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961.
by gmac 11y ago
So this 'civil forfeiture' is appalling and Orwellian enough in its own right, but it's also one of those cases where the apparent inability to award costs in US courts seems truly insane. If this happened under the English l
962.
by gmac 11y ago
iOS Safari sometimes increases text size automagically. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6210788/how-to-avoid-ios-...
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by gmac 12y ago
Your comment fills me with equal parts irritation and curiosity, just because it's so far from my experience. I use CoffeeScript every day, and I experience not even the mildest of tooling or debugging hiccups. And I find CoffeeScript
964.
by gmac 12y ago
Actually, even in Objective-C it's technically optional to give your parameters names. Feel free to knock yourself out with method signatures like: - (void)doMysteriousThingsWithParameters:(int)x :(BOOL)y :(NSString*)z; I&#x27
965.
by gmac 12y ago
More research is always nice, but you can get a long way with the two words I learned as a biological anthropology undergrad: dietary diversity. Eating well isn't rocket science. Eat a wide range of foods. Then you'll very likely
966.
by gmac 12y ago
That's kind of scary — in that case I guess I should avoid creating a file named -rf.
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by gmac 12y ago
Um, quite a lot of use if it's the most relevant content for your question? I'm not hostile to mobile users' needs, but I'd much rather have a mobile web of occasional pinch-to-zooming than one of annoyingly crippled l
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by gmac 12y ago
IIRC Digital Ocean instances get updates by default from Digital Ocean mirrors that are not always up to date with the source. You may want to switch to the official sources.
969.
Google hurting page rank for 'small font size'
7 points by gmac 12y ago|8 comments
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by gmac 12y ago
... for some values of 'real'. It's certainly prestigious nonetheless.
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Thoughts on Swift(pilky.me)
2 points by gmac 12y ago|0 comments
972.
by gmac 12y ago
This looks rather similar to the Tories' purge of old speeches from their own party website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24924185
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by gmac 12y ago
Yes. I wonder if there's old legislation somewhere that mandates the form a passport application will take, and they've gone as far as they can without changing the legislation itself?
974.
by gmac 12y ago
An alternative statement of my theory is that easy access to and widespread ownership of firearms is a causal factor in gun crime. That there is easy access to and widespread ownership of firearms in the US has not, to my knowledge, changed
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by gmac 12y ago
On the other hand, some of the examples pictured in the article are so unclear that I would have thought they are probably unenforceable in court (or at least, they would be here in the UK).
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New Linode Datacenters Planned for Frankfurt and Singapore(blog.linode.com)
2 points by gmac 12y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 12y ago
http://www.juancole.com/2012/07/58-murders-a-year-by-firearm...
978.
by gmac 12y ago
Yes. A recent paper I submitted (carefully typeset in LaTeX) got subjected to all kinds of ludicrous mangling in the name of 'house style' by someone with no apparent knowledge of English. Things like 'for example' being
979.
by gmac 12y ago
Taking personal responsibility sounds all very well (leaving discussion of the impossibility of meaningful free will for another occasion), but private health insurance is a special kind of stupid. For example, some people are born with dis
980.
NTSB blames battery design and bad management for 787 fires(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gmac 12y ago|0 comments
981.
by gmac 12y ago
Agreed. And things could have been enormously worse (hint: VBScript).
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by gmac 12y ago
Having used MySQL in the past and vowed never to use it again, I would not be especially surprised if the MySQL code base was unusually buggy. On the other hand, high use rates could well lead to high bug discovery rates.
983.
by gmac 12y ago
It's not as simple as: all Apple products are perfect and all Windows laptops are terrible. But the chances of your Apple hardware having a horrible fault, in my experience, are very significantly lower. And if it does have a horrible
984.
by gmac 12y ago
I teach a Behavioural Economics (BE) module of an Economics Bachelors degree. BE is not awfully radical: it tends to build on and refine standard theory. If BE is 'the past' I suspect it's only because its key parts have been
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by gmac 12y ago
Hey, I didn't set out to write an essay on the joys of CoffeeScript. I was just writing some code, as you do, and was struck by this one-liner as a good example of why I like CoffeeScript so much.
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by gmac 12y ago
Those ES5 and ES6 examples are nice, but I believe even ES5 is for IE9+, and not everyone has the luxury of targeting that high yet.
987.
by gmac 12y ago
Well, it has a few more underscores, but it's otherwise pretty much identical to the JS I'd have written by hand.
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by gmac 12y ago
That is nice, but you'd need to first copy this (or 'list') to results to make it do the same as the CoffeeScript example.
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All that’s great about CoffeeScript in 40 characters(blog.mackerron.com)
5 points by gmac 12y ago|10 comments
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Protecting personal data in online services [pdf](ico.org.uk)
4 points by gmac 12y ago|1 comments

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