jonprins

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by jonprins 15y ago
For the NYC crowd, there's a spot very much like this in Williamsburg: www.nitehawkcinema.com Food is quite good, service is impeccable. It's a more intimate affair, only two people per booth - and there's only 30 or so seats per house. The
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by jonprins 15y ago
Cafe Ghia, Jefferson stop of the L train. 24 Irving Avenue. And their food is a lot better than Table 12 ;)
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by jonprins 15y ago
It's trivial to use a proxy to modify the referral headers.
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by jonprins 15y ago
Re: "Coffee Klatch." Sure, we need more of these around. I'm just happy there's a place like this that fits the bill right in my neighborhood. It's more of a cafe than a coffee shop, but that didn't stop the owner from putting dual power pl
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by jonprins 15y ago
In The Sprawl trilogy, cash is almost never used for legitimate purchases. It's almost exclusively used for black/grey-market transactions.
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by jonprins 15y ago
It's kind of crazy. I know that my battle.net account is more secure than a lot of people's online banking credentials: not only do I need a user name and password to access my bnet account, but my account is linked with a mobile app that g
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by jonprins 15y ago
"Blemish free" .... guy obviously has never used iTunes.
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by jonprins 15y ago
This happens when you listen to and then improperly handle keyboard events. Somebody probably just copied a script from w3schools and smashed their face into it for a few hours until it did some approximation of what they might have maybe w
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by jonprins 15y ago
Indeed. Spending more per prisoner than per student (even when you divide by three, considering students spend ~8 hours a day at school) strikes me as pretty backward. When you spend money, you're investing it. So Michigan is investing near
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by jonprins 15y ago
Because then you could bypass them for each subsequent The Oatmeal comic by just going to The Oatmeal. I'm wondering why someone hasn't done a tineye-dmca-sending mashup to help control these issues.. An example search from tineye of oatmea
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by jonprins 15y ago
Which isn't that big of a deal. Take a look at Chrome's upgrade curves, compared to the other browsers: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/08/the-modern-browser-wars-...
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by jonprins 15y ago
But the problems being chunked up in bitcoins are the actual bitcoin transactions, thus churning them is not pointless. It strengthens the system.
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by jonprins 15y ago
Until you realize that your bones were 'out of alignment' because you have weak core muscles that you should build up instead. In fact, 'pushing spinal column bones into alignment' without any x-rays or further inspection sounds pretty dang
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by jonprins 15y ago
"We also have far fewer snake-oil salesmen ripping people off for cures" Yet we still have chiropractors and homeopathy.
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by jonprins 15y ago
Am I completely missing a key part of bitcoin, then? My understanding was the 'pointless tasks' were actually the verifications of previous transactions. And to make such a system verifiable, several nodes in the network must hash out the s
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by jonprins 15y ago
The author is fundamentally flawed in his approach. He thinks bitcoin mining is just mindless churning on your GPU. But in reality, it's cryptographically checking the validity of bitcoin transactions. So the system churns for the benefit o
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by jonprins 15y ago
Another problem with stopping and restarting with every mistake, is you learn to stop and restart when you make a mistake. This makes it really, really awful if you're playing a recital and slip up just a tiny bit (obviously, you should pra
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by jonprins 15y ago
Lift does do a lot of persistence, it just seems that this intro didn't touch on it much: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/wiki/Mapper http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/wiki/Persistence_Alte...
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by jonprins 15y ago
The shakiness has always confused me a little. Can they not dampen the momentum vectors somewhat - so little back-and-forths in the actual calculations don't propagate up to the render?
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by jonprins 15y ago
Very true - I've been following the Wilson situation fairly closely. I've urged the people I know down there to contact their elected officials about it, but got mainly apathy in response. And yeah, I can't see Cary ever installing its own
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by jonprins 15y ago
Welp, this kinda screws over a couple family members. I know someone living in Cary (not even 20 minutes drive from Research Triangle Park) that pays something like $60/mo for a measly 6mbps home connection. For another business they were w
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by jonprins 15y ago
It's right on their page. Under 'Find a new alternative:' "However, BankSimple is not a "bank." We partner with chartered banks who provide FDIC-insured products, leaving us free to concentrate on designing the complete consumer banking exp
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by jonprins 15y ago
They themselves aren't a bank. They partner up with banks that provide FDIC insured products. They just provide the customer service and the user interface.
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by jonprins 15y ago
Not really. The breakup of the Bell monopoly helped, but Hush-a-Phone vs. US helped set the stage for competing long distance carriers like MCI. It set the stage for devices like the Carterfone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone ).
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by jonprins 15y ago
No, GP is not saying 'down with capitalism.' They're saying 'down with restrictive terms of service similar in scope to the prevention of the Hush-A-Phone from being used on the Bell System in the 1950s.' Which, well, is pretty much the opp
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by jonprins 16y ago
Is it just me, or is their choice of name a terrible branding decision? It's bothered me for quite a while. I'm surprised they haven't been lampooned on Fox News as being a terrorist weather outlet.
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by jonprins 16y ago
Solar-powered medium-altitude flocking UAVs could provide a semi-temporary mesh WiFi (or sim.) network. We have flocking software. We have UAVs. Is anyone researching solar-powered UAVs that can stay aloft for long periods of time, inexpens
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by jonprins 16y ago
I spent about twenty minutes googling around trying to find a central repository/library/listing of games available/ported to it... with no luck. That would probably be important for gaining traction.
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by jonprins 16y ago
Neat project... except for the 8 games available on it. Why develop for something with 20 users when you can develop for a (more powerful) mobile phone with several orders of magnitude more potential customers? Pretty cool that it's open an
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by jonprins 16y ago
I tend to do the same thing. Except, since JavaScript doesn't have block scope, it all ends up at the top of the function. Which is much more preferable than scattered around the function. Especially due to hoisting[1]. My functions typical

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