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by jsvaughan 10y ago
It also say this: "Thus, if we ignore the most extreme cases, the differences between the slowest and the fastest individuals are by far not as dramatic as the 28:1 figure suggests" Why would you ignore the most extreme cases?
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by jsvaughan 10y ago
tldr: it wasn't the oil: "without any doubt, the contaminated foodstuff was tomatoes, and it was the pesticides on them that were responsible for the epidemic" (This relates to the separate NYP post about phony food, which sa
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Tiny custom hardware projects(mitxela.com)
1 points by jsvaughan 10y ago|0 comments
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by jsvaughan 10y ago
I had a few weird small things - I was using Gnome on the desktop and after the update I couldn't mouse click on anything (MS wireless mouse), but all works in Unity. One of my ssh keys stopped working, the font (possibly consolas) i
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
+1 for DMARC - you can set your policy to ask the recipient to reject (or mark as spam) anything that fails the DMARC check. But yes, it is tricky to get right, so go for no action initially and monitor the reports.
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
ad links could be via redirects from the hosting site, intercepted by the web server plugin. personalisation would be a problem, because you won't have a cookie, but there is always device fingerprint etc I agree it isn't quite as
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
Surely we are soon going to see server side ad-injection and the end of ad blocking
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
I suspect that the question is just poorly worded - I think he meant to ask "why are programs in linux so hard to find" (if you look at his other questions they are not mega technical but they are also not questions that a novice
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
if you use the google pagespeed apache/nginx module it has an inline_css filter which does this for you, no need to cause yourself a maintenance problem.
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
the learning benefit could be because of the change of scenery, not because one side is better
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
Something that saved me a lot of time recently is that from the network request list, you can right click the request and "Copy as cURL" to get a full cURL equivalent command of the request.
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
- the new 'force touch' trackpads do not move, clicks are the same all over - you can do click and drag with 2 fingers, don't have to slide the clicking finger
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by jsvaughan 11y ago
They are electronically controlling valves in a hydraulic pump to switch cylinders into and out of service. There is an animation and a good description here: http://www.artemisip.com/our-technology
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by jsvaughan 12y ago
CTRL-SHIFT-V in Ubuntu also
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by jsvaughan 12y ago
OK what you need here is something called a Sirometer, which is a tool for measuring RPM based on vibration / resonance. Here is a link: http://www.treysit.com/16.html
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
I built something similar too: https://vine.co/v/hmu5IlBj2pQ Mine uses NFC keys. Arduino does a lookup over GPRS against a web service to check if the key is permitted to unlock. As someone else has commented, this us
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
yeah but it also says: "Bug fixes, manuals, mock-ups for investors, ..., IT, web and FTP sites (both servers and content), support calls, sales calls, marketing" and at that point you are thinking was this really the best use they
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
Um, again? Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer (blog.smartbear.com) 8 points by Baustin 1 hour ago | 0 comments | cached Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011) (blog.smartbear.com) 453 point
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
You might be referring to the Gordon Murray designed Brabham BT46 "Fan car": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
last week as in the week in which Nigella Lawson was headline news because of her alleged drug taking? (Not that I remotely care, but if the author was unaware then you can imagine why the video had a strong reaction)
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
The word "filters" is not in this text What it actually says is far less inflammatory: "We have had repeated meetings of the extremism task force—it met again yesterday—setting out a whole series of steps that we will take to
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
mockingito?
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
This is the page about verifying your account: https://www.facebook.com/help/385569904840341 Facebook accepts any government-issued ID that contains name and date of birth. Examples include: Birth certificate, Driver’s
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
Assuming you are running 13.04 currently then you'll have a 3.8 kernel. 13.10 has a 3.11 kernel so you also get: (3.11) http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.11 (3.10) http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.10 (3
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
You should also factor in time to get paid. If in your new venture you are going to be invoicing people directly then you should allow at least a couple of months to be paid. i.e. you say 30 day payment terms on your invoice, but nobody wi
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
It is me, or is Haswell taking a very long time to become available everywhere? The Haswell Mac Air came out 3 months ago, (June 10th), but you still can't get it in a MBP or a Thinkpad, and can only now get it in an iMac.
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by jsvaughan 13y ago
If you want to get rid of stuff, for practically zero effort (ok, yes, without the $10) then stick it on http://www.freelywheely.com , my site. Everything that gets posted gets more than a handful of people requesting it. Someon
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by jsvaughan 14y ago
This is absolute nonsense. You cannot infer someone's age from their years of experience (unless you are stipulating a figure which is a material fraction of a lifespan, say 20+, which never happens) * I have 5 years of java experience. Ho
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by jsvaughan 14y ago
This is ridiculous. The reason that things "didn't just work" in this case is surely that the OS was fiddled with to the extent that the kernel was recompiled more than once every 3 weeks. It is hardly valid to compare that to a bog standa
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by jsvaughan 14y ago
Regardless of how good it is, I don't feel comfortable installing it because of the permissions it requires. You don't lose much by visiting fb.com in a browser. Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission a

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