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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
To that end the developer could anticipate that their code has a lot of side effects and just run light table in a test vm with snapshots to hop back to in case they really mess up. Setting one up isn't hard, and you only pay the overhead c
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Here are details regarding how the ghost towns are funded and why China keeps building them so far from present city centers. "It is hoped that these new towns will, in addition to alleviate urban congestion, spark further in-fill developme
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
According to TIME, the largest Chinese ghost town, Ordos, is still unoccupied 5 years later: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1975397,00.htm...
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
The fact that your friend can ask you for a favor in return is Guanxi, and is certainly a characteristic of Chinese culture that provides accountability and also is factor in whom one befriends. The fact that a favor was required to get a v
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
I appreciate the caution against infatuation with new toys at the end of this article. Too many times these stories are written in a way that implies technology was a magical solution, often misleading people that should know better.
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Hmm, I use a Lenovo X220 convertible as a tablet for extended periods with little fatigue. It weighs 3.88 lbs. I've also used the IBM T60 tablet. I'll admit that the iPad's lightness is a nice feature, but not a necessity. Also, I am not a
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
I found the About page very useful for understanding the use case. I recommend putting the search feature that's on the About page on your home page as well. Also, why is the ability to Add a role on the home page in the list of example rol
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
It will be interesting to see more details on how these bridges or threads (I'll avoid calling them portals) affect the magnetosphere, particularly if they are hidden. Are they responsible for previously unexpected behavior in the magnetosp
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Heheh, a quick look at the page source reminds me of a web based testing tool I saw in high school. The teacher never figured out why we all aced that course.
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Thanks, but I usually wait until Wednesday to have my faith in humanity crushed. Still, that's a nice bit of social engineering to auto-filter for people that are either naive or have too much time on their hands. As an example of too much
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
"Write me" is an example of a shortened phrase, probably derived from "Write me a letter", versus "Write to me". Honestly I thought "How to pitch a journalist" might mean how to endorse a journalist if it didn't happen to be a typo. Interes
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
I was going to mention it if you didn't. I keep seeing signs of the population returning to a "Ready, Fire, Aim, er wait" mentality, but hopefully I'm just hypersensitive to those signs. As Wyatt Earp said, "Fast is fine, but accuracy is e
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Sadly not a web service, but very well organized: http://homepage.virgin.net/roy.longbottom/index.htm Tons of different benchmarks with source code and very comprehensive data for legacy and contemporary hardware. They're free for persona
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
In general, this article is in defense of Perl programmers. Although I don't look forward to doing any blessing or hexing again, I'll agree that Perl has merits and can even scale with the right mindset (a masochistic one, jk). These types
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
What if playtime is essential to creativity and developing models? Aren't children encouraged to play in different ways for this very reason? Honestly, I've been Charles before, and no one cared because the work was done well and on time. I
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
"A lazy man, Dad believed, always makes the best use of his Therbligs because he is too indolent to waste motions." Cheaper By The Dozen, 1948, Frank B Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey I believe that there is precedent for this con
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
The terms lazy and hard-working are used loosely here. I definitely would hire a smart programmer that's not afraid of doing things the 'hard' way when the constraints of the project demand it, but a programmer that too easily falls into do
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
lol I have to ask, were you just using mouse-clicks, or did you have it pop open the inspector and pull the images from there? Since you're on Windows, you might want to check out the System.Net.WebClient object in Powershell.
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw Hopefully your physics teacher also made a
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
I'm meaning to check out Haxe, which is a metalanguage that includes PHP[1] as a compile target. Strict typing and object oriented approach, plus using the same language to target client-side web and native code. [1] http://haxe.org/doc/ta
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
The code looks substantially different and technically the names are different. HeX is pronounced "Hek", and Hex is probably pronounced "Heks".
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Still a nice bonus for taking the time write some original content. Thanks for sharing the info.
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
That's pretty impressive. If you don't mind me prying, how long did it to take to rack up those earnings (guessing 2 months since it was posted) and where did most of your traffic for that post come from (rss subscribers vs search engine re
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
In passing it looks like a nice reading list. What motivated you to study this topic and are there any achievements resulting from this regimen that you could share?
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
I can still see uses for it only cooling down to ambient air temperature. I'm thinking of high-frequency transistors / ICs with heatsinks and a bank of these lights being attached. It wouldn't be a primary cooling method, but if you needed
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Probably entanglement and other optics experiments if the light produced has the right properties.
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Not from a teaching standpoint, but from within an IT department as a peer and later a manager I've seen plenty of both men and women 'play dumb' to get help, even to the point of trying to slide by without learning the material themselves
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Google search plus good memory returned an older article with a bit more information about Taylor: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played... He has built a Farnsworth fusor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor It i
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Sorry, quick p.s. after playing with it a little more. I found my new list under my user profile page. So, I need to create a new list with the link up top, then figure out that RePost at the bottom right really means Add To A List. Then, i
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by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Critical feedback up front: Before signing up, please note that the demo video (which looked pretty, and I should have paid more attention to) when played in Chrome never successfully exited for me, i.e. the sign up elements continued to be

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