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According to the video, it's not a free API; it's 3 cents per message. See also: http://www.twilio.com/pricing-signup
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What does being 88 years old have to do with anything? It means she grew up during the worldwide Great Depression, but was still old enough to have known its stark contrast to the prosperity of the 1920s. This could have influenced her
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I abandoned pure standards-respecting HTML5/canvas while working on a similar tool (for pixel art, not general drawing), for reasons which will readily become apparent when you try to save a file... then load one. Flash is still quite usefu
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I guess I would be concerned about compiling to JS because you're adding another layer of abstraction on an already fussy language (when being interpreted by the browser). It's hard enough to find bugs as it is. On the other hand, mechani
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(20 square years / {your age in years}) What is a square year?
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The second sentence is implied: "Be stupid. Buy our products."
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The fear of forking is a powerful psychological holdover from the pre-git era.
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In summary: the author really likes Python, except for all the Pythony bits.
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Crash avoidance?
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I think he means, from the anti-evidentiary viewpoint of the conspiracy nuts.
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> There aren't as many pseudo doctors as there are pseudo scientists. Are you sure about that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine
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On the contrary, I stated that grades measured the ability to get grades, which is almost tautological. Demonstrating anything beyond that would require proof, hence the burden of proof is squarely yours. :)
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"If nothing you did in school had any relation whatsoever to the real world, you got screwed." And, since no one ever gets screwed, we can therefore conclude that your original argument is correct! (See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Math, Physics, and Chemistry are easy to objectively grade, so I'd accept that they tend to have higher grade quality (a notional metric of the correlation of grades to ability) than e.g. literature, drama, sociology, pottery, etc, where th
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"Grades correlate reasonably well with ability." ... as measured by grades.
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"People familiar with the matter" has been WSJ's phrase for an unnamed source for years.
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It follows, then, that shaving will make you live longer...
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> television news, product information from salespeople, etc. People who phone or walk in for customer service, use cash and other forms of nonelectronic payment, shop nearly exclusively at brick-and-mortar stores, etc. The elderly?
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fudged_hotness = 10.0 * ((hotness / 10.0) ** (1 / gamma)) Then just crank up the gamma correction to 3.0, and your 3.5 out of ten is now a reasonably-attractive 7.0472987320648917 :)
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The problem here is that you're on a treadmill where someone else sets the pace.
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140 characters go a lot farther in Hanzi.
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Several of my gmail labels have a corresponding labelname -to-reply label. I realized I was using my inbox for several functions: 1. notice urgent or topical subject lines 2. store items to read later 3. store items to reply-to later 4. st
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If you want to keep your privacy, don't kill a public figure.
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> I said, "I like to add sugar to my rice crispies" and she said, "You couldn't add enough sugar to your rice crispies to equal the amount in the frosted kind." Ah, I love a good challenge!
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Maybe he used to work for a missile program? :)
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> If we cut capital gains taxes to zero and added an equivalent amount to corporate profits (say, a 40% annual tax rate instead of 35%), the government would make an equivalent amount of money from the same economic activity, and Buffe
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> I think it makes more sense for voting power to be associated with karma level. This could be gamed, or lead to runaway karma effects within a small, incestuous cabal. If I were pg, I would handle it similarly to amichail's suggesti
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Yes, you need a serious name, like "Google" or "Yahoo". I suggest "Splooploo".
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> These were all my bosses ideas. When you already know a better, simpler, cheaper, and faster way to meet the stated goals, you can email your boss a counter-proposal, clearly outlining the advantages to your proposed approach. This mi
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— Lisp compiler (ambitiously, an Arc/GOAL inspired dialect for games/multimedia, initially to target a Lua-like niche) — TIGsource "Assemblee" game competition entry — Client-side Javascript/canvas pixel art editor — Playing with Adobe's Fl

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