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by jobu 12y ago
µBlock is from the same author and a whole lot easier to use: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
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by jobu 12y ago
C++ templates used to be the most unreadable code this side of Perl, but with auto and a little documentation you can figure out what's happening fairly easily. Templates (and auto) are typically used when dealing with core libraries a
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by jobu 12y ago
Some references or more examples of compilers that use Lisp would be helpful. It was my understanding that compilers used tools based on LEX & YACC (Flex & Bison for GCC). The author mentions Clang, but Google couldn't find any
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by jobu 12y ago
Hydrogen embrittlement of metal storage tanks can also be an issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_damage
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by jobu 12y ago
Any details on what the energy density is of this "liquid sponge" they're using? If it isn't corrosive or difficult to store then it may be an option for large, stationary batteries, but it would be a really big deal if
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by jobu 12y ago
They've also been pretty clear that the language is going to be in a state of flux for long while. From the Swift Blog: "Binary Compatibility and Frameworks While your app’s runtime compatibility is ensured, the Swift language it
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by jobu 12y ago
"Demographers say that a far better investment would be to support women juggling motherhood and careers by expanding day care and after-school programs." In college I had a professor from East Germany that talked about this. Th
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by jobu 12y ago
The most interesting part to me is that congressional support has increased for funding more than one venture in case one runs into technical difficulties (now that the Soyuz option is ending). “The Russians have done NASA a favor in terms
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by jobu 12y ago
From the other article ( http://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/6107039/23andme-ancestry-dna-tes... ): When George figured out his dad had conceived this child before getting married — that the child was not the res
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by jobu 12y ago
Have they put the full price list out yet? I can only find the price with a 2-year contract.
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by jobu 12y ago
Does Apple charge anything for the transaction?
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by jobu 12y ago
In all fairness, SEC filings are a rather incomprehensible format to read, even one this short.
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by jobu 12y ago
Some previous discussion about the change (though not about the NYTimes article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285764
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by jobu 12y ago
Although the number of people involved is relatively low, there are some loud voices in various parts of the US that would like to secede. Hawaii - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_sovereignty_movement Texas - ht
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by jobu 12y ago
This was an interesting quote: “China just put a huge chunk of money and hired hundreds of people to work on molten salt reactors. I think that’s probably going to come first—and it’s going to come from China” China also built a pebble be
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by jobu 12y ago
The problem is with a new 2-year contract on an AT&T Family Plan you end up paying $15 - $25 more each month for the contract. So for an iPhone 5S on a 2-year contract with a 10GB plan you pay $199 up front and then $25/mo for two
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by jobu 12y ago
It goes both ways. Average citizens tend to behave a little better when they know they're being filmed, and sometimes spurious complaints about officers are dropped when people watch the video of their interaction.
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by jobu 12y ago
Very interesting: "The sauropod's neck became what the hook-and-ladder is to a firefighter: a means of extended reach that could be critical. It gave these animals an ability to graze a much wider radius of ground vegetation with
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by jobu 12y ago
Seems to be pretty consistent for public schools, but the current school district is the worst so far. The last one (in another state) was 5 minutes between classes instead of 4 minutes, and 30 minutes for lunch instead of 20. Parent input
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by jobu 12y ago
These breaks seem incredibly important to me. My kids come home from school exhausted and stressed out. My kids have 4 minutes to get between classes, which are sometimes on a different floor and several hundred yards apart. This means they
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by jobu 12y ago
We've had our Dyson for 5+ years now with no issues, but we may get a different brand soon. We recently started looking at new carpeting and when the guy came to do measurements he commented on the Dyson: "That vacuum will shorten
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by jobu 12y ago
There are two problems with setting goals for anything but menial tasks: 1) It's incredibly hard to set goals for complex projects without having unforeseen problems or side-effects (e.g. the product shipped on time, but it's bugg
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by jobu 12y ago
There was a great TED Podcast called "The Money Paradox" that talked about how poorly money works as a motivator for creative professions: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/04/295368808/how-much-does-m
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by jobu 12y ago
There was an experiment in 2009 that ended up seeding algae and plankton instead of diatoms, but it didn't sequester carbon as hoped: http://www.awi.de/en/news/press_releases/detail/item/lohafex
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by jobu 12y ago
The Scientific American article about this experiment has a much better analysis of the pros and cons of seeding the ocean with iron - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fertilizing-ocean-... "But such fal
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by jobu 12y ago
The article seems to paint a picture that the government is trying to keep the settlements secret, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all. The DoJ was concerned about destroying these companies and causing an even bigger fallout
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by jobu 12y ago
The blog linked in that post is a really fun read: http://www.komar.org/faq/colorado-cataract-surgery-crystalen...
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by jobu 12y ago
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. The reasons for taking shortcuts always seem good at the time, but regrettable in hindsight. As the saying goes: "Broken gets fixed. Shitty lasts forever."
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by jobu 12y ago
That may change if they can get the launch prices down to the projected $5-7 million range.
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by jobu 12y ago
It looks like the $30 is a 3-month subscription. Seems a bit pricey considering the target demographic.

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