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by frossie 17y ago
Some clearly do - I checked out from a site today that offered me PayPal, Google or Amazon checkout.
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by frossie 17y ago
Well, sorry to be so low-tech and all, but I tackle this problem in a couple of ways: 1. A (private) blog - person with the idea posts it, discussion happens in the comments. Pluses: Easy, clients for everything under the sun, easy mail gat
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by frossie 17y ago
Right, but presumably the owner can reply with "For the record we only use hand-cut fried cooked in duck fat" to that review? I am not insensitive to the point, that an individual customer may be poorly placed to be a reliable critic, but I
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by frossie 17y ago
Thanks for an interesting article. I think some of the problem is just adjustment into a new medium. Those of us who have been net-savvy for a while know how to read reviews - I am pretty confident we can all tell an irrational impossible-t
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by frossie 17y ago
Following your doctor's advice on these issues is a sure way to ruin your health. I actually don't agree with that. While I am willing to believe that the average doctor's understanding of nutrition is incomplete, I doubt the average punt
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by frossie 17y ago
"Don’t say currently if you can say now." Hmm. To me, the most interesting thing about English is that there is a lot of additional meaning invested in what seems to be a choice of synonymous words. "I am not currently married" conveys to
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by frossie 17y ago
Do you care if you have reduced your risk of CVD death, if risk of other deaths increase? I might if I have a family history of heart disease. I might if I have confounding factors for CVD (like being on oral contraceptives). The point is
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by frossie 17y ago
That looks useful (well, not to personally to me, but I can see the attraction). I think you are working in a fertile area. In my last trip I used the iPhone app Postino to send snail-mail postcards using pictures from the iPhone - it worke
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by frossie 17y ago
Okay: 1. I hope everyone realises that reading one abstract online does not constitute medical advice, or even the true state of scientific knowledge on the field. 2. If regardless you do intend to base your life decisions based on someth
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by frossie 17y ago
The overall goal here is not to make any one person feel like a special snowflake If I understood the OP, their issue is not that they don't feel like a special snowflake - it's that this is a site that is driven, among other things, by t
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by frossie 17y ago
Many years ago (early 90s?) I looked into a job in Antarctica. The job stipulated that you had to preventatively remove your appendix prior to your tour of duty to avoid exactly this situation. I believe they also wanted you to replace your
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by frossie 17y ago
You can text DOB to 90999 and $5 goes to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders). Surely we can all agree they're okay.
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by frossie 17y ago
Cf: wikileaks
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by frossie 17y ago
customers sometimes don't know exactly what they want, and have a hard time describing it, I don't want to minimise the problem quoted, but that is not the entirety of it. There is still a problem for people who do know what they want,
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by frossie 17y ago
Well, it is personal, it is also seriously obfuscated - it started off something like for(split(//,'*)))*1)11.41))9291:.3+*A11:1:3)/+,))9:' and of course that was part of the fun - since I had received it in paper form, I had to type
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by frossie 17y ago
Nah, I don't think it's creepy at all. I once received a love-letter in obfuscated perl. I married the sender. Good luck :-)
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by frossie 17y ago
I mean that if the story is about a person it says hero/jerk...
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by frossie 17y ago
I think you want to elaborate on your question. What comment metadata are you talking about?
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by frossie 17y ago
Too much non-story "stuff" - at full screen height I get 4 stories on the front page. HN gives me 26. Clearly you can't go as minimalist as HN, but I really think you want to do better than 4. Also, do you want to ask people to vote before
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by frossie 17y ago
The point being made is not bad, but the example of the barmaid is awful. It is not a sign of adulthood or leadership to show compassion to somebody earning pennies to your dollar. It is a sign of improvement in character, which is not the
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by frossie 17y ago
Thinks that worked for me for wrist pain: 1. Make sure you sleep with your wrists in a neutral position (i.e. straight - neither bent back or bent forward). Use wrist wraps if you absolutely have to, but better if you can manage it by force
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by frossie 17y ago
If the latter phrasing is correct, use that. If you really do need Java or C++ specifically, then use the former.
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by frossie 17y ago
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. I am the clumsiest person this side of the Magellanic cloud. You should see me fumble with paint - you wouldn't want me to mess with electrics :-)
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by frossie 17y ago
Oh man, a lot of the local tradesmen practice the "no schedule" thing. Drives me crazy. "Can you come fix my electrics" "Sorry, busy right now, call me in a month". No dude, I will call someone who can actually give me an appointment in a m
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by frossie 17y ago
I have rabbits. Note that keeping an animal in a cage as a pet seems kinda besides the point, so my rabbits are house rabbits. Rabbits are trivially litter trained (see www.rabbit.org) and are active mainly at dawn and dusk, so are good for
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by frossie 17y ago
Science shop - most of our development is in perl (OO style), C and Fortran, with a smattering of whatever else we are saddled with.
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by frossie 17y ago
Suddenly you've opened this up to a much larger population of programmers who have done great work. I doubt the OP is in the position of not having a large enough pool of people to hire to his satisfaction using his criteria. This does no
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by frossie 17y ago
There's working and there's working. Doubt many people here will stop hacking the day they receive their first pension check. It would be interesting to see this research for groups that can't work without a job (eg. doctors) and people who
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by frossie 17y ago
I don't think that is what the OP is saying, but maybe I misunderstood too. It's kind of like a forum where at the end somebody writes an article describing the pertinent information in the thread. It's an interesting suggestion - not sure
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by frossie 17y ago
Well, in this case the author seemed to have some personal evidence that his plight was not being understood. One thing I have recently noticed is how disrespectful people are to kids in flow. I'll see a little kid really engrossed in an ac

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