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by pandler 11y ago
The one thing I know about my mother's death (won't happen until after she's reached 100 according to her) is that she has expressly forbidden us from having flowers at her funeral. Instead, she prefers we send her flowers wh
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by pandler 11y ago
Interesting that this came up. Last weekend, I was at a coffee shop / bar type place with a friend and we got talking about body language. We started people watching and noticed two separate people in the place: both males, both alone.
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by pandler 11y ago
I'm personally a huge fan of the Maryland flag. It reminds me of a coat of arms more than just a flag. Looking at all of the state flags [1], it seems that the Virginia style "detailed seal on a blue field" is pretty common.
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by pandler 11y ago
I wonder how a ubiquitous self-driving car "cloud" will affect motorcycles. I don't think I speak only for myself when I say that I don't just ride my motorcycle to get from point a to point b; rather I choose to ride it
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by pandler 11y ago
I like the full quote better: > Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils. Given that John Stark is the attributed author of the quote, I like to imagine that his sister might have added, "Valar morghulis".
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by pandler 11y ago
No income tax or sales tax in New Hampshire, but comparatively high property tax from what I understand.
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by pandler 11y ago
Hey, kudos from one POS builder to another. BTW I can't access your live demo site. It says the device has not been set up yet.
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by pandler 11y ago
>One of my friends spent two years in Japan and claims that she was more homesick upon returning home (USA) than she ever was in Japan. I can empathize with that. I spent a year and a half in New Zealand and near the end of it I travelle
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by pandler 11y ago
> the user can choose not to trust/view the data if they have even the slightest possible reason to believe their data might be modified maliciously in transit; or tracked for some sort of profiling that they want to avoid. If every
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by pandler 12y ago
Listen, I'm 25. We are not old. To combat those feelings, I remember two things. 1. I'm 25. I still have like... 60 years left. That's a long time. 2. "There were never any good old days, they are today, they are tomorro
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by pandler 12y ago
I think they were referring to taking a course at a university.
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by pandler 12y ago
Why do you think experience with programming is relevant to that?
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by pandler 12y ago
Not to mention that the whole purpose for the three branches of government is so that each branch will "check and balance" the other branches. The fundamental structure of the system is based on the premise that each branch shoul
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by pandler 12y ago
Same. The comments usually give necessary context for links on subjects I'm not familiar with.
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by pandler 12y ago
They're even more expensive in New Zealand. Packs range from $15 to $20, or $40 for 30g of rolling tobacco. The government increases the tax on them every year.
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by pandler 12y ago
Sigh... I wish I had seen this about 2 years ago. Not so useful for me anymore since moving away from native app development, but that graphic of the manual QA process made me groan.
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by pandler 12y ago
Agreed 100%. I found that following a guided mediation was much more effective for me when I was starting to meditate. It's a skill that you need to learn just like any other skill, and guided meditations act as a coach while you learn
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by pandler 12y ago
Check out Eyenetra. http://eyenetra.com I'm not directly associated, but one of my friends was an early employee who worked on some of the early prototypes and helped set up a location in India. They make a cheap (a few tho
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by pandler 12y ago
I'm certainly no scientist nor statistician, but studies like this bother me because of their tiny sample size. They studied 30 people. My understanding was always that you needed more samples than that to reach any kind of statistical
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by pandler 12y ago
This rings true with me. Some of my best work has been done laying on my bed (working from home) staring at the ceiling. On one project, we initially gave ourselves a ridiculous deadline and subsequently made a lot of ad-hoc "fuck it&q
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by pandler 12y ago
Awesome! I was just looking for something like that.
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by pandler 12y ago
Is that not true for any piece of advice or introspection?
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by pandler 12y ago
I love it. "You can't afford to make payments, so we will make you less able to make payments."
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by pandler 12y ago
Sure, adding a mod is not trivial, but that's just a technical hurdle for an advanced feature. Nor is that process difficult for someone who can follow a list of instructions. Neither this nor your original comment actually address t
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by pandler 12y ago
Another under-appreciated interface that I find useful and actually enjoyable is mouse gestures. A simple example of this is swiping left or right with a Mac trackpad to navigate history in a browser. Older Opera browsers also had a rich mo
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by pandler 12y ago
Other than being a little confused at first about why it wasn't included by default, using south as a separate module is about as inconvenient as using any other python package that isn't part of the standard library.
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by pandler 12y ago
The common criticism I hear is that it can't do everything , unlike SqlAlchemy. Fair enough, but the Django ORM is no doubt simpler to use than SqlAlchemy.
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by pandler 12y ago
"A week of coding saved me 30 minutes of planning." That's one of my favorite sayings. >I sweat the edge cases when I'm writing the code in the first place because I'm incredibly lazy I like to front-load any pro
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by pandler 12y ago
I jumped ship around the time 12 came out. All I remember is that despite all the cool features and my general love of the browser, the one thing it didn't seem to do well was browse a number of popular websites that I would frequent.
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by pandler 12y ago
It seems that most of these just send you your password as confirmation (or a temp one after requesting password recovery). Even assuming the best case scenario that these are just password confirmation emails, it still bothers me that my p

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