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Beware: Alternative Certification Is Coming(chronicle.com)
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Your site is much better than most of the scrolling preview sites (e.g., thethemelist.com is stylistic but too visually overpowering and cluttered for my eyes to parse). I say this as someone currently looking for a template. Using your sit
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by nhebb 15y ago
I got a Windows Firewall warning yesterday on a Win7 system. At the time I thought it was a bit curious since I've been running Dropbox on that system for a long time, but I'm guessing it was related to this issue.
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I'm guessing that he's referring to the story involving Corey Haim. He did an interview with Nightline a while back and said that pedophilia was Hollywood's number one problem. After the interview a number of former child stars spoke out ab
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Tangent: Ever notice how some of the most interesting threads on SO are [closed]? Especially the ones linked to from HN. Edit: BTW, I didn't mean to imply that this was necessarily a bad thing. It's in keeping with the facts, not opinion, g
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by nhebb 15y ago
Or use an online storage service (e.g. DropBox), and uninstall the client before going through customs. Kind of a hassle, but avoids the issues of have encrypted content on your system.
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I think there is a software solution to this problem. #1: A Recommendation Service: You know how Amazon will list "People who bought this, also bought these ..."? The problem with these recommendations is that people may have bought other i
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If you step back and think about this for a minute, you're getting free access to educational material from a world class university, and the the only prerequisite is that you install iTunes. That's a pretty good trade off.
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It doesn't bother me to read other people's code that does this, but I never decrement or increment within an assignment statement. I've just made too many off by one, index out of bounds errors over the years.
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This is such a great book. No fluff, just straightforward examples of how to do basic version control. Plus, Eric is a good writer. (Actually, anyone who can take a dull topic like version control and make it entertaining probably qualifies
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by nhebb 15y ago
> Google obsessively tweaks all manner of other links in the index Via algorithm or manual intervention? I thought they were dead set against manual tweaks. I imagine their todo list of algorithm improvements is never ending, so I'm not
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It has a pretty good track record of picking the eventual Democratic nominee, but Iowa is not special for the Republican party. It has a poor record of voting for the eventual Republican party nominee in races where there is not an incumben
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by nhebb 15y ago
Seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. If most of what they make are movies in these genres, that's what people will see. I don't even rent many movies any more, and I used to rent a lot! There just isn't much that's interesting, and i ha
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by nhebb 15y ago
No, but I will when the domains expire. The way I look at it, transferring all my domains now will just cost me more money for a service that I've already paid for. So part of the short term punishment is letting GoDaddy keep my money but n
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It's because tech-savvy people are smart enough to click the "No Thanks" link. ;-)
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There are several things I've never had a good understanding of regarding the stack. How big is the stack? Is it a fixed size dictated by the architecture of the processor? I know I've written recursions that overflow it. Other than gut fee
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Most important, firms will discover that they can extract value from the data. A study by the McKinsey Global Institute, a think-tank, found that analysing health-care data could yield $300 billion-worth of savings in America alone. I sme
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They're not migrating the other apps. From the FAQ [1] - Q: Is Microsoft Office being replaced by Google Docs? A: No, Microsoft Office will continue to be a desktop standard at the University. ... Nice Freudian slip, btw. [1] https://kb.
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There have been a number of successful drugs developed to treat cancer. [1] That said, I've never met a doctor who thinks that drugs are the be-all end-all cure for unhealthy lifestyles. The old Ben Franklin quip "An ounce of prevention is
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Light on dark is nice except when I have other screens open - which is most of the time. If my text editor has a dark background, I find the lighter backgrounds in the periphery of my vision to be more distracting. Hence, I end up using bla
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by nhebb 15y ago
I have a number of checklists I use, from deployment to form design, but the practice that has had the biggest impact for me is creating on-the-fly checklists while I'm coding. I often set out to do one thing and realize there are four or f
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If you join BizSpark [1], you get free MSDN subscription (i.e., Visual Studio and a load of other software). It's a pretty good deal if you're going after the MS stack. [1] http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
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by nhebb 15y ago
Nice way to make a clean break. Personally, I wouldn't blame them if they did it on purpose (not that I'm suggesting they did).
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Fry's might not be a good example because many of their orders are ticketed items, so the cashier does more than just ring you up. For example, last week I bought a hard drive there, and it took a minute for the cashier to retrieve the item
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C|Net / download.com has been doing this a while. They're even doing it to companies that pay to have their product(s) promoted on download.com. From what I understand, a C&D isn't necessary. If you email cnet-installer@cbsinteractive
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Step 1: stop reading techcrunch. Step 2. Get to work. OK, I admit I didn't read the linked piece. Did I miss anything?
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> I thought I was the only one. You're definitely not. When scanning or seeking, Podcasts are to web communications as reel to reel is to data storage.
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... plus, move the legends off to the side.
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The issue isn't about whether it's surprising that a wealthy, well-connected Chinese kid goes to a school like Harvard or Oxford. The question is, how did a leader within the Chinese Communist Party get wealthy to begin with?
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If you click the close button [X], they won't appear again. It's not a big deal.

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