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by jobu 17y ago
If Madison were an Iranian using Twitter to coordinate government protests, he’d likely be considered a hero in the West. While I don't agree with this guy's ideology, it is interesting to see how our government reacts when "disruptive" t
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by jobu 17y ago
The one point that I see throughout the article is that every programming shop uses it's own subset of C++. Based on coding conventions, library usage, and business domain I have seen how the C++ code used in different companies can look l
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by jobu 17y ago
Interesting idea of trying to force math into your everyday life. Since college, the highest level of math I've used is geometry and trigonometry, but none of it was for programming. It's only been useful a few building projects around th
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by jobu 17y ago
It happens - my aunt broke her tailbone after slipping on acorns. I don't blame the city one bit. Oak trees are beautiful trees for forests and parks, but they are very messy for public walkways. They drop small branches constantly as wel
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by jobu 17y ago
Reminds me of my neighbor's truck nuts: http://trailer-parts-store.com/parts/images/balls.jpg
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by jobu 17y ago
FTFA: "They’ve been hiring H&R types and artist relation managers. Alright, alright, I have no link to the post. But I remember seeing this position when job hunting about a year ago for client-side marketing roles." I assume the autho
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by jobu 17y ago
A guy with 200 soldiers and a few $20K missiles brought down $60M worth of US equipment. In the big picture it had no effect, but most people enjoy the underdog story.
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by jobu 17y ago
> But for that to be possible you first have to know that you are dead right ? That's the point. If a persistent troll is aware of their banishment, they will just create another account and continue causing problems. The only way to
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by jobu 17y ago
>Some people even go so far as thinking that you're offering to buy them lunch because you think they can't afford it. Excellent point, I've seen a kind gesture blow up in a person's face for exactly this reason. It's always best to of
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by jobu 17y ago
As stated in other posts here, the problem isn't so much the 'bike' example as the 'real world' context. Try using the bike example in a game context. You have to map controller buttons to bike.turnLeft(), bike.brake(), etc. These generi
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by jobu 17y ago
His head is in the clouds. Although, the idea of starting a bank in the middle of a downturn is not bad. People are saving more money than usual right now (cheap capital), and many businesses are desperate for loans. The trick is to weed
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by jobu 17y ago
Dammit, I thought they were talking about this Avatar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvLUrF3ItGQ This other one looks pretty cool too.
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by jobu 17y ago
Hilarious. I was just scanning the headlines and thinking "WTF is up with all these Erlang articles?!" I'm trying to decide if posting this article is ironic or annoying.
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by jobu 17y ago
Most plywood is rotted and worthless by the time a building is torn down. However, the wiring, most metal, and even the concrete are often recycled. Perhaps the plastic will be as well if it becomes economically viable. Right now I'm gues
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by jobu 17y ago
Because 90% of digital downloads are not "legal", and thus do not count as part of the 35% of music sales. That and I can trade CDs with friends and still get the MP3s from both CDs. Yo! Ho! a pirate's life for me... ;)
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by jobu 17y ago
Yeah, but they shouldn't do things like this at the expense of their users. This definitely makes for a poorer user experience.
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by jobu 17y ago
Until recently, Labor Mobility was helped greatly by the housing boom - anyone could sell their house with little economic impact and move to a better job in a different area. Now we have the double-whammy of a housing bust and astronomical
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by jobu 17y ago
This article is at least 5 years late. It's been ages since Yahoo! was on the top of anything. They appear to be following in the steps of Alta Vista.
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by jobu 17y ago
The CAP email will never result in anything good, but yes #3 is how those of us not lucky enough to work at google can implement our own 20% time policy.
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by jobu 17y ago
From the comments on the article: "UTF-\d+ IS Unicode like a Ford Focus is a car. Not every car is a Ford Focus. Thus UTF-8 IS Unicode, not vice-versa." I think that's a better explanation than the whole rest of the article/rant. That aut
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by jobu 17y ago
The article struck me as a thinly veiled advertisement for the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach. Not much substance.
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by jobu 17y ago
That's probably true, but I really prefer Fireball's BOFH-style take on the reviewer. (If you've never read BOFH, then take a few minutes here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ )
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by jobu 17y ago
"Hulu Desktop will work with Apple and Windows Media Center remotes." Very exciting! I will have to try this when I get home.
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by jobu 17y ago
Personally I think the extra scrutiny toward vaccinations is a really good thing. Babies are given a large number of very powerful shots in a short time frame, often causing sickness for a week or more. Statistically the benefits of immun
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by jobu 18y ago
My wife and I are on our second week of the slow-carb diet, and it's going pretty well. It takes some experimentation, but you can find foods that taste better and still work with the diet (lentils are nasty). Our favorites are edamame, a