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by nollidge 14y ago
*Inman (you forgot an "n").
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by nollidge 14y ago
I think Eykanal means justification as in text alignment (right/center/left).
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by nollidge 14y ago
And that's why you should still do shoulder checks.
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by nollidge 14y ago
This doesn't replace shoulder checks, so as long as you keep doing that, you should get used to it with a couple hours of drive time.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I've done this for a few years, but the one use case it's worse is when you are in a slow/stopped lane and want/need to switch to a lane that's moving faster, and you need to see far back in that adjacent lane to see approaching cars. In th
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by nollidge 14y ago
Anybody know of a decent library for numeric up/down spinners?Some browsers do them automatically, but not all.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I thought it was delightful.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Not sure where you live, but there might be a Makerspace nearby you can utilize.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Bonneau suggests that people chose a randomly selected number at least nine digits long I've been working on a program that generates passwords that are (1) English-sounding by nonsense words of a specified length, and (2) where the l
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by nollidge 14y ago
Pretty sure that's the ONLY thing it shows. Tagline at the top specifically says "Netflix instant movies".
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by nollidge 14y ago
So it's 80 MPG U.S.
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The Illusion of Self(wired.com)
23 points by nollidge 14y ago|15 comments
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Exercises are designed to induce practical experiences of various aspects of compassion. I have no idea what this could mean. I think you should have some examples. EDIT: And reword that. It sounds like corporate-speak, of all things.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Please do, and a website. Otherwise you're just hooking up people who happen to own an iPhone.
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by nollidge 14y ago
There's nothing stopping Facebook from diversifying, too...
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by nollidge 14y ago
Reminds me of one part of Neil Gaiman's recent commencement speech [0] that's been meming its way around: People keep working, in a freelance world (and more and more of today’s world is freelance) because their work is good, and because t
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Deck Network, it's just another advertising network Doesn't seem so to me. I always run Adblock, but after looking around a bit at some DECK-served sites (there's a list on http://decknetwork.net/ ), I might whitelist their ads. They
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by nollidge 14y ago
We asked one simple question: ‘What feel[’]s natural?’ Two or three hundred thousand[s] lines of code later The Leap is a small iPod[ ]sized USB peripheral Do you support [w]indows? When do dev-kits ship[ ] They are in serio
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by nollidge 14y ago
Elicit anonymous feedback. It's hard (for me, at least) to complain face-to-face, especially to someone who writes your checks.
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by nollidge 14y ago
This is partly why I want to read "Better Angels of our Nature" by Stephen Pinker. It's about how humanity is now the least violent it's ever been, which could help to put my too-frequent bouts of pessimism in perspective.
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The Neuroscience Of Effort(wired.com)
7 points by nollidge 14y ago|0 comments
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by nollidge 14y ago
Agreed. Grammar's just norms of communication, and norms depend on context. So treat the violation of them as such - sometimes it matters, sometimes it don't.
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by nollidge 14y ago
You know, I probably use less than 100 minutes of talk time a month... But I could easily go over that getting stuck on e.g. a customer service line for an hour or something.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> you will no longer be able to trust anything you read, ever. Were you born yesterday? You already can't trust anything you read, at least not 100%. Even if you had actually shown (as opposed to simply declaring repeatedly) that he
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by nollidge 14y ago
> teaching wrong history on the internet That's not at all what he's doing though. The hoaxes are later revealed as such by him, if not sooner by a disbelieving audience. You seem to view this as though he's permanently altering history
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by nollidge 14y ago
> set out to build his carreer on lies You may wish to turn down the hyperbole, it's obscuring whatever point you have. He's not "building a career" here, he's teaching a class about historical hoaxes. What better way to teach than to d
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by nollidge 14y ago
Looks totally messed up in Safari for Windows. I just started using it, is that typical of WinSafari with newfangled HTML5 type stuff?
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by nollidge 14y ago
> People making those comments are not coming from a position of power (even if they are managers). John Scalzi: "In the role playing game known as The Real World, 'Straight White Male' is the lowest difficulty setting there is." ( http
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by nollidge 14y ago
My rage trigger is: 1) person A, using free speech, espouses some (typically ill-conceived) idea 2) person B, using free speech, criticizes said idea 3) person A compares person B to Adolf Mao Orwell scuffing their jackboots on free speech.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> The problem is that the list of things you should learn, as you imply, is endless. That's not a problem, that's opportunity.

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