jacobheric

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by jacobheric 10y ago
I'll check it out. Thanks! Some of my favorite reading is genre fiction that trims the fat and floats above the rest of the genre. This seems to fit that bill.
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by jacobheric 10y ago
I always thought King's writing could stand to be edited down (a lot). But I feel that about most genre fiction. I find it stifling as a reader especially when characters thoughts and emotions are over described. Usually a simple detai
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by jacobheric 10y ago
If you consider a novel a work of art, then creating it is an act of artistic creation that has some intrinsic value. There is a benefit to expressing yourself carefully, to telling a story that says something about the world that you think
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by jacobheric 10y ago
I start out in google docs because it's convenient and the change history is nice to have. I do this instead of plain text because I like adding some formatting as I write. If the book gets over 200 pages (or thereabouts) google docs s
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by jacobheric 12y ago
I had exactly the same experience with my Nest thermostat. I think Nest's assertions about furnace compatibility are a marketing wash. The three support people I spoke to were explicitly disinterested in knowing the make and model of m
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by jacobheric 12y ago
We have one in Maine as well, scale 1:93,000,000: http://pages.umpi.edu/~nmms/solar/
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by jacobheric 12y ago
I enjoyed the animations and videos of the repairs here: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/About/followbertha I spotted a UFO in the repair pit video, I'm curious if someone can identify it (upper
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by jacobheric 12y ago
I'd not go so far as to say it's trolling. Perhaps overly-dramatic hyperbole. As a Java developer, I do see a shift away from packaging up wars and deploying them to application servers. See Dropwizard or Spring Boot for examples
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by jacobheric 12y ago
When you merge multiple libraries into a single jar, it is possible that two libraries might have two (unpackaged) resources with the same name that will collide on the JVM's classpath. Or, perhaps more annoying, you might end up with
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by jacobheric 13y ago
For privacy, I'd love to switch to DDG. I try them out almost every time I read about them. But I always end up switching back to GOOG because I just can't find what I want. Here's how today's switch went: 1. Install
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by jacobheric 14y ago
I'm a sometimes Goodreads user. I'd use it more if it weren't maddeningly slow. One thing that I had noticed about Goodreads was that Amazon was always at the bottom of the online store referral list. Because of that, I took them to be Ama
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by jacobheric 14y ago
There is an interesting study link ( http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR637-1.html ) towards the end of this article (which was pretty good by the way). The study suggests that employer-based health care inhibits entrepreneurship.
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by jacobheric 14y ago
I won't speak for the OP, but he/she is probably referring to the fact that Milwaukee consistently ranks as one of the most segregated cities in the US: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/milwaukee-wisc-is-most-segre... http://www.salon.com