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by jahabrewer 12y ago
> if you're patient and methodical, it's not terribly hard to win most fights, scratch-free I was pretty satisfied with how they addressed that issue in Enemy Within. There are optional objectives that give you bonus resources
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
> no one in their right mind would choose the bike lane over the sidewalk In my head, it's the other way. Why would I deal with pedestrians, a rougher surface, and surprised cars when I can ride a dedicated lane on the road? You jus
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation.
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
I'm not a security guy, but it seems to me that it would also be useful to mask the URL. It's my understanding that a snooper could still see that you accessed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_pr
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
(his name is Jon Skeet) (sorry)
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
How else are they going to keep track of your achievements and integrate with xbox live?
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
I'm curious. At what volume of customers/work does this kind of business change from being a guy who reads the requests, opens files, and prints them to being a more automated solution?
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
I used that Rovio bot in a robotics class. I'm no robotics expert (hardly a novice), but this was my experience. The big hold-up is lack of access to (or maybe pure lack of) encoders on the wheels (we were using the wifi/web interface). It'
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
You're living up to your name. > I'd really recommend getting a bike For sure. Work is a mile away by road, but it's only two by trail. I'm really excited about that. My main worry is that it'll be awful to go anywhere during the winter
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
> I got rid of my car. I know this is a bit off-topic, but it got me thinking and I figure there's a large Redmond audience here. I'm moving there soon and I'm struggling with whether to ditch my car or not. I'll be living downtown and
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by jahabrewer 13y ago
> (Jason likes Bulldogs. Who doesn’t?) I can think of some folks [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean,_Old-Fashioned_Hate
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
> But - EA scammed me out of the $60 before... Chargeback if you can't get a refund (like me, I bought on Origin). I called up Amex, identified the charge, told them EA misrepresented the product, and a day later I had a credit on my st
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
It's a good screencast, but I wasn't able to follow along using the ember starter kit I downloaded yesterday (errors). I'm sure the problem was something silly, but I'm not a js whiz like the rest of HN so I got frustrated and quit. Hopeful
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
I'm not familiar with WhatsApp, but from their front page blog article[1], it sounds like they could be at loggerheads with Google over privacy/advertising. You can't buy an ideologue. [1] http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
> "Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English. Is it even a matter of US vs. British English? I thought collective nouns could be treated as either singular or plural when conjugating the verb.
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
> Where does the societal harm from anabolic steroids come from? I think the argument for this would be similar to the argument for using models with less atypical body types. If all the guys I saw on TV when I was a kid were super jack
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
It's been a while since I've been in IT, but don't failing UPS batteries put off fumes that destroy your lungs? A friend of a friend was a hero and shutdown his datacenter cleanly/recovered some hard drives during a situation like this. He
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
Sorry I'm late to the party. Could someone explain what this is? All I've found in search is talk about how much faster it is. Devs write code in C/C++ and target js? Is that it?
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
That was my main takeaway from skimming. I'm not a sales person, but I could see ten cents being a significant portion of the profit margin on certain items.
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
If anyone else was confused like me: This is the "The Humble Bundle with Android" 5 not "The Hundle Bundle" with "Android 5"
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew whether this one was that one... or that one was this one or which one was what one... or what one was who licensed this day in August, nineteen sixty-two.
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by jahabrewer 14y ago
Steve Ballmer literally aiming guns at customers in Microsoft store. Story at 11.