lupin_sansei

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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
What's special about this Logitech keyboard is the switch to select the pairing with 3 devices so you don't have to pair and repair all the time to use the device with your phone and then your tablet and computer.
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
According to Heritage's Economic Freedom Index, the US economy is no longer classified as "Free (market)" but now as "mostly free": http://www.heritage.org/index/country/unitedstates
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
It's a law to protect dealers being undercut by the manufacturers selling direct to the public. http://truthonthemarket.com/2013/06/24/tesla-and-the-auto-de...
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
Milton Friedman's quote is apt here: "With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves."
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
Probably, as javascript will remain the browser's only supported scripting language forever as it's such a big hurdle to get all the browser makers to implement a new language. I imagine javascript in the browser will eventually b
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
US $62,500 in 1952 dollars equals $561,910.38 in 2014 Dollars
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1952: “Announcing a general purpose digital computer”(retronaut.com)
4 points by lupin_sansei 12y ago|1 comments
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
Nitpicking but telephone lines are 1880s and afterwards, and copper doesn't really degrade with age until normal conditions like iron.
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Why Are Lego Sets Expensive?(wired.com)
2 points by lupin_sansei 12y ago|0 comments
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
Gmail also offers a nifty "Starred First" view which keeps the last 10 or so starred emails at the top http://i.imgur.com/0Vokq4C.png
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
Exactly. Actually doing the work is the hardest part of freelancing!
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
Later on why not auction the developer spots off rather than charge $29? That way you can keep the developer cap small, but not have to limit your profit. I would happily pay hundreds or even thousands if I knew the cap was small and I was
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
I'd like to see a campaign and a web page to encourage big companies to donate to open source projects, and to display their donations publicly.
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
For the record Ford didn't get a bailout (though at one point they asked for one) http://www.factcheck.org/2011/09/ford-motor-co-does-u-turn-o...
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
Firefox deals well with 900 tabs if you enable the "Don't load tabs until selected" option in Options -> Tabs. Then once the browser is restarted it only loads the tabs you actually click on. A kind of tab lazy loading. I
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by lupin_sansei 13y ago
I don't think it can go back to refrigerator once it's cooked as it's too hard to recool that volume of warm water.
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by lupin_sansei 13y ago
It actually renders fine without increasing the font sizes in IE 8. The creator maybe only tested it in IE? See TIFF export here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1388427/__www.sewingande...
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
another classic technique was to pass a cookie back with the image and you could then access a couple of Kb of data
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
Very cool.
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
They also have those for cars in Japan. You drive your car into what looks like a lift/elevator and they then move it up a multistory building. You can get your car back later by typing in the position it's stored at. http://japanesenostal
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
I get concerned that these minimisers and js to js compilers will introduce subtle bugs and changes into the behaviour of my code. Is that concern warranted?
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
Yes here's the link http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/podcast-50/
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
BTW Pledgie ia great idea for a site, pity there's no voting/sort by donation amount to weed out the good causes from the bad ones. Say this good one http://pledgie.com/campaigns/159 from this dubious one http://pledgie.com/campaigns/249
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
> Google pretty much does control my soul at this point No, you gave it to Google when you started voluntarily using their service.
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
I can't see how it was quashed by a corporation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Timbaland_plagiarism_contr...
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
Could you supply some sources to back up your claims, particularly about the crime and social problems in Norway vs the US, and also work hours.
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
I think it's fair enough to ask how come a country that claims to have one of the best healthcare systems in the world (the UK) has such bad cancer survival rates?
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
> one of the best health care in the world Are you serious? Check the poor cancer survival rates in UK compared to the rest of world: "Since that time, cancer survival rates in England have been steadily improving for but we (Department
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
Any links to back this up?
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by lupin_sansei 17y ago
You can make laptop stands for the bed like this from wood http://bedzine.com/blog/bed-furniture/laptop-stand-for-bed/ buy them online http://www.badbacks.com.au/shop/product/1897/223/laptop-laid... , or even make an experimental one fr

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