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by mtts 14y ago
"Ballpark favorite Cracker Jack will soon come as Cracker Jack’d—2-oz packages of the familiar candy-coated kernels jammed, in certain flavors, with 70 mg of caffeine from coffee." WTF?
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by mtts 14y ago
The problem I've found is I've become so used to no "waste time memorizing stuff" I've forgotten how to memorize things. Which is a problem when I need to learn things that can't just be looked up online when you need them, like a new langu
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by mtts 14y ago
This is a problem even if you don't buy pre-built. You're going to be buying similarly specced drives at similar times and you're probably buying from vendors from the same rough geographical area so chances are you're buying drives from th
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by mtts 14y ago
For the technical improvements, maybe, but for the improvements in living standards, not so much. Living standards for commoners improved (vastly) during the 15th century, as a result of depopulation due to the Black Death in the 14th and t
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by mtts 14y ago
Even the people who lived through actual battles (where technology and tactics would be relevant) tend to tell stories that are mostly about hunger, deprivation and being cold. Shooting people and executing strategic plans hardly ever figur
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by mtts 14y ago
As confronting as it is, most of these seem to me spot on. Most of European history is indeed about war. Most of the African and Asian history that is written about is indeed about who colonized what. It's a great map: it provides an easily
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by mtts 14y ago
That would be because it has a long, long history that's traditionally divided into many periods. So it makes sense :-)
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by mtts 14y ago
Nice try, but no. In fact at the time even the Belgians couldn't get away with what they did. When word came out about what the Belgians were doing in the Congo it caused an uproar throughout Western Europe and it stopped.
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by mtts 14y ago
> There's a big, important difference between piracy and trade Not really. What the British called "free trade" seemed pretty much like piracy to the Egyptians, the Indians and the Chinese they imposed it on. And lest you think trade ha
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by mtts 14y ago
The period since the Italian Renaissance is actually more interesting than "pretty spiffy". While science improved by leaps and bounds, living conditions for ordinary people (in Europe) deteriorated quite significantly. Crop yields plummete
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by mtts 14y ago
Not just by force. IE 4 and 5 were better than what Netscape had on offer during that time. They were faster and had fewer JavaScript quirks.
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by mtts 14y ago
I've come to the conclusion this isn't actually a problem. If you don't think of your to do list as a tool for organizing projects but merely of a list of things you need to do, you don't actually need sub tasks. But you do, of course, need
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by mtts 14y ago
The idea behind todo.txt is pretty neat, but in its basic form it's missing a few features. Luckily it's easily extendable. I hacked up (and I do mean hacked up) two python scripts that add two bits of functionality that are essential for m
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by mtts 14y ago
> Ruby feels like a “more than one way” type of language more closely related to Perl. Gem issues aside, which Perl doesn't tend to have because CPAN is so rock solid, that was exactly the reason I didn't continue with Ruby when I check
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by mtts 14y ago
No, I agree with the OP. If you want to install some interesting Ruby app or library you quickly find yourself installing all sorts of interdependent gems to get it to work. This is, of course, a matter of YMMV, but I can see where he's com
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by mtts 14y ago
They've always been absurdly expensive. Maybe you didn't notice it in the US before since the dollar was so strong, but over here in Europe it's always been pricey stuff.
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by mtts 14y ago
A native English speaking work force at lower salaries than in the UK helps too :-)
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by mtts 14y ago
FWIW all the points mentioned elsewhere in this thread about this having been known for a long time among cognoscenti of Bletchley Park is duly noted but to me it was news. So as far as I'm concerned the Polish government raising a stink ab
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by mtts 14y ago
"7. Use vi-mode in Your Shell" Tried this and gave it up. Your shell may be (somewhat) vi compatible but the applications you use mostly are not so you'll have to break out of the vi mindset at all sorts of inopportune moments. That, and mo
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by mtts 14y ago
Maybe someone will do some research on this at some point, but yes, it seems fishing is indeed the western male's (it's usually western males that do fishing for leisure, no?) version of meditation. It's not about catching fish, surely.
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by mtts 14y ago
Dunno. I've found purposefully sitting still is much more effective than walking dogs or taking a shower, during which your mind may calm down, but may very well not as well.
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by mtts 14y ago
Weight lifting could be mindfulness, but only if you don't "put on headphones with fast, heavy music". Those headphones are a distraction.
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by mtts 14y ago
Freshly squeezed oranges are not what most people consume when they consume juice. A sterilized, overly processed concoction of fructose and acid, which, yes, originated in fruit, is.
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by mtts 14y ago
Juice is for most intents and purposes no healthier dan soda. It's mostly sugar and acid. The fact that said sugar and acid used to reside in a piece of fruit makes no difference at all. If you want the health benefits of fruit, eat a piece
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by mtts 14y ago
Downvoted because "this will virtually never happen" is, uhm, for want of a better term, incredibly stupid . Allow what you want to allow and disallow everything else.
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by mtts 14y ago
Exporting views to code has been shaky at best. And worse: once it's exported to code, there is no way to only import the bits that have changed. You must recreate the whole thing anew. That's not version control, that's an export function.
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by mtts 14y ago
That, and even core-ish modules are maintained in a manner that's just plain unprofessional (I'm looking at you, Ubercart / Drupal Commerce): "Hey, there's a new version of Drupal Core! Let's drop development of (and support for) the curren
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by mtts 14y ago
"That means that it can scale from anywhere from something like a 16 year-old's shared-host fanfiction site to say Whitehouse.gov." Scaling to Whitehouse.gov is not impressive at all. Like a 16 year-old's shared-host fanfiction site whiteho
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by mtts 14y ago
Typical Drupal FUD. "Configuration lives in configuration tables" : the OP's point exactly. Configuration should live in a VCS Bear in mind also that "configuration" van be so complex with Drupal it's often more along the lines of being "an
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by mtts 14y ago
When shared hosting was the norm. mod_php was much faster than CGI and a lot safer to use because usually processes in one virtual host did not affect processes in another unlike with mod_perl and the like.

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