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by nollidge 14y ago
It's not at all standard on smartphones though. Almost all data plans include at least several hundred texts per month.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I don't think they need a phone number if you use the Google Authenticator app on your phone. The pin for that is generated based on an initial random seed and the current date/time, not your cell number.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> if you are vegan why would you want to eat stuff that resembles meat? Why wouldn't you?
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by nollidge 14y ago
Are you serious? "Nope" is just informal, it's not any more or less rude than "no".
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by nollidge 14y ago
U.S. outlets are grounded mostly, unless they're older construction. We do still sell some non-grounded extension cords because lots of appliances (toaster, coffee maker, lamp) have non-grounded plugs. I have no idea what they're talking ab
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by nollidge 14y ago
Ah, I forgot that the paid listings were only for certain locations, not just certain categories.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> It can't be modeled well as a for-profit company I'm not an MBA, but why the hell not? They entice people to become regular users with all the free stuff, building a network, allowing them to make an enormous profit off of the few pro
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by nollidge 14y ago
You're assuming that they take him down at all. He had body armor and the element of surprise.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Oh, do tell.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Right, but GMail not only allows +, it treats it special. That's not in the RFC, as far as I can tell.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I'm about the same age with nearly the same experience, although I don't remember exactly when the Commodore showed up in the house, it was just always there. Hours and hours of Jumpman, Ghostbusters, Castles of Dr. Creep, Bruce Lee, Space
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by nollidge 14y ago
Further, let's imagine there were 2 "good guys" in that theater with guns. Good Guy #1 shoots at the lone "bad guy". Good Guy #2, with heightened adrenaline and compromised senses, thinks GG #1 is another bad guy and shoots at them. GG #1,
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by nollidge 14y ago
You disagree that it's a humor piece and not a guide? Yes, revising is incidentally a good thing for writers to do, but this is quite obviously satire if you read beyond the first sentence of each rule.
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by nollidge 14y ago
It's more complicated than that. FTFA: > He quoted an NBC spokesman as saying: "Our social media department was actually alerted to it by Twitter and then we filled out the form and submitted it." So yeah, a complaint was filed, but the
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by nollidge 14y ago
That is not at all clear from your post. It sounds like she just wasn't on the list at all.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Yes! I'm not eating and breathing your startup like you are. You actually do have to remind me why I cared about you in the first place.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Seriously, just put your product link at the top-left (like OP says) and throw the tagline right next to it . I'm not going to be offended that I'm reading a branded blog.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Man, $39 seems like a terrible price point for that. Forty bucks is a really good price for a well-designed, full-color hardcover book, not an e-book. $10 and I would've bought it already, but now I'm just queuing it up on Goodreads to may
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by nollidge 14y ago
I just wonder if he was happy.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Don't give this test to people who speak AAVE: You'll be considered racist. Perhaps, but probably not. In my understanding most AAVE speakers (and other "low-class" dialects, for that matter) are bidialectical with Standard American E
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by nollidge 14y ago
> There have been many choices in grammar that have been decided almost arbitrarily by higher authorities Just because somebody makes a decree about grammar doesn't mean it'll be widely accepted, any more than an organism obtaining a ge
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by nollidge 14y ago
Most people don't know where the dividing lines are between grammar, spelling, writing style, and typographic style. Cf. several posts on this very thread.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Sure, but typically it's deliberate on the part of the author.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> but nobody seems to care one way or the other. Typographers do! Double-space is OK for monospace fonts, but otherwise single-space is almost universally preferred for avoiding so-called "rivers" of whitespace. http://en.wikipedia.org
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by nollidge 14y ago
That's not a grammar rule, it's a typographic one, and therefore subject to the house style of your publisher.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> But grammar is just a set of arbitrary rules that some person or group of people decided were correct. That's like saying the evolutionary tree of life is just a set of arbitrary rules someone came up with. It's not, it's a descriptio
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by nollidge 14y ago
Here is where I part from the OP. I do think of programming as a form of writing, and so I think it's OK to judge a programmer thusly, but I don't think it's got much to do with stocking shelves or plumbing or carpentry. Moreover, based o
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by nollidge 14y ago
Right, that was one thing I thought of. Is he testing just for actual grammar rules like verb conjugation and such, or is he also including superficial style rules like "avoid the passive" or typographic things like how many spaces after a
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by nollidge 14y ago
The one advantage something like Georgia has is that everyone has it local. Web fonts don't look great in all browsers and platforms - particularly on most Windows browsers, the anti-aliasing and hinting gets pretty heinous.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Ah, OK, I see what you're saying.

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