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It's crappy in 3 of the 4 scenarios: Gets free meal, writes a guaranteed positive review when the food was good. He, the restaurant and other customers win. Gets free meal, writes a positive review when the food was bad. He and the res
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Two things here: I also find myself going back to these heavier games time after time. I always convinced myself that casual games allow for quick picking up and putting down just in case something comes up. But at the end, I find myself ge
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8y ago
Under the Dome is both a book (Stephen King) turned network drama (CBS) that ran for 3 seasons. Not quite the same as Biosphere or Biodome, but people are trapped under a dome.
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8y ago
> However, when we talk to some of the kids coming to Repl.it from Scratch they often say something along the lines of Scratch is an "adult's idea of what kids might like". I think some kids want to feel like hackers and
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> IMHO the fact that Asians have been consuming it in huge amounts for over a century, and yet there hasn't been any common health problems linked to it, should be enough of a clue that it's not really harmful... This isn'
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> I've got the same issue, but only for the first 80% of the project. At that point, the project becomes a burden I have to finish, otherwise I would have wasted my time. It's only an issue if you're trying to publish or
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8y ago
You don't need an extension. You set cookies to deny all. Then you look at the list of blocked cookies when you on a website, and you can individually allow cookies on a per domain basis.
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Most people don't use things to their full potential. We have cars with larger engines than needed, CPUs and memory banks that rarely stay above 90%, food that gets tossed out daily, laundry washed and dried at half capacity and below,
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8y ago
This is such an unhelpful answer that it almost always worthless. The utility of social networks for contact is unmatched. One profile, ideally locked down how you see fit, that follows you for as long as you allow it to follow you. The res
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8y ago
I think you misread or I didn't convey my point well enough. I'm not against IDEs. I think they definitely have their place and are a great tool for development.
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It's not inherently a problem, but I do think that there are certain measures that can be taken to reduce code bloat, stack size, and development time. Someone else already noted that large business software can be a bit complicated so
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8y ago
I don't think the argument itself is Java. I think the argument is that heavy, corporate projects (typically written in Java or C#) can have lots of benefit from IDEs. This isn't to say that there aren't terminal utils that a
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>Controls when your computer will auto-reboot >what's so hard about this? It's not hard. It's that I am out of control of when my PC gets to reboot. It is a small inconvenience, but it should be something I don't h
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8y ago
It's in local storage. I did the same as GP, and the data for your responses is in local storage.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but why are you talking only in terms of massive funding and growth. The GP stated that they're seeing success in smaller (I don't actually know the size) companies due to capitalizing on a local
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8y ago
There's the classic Stack Overflow answer[0] about matching HTML tags. If you have a small subset of HTML, it can work out pretty well. [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
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8y ago
Following an artist works fine for me. Perhaps check your communication preferences? Maybe you've disabled emails or notifications about new releases from artists you follow.
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Physical media still exists for a lot of music, but I know first-hand that some music, collections/anthologies/compilations and playlists containing some original content are becoming increasingly digital-only. Check for an artist
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> The idea behind Gumroad was simple: Creators and others should be able to sell their products directly to their audiences with quick, simple links. No need for a storefront. Then: > For the type of business we were trying to build,
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This model of recurring micro-payments wasn't always the norm from the outset. Patreon wasn't the first to do micro-payments nor subscriptions, but they became the de facto platform for audiences to support content creators. Banks
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They absolutely aren't terrible. I do think some SoCal drivers can be a little over aggressive to the point where it is unsafe, and this tends happens with multiple lane changes to make an exit. No matter where you go, you'll have
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I've also had the pleasure of driving in multiple states. The zipper merges seems to be true everywhere that I've been. Even the purportedly terrible Orange County and LA drivers user zipper merging. The one thing that I have noti
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8y ago
I personally don't subscribe to this line of thinking, but a a fair share of people figure that it would happen anyway. So if someone is going to do it, then why not make sure you're the one to profit from it?
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I read it as news sites using cryptocurrency as a primary method to avoid high transaction fees. When it's a secondary method, it can be used as a way to invest in a growing market. You can potentially react to volatile changes in a cu
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In this case, would the only use of BAT (or something similar) be avoiding transaction fees as a high percentage of small transctions? For example, Visa charges 1.5% of the transaction + $0.10. The transaction fee on a $0.25 micropayment wo
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Wouldn't the volatility of cryptocurrency be a reason that companies wouldn't want this as a primary method? Don't get me wrong, the value of USD, GBP, or YEN can rise and fall relatively quickly. The conversion rate of GBP t
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The older IM clients (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, et al.) could tell you if someone was typing or entered unsent text, but it never previewed what had been typed. At least that wasn't a default option back then.
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Isn't that basically a death knell - especially if you're not a top 10/50/100 app - when trying to reach customers? If you wait until the customer has downloaded your app, you'll probably have better retention. If y
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Selling user data to a 3rd party company and turning over user data to a local government are two very different things. They both have their own sets of implications. Ideally, you'd wish that a company would never turn your personal d
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Although the tailored results have been useful, I think I still like the days back when you needed search operators. I was once looking up stuff about electrons (the particle). A plain query of electron only returned results for the fra
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