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by jtheory 12y ago
Whoah: "Tested in Chrome 39-40, Firefox 34-35, IE 6-11 , Opera 25-26, Safari 5-8"... IE6+ support! I wonder if that's real, full support, or more like a "there are serious bugs we'll probably never fix for old IE&
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I have to laugh a bit about his comments on point of view, and arrogance. The atheist prays, and is rescued by a couple of passing Eskimos -- he credits the Eskimos (no God involved), the believer credits God, and I (somewhat arrogantly) no
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I don't know about the shoe-tying, but yes, this would have been great. How to talk to people you don't know, how to consider what other people are thinking, how to nourish healthy relationships (and the many possible options for
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Congratulations, first -- that's a good thing to run out of! But it's a bit infuriating that the problem seems to be completely fake; that is, of course Apple has no limitations to how many review copies and/or tokens they ca
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This section confused me -- can anyone explain? > I was so unprepared for this deluge that it stunted what was already going to be a banner month as I simply did not have enough review copies and tokens to go around . I ended up having
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by jtheory 12y ago
Warning, not all noodles freeze well. Lasagne freezes well (in my experience) but we once tried freezing fresh Asian noodles, and they were mushy and inedible when thawed -- I'm guessing the water content was sufficiently high that the
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They don't even get into the repercussions of loading externally-hosted JavaScript into a secure page. We avoid this entirely (also hosting medical data), though it's been a bit of extra work to do so. I'm sure Chartbeat, Mat
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The OP gets into that -- the main secondary point of the article is that when these things go wrong (as they sometimes do), a "crunch" approach actually decreases the likelihood that the project will succeed. It just makes thin
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by jtheory 12y ago
The question that keeps running through my head -- how do you get back up onto the bridge, once you've left the jacuzzi? Pulled up by winch? Hand over hand climbing (ouch) or manually but assisted by equipment (e.g., I can imagine one-
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by jtheory 12y ago
"Once it's complete" indeed... and to draw that particular random line in the sand?
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I like your point about politicians; of course, in the US, if you've spent too much time abroad (or good god, if anyone even things you might have been born abroad), much of the populace will mistrust you because of it. About driving
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by jtheory 12y ago
It's hard to underestimate how much I have been changed by leaving my country of birth (the US) and traveling/living elsewhere. I married my polyglot Malaysian college girlfriend, after having grown up with almost zero time on for
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by jtheory 12y ago
The piece is written by Pico Iyer; he's a fairly well-known writer (novels & travel writing). The style is fine with me, except that in this case I was actually interested to know the boring facts of the situations he was being dre
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On Chrome the height and duration aren't random... on FF they were mostly non-random, but here and there a jump would be significantly higher (up to the height of the screen. I didn't play for long, but it wasn't playable in
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by jtheory 12y ago
You absolutely trade away freedoms when you get married (or build a serious relationship), have a kid, buy a house, get a dog, etc.. Signing up for rental payments or car payments of a certain amount involve reduce freedom. That's fin
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by jtheory 12y ago
Really? I had little idea of what the company was before reading this, and I still have little idea, afterwards. Still, interesting read, and it's really cementing in my mind a bit more where I want to take my own work & life. Sid
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Security by obscurity isn't sufficient by a long shot -- and you can't rely on it -- but that doesn't mean it's without value. Obscurity may only buy you time while you fix your security problems (before someone stumbl
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by jtheory 12y ago
Huh; quite right. I've had it in my head for several years that Thai, at least, was tonal based on absolute pitch; but it looks like that's wrong. I did turn up that a much larger percentage of people have perfect pitch in popula
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by jtheory 12y ago
I can do it pretty well -- the higher one, not the deep version (I can approximate the growly version, but it'll have me coughing after about 10 seconds, so I'm clearly doing something wrong!) -- after seeing Huun Huur Tu in conce
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Alternate notation systems are another subject from music theory terminology. I have fewer problems with notation than with theory terminology & concepts, personally. There are alternatives that get a lot of use -- esp. TAB and various
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by jtheory 12y ago
Reply to sibling comment -- perfect pitch can probably be developed with a lot of training (though I imagine it's harder if you're not a kid anymore... for kids, sure -- there are tonal languages, after all!). But it's honest
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I'm surprised you've not found more agreement. I studied music in university, and have run a music-theory centered website since 1998 or so, and I definitely find the terminology to be rather bad. It sounds mathematical in some w
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by jtheory 12y ago
Right, my wife has "piano-only" perfect pitch -- she'll recognize the key played on a piano, but if you sing a pitch (or play it on any other instrument) her accuracy goes down -- it's just based on years and years of pl
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Okay, this suggests I'm not confused; there's just no argument given. > Yeah, so you get a serialization format that's the same as your code. Big deal. There's no reason this would be automatically a "good thing&
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> So you're consuming data of an existing (legacy) SOAP service? Or complying with existing clients of a (legacy) SOAP service? That's not the same as writing a new SOAP service. Neither; we're accommodating large, complex
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That surprised me as well; though perhaps it's just that "such as parsers" applies to more code than the author realized. A parser is a discrete chunk of code that's general-purpose (likely to be called from lots of plac
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I wrote a SOAP webservice -- not because I'm insane, but because our business relies on data sent to us. We could certainly tell everyone that they'll need to write code to send us the data we need to be of use to them. Or we c
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This is unfortunately not a great way to compare providers. After all, who are the people who will come to this site, and leave reviews? Mostly people who had a seriously negative experience, and are keen to fight back by smearing the pro
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by jtheory 12y ago
Seems inactive -- http://zonino.co.uk/jobs/latest "No matching jobs found", and copyright 2013?
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That the most common case, though, not the exception. You make a CV that highlights your accomplishments, and you make sure you're prepared to dive into technical details during discussions. The hiring company tries to put your throu

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