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by nfg 10y ago
Maybe the car-periscope from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" was a billion dollar idea after all.
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by nfg 10y ago
> Europe is part of NATO Some of Europe is. Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Malta, Sweden etc aren't.
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by nfg 10y ago
> Suppose a aboriginal guy from the Amazon wakes up naked on a snowy Manhattan street... He could be the best Tapir hunter in the five valleys, but that doesn't count for much if he inevitably either freezes or gets locked in a cell
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by nfg 10y ago
I'm by no means perfectly fluent in Irish, but I find it incredibly useful to have a language no-one understands to speak when travelling to maintain some privacy. My wife and I were buying clothes in a market Kathmandu some years ago,
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by nfg 10y ago
You often don't have that option in game dev.
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by nfg 11y ago
Alas Orca has its own connotations, Wikipedia: “Indeed, the genus name Orcinus means "of the kingdom of the dead", or "belonging to Orcus".”
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by nfg 11y ago
> No, it doesn't have to drop. It just has to not rise. Which is exactly what has been happening for close to two decades now. That's just not true: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014&#
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by nfg 11y ago
Totally agree with one caveat for potential purchasers: my copy of BMW uses US/imperial units which is a little annoying if you're from a metric background. I'm not sure if there's a metric edition.
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by nfg 11y ago
Just standalone libs. It will be interesting to see how much trouble it causes.
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by nfg 11y ago
Something we're a little worried about (shipping middleware for games on iOS) is the potential difficulty of debugging client issues when we don't (I assume?) have native binary identical libs.
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by nfg 11y ago
I really recommend that (thoughtful) people interested in this subject read ‘Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies’ by Nick Bostrom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dange...
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by nfg 12y ago
It's getting the stats from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Af... There's a log plot on that page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Evolution_of_the_2014_
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by nfg 13y ago
> Football is the most popular thing in America because it’s the greatest spectator sport... Pretty controversial!
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by nfg 13y ago
What does it mean then?
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by nfg 13y ago
Dust and gas blocking light from the stars behind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_dust + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_lane
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by nfg 13y ago
“One interesting quirk of MFC is the use of "Afx" as the prefix for many functions, macros and the standard precompiled header name "stdafx.h". During early development what became MFC was called "Application Framew
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by nfg 13y ago
Well, even allowing that its feasible in the medium term it would give you worldwide 'first-world' diagnosis , not treatment.
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by nfg 13y ago
Ireland is not in the UK.
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by nfg 13y ago
The link goes to page 3, here's page 1: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
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by nfg 13y ago
> you can do ctrl + r to achieve the same thing. C-r will (usually?) invoke reverse-search-history ( http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Commands-F... ) in bash (and I'm sure some oth
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by nfg 13y ago
> Syrian "rebels" using an iPad to aim mortars Photo: http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52385f79eab8eafb56d...
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by nfg 13y ago
I get your meaning obviously, but fundamentally tis a strangely Manichaean outlook: they were developed naturally.
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by nfg 13y ago
You're not accounting for rebound: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound .
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by nfg 13y ago
A pity if this is a concerted campaign, as I've mentioned here before visiting Iran is pretty straightforward if you're not from the US/UK and very worthwhile - blog post with some info here: http://www.sarahandni
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by nfg 13y ago
Worth noting that: grep -A n -B n is more easily written: grep -C n If you think "C" for "context" this is easier to remember too.
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by nfg 13y ago
Anyone interested in the point about Mondrian would enjoy (the sadly recently deceased) Robert Hughes' documentary series “The Shock of the New” — it's available on YT starting here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by nfg 13y ago
It's definitely a regret we didn't get further afield in Bolivia, I might just take you up on your offer some day!
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by nfg 13y ago
Absolutely loved it! We crossed from Argentina at La Quiaca/Villazon, then to Tupiza, a jeep tour for a few days finishing at Uyuni, on to Sucre, took Spanish classes there for a week (which was incredibly inexpensive and helped a ton!
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by nfg 13y ago
I actually passed through the US a few months later (on the same trip - stayed with a friend in SF for a few days between Bangkok and Buenos Aires), the CBP were indeed inquisitive, but nothing beyond some simple questions about where we&#x
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by nfg 13y ago
Sorry yes I put my India parenthesis on the wrong clause - edited and fixed now!

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