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9y ago
He was featured on the A&E show Biography , and one of his high school math teachers said that Ballmer never once got a math problem wrong, which I found incredible in the true sense of the word.
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10y ago
From the article: > The IG took a random sample of 278 IRS forfeiture actions in cases where structuring was the primary basis for seizure. The report found that in 91 percent of those cases, the individuals and business had obtained the
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10y ago
Well, whom ever coined the phrase, they obviously never got a disc read error on a PS2.
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10y ago
I like that except that when learning something it's hard to know in advance how many days it will take. Instead, you could substitute key pieces of functionality for days.
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10y ago
They remind me of screen caps from someone's Fallout 4 mod. They're nice to look at, but at the same time they do look over-manipulated and fake.
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10y ago
Dot was a pretty good comedy that didn't get enough attention: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371647/ It's on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/8919323
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10y ago
I think of search as a default functionality (although it was actually pretty bad in older versions of Outlook). But from a usability standpoint, software shouldn't pigeonhole users into one method or another. Since everyone's wor
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10y ago
The ability to organize email into folders is one of the main reasons I prefer Outlook over GMail. But as the paper mentions, "Folders can obscure as well as organize", which is where tags come in handy. What I would really like -
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10y ago
> This is something people are missing about the "alt-right" movement The definition of "alt-right" has bifurcated. Originally, it meant non-GOP establishment (aka, GOPe), which is what I think you mean. The term was
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10y ago
Then you'd enjoy this classic: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean
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10y ago
OK, I laughed at the Fiverr bit, but I have no idea how someone can cope with living a lie like that. The stress of deceit would cripple me.
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10y ago
In the past it worked best for me when I Googled the article title using Chrome in incognito mode (in case of cookies). For some reason it's never worked for me in Firefox. Most of the time it's not worth the hassle, so I don'
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10y ago
According to this ranking, Chicago and NYC are at the bottom: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/01/09/How-Strong-Are-Your...
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10y ago
I believe the data is global so the numbers are probably skewed by China and other sources as well. FWIW, I sell a few add-ins for Excel, targeted at B2B users. I get roughly 60k uniques/month, and my Windows visitor stats are: 7
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10y ago
In case anyone is interested, there are low cost (< $10k) portable diagnostic ultrasound machines. I used to work for a company that made interconnects for medical devices, including ultrasound cables. Sonosite was developing their porta
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10y ago
300 years ago, when Benjamin Franklin traveled from Philadelphia to Boston, the trip took two weeks. The fastest mode of travel was by boat, and he nearly died in a boat wreck.
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10y ago
Buy a dog.
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> I've tried making the subject stand out with emojis and such The only emails I've ever received with emojis in the subject field have been spam. But, maybe I'm not your target audience. You could try split testing this.
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10y ago
> After three kids your advice only covers the first 2-3 years?! Yep. Good luck.
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Yeah, after having three kids with widely different temperaments, I can only offer two pieces of advice to other dads: - You're going to have to change diapers anyway, so you might as well get good at it. I was a one-man Formula 1 pit
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10y ago
When I was a manufacturing engineer, I used to have a short list of long term projects, a fair list of medium term projects, and a long list of tasks. A rolling todo list was the only way to stay on top of things. You can't be the Pinb
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10y ago
I don't even know how to respond to this. People die trying to make it into the U.S. I'm not a flag-waving jingoist, but the the United States is a f'ing great place to live.
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10y ago
They missed out on not including Reddit in the social networks. Reddit seemed like meme-central this election for Sanders and Trump.
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10y ago
It's not a matter of being stupid. I watched The Sopranos as each episode came out on HBO, but they aired 6 seasons over the course of 8-1/2 years. That's a long time to keep story lines in your head. It's entertainment,
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10y ago
Instead of charging all users, they could offer premium accounts that allowed longer posts, did not display ads, have private circle-like channels that you could post to for closed conversations, etc. They haven't expanded the feature
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10y ago
Linode has a $10 / month plan as well.
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We used the CARDIAC as an intro to programming in my high school Computer Math class (Fall, 1980). Nobody that I knew in class enjoyed it, so I wouldn't recommend it.
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10y ago
And thus knocking SEO firms targeting the keyword "keyword" off the top of the results. Well played, Google, you humorous bastards.
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>It is, for the example. It doesn't even look right for the example. This line: num += num2 + 3; Should be: num += _linqitems[i] + 3;
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10y ago
Trump doesn't have a problem with immigration. He has a problem with illegal immigration, which is why he said - over a year ago - that there would be "a big, beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country
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