jacobwilliamroy

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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
Generally you would want to avoid descendant and child selectors. With rules like ul > li > a .selector .selector1 li a The system will check ALL anchor tags and move left until it has completely matched the rule. This makes
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What are your experiences with customizing Twitter Bootstrap?
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Mensa International -> Consumption of Tide Pods: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Mensa%20Intern...
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
A few years ago I was at a university whose motion taps and motion paper-towel dispensers were battery powered. There was one time I went into a bathroom and most of the sinks were dead.
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
Here's an excerpt from Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java (4th Edition), pg. 42-43 The stack This lives in the general random -access memory (RAM) area, but has direct support from the processor via its stack pointer The stack poi
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
>Another possibility is that U.S. immigration laws act as a protectionist barrier to prop up programmer compensation. It seems impossible for this to last (why shouldn’t there by really valuable non-U.S. companies), but it does appear to
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
>So I take the drop to $29 as a tangible apology It's more like a middle finger to all the independent smartphone repair shops that have been replacing screens, batteries, speakers, LCDs, and cameras for years. Apple has the resourc
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
I prefer to just write a website in HTML/CSS/JS. I can reuse code from past projects, the time between saving a piece of code and loading it up in a web browser is milliseconds, I can track it in git and migrating is as simple as
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How do I use Wordpress without going crazy?
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Bokashi Composting [pdf](bocashi.files.wordpress.com)
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Phoning your government officials works well. This website takes an address, and returns names and phone numbers belonging to your government representatives. I don't use my home address. There's a grocery store a couple blocks aw
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Ask HN: Why do so many companies use public information for security questions?
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Why are you interested in such applications?
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Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter (1980) [pdf](cs.princeton.edu)
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The Legend of the Barrier Skip – Zelda's most notorious glitch [video](youtube.com)
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UPDATE (I can't edit my original comment): Apparently the source code comes with the app: From Bob: "Hi Guys, Publii is built with Electron, so the source code is available, you can read it directly after installing the app. Here
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
Here is a link to an interaction between a user and developer from June 23rd 2017 RE: publii source code: https://publii.ticksy.com/ticket/1216232/ From Bob: "We still preparing the dev documentation and I th
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Integrated Pest Management in Schools Project: Cockroaches [pdf] (1997)(fortress.wa.gov)
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Nuclear arsenals bring peace. Lybia's dictator was immediately assasinated as soon as he agreed to disarm. North Korea is constantly showing off their nukes because they've seen what happens to small resource-rich countries with n
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
When U.S. politicians do crazy stuff like this its typically because they're making a concession over something (they think) is unimportant in exchange for something they really want - trading favors for favors. What's the context
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
My concern is mainly that my attention is such a huge source of revenue for facebook. So much so that their advertising revenue is consistently several times more than their actual cost of revenue [0][1]. The gap is so wide, it's hard
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Ask HN: What are good ways to hide metadata from your ISP?
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>but there is no case to be made for it being an issue of survival. There is the acidification of the ocean due to the absorption of carbon dioxide, which is slowly bleaching all the coral on Earth. Many developing countries' food s
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
F.E.A.R. is a great case study in this respect, because the enemy AI is absurdly simple. Enemies only have 3 states, plus a plan. The neat trick was that instead of embedding the logic for changing state and setting parameters into the stat
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
There is a team at Carnegie Mellon who build little toaster-sized automatons that play soccer. Their end goal is for the AI to eventually be good enough to win the world cup. Their site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer&#x2
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There wasn't any copy protection in the e-books I bought from amazon. However, I haven't bought an e-book from amazon in 6 years. So that may no longer be the case, if more publishers have started using DRM.
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
Personal observations: Tablets/e-readers are great for schools. There are plenty of DRM-free e-books. Instead of buying crates of books, you can just buy some files and them copy them to all the e-readers on the school network. I'
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by jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
Football fanaticism is disappointing. Without criticism from spectators or coaches, football teams would have a very hard time improving their game. It's counter-productive to silence football critics. Yes, censorship happens at foot
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First and foremost, I would feel extremely concerned that the protesters were so insecure in the validity of their position, that they would actively try to obscure and suppress dissenting opinions. Secondly, I would feel extremely insulted