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Parent might not have meant it as fact but rather in reference to this: https://medium.com/@kelas/how-is-tj-holowaychuk-so-insanely-...
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No connectivity issue here, same (slow) in Chrome on OS X.
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Some Notes on Christopher Alexander (2008)(zeta.math.utsa.edu)
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Just curious, is that with the "EasyPayXpress" card or just a regular unlimited card purchased at the machine? Last time it happened to a roommate they sent a new card in the mail which was credited with either the prorated cost o
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Here's how it "works" for residents: 1. Find out during morning commute that your card is borked. 2. Go to the agent (if there is one) and ask for the form. 3. Buy a new MetroCard, same as your usual period since you can&#x27
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Quoting /u/kamatsu (from reddit): "Some context. This is a very early version released by /u/chak in time for ICFP. There are lots more features planned, so don't view this as the final product." Comparing
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LabVIEW's graphical language G has been around for a while and is widely used for certain kinds of things. Enough people hate it to consider it successful.
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While in Toronto I picked up APL\360 With Stastical Examples for a buck along with some Dijkstra course manuals and other cool stuff. There's a neat paper on APL\360 on the IBM/360 available here for anyone who is interested: h
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I've wondered the same and finally remembered to search thanks to this story. I'd be interested in hearing the parent's response but it's also a surprisingly easy thing to search. Here are some links: How to Start Your
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Some ideas... - Mobile apps: ability to browse/create super easily from your iPhone or whatever using any app that integrates with Dropbox - Storage space: though not always written in stone, most git hosts expect code and prefer you
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$20 million cherry business, $XX million cannabis business according to the article.
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PLEAC – Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook(pleac.sourceforge.net)
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Well there's also this easter egg: http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome_Chompski
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Bob be with you.
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> If we think it's important to have such disparate classes living close together even in high cost of living areas While this may be true, this is definitely not the only way to talk about public housing in New York (i.e. the w
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They do, however patron records' confidentiality is generally more favorable than Amazon's privacy policies. Examples: 1. http://www.santaclaritalibrary.com/confidentiality-of-librar... 2. https://www.s
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TMSU ( http://tmsu.org/ ) and git-annex ( https://git-annex.branchable.com/ ) also allow for different tag-based filing methods. OS X has had native file tagging for at least a version or two now as well, thoug
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There are many more well known nouns called Columbia than just the university, but amusingly the very first sentence on Wikipedia reads "'Columbia' is a frequent misspelling of Colombia, a large country in South America. See
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At least, we're noticing much more quickly than might have been reasonable before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
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Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer.
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Besides what DanBC suggested, it doesn't work (gives username not found error) if you're blocking JS.
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git-annex cryptol ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptol ) seL4 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#High_ass... )
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I just want to say that Mike (Watt) is a great guy and has also hosted his own show, The Watt From Pedro Show ( http://twfps.com/ ) for way longer than podcasts have been cool– 2001! He's a rambler, but it's far and
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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces(archive.org)
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See my post above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9826916 ). The break itself is pretty significant and, if I read it correctly, would also make their rate static/predictable for a long period. That is pretty temp
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They wouldn't get a tax break on the luxury housing which generates all the money, and the non-luxury apartments (if you mean "affordable housing" here) simply wouldn't generate much money to make up for whatever savings
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There is definitely an issue in conflating low-income tenants with "troublemakers". However, the real justification for this break in particular is that there is a very real belief that by putting low-income renters in better hous
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The article doesn't link to it but here is the relevant info from Housing and Preservation: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/tax-incentives-421a.... For a bit of NYC history, back in the '60s
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Before there were any comments I thought about typing roughly the same sentiment. I only spent a few hours in Macaw before realizing it wouldn't actually help me get work done and figured I'd take another look when they got around
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The British Red Cross is a different organization which predates the American Red Cross by about a decade– both are roughly 150 years old.

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