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by maw 12y ago
I agree with the main thrust of what you're saying but feel compelled to point out that suburbs are much older than streetcars. See http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=su... for instance.
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by maw 12y ago
It's near José Luis Borgues' tomb, isn't it?
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by maw 12y ago
I've said "con permiso, abuelita" -- roughly "excuse me, grandma" -- to dudes half my age waddling down the street. I should do it more.
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by maw 12y ago
The amount of damaged cars and stationary objects and injured people in bad-driving countries belies that particular nugget of cultural relativism.
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by maw 12y ago
My advice: if you start learning about history don't stop.
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by maw 12y ago
I think you'll find that those aren't the only two possibilities.
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by maw 12y ago
Are they usable in different countries? I know that, unfortunately, some prepaid CCs issued in the US can't be used in other countries, for instance. But maybe that's less likely to be the case in Europe, or, really, just about an
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by maw 12y ago
A shocking result. Hook me up!
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by maw 12y ago
Have you skipped Mavericks or something?
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by maw 12y ago
Yep, a lot of people have come up with this idea independently (I'm one of them). It's pretty obvious, after all. But I don't think it will ever get much traction. Believe it or not, it's too far beyond the organizationa
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by maw 12y ago
"A zipping comes across the sky." Good allusion, and I didn't even like that damn book!
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by maw 12y ago
And considered it harmful.
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by maw 12y ago
The article reads like an excerpt from Foucault's Pendulum if perhaps a bit less sinister.
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by maw 12y ago
If the water had the appropriate level of wetness, something called “capillary bridges” — extremely small droplets of water that glue together individual grains of sand — would form. I wonder what happened when the water wasn't wet e
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by maw 12y ago
I'm hosting a release party in Mexico City in case any chilangos are interested. See http://v4party.varnish-cache.org/party/81 -- I hope a few more people come but if not pues no hay nada mal en un taco y un par d
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by maw 12y ago
Consensus is that his publisher sent the other one. As far as I'm aware it has never been published (and probably was lost long ago).
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by maw 13y ago
I agree in that case, but when it comes to commas, using spaces in a certain way is objectively better.
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by maw 13y ago
Muphry's law strikes again!
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by maw 13y ago
There is overlap. I once lost a fair amount of time because some dimwit predecessor thought putting anything other than a space after commas was acceptable. (It sounds ridiculous but it's true. I can explain if you care.) So: a format
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by maw 13y ago
Indeed, and this is my favorite random fact about whales in Moby Dick : "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish , and call upon holy Jonah to back me."
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by maw 13y ago
Where I grew up we used "wicked" as an intensifier, as in "he is wicked nice." Sound any better?
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by maw 13y ago
This doesn't contradict at all what I said. (See http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/boil+down+to )
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by maw 13y ago
If it's ok to otherwise eat responsibly but allow oneself one doughnut a week—and I think that this is ok—then yes, they can.
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by maw 13y ago
Not really: unless you inspect ~/bin/hr before using or updating it, both boil down to the same thing.
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by maw 13y ago
Ever worked at an office where everyone insists on shaking your hand (men) or giving you a peck on the cheek (women) twice a day?
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by maw 13y ago
You can trot out the trope about how you can write good code or bad code in any language as many times as you wish but it will not change the fact that php makes it unnecessarily difficult to write good code and, through both the language&#
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by maw 13y ago
yowsup sounds interesting and worthwhile because people in the real world use whatsapp: basically all of my non-techie friends, for instance. Make a secure alternative and convince normals to use it and I'll gladly switch.
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by maw 13y ago
You shouldn't not disallow no quintuple negatives neither.
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by maw 13y ago
If you want something more intellectually rewarding than Brown you have many, many options. You are of course right that Eco pushes a number of the same buttons that Brown does, yet without being ridiculous.
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by maw 13y ago
Maybe, but not nearly as harmful as nearly all of those X considered harmful articles were.

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