Our "recommendations" are frequently a weird hodgepodge with things like Thomas the Tank Engine and Californication right next to each other. OTOH, this was only vaguely better when we had cable. (You could have user-specific ch
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by faboo 15y ago
I think the meaning of point three was a bit lost in the grammar. Yes, RMS has (very clearly) stated that the only software a person should use is software that is free. However, I think emilsedgh's point is that RMS _first_ wants people to
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by faboo 16y ago
Server-side JavaScript at work, and Java, JavaScript, and Haskell at home.
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by faboo 16y ago
As I recall, driver binary compatibility is a goal. Last time I looked into it, they had you drop in the generic VGA driver from an NT install while they were stabilizing their VGA driver.
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by faboo 16y ago
For quite some time while I was in college, I read mail through a Vim plugin that I wrote for the purpose. I like Vim that much. However, I can't imagine using Vim to access Gmail for daily use, because Gmail actually does email _well_ (unl
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by faboo 16y ago
I occasionally use http://www.errorhelp.com/ - it's a database of error messages and (hopefully) their fixes.
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by faboo 16y ago
The co-pay is the portion the insured pays. It isn't always small. It isn't even always a small percentage. A procedure my wife recently had, the co-pay was about half the total cost. Co-pays depend the insurance company, the plan, the heal
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by faboo 16y ago
Multiple leases I've signed had provisions about failure to take possession. If I didn't move in right away, or moved out early, I still owed the full rent for the lease period, but the owner could rent the place out to somebody else. (whet
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by faboo 16y ago
The title given this article (by yahoo, incidentally, not evo_9) is impressively incorrect. "Previously undocumented bronze age civilization newly discovered" would be more accurate. It's also interesting, but not nearly as incredible as a
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by faboo 16y ago
What do Canadians put in that stuff anyway? I've yet to see a bottle that mentioned what goes in it. And it seems like most places only have cheap and/or blended Canadian whiskey. Does Canada produce a top-shelf whiskey?
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by faboo 16y ago
But the ritual makes it more fun! Just like having the "right" glass for a nice beer can enhance the overall experience of a good drink, having a whiskey in a glass that works well for you can make a good glass of whiskey great. Personally,
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by faboo 16y ago
There are indeed people who will argue (with varying degrees of vehemence and research/evidence) that high fructose corn syrup is worse for you than sugar. However, some folks, myself included, simply think that high fructose corn syrup tas

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