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by pietro 13y ago
I guess you're right that we don't notice. I just searched for "Jim Otteson", only to be given results for "James Otteson". Same person, big help. At other times, verbatim yields the best results. I guess I jus
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by pietro 13y ago
Legally, is it still your home if you run your business out of it?
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by pietro 13y ago
It isn't. National pride is a bug.
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by pietro 13y ago
Did you follow the news from Germany? Merkel might lose the election over not opposing the NSA. People still remember Stasi.
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by pietro 13y ago
Chromecast doesn't stream from the device to the TV. It just receives a request from the device, then pulls the stream directly from the web. As far as I understand it, it's useless for games. Streaming with AirPlay, on the other
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by pietro 13y ago
Number 22 is more or less how Windows PowerShell works.
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by pietro 13y ago
Archivists are continually saving artifacts from our time, both analog and digital. There'll be plenty to study in the future.
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by pietro 13y ago
Use http://www.google.com/ncr for "no country redirect". It's a life saver :)
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by pietro 13y ago
If the form is submitted to an HTTPS URL, the credentials will be submitted using HTTPS. The protocol of the page containing the form doesn't matter.
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by pietro 13y ago
That wouldn't be a bad thing, actually. The choice of building material has implications far beyond what you'd imagine.
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by pietro 13y ago
> The reason people consider it different is that they realise the world is a complex place with complex actors. People do no such thing. They are just members of the tribe and are highly suspicious of members of other tribes, like all p
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by pietro 13y ago
If recruiters bother you so much, why do offer them bait? Just remove your CV and replace it with a link to your personal site.
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by pietro 13y ago
Could it be their their Flash implementation? I'm using FlashBlock, and I never experience crashing in Chrome.
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by pietro 13y ago
Don't get it, either. What's your CV doing out there, anyway, if you're not trying to be found?
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Typographer Erik Spiekermann on iOS 7 [German](youtube.com)
7 points by pietro 13y ago|5 comments
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by pietro 13y ago
ASCII may be American in origin, but it's become the global standard, and it's all we have in common. Even Japanese keyboards have ASCII character input.
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by pietro 13y ago
Lowering the brightness actually makes it worse. It has nothing to do with brightness and everything to do with contrast. The older you get, the more contrast you need.
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by pietro 13y ago
It's in the video interview.
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by pietro 13y ago
Atlas Shrugged is set in the United States. I'm sure she wouldn't be surprised.
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by pietro 13y ago
Just remove maximum-scale=1 from the viewport meta tag. It doesn't allow zooming in Safari, either.
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by pietro 14y ago
8. 25 years.
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by pietro 14y ago
They have always supported it, but it's never been valid.
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by pietro 14y ago
VBA is one of the best languages and environments for beginners ever. Why using Python instead would give the beginner anything, is beyond me. Here's a shortlist: - VBA is case-insensitive. If you don't know the significance of this, you've
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by pietro 14y ago
Same on a desktop with low resolution. The fixed menu should be killed.
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by pietro 15y ago
I don't get it. Markdown was supposed to liberate us from WYSIWYG and let us work in our text editors.
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by pietro 15y ago
By which measure is <- 2 easier to read than return 2 There are many more examples in the code, but I generally found the PHP code MUCH easier to read, and I don't know PHP very well. It could be that I'm biased toward
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by pietro 15y ago
Just be polite. That's all they ask.
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by pietro 15y ago
Ironically? Both laws are about the government taking control of the internet.
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by pietro 15y ago
I have similar feelings about this. I'm deleting everything that isn't part of my current life, and I've all but stopped posting. It's a shame, really.
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by pietro 15y ago
File -> New

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