mgr86

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by mgr86 10y ago
This reminds me of a (not so interesting) story. In about 1997 I was really into hanging out in yahoo chat rooms and making websites. I was 11. I asked for a book on computer programming. I wanted to do something more than hack away at the
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by mgr86 10y ago
I'm sorry I don't have an answer for that at this moment. I read the comment on a different medium that had posted this story. I cannot verify it at this moment and don't have the available time to research it further. If thi
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by mgr86 10y ago
>with his dad being dead -- For those unaware his father died in Prison. Why was he in Prison? Well the son committed the crime in the house the father owned. His father died 8 years into a 10 year prison sentence. Cruel.
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by mgr86 10y ago
on one hand this feels like sarcasm, on the other hand he used an account with the name throwaway.
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by mgr86 10y ago
As an aside I'd love a small to mid size electric pick up. I don't do much driving and we share a volt at home. But a lot of things I don't want to put into a car with a hatchback. Mulch, compost, gas cans, leaky bags of ice
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by mgr86 10y ago
These are great! especially the collapse comment threads! Welcome sctb.
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by mgr86 10y ago
I had a high school teacher who quoted Toffler a lot in class. I enjoyed his class so much I remember picking up future shock with its electric pink cover and its companion the third wave for pennies off of amazon. These books have been sit
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by mgr86 10y ago
I found references in markdown incredibly simple. Using BibTex or CSL styled JSON objects. Then just chose the CSL style your institution prefers and run it through pandoc. Gives me html, latex, pdf, ePub, and even docbook or TEI for those
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by mgr86 10y ago
Yes I believe there was an unfinished demo with atlas. The presentation[1] was on HTMLBook[1]. [1] http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/print/Kleinfeld01/... [2] https://github.com/o
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by mgr86 10y ago
I was in attendance for a conference presentation a few years back that O'Rielly was moving to writing books in an asciidoc editor which would be converted to (x)html5 for easy conversion to PDF and ePUB. I wonder if that thing ever to
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by mgr86 10y ago
Thanks! I will try my best to look into this and hope he is willing. He doesn't talk about it much.
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by mgr86 10y ago
> MSC's have been shown to improve COPD My grandfather died of COPD, and likely so will my Dad. He has COPD. And was diagnosed in his 50s. I am fearful of it myself, but thankfully unlike both of them I've never smoked. It is a
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by mgr86 10y ago
A fair amount of US grocery stores do as well. Our local grocery store has a pick up option as well as a delivery. Another a few miles down the road near a restaurant we enjoy also has a (free) place for us to charge our car why we shop. I
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by mgr86 10y ago
woah this almost seems like Facebooks version of Hot Single Girls Near you. Except they might actually be near you.
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by mgr86 10y ago
This was the title I wanted, but alas I was limited to 80 characters.
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Netflix Will Be the Exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar(media.netflix.com)
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by mgr86 10y ago
If you had said your sixth grade year I would have sworn we went to the same district. I grew up not far from Quakertown, pa and we had a rather rambling unit on whales where we would watch the Voyage of the Mimi. I say rambling, because ou
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by mgr86 11y ago
Yes, this was the explanation I saw when my Girlfriend purchased a used volt last summer. We explain it to most people that the gas engine is there to act as a generator and charge the battery and act as a generator. Not to directly power t
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by mgr86 11y ago
and here I am with an anthropology degree. In fairness, I am a developer for an anthropological research agency at a large university. That is a plus. I'll take a look at that book. Thanks.
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by mgr86 11y ago
Any advice for those who have a degree in an unrelated field, and has been coding since they were 11 and are approaching thirty. I'm considering other options sometimes, but feel this might be an issue. It wasn't every middle scho
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by mgr86 11y ago
I always wanted to see "I am a victim of the Telephone" updated.
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by mgr86 11y ago
not to be confused with DITA: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture[1]. [1]. http://dita.xml.org/
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by mgr86 11y ago
I work at a small academic database as a developer. We charge a pittance compared to what a lot of the larger players in this market do. And I'm conflicted. We are a registered non profit, and are actively losing money. Developer costs
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by mgr86 11y ago
That feels like many a new England town. But with Churches.
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by mgr86 11y ago
>You may have heard the old saw about marriage: “You can be right, or you can be happy.” -- Happy to see that saying in there. In its sometimes hard to remember that not everyone is as logic oriented as myself.
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by mgr86 11y ago
It is very tough to resist making an ad hominem attack on Ken Kratz.
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by mgr86 11y ago
maybe he counts philanthropy as neither?
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by mgr86 11y ago
I played a lot of aoe I and some 2 as a kid. Nearly 30 now and have not so much time for gaming. But the online streaming community is impressive and the skill level is high. Also there was a 120k tournament last year for a 15 year old ga
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by mgr86 11y ago
The headline reads like a scene from the last episode of Fargo s2.
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by mgr86 11y ago
As do I, but it is an ad that you get anytime you vist forbes. In the top it says continue with a timer. It will take you to http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/12/05/google-en...

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