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So does http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ and many others. The advantage here is using multiple colors ... but the disadvantage is that you need to load the files individually.
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> What assumptions / observations There are twice as many single men as single women in LA. Exact opposite of NYC.
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> Unless the web server displays a huge red message every time it is run Uhh... this is the first line the web server spits out: PHP 5.4.0 Development Server started at Thu Jul 21 10:43:28 2011 The manual isn't exactly vague on this
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The web server is explicitly for development purposes. It is not meant for production. > It strikes me that adding more tools that incompetent web developers can abuse is what got them there in the first place. This is profoundly ridic
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> This is compounded with the fact that like a lot of other techy people I was awkward with the opposite sex in high school. Same here. > I have interesting hobbies, go out every now and then (mostly to concerts), I'm trying to d
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> All the girls our age are in college. Literally all of them. It makes dating very difficult. This is a limiting belief that you've ingrained deep down and it is seriously hurting you. You really, really need to work on this. The t
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> The worst thing an officer of the was able to do was inconvenience you for a day. Wrong. Job application. Have you ever been arrested? No job. Mortgage application. Have you ever been arrested? No mortgage. No house. Rental application
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When a cop gives you instructions to leave, you leave. Not because the cop is right, but because this shit happens. And if you're naive enough to think that this shit won't happen to you, try not complying with a cop's instru
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You jest, but that's actually the reason.
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> Lawyers, doctors, and engineers are all required to pass tests before they can practice. They prove their competence before they can even begin working in the field. Because performance on a multiple-choice exam equates to competence i
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My point wasn't that there are no incompetent programmers. There are plenty. My point was that in our profession, and it is a profession, it is much more difficult to be incompetent. As a consequence, there are fewer incompetents than
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> There's no overarching professional organization or boards, therefore incompetents aren't de-certified and national lobbying isn't coherent. Incompetents are rarely de-certified in professions that have what are effectiv
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I'm sorry, but I have no idea what your comment actually means. What gulfs? Men and women are complimentary. The masculine and the feminine interplay between each other and cooperate toward mutual benefit. There is no gulf. I reject th
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13y ago
> If Time Warner, Comcast, and AT&T want their names to be associated with budget brands then its ok. It is definitely not OK. Time Warner is absolute garbage and has been for a very long time. Cablevision has an excellent network. I
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Unrelated to the story, there is a dead comment on this thread. It looks like it was written by a racist bot? What? Why is somebody paying money to do this?
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This may blow up in your face. You'll end up paying higher prices for their stuff now due to decreased supply, have some new technology come about that makes fossil fuels worthless, then get stuck with a bunch of useless fossil fuel in
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An infinite loop can do that just as well. Is that illegal now as well?
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> Many (most?) states allow nonprofits to show a tax-exempt ID number at places like Wal-Mart or at hotels, and have sales, occupancy, and other taxes removed. They also allow any business to do the same, as long as whatever is purchas
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> The point is that these things are faults of leaders, not necessarily ideologies, because you find them in every system. While you find them in every system, you find them more frequently in totalitarian ones. > Furthermore, sociali
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Ukraine when it was part of the USSR.
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> This seems to be the thing most Westerners find hard to grasp. For many people communism was good. This is naive. Please don't pay too much attention to those who weren't there. It was heaven for Russians, because a nation th
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> It's Russia vs. the Europe/United States. So that's one way to look at it. Here's another. It's Ukraine vs Russia. Ukraine has a culture, a history, a language. That culture, history, and language is UKRAINIAN.
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> Yes this does not sound nice for marketing but honestly It's not a matter of sounding nice. The average person has no idea what a gigabyte is. But they know what unlimited means. Figure out how to explain what a gigabyte is to the
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> I tried to look away, apply for a job/internship in the U.S. but the reason is always the same: visas are hell. I would do anything to get my way out. You did say you're willing to do anything, right? There are a lot of good
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> shed its reputation as a web-only What? It is web-only. That's the entire point behind it. It's not a reputation, it's the goal of the project.
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> There are relatively few people with incomes that high The chart is of household income, not individual income. There are plenty of households who break that mark.
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> These attitudes haven't changed much since 1990 at least. Why would they? A blatant oversight is a sign of incompetence and by making such incompetence public, you're threatening their job security. Why would anyone react pos
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> What actually happens is that by raising the minimum wage, you lift minimum wage earners from a state where they barely survive to make ends meet to one where they consume the stuff that society at large is producing. That may happen t
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13y ago
Apartments over the George Washington Bridge http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3682
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13y ago
LMAO! You created another throwaway account to post this? How insecure are you?!?
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