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Veracity
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Nobody should speed. That's why the fines exist.
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A very detailed summary of the radiation effects also states that there is no direct proof of people being sick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_Fukushim...
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Problem is: a $50 ticket means nothing for the rich but leaves the poor without bread. So the ticket treats them the same but the result doesn't.
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Link to the Ideapaint website: http://www.ideapaint.com/
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Philips had a working concept with a beamer some years ago. It was called the "Drag Draw". Can't find much about it but here is a movie of the device in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WsPncFFrRw
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In The Netherlands we have a ticking sound in the pole called "rateltikkers" (rattle ticker). When red the tick is about once per second. When green it is ticking very fast.
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They should use this for "likes". Death of a celebrity? 50000 people feel sad, 2000 people feel happy. I think that would be much more appropriate than 52000 likes.
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Get a better IDE ;)
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Curious question: why do you always use table aliases? To keep your query shorter? When I don't need an alias I just use the full table name for readability: SELECT Department.Name, COUNT(Employees.EmployeeID) FROM Department
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Keep in mind that most of the time there are different solutions for a problem. They all finish the job but some are better than others. Knowing why and which solution is best will get you the job.
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Imho the issue is not about sexism (women make jokes about sex too). I think this is about treating people unequal. Men looking down on women, managers looking down on developers, white looking down on black, black looking down on white, me
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I didn't test this one, but the new mobile version of Opera is horrible. I like Opera very much and I just can't believe they released this mobile version (also take a look at the latest reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?
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I like the simple explanations in the book. Also check the authors website for more fractal and graphic goodness: http://www.ventrella.com/ Edit: more about the author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ventrella
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Brainfilling Curves - a Fractal Bestiary (online book)(archive.org)
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They are talking about one million hues. Hues are "pure" colors without saturation and lightness. So humans can see more than 1 million colors. Edit: maybe this image will make it clear: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/
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With Mercurial it's the opposite where fetch is the "automated" command. Pull just pulls the latest version from the server while fetch also tries to update, merge and commit.
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"You will almost never get warning before lightning strikes." Somehow animals can sense it. I've seen animals flee seconds before lightning struck.
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Art Ludwig's sound page(silcom.com)
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Years ago I listened to the creator of Sodaplay: http://sodaplay.com/ ( http://soda.co.uk/ ) His speech was about how you develop something and people start using it completely different from what you imagined or even wanted. His tip: lea
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Also: setting up a webserver with over 1TB of storage is probably simpler, faster and more reliable. I also think in this case the hack is a little useless. But I've seen examples where they use it to transfer a lot of 3D data for use in We
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Related: according to this study in the UK alcohol is the most destructive drug: http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/~mmiller/espanol/Variedades,%2... [PDF]
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According to a lot of job sites .NET isn't dying at all... Maybe the author has the feeling it is dying because other platforms are in the news more often?
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I'm also from the Netherlands and working with homeless people in my spare time. "The homeless here are people mostly people with mental health issues that reject or don't respond to treatment." Well in most cases it's the other way aroun
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Since the introduction of navigation systems a lot of people have absolutely no clue of where they are. They also don't remember the route they took because there is no need to remember. With the proposed app you don't need to remember a fa
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Related: When I first heard about quantum computers I thought a bit would be a value of 0 to 1 (or 0V to 5V or something like that). I still am very curious if such a computer could exist and would be useful. For example to do very quick ra
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Also: a lot of people seem to think the number of records is the complexity.
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Read the article and I'm still not sure why I should measure and analyze my life. How will it improve my life? I just try to enjoy life. So I don't feel the need to worry about data or memories.
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4 Tips for a Great First-Use Experience(uxmatters.com)
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Remember these are Twitter users, not the world. There is a trend in thinking that Twitter, Facebook and other social users are representing the world population. Hedonometer gives some explanations here: http://hedonometer.org/about.html

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