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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I thought microwave ovens that didn't have rotating plates tended to be of the commercial type. And that to compensate for the lack of rotation, they used magnetic fields (presumably created by electromagnets) to shift the microwave radiati
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
You should definitely make this configurable. I used to use hit a hint ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1341 ), but found it would sometimes capture _all_ presses of the spacebar/ctrl key/whatever you configured. This made i
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Christopher Alexander also wrote the introduction to Patterns of Software ( http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Software-Tales-Community/dp/0... ). It's a great book, and I've unfortunately only had the time to read a few of the essays. It's ava
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Or indeed what they did to King Ludwig II. http://www.castles.org/castles/Europe/Central_Europe/Germany... Disney basically ripped off the design for one of their most iconic images..
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
From the article: "She assumed integrity is implicit in the characters of the "leaders."" I haven't read much Ayn Rand (i.e., none), but I've read a lot about what she has said and written. Is the quote from the article above dramatic licen
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Funny, I was just watching a colleague play this at work the other day. He'd written an app to play the game for him - takes a screen shot, scans the bitmap, figures out the pieces, then determines an optimum set of moves.
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I'm not sure. Wouldn't the angle of refraction (into the core) depend on the angle of incidence of the light hitting the device?
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
When I when from 7.2k RPM to 10k RPM the performance increase was very noticeable. It'll be the next upgrade I do to my laptop when it starts feeling a bit sluggish.
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I would much prefer to have all my web message boards available through a single interface, in a single program. I haven't seen any web message board UI that truly brings something new to the threaded-discussion style that pretty much all t
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I 'created' one of these for my partner. I find the keyboard too cramped, but she loves it. She's not technical, so some of the rough edges (audio output for one) annoy her a bit. It's fast enough for all her uses. I did drop in a replaceme
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I used to participate in Usenet a lot, back in the mid 90s. Rather stupidly, I set the no archive header ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive ) on all my posts. Now I can only find myself quoted in replies. Shame, really.
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Echoing the statements that others have made, I think this is a crappy question. When I get asked it, I tend to ask straight back what the interviewer means by 'failure'. Usually they have their own slant on it, which means you can answer p
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I've been using Screen for a number of years now, but I've recently come across Ubuntu's repackaging of it - https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/screen-profiles.h... . This seems like a fantastic way to introduce screen to new users
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
How timely! At lunch today a couple of colleagues were talking about the ability to play a note just by feel and intuition, on whatever musical instrument you are proficient in. And here we have a man who can play a crowd!
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Do you know if this is the case in the United Kingtom? Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing in the UK?
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Reminds me of the shock-horror headline in New Zealand a number of years back: half of NZ children below average.
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I quite agree. This is a very poor discussion of the ideas and concepts at hand. Its not even an 'introductory' level discussion; most of it is just plain uninformed. Personally, my first reading has led me to find the conclusions quite dis
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Interesting write up, and a nice style. The filename limitation isn't the only problem. There's also a limit of 260 characters in the URL. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265251/asp-net-url-maxpat... Boo-sucks if you suddenly run into
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
For a first guess, if there were 5 writing dbs, each could write every 5th id, starting at a different index (0,1,2,3,4). You'd end up with globally unique ids, and as long as your writes were (approx.) evenly distributed, all 5 sequences w
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I'd also expect most of those numbers not to be used. Their db writes are probably not contending on one monotonic counter. They're probably using some numbering scheme which guarantees uniqueness across multiple writable databases, but not
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Here are a couple of really interesting web pages about 'face blindness'. http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/ http://www.prosopagnosia.com/main/stones/index.asp
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I'm sure I've previously read about these sorts of people being employed by various intelligence agencies. Maybe it was just in some fiction novel, but it would make a lot of sense. I think they were referred to as flashers. That is people
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I don't suppose anyone could point out the Olympic village on the Beijing map?
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Fair point, and perhaps poorly worded on my behalf. You may disagree with me, but I think there is some political, social-economical, geo-political or even local-government topics that effect everyone. Or rather, there is at least one topic
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Thanks for pointing out that specific comment. It wasn't there when I first read that post. The only correction I'd make to his post would be to state that people in nearly all communities (perhaps not the members of the Professional Associ
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Not to be dismissive, but arguments about what is and what isn't offensive never get very far on the internet. It's a topic that requires empathy, and most people come around to someone else's point of view only through seeing their body la
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Hah, I think I might have met you before ;) In all seriousness, can you give me an example of the sorts of arguments you start? In a more idealistic phase of my life, I used to start political arguments at the drop of a hat. Not to verify s
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
Wow.. what an incredibly offensive presentation that Matt Aimonetti gave. That he needed to resort to such crass tactics speaks volumes about both him, the audience, and what he thought about the audience. I'm a little disappointed that the
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by hugothefrog 17y ago
I used to, as another poster has mentioned, pick up a copy whenever I flew anywhere. Now I subscribe to the audio edition, which is of a fantastically high quality. Amazingly, there's more content (length-wise) that I can reasonably get thr