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by philbarr 9y ago
In the North of England and Scotland it's usually Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea. If you go down South it's Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. And sometimes if you're really lucky you'll meet a Southerner who'll freak out about
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by philbarr 9y ago
I'm the only English person working in a German team at the moment, and their codebase takes letters like "ö" and makes it "oe". I think there are a few like that. Personally I prefer it when they use English obviou
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by philbarr 9y ago
Whilst I'm sure there are a lot of guns in the US, this metric sounds a little skewed: "America has 4.4 percent of the world’s population, but almost half of the civilian-owned guns around the world" Surely any country where
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by philbarr 9y ago
To be fair "Firehawk Raptors" is a pretty cool name. Even maybe for a death metal band. Or the next javascript framework.
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by philbarr 9y ago
Except that networking events definitely DID work because he says that the first gig he got was through someone he met at a networking event. And the rest was basically, "be lucky".
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by philbarr 9y ago
When I was a kid I built a box out of lego to store my lego in and didn't have any lego left to put in it.
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by philbarr 9y ago
I personally enjoyed the part in the video where he "tests" how flammable the furby is, gets bored, pours on lighter fluid...
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by philbarr 9y ago
> Both r/bitcoin and r/btc are terrible Are there good communities online for decent bitcoin discussion?
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by philbarr 9y ago
> even down to the dogs on the "Team" page. They do get points for, "Gus - The Lead Software Barkitect"
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by philbarr 9y ago
I totally agree with you. But every time I raise this as an idea I get downvoted :) I can only assume everyone else is perfectly fine with it - except yours is not the first post I've seen like this.
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by philbarr 9y ago
First rule of HN: do not talk about downvoting. Second rule of HN: you get the idea....
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by philbarr 9y ago
You're allowed to downvote on HN even if it's just because you disagree. It's something Paul Graham said years ago. And it's a stupid policy and should be changed.
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by philbarr 9y ago
Alternative version: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/enhanced-class-decomp...
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by philbarr 9y ago
Original author doing a pretty bad job of explaining himself [0]. Mainly: Anyone who does not like it, please uninstall this plugin. I will not explain it anymore. I'm not interested in stealing your privacy. [0] https://git
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by philbarr 9y ago
I did... "Said: set alarm for 6:30 in the morning" "Said: set alarm for 7" "Said: set alarm for 7:30" "Said: set alarm for 7:45"
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by philbarr 9y ago
They are flaunting how they flouted, though...
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by philbarr 9y ago
A game theoretical approach to household chores. Nice!
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by philbarr 9y ago
If we could avoid Daily Mail links altogether that would be good.
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by philbarr 9y ago
I think it's more important to take the content of the linked website into consideration.
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by philbarr 9y ago
I was going off the phrase, "Always wanted to play piano? Now is your time." from [0]. [0] http://www.dodeka.info/Play/
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by philbarr 9y ago
Whilst I'm all for innovation, the "Dodeka Keyboard" is not going to help you learn piano. It's going to help you to learn to play a Dodeka Keyboard.
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by philbarr 9y ago
I wrote something like this a while back for creating Enterprise Products. Just take some adjectives, nouns and adverbs, construct a sentence, and then swap out the adjectives, nouns and adverbs at random. I even added a ISO-<random_numb
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by philbarr 9y ago
This seems a reasonable argument, and I think the mods should adopt your idea of transferring the points to the duped thread (and possibly the comments?)
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by philbarr 9y ago
Your link [2] came 1 hour before your link [1]. Don't think there's anything malicious going on there, they just marked the one that came later as a dupe.
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by philbarr 9y ago
I would rather it be put to work finding genome sequences or something.
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by philbarr 9y ago
Something not mentioned so far is a fret dress. This is where the truss rod is completely loosened, strings off, and the neck clamped. The frets are then filed down to make sure they are all the correct height and then polished. Make sure w
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by philbarr 9y ago
I second this. It gets me depressed sometimes.
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by philbarr 9y ago
> How do you get your figure to press down just right on the string and not interfere with another Place your thumb on the back of the neck in the middle, and have your fingers curl round to press down on the strings using just the tips
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by philbarr 9y ago
What is a haiku? I'm not sure this qualifies Maybe
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by philbarr 9y ago
I ended up reading it like I read man pages. By which I mean, I skim through it really quickly and then do something else.

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