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by jonalmeida 11y ago
It has the form of a podcast that was transcribed to text. Yes, it would have been easier to follow if it was all audio. It took me a few to realize when the conversation was changing from the narrator to Snowden.
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by jonalmeida 11y ago
Wouldn't the best way to create an empty map be to use `Collections.emptyMap()`?
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by jonalmeida 11y ago
This exists in a few linux terminal shells. Notably, gnome-terminal.
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by jonalmeida 11y ago
UWindsor student here. I did one of my co-ops in Waterloo at BlackBerry so I got to know the local students fairly well. The problem with Waterloo co-op is how rigid the system is to 4 month only terms. Four months is barely enough time to
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Windsor here. Our winter wasn't as bad as yours, but it was one of the worst we've ever gotten. My machines and monitors in my room keep the place nice and toasty, but in the summer, this place is unbearable. Just sitting causes y
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
This is true but very limited as well. GitHub isn't used for just git now, it's also an issue tracker, a wiki (yes, those are repos as well, but you don't usually have them sync'd), Github-only services (e.g. Travis), pa
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Alex, Yali and the team are fantastic! I worked at Snowplow last summer and I can't recommend it enough.
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Been a while since chem & physics class for me as well. How are these estimations calculated, and to what certainty? Surely, these are calculations only from the observable universe?
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
I met some ambassadors from Morgan Stanley who were wearing a shirt which had a list of check boxes that went something like this: [ ] Had a holiday recently [ ] ??? [x] Met inventor of C++
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
To play devil's advocate, what part of the XMPP protocol is dated, that doesn't allow Facebook and Google to continue using it? Maybe if there's a way to update XMPP to include features that shared amongst these services, the
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Commercial planes don't fly below 250m at all, expect when taking off and landing at airfields. The structure of these "turbines" are that of planes which look like large birds to real birds, so they would stay away from the
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
I'd like to see some more complex prints to compare it what a conventional 3D printer can do. Very interesting indeed!
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
I've got Gitlab running on a DigitalOcean droplet, and even if you choose not to use their pre-built images, setting up Gitlab is very easy.
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
I watched my mum, who isn't even close to Betty's age but is not exactly part of the new tech age, unwrap her Nexus 7 (2012) tablet for the first time and go through the introductory tutorial. After correctly doing everything on t
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Or possibly 'Research Biologist'.
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
> Where, they wondered, did that poop come from? The question that drives scientists to do what they do.
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
A comment should suffice in that case, shouldn't it?
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Wow, such an amazing read! > A few hours after she first told me, I took some time to read up on dissociative identity disorder. Shouldn't he have read up on DID in detail when she first told him about rather than when the episode h
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
I remember talking to a rep at Morgan Stanley that was explaining to me that you can perform patches on kdb as well so that you have zero downtime. Although, I believe that was implemented a bit differently where you have a compiled program
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
This is my fear as a soon-to-be graduating student from university. I was in the same boat as the author, only discovering my excitement of making computers do things on the screen by typing at the keyboard. I've noticed a large number
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
This is true - while mentoring at McHacks last weekend, I've seen more high schoolers and undergrads using GitHub via the app with a very basic understanding of how it works; some making sole use of 'Sync' button. Once you&#x
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
This is a much more trivial task with SourceTree.
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Since there might be a bunch of Nexus 5 "me too" users reading this. The immediate solution to the memory leaks and battery issues are to reboot into recovery and clear the cache every 2 weeks or so. This is what I've been do
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
I actually wrote a bit on how to disable the sidebar in Unity so that it doesn't show up, ever[1]. Since you can't sever it entirely for everything else, stopping it from showing up is the best you can do. I did this because I lik
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Intentional pun? I've been trying to learn Rust myself by spending ~30 mins everyday on on it for the past 2 months. It's strange how simple it is to make something, but it's hard if you have no experience in functional progr
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Security guards tackle net neutrality activists for interrupting FCC official(rawstory.com)
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Thanks!
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
With your water only 2cm high that's not really effective for anything (i.e. bathing). Do you have it for preference? I've constantly change my work setup to find something that's least distracting, this would be something el
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
That has to be a planned/posed image. There's no way one could focus so intently while hot water bubbles around you..
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by jonalmeida 12y ago
Fun fact: Github uses Flash to copy link data or raw code to your clipboard.

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