jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ehhh... that sounds like an example of the rocket pendulum fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy Maybe there is something more complicated going on with helicopters that I am not aware of, but a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You keep saying that, but I'm not actually seeing it. Industry isn't good for you, but it is pretty damn low on my list of concerns.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Microsoft's famous "embrace/extend/extinguish" is why they would have followed Netscape in implementing even a scheme-like javascript. They wouldn't have skipped the first two E's just because it was sche
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How much effort would you be willing to invest in diverting a single raindrop? None of course. You wouldn't get yourself out of your chair to go divert a raindrop unless you thought you had a plan to divert lots of raindrops. You c
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How far out of your way do you go to protect a single randomly chosen cell? You may be made of cells, but no one cell is worth your attention. Only in situations where you have the opportunity to save or destroy a very large number of cell
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I wonder what it is like to live near a Surströmming factory...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Good point, they may actually be tied. Chickens make cows smell good in comparison...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Hmm, finally that cow logo makes sense.. ;)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I spent 18 years in a papermill town (the company, or the family that owned it, basically owned the entire town). Still remember what it smelled like, but it stops bothering you for the most part after awhile. The real issue is that they s
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by jlgreco 13y ago
A timeless story about this: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelat...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Dairy farms are nothing compared to pig farms. Absolutely foul. The smell is so penetrating it feels like you can smell it through your eyeballs. Cow manure you can get use to, but I could never get use to pig shit. Papermills are also
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Wouldn't just regular old soap do it? Soapy water mixed with pepper shouldn't be too nasty, but then again, California....
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If being "like java" was so important, then why didn't it just straight up lose to "actually java" ? I don't think that JS+DOM beating flash/java has much to do at all with "gee, this looks superfic
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That was likely the fear at the time, but what we actually saw was Javascript became popular because it was useful and there wasn't really anything else like it. It became popular, so Microsoft threw in with it too. In order for that
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by jlgreco 13y ago
CLR does seem much better than the JVM, but my dislike of it comes from what I see of it in the wild. Any randomly chosen JVM program in the real world has a much greater chance of running on my platform of choice than anything that wa
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Don't play coy. "McRibs taste great" , "Axe make supermodels hang off you" , and all variations on these are textbook puffery, and you know it.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Imagine if management had not vetoed non "Java-like" syntax's during javascripts creation. Maybe Brendan Eich could have gotten a decent scheme dialect into the browser instead, people could have learned it (because in hypot
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Mail slots are typically used in America in all row-homes (aka, very nearly all houses in towns or cities). Apartment buildings almost always have locked mailboxes, unless you are really scraping the bottom or your apartment is in a conver
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There is no such thing as ” a rat", trust me.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I can understand waiting to move it out of beta, but their main page is already linking to one half of the software (clicking 'get started' bumps you over to the play store for the android half).
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by jlgreco 13y ago
(I have installed CM in the past myself on my old phone, but have not done it yet with this phone because last time it was a pain in the ass to install, and was unstable to boot) It is linked from the blog entry, but I cannot find the win
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Can you explain to me what the difference in purpose is between a McRib sandwich and Soylent?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I thought that the refrigerator was more about soundproofing (that way it wouldn't matter if it was listening or not.) Maybe if you are really in that sort of situation you should just do both, just in case.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> you can use your smartphone inside a Faraday cage. Or, more accurately stated, "you can't".
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It is probably easier to list the things that could not be considered "drug paraphernalia" by overzealous "drug war warriors" or by people actually interested in using drugs. I saw a pretty neat video about an apple a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
His speculation seems more than fair, since we know they at least had a rat problem.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm not saying anything about the safety of the vapor one way or the other. I've seen people cite studies saying it is safe, I've seen people cite studies saying they are not safe, I've seen even more people say that th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What sort of bars are you going to that it is that frequent? I can count on one hand the number of people I have seen with these things in the wild.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I really doubt that anybody here thinks that blowing in other peoples faces, with or without an e-cig or burp, is socially acceptable. The question isn't "can I burp in your face?" , the question is "can I burp ind
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If we are going to ban e-cig use indoors because they aerosolize propylene glycol, then we better be banning Febreze too. I don't think P&G will be very happy to hear about that.

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