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by georgefox 15y ago
In fairness, it was awkward, and there are quite a few comma splices and other grammatical errors in Jacques's post (e.g., the second paragraph). I actually found this a little distracting myself. That said, I agree that grammar policing is
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by georgefox 15y ago
I expected to see a lot of Steve Jobs-related posts on HN today, but I did not expect a sensationalist article from a Glenn Beck website to make the front page.
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by georgefox 15y ago
> There is going to be a rush to judgement, but I'm not convinced that the government is going to use the tax money wisely.... Keeping the Government in the pinch has forced them to crack down on waste and fraud. It would be much harde
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by georgefox 15y ago
Not really. They did the same thing in 2004, and it didn't do much of anything. And if we keep doing this every time big businesses push for it, they're only going to bring money back during predictable tax holidays. See http://www.washing
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by georgefox 15y ago
This is a great resource, but some of the input validation stuff doesn't sit well with me, for example: > Examples of Good Input Validation Approaches... Firstname: Letters, single apostrophe, 1 to 30 characters First, I'm not sure if
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by georgefox 15y ago
Agreed, but tracking is different than sharing. Nobody's going to complain that your web server logs GET requests (well, not from an HTTP standpoint, at least), but posting that information to your social networking profile is a little diff
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The Internet is, in fact, a series of tubes(washingtonpost.com)
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by georgefox 15y ago
Relatively off-topic: The API and Page Contents menus open and immediately close for me in Firefox. Chrome works fine.
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by georgefox 15y ago
> I agree, but he gets to a much simpler, teachable example near the end, which is representing shapes. Mathematically, a circle is an ellipse, and an ellipse is a polygon. Well, the circle-ellipse problem complicates that example a l
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by georgefox 15y ago
The popular ggplot2 library for R uses colour , though I think color is also accepted in some places. http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/scale_gradient.html
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by georgefox 15y ago
I know what you mean, but the link you provided doesn't actually seem to be doing any HTML encoding.
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by georgefox 15y ago
Really? I hope you're not talking about first-class postage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Postage_History.svg
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by georgefox 15y ago
Some of the PHP stuff, as others have noted with Python, etc., is misleading or outdated. Backticks work: echo `ls`; Constants can be declared globally: const PI = 3.14; Anonymous functions can be declared without create_f
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by georgefox 15y ago
> If this logic is acceptable then I should be allowed to break apart any petty charity collection box and use the money for the purpose I deem more noble. Not really. Jonathan's Card is not charity. It's like saying you should be abl
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by georgefox 15y ago
If the discrepancies between state policies were large enough, I imagine you'd basically see white flight on a national scale. Essentially, supporting any type of social safety net would be optional for the people with the resources to move
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by georgefox 15y ago
I'm glad you re-posted, actually, since the original links (when posted) didn't include audio.
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by georgefox 15y ago
In fairness, I imagine the gripe is that the three circles in Google's logo are arranged fairly similarly to the orange, grey, and pink circles in buddycloud's. Ignore the Xes and the big circle, and the logos would actually be kind of simi
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by georgefox 15y ago
Shouldn't border-radius (i.e., no vendor prefix) be last?
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by georgefox 15y ago
How would you make it return true/false immediately when the user has to click OK or Cancel?
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by georgefox 15y ago
I've heard that with some of these ATMs, if you enter an invalid PIN too many times, it'll kick you out and eat the card. I've never tried this, personally.
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by georgefox 15y ago
Clothing. Granted, I hate buying clothes in person too, but not being able to try things on makes it seem like quite a gamble.
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by georgefox 15y ago
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_President_of_th... . I don't know that this quite falls under the same category, but it certainly doesn't seem like a good idea.
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by georgefox 15y ago
Personally, I don't think they should be able to create an account with Vonage or Verizon or whoever and sign up for telephone service, no. I have no problem with them using their parents' account(s), though.
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by georgefox 15y ago
While I understand your point, I find that a surprising number of people have issues with 12am vs. 12pm, often confusing the two. These same people tend to think midnight occurs at the end of the day.
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by georgefox 15y ago
You could easily set up a page out on the web that reads the RSS and throws the data into an HTML table. Then create an Excel spreadsheet and import the data from the web: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/24285/use-online-data-in-exce... Cl
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by georgefox 15y ago
Thanks, I owe you one.
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by georgefox 15y ago
Any possibilities for telecommuting with NPR? I've checked the careers page a few times, but the locations on the postings never seem flexible.
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by georgefox 15y ago
Even with Adblock Plus, the faint yellow bar remains. It's definitely obnoxious, but I otherwise prefer the new theme too much to go back.
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by georgefox 15y ago
> Every site you visit in a browser can attack every site you're logged into, but they have to know the URL scheme of those logged in sites. That's assuming nobody uses anti-CSRF measures, right? If I've got an anti-CSRF token on a fo
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by georgefox 15y ago
I believe Active Directory has a maximum length on passwords: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.... (See ArgumentException .)

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