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by jeroen 12y ago
The original proposal was to call it beccapurple ( http://discourse.specifiction.org/t/name-663399-becca-purple... ). However, Eric Meyer asked for it to be rebeccapurple ( http://meyerweb.com/eric&#x2F
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by jeroen 12y ago
"Dropcam will come under Nest’s privacy policy, which explains that data won’t be shared with anyone (including Google) without a customer’s permission. Nest has a paid-for business model and ads are not part of our strategy. In acquir
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by jeroen 12y ago
They killed Buell 5 years ago and sold MV Agusta 4 years ago to focus on the HD brand. Is this the end of that plan or do they think the brand will stretch to encompass this new technology?
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by jeroen 12y ago
Erik Buell (who did the innovating at Buell) continues his work at EBR: http://www.erikbuellracing.com
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by jeroen 12y ago
girl, not guy.
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by jeroen 12y ago
Did you include that in your five minute estimate?
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by jeroen 12y ago
Amazon is the only one with a physical goods tie-in, but Apple also sells apps, songs, books and films. I think Tim Cook recently mentioned 75 billion app downloads.
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by jeroen 12y ago
No, it isn't. The div that you see is probably inside an element named textLayer, which is there to enable copy-pasting. The actual rendering is on a canvas.
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by jeroen 12y ago
The current release is v1.0.68, v1.0.277 is a pre-release, so this will probably be in the next release or the one after that. ( https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/releases ) I have recently switched my project fro
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by jeroen 12y ago
Did you really notice that there is an image with a girl in it at the top of the post and still think that the author must be male? My first association with Jules is male (the only Jules I know is a guy), but the image gave me second thoug
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by jeroen 12y ago
There is a picture at the top of the post with a female character in it. The amount of "he"s in this thread is probably a good indication of how much time a reader spends looking at such things.
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by jeroen 12y ago
She, not he. The author is female.
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by jeroen 12y ago
That article first claims that prices stay the same, but then contains this: "They're grateful that the Jetta's base price is down $1,740." Then you're just getting less value for less money, which seems fair to me.
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by jeroen 12y ago
Obviously, some people here thought your comments were not constructive/interesting/etc and downvoted them. They have every right to do so. Whether you agree with their judgment or not is not the point of the system.
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by jeroen 12y ago
Three, according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel#Tunnelling "Six machines were used, all commenced digging from Shakespeare Cliff, three marine-bound and three for the land tunnels."
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by jeroen 12y ago
But that was near the beginning of its life, so the batteries would have worked.
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by jeroen 12y ago
same article, with comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7803140
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by jeroen 12y ago
Firefox 22 was the last version to support it. The other big browsers have ended support as well. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...
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by jeroen 12y ago
Something is broken. I get grey backgrounds and grey text when scrolling down. Selecting text makes the correct colors show up. The background images further down the site are missing. After reloading the page, I now get text in the same co
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by jeroen 12y ago
Canon introduced its first Powershot in 1996, with 0.5 MPixels.
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The cost of fraudulent activity is probably much higher than the missed revenue from those people.
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by jeroen 12y ago
You had your dev team do data entry. No wonder they resented you. Wouldn't it be cheaper and better for morale to hire a couple of temps to do the data entry?
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by jeroen 12y ago
I guess my point is that creating software is not a simple task. Simplifying the parts you mention does nothing to simplify the important things in software development, which, as VB has demonstrated, leads to two things: crappy software an
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by jeroen 12y ago
Unfortunately, your snarky response is entirely devoid of anything close to an answer to my question. I did read the TOS and I don't see how "tweets from others retweeted by Eden Alexander offering adult material in exchange for d
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by jeroen 12y ago
"WePay discovered tweets from others retweeted by Eden Alexander offering adult material in exchange for donations. This is in direct violation of our terms of service" Which part of the TOS did she violate?
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by jeroen 12y ago
* The goal is not for Anon to learn to program, it's to build lunch_app. If anon wants to build software then learning how to should not be optional. The obvious alternative is to buy software, just as we buy most other things (cars, b
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by jeroen 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitinol_60 "NiTiNOL 60, or 60 NiTiNOL, is a Nickel Titanium alloy (nominally Ni-40wt% Ti) discovered in the late 1950s by the U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory (hence the "NOL"
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by jeroen 12y ago
Delicatino in English is probably easier for most people: http://www.delicatino.de/en/about-us?b98bf9d568d475199bf5861...
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Views out the window are also very useful for finding the exact location of real estate for sale or rent, when the ad only shows an approximate location.
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by jeroen 12y ago
The most notable not work related items in my office: a guitar, a Cromemco Z-2D computer, a writing desk that I inherited from my grandmother, an old square milk churn, a rusty leg vice that was my grandfathers and a Vroling wood-burning st

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