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by jtheory 13y ago
Read-only data structures are a common idiom in Java as well (the classic example is String), and do indeed help reduce the headaches.
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by jtheory 13y ago
I think a lot of people don't notice the annoyed glances they get, though, because they aren't looking at the faces of the people around them. Obviously this may not apply to you personally, but quite a lot of people don't se
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by jtheory 13y ago
Little kids just have a burning desire to be interacting with you, and with the stuff you're interacting with. Don't drop everything, just be flexible (and sometimes creative) and involve them. Kids love helping to fold laundry
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by jtheory 13y ago
It's in PNG, not south of it: https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q... Ah, duh. And I'm giving hints before I myself realized the answer.
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Giant Fatberg Found Under London Has Surprising Use(news.nationalgeographic.com)
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by jtheory 13y ago
for the one after that, you need to fix the grammatical mistake, and the typo. - hey, ninja'd by an edit! - Next one has a hint (but I haven't gotten it yet... my first guess takes me to nowhere special, PNG, as far as I can tell.
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by jtheory 13y ago
Please use ROT-13 if you want to give answers; http://www.rot13.com Vague hints are fine, but putting "SPOILER ALERT" right above the answer doesn't help; it's impossible to read past those posts to see the l
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by jtheory 13y ago
There's an oblique hint in the source code, sometimes. Though with that one, the first line of the hint helped me, but the second just confused me (I've just looked up the full story behind the "Run run" reference -- I s
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by jtheory 13y ago
Oh, come on -- don't cheat! Though I admit I don't currently have the time to get far (I've gotten the first couple but have work to do tonight...). I love these puzzles, though! I quite enjoyed going through the web penetrat
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by jtheory 13y ago
Sure, but that's frowned upon in the international community.
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by jtheory 13y ago
It's hard to imagine scaling this up to be able to throw a ton at a time. If you want to throw something that heavy, you'll have a much easier time using explosives to do it -- and we've been able to do that for quite a lon
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by jtheory 13y ago
Yes -- which means you have to find someone to do that for you, and figure out if they're asking the right price for their services. Then you need to keep track of how well they're doing it. If they do a poor job by doing too li
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by jtheory 13y ago
My wife & I bought a house about 7 years ago, and we still like the house, but wish we hadn't bought it. There are quite a few areas of expertise required to manage a property, and if you don't have them yet it can cost you (b
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by jtheory 13y ago
I can't imagine it would be a business by itself, just a service that a company that already had domain tools could offer at a low price. I don't imagine it like being a landlord -- the only judgement to be made would be "is
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by jtheory 13y ago
> How on earth does one distinguish between By asking them? > How is that different behavior from a squatter? You're just sitting on a domain until someone comes along who meets your criteria I don't register the domain in t
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by jtheory 13y ago
There's a problem to be solved here -- is there a way to buy/sell domain names ONLY to people who will actually use them? I have a bunch of domains that I've registered over the years, with plans for side projects that haven&
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by jtheory 13y ago
Sure, but Apple, being sometimes a little overeager to keep the apps they accept "of the right sort" -- ideally fully native, really -- could see an compatibility layer and decide to simply refuse to approve any apps using the bun
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by jtheory 13y ago
Interestingly, that struck me as one of the worst ones. Anyone with a family at SendGrid, or other responsibilities (like the need to care for an elderly parent)? And can they actually leave them behind when they go on vacation, or are the
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by jtheory 13y ago
I agree, and see this as a big argument for "getting out of the building" not to look for ideas, and not even to validate existing ideas, but just to live more life. If you're really skilled at using tech to solve problems, p
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by jtheory 13y ago
There's no mention of security, or the trust involved in outsourcing email workflow handling to you. The interest for attackers isn't as high as something like LastPass, but at a bare minimum a successful hack will come back wit
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by jtheory 13y ago
Many clients wouldn't find this sufficient for user acceptance testing. Won't any mildly tech-saavy client want to try it on their laptop, phone and/or tablet to make sure it looks right in different browsers? Well, it'
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by jtheory 13y ago
Interesting, though mostly because of our gut reactions, not because there's anything terribly complicated or new about the moral repercussions, etc.. It's not much different from normal organ donation in most respects. From the
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by jtheory 13y ago
I have a (now in maintenance-mode) site at http://eMusicTheory.com that's based on Java applets... but based on the number of subscribing teachers who are contacting me over the past 2 years saying "the school is getti
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by jtheory 13y ago
Perhaps he's starting a new TV project he's pleased about, has his meds well in order, and is feeling strong & stable enough to discuss this now? Or should he wait until nothing's happening in his professional life? Then
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by jtheory 13y ago
I enjoyed reading through this speech again just now -- I have a strange sense that my thinking has been clouded every time I've read it in the past (primarily in school), but now I can grasp it. That said, I don't agree with Haml
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by jtheory 13y ago
I only skimmed this exchange, and I have no dog in this fight, but you should be aware -- you seem to be the only one using obscenities, and you started this exchange with "Sorry, but this is a load of disgusting hogwash". None of
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by jtheory 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/1170/
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by jtheory 13y ago
As a human adult, you are probably capable of making moral judgements, and making limited predictions about how your actions will affect you & others in the future. The minority of people who litter make the experience of walking/l
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by jtheory 13y ago
Obviously not caring doesn't accomplish anything, because people who don't care about something won't act. But if people do care about something, they are motivated to act, and may significantly alter the course of what h
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by jtheory 13y ago
MitM doesn't involve anyone faking how your friends talk -- it's always just passing your actual packets back and forth, but recording them first. E2E encryption is only as secure as the key exchange, so if the central Skype ser

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