jimmyjim

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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   The only pity is the downfall of Discovery. It makes me so sad to see it airing bullshit shows like 'Ghost Hunters'. That is not science.
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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   Hmm. Wiki says this: «I Love the World, also known as I Love the Whole World, is an advertising campaign launched by Discovery Channel in 2008 in promotion of their new tagline: "The World is Just... Awesome".[1] The song used in the ad is
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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   Is the original Discovery channel ad based on something of its own altogether? Either way, the 'boom de ya da' is very catchy and nice.
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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   A few gratis books I can recommend: http://openbookproject.net//electricCircuits/ They're the best that I have ever found. (It is a very sweet irony that they happen to be free). edit: be sure to download the pdf versions. E.g. here's a l
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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   ' Must ' be? The captioning said it can be bought by the thousands.
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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   Any suggestion as to what particular text or resource I should get?
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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   Hmm? The questions so far seem perfectly fine. What are you complaining about? Plus, now that it's been advertised here, the HN-crowd can ask questions too.
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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   I think the sad truth is just that there's a substantial shortage of competent elementary school teachers in the supply pool. Yes, they struggle even with such simple arithmetic tasks (speaking from my experience at public schools).
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   by jimmyjim 17y ago

   Is that a joke, or does any source actually suggest that? If so, links?
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    >Wikipedia said they don't have the ability to count, even when taught. http://fora.tv/2009/03/20/Daniel_Everett_Endangered_Language... In this interview, Everett mentions that he met a 13 year old girl in Brazil who happened in fact
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    I would say he did. He won Digg (which has a considerably larger userbase than Reddit), a sizable portion of Fark, and many other similar social-bookmarking websites.
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    The convenience of having it available anytime anywhere.
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    I would be interested in reading up on those. Could you perhaps give a link? I tried googling, but I didn't get very interesting results. Maybe you can think of a few memorable discussions that?
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    I think still there is a fundamental difference between calling someone a "fag" vs. a "dilettante". Calling someone a "dilettante" isn't quite name-calling. And if the subject at hand has a history of being a sham, then I don't think it e
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    >This is the lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common. We've all seen comments like this: >u r a fag!!!!!!!!!! >But it's important to realize that more articulate name-calling has just as little weight. A c
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    > This is how all products in all markets are developed. Why are you saying that in such absolute terms? As if they were the defining features that govern the markets. If that was really how it worked, what do you say to start-ups w
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    Come to think of it, it's possible to have tree-style tabs in a horizontal top bar. I hope someone more clever than me implements this idea sometime.
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    But there isn't an AltGr key on that keyboard! I actually have AltGr mapped to my right alt. There's only one alt keyboard in that key
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    I know this isn't 'Chrome Support' - but any idea how I would get the scroll wheel to get working? edit (i.e., have it be that actually clicking it yields the windows behavior of being in a 'scroll mode' - motioning it down will have me goi
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    It works exactly as advertised. Delightfully accurately.
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    I think he meant to say that Google and Microsoft give a decent (enough) pay to interns.
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    Ah, really? That's a Google question? I'd love to hear what a good answer to that question is. Anyone up for it?
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    I would purchase it in a heartbeat (despite its humongous pricetag) if it had dead keys. I live in the US, but speak other languages as well -- to put accents on certain letters, I need to use dead keys.
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    That makes the two of us. I think, however, that he is already married.
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    (I'm so very very sorry, but this is an off-topic comment. It seems that I can't comment on old threads, and I cannot send private messages to users either... so I'm stumped, and here I am. You mentioned in one of your posts that you're an
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    I may be wrong, but I believe there's a feature in Kinde 2 DX that allows you to do that.
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    In the face of the current economic conditions (i.e., US is at a terrible consuming/producing imbalance, and, well.. the only future in light of this is grim), these quick-buck strategies that seem to appeal only to the lowest common denomi
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    Thinkpad, T4x or what? Most slackers seem to prefer it
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    Screenshot, please?
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    by jimmyjim 17y ago

    Just a request to all those who'll be responding: Please add screenshots! I'll be setting up xmonad and working on my layout for the next few days, if this post is alive until then, I'll post my screenshot.