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by poutine 16y ago
Well, they are mercenaries after all... I half suspect they picked a difficult to pronounce name so nobody would talk about them.
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by poutine 16y ago
It's a good strategy. Interestingly Blackwater changed their name to Xe to try and shake off the bad image. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Worldwide Still a nasty organization, name change or not.
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by poutine 16y ago
I'm horrified at the amount of people calling him a douche and asshole in his blog comments for asserting his rights. I didn't think such submission to authority had become such an American trait.
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by poutine 16y ago
This is always how I've done multiplication in my head as well. Just seems natural and pretty easy to do up to 99x99, after which it's too annoying to track.
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by poutine 16y ago
The overloading of the shi sound in mandarin approaches absurd levels. I've always liked: 四是四，十是十，十四是十四，四十是四十，四十四只石狮子是死的 sì shì sì shí shì shí shí sì shì shí sì sì shí shì sì shí sì shí sì zhī shí shī zǐ shì sǐ
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by poutine 16y ago
The point is that you don't want to try to be like the locals. The locals in developing countries are not healthy and do suffer from poor sanitation (diarrhea alone is responsible for 8% of all deaths in Asia -- WHO stats). You need to be
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by poutine 16y ago
I do, but many people travelling do not. Still doesn't protect you from all the other nasty bugs and issues.
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by poutine 16y ago
More specifically you should avoid the following: - Street meat. Unrefrigerated meat spoils very rapidly. Bacteria build up toxins in the meat that don't go away even if you cook it. This can make you very sick and even kill. - Cut fruit
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by poutine 16y ago
Bad advice. The body doesn't adapt to hepatitis, salmonella, spoiled meat and the like. Don't think the locals are not getting sick and dying either. They are. Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death in the developing world.
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by poutine 16y ago
Buy a shaver and do your hair at a #2 once every week or two. It takes 5 minutes to do. Less time than you spend washing and drying your hair by far.
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by poutine 16y ago
Yes, but for an alarm clock it'd work. You can set custom sounds, etc. You can also schedule up 64 of them and have them recur.
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by poutine 16y ago
While I don't necessarily disagree with your point, an alarm clock may not be a good example. It looks like you could use scheduled local notifications for that.
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by poutine 16y ago
There's an antenna in the iPhone too you know...
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by poutine 16y ago
You don't understand WIFI. All WIFI devices share the same 2.4/5GHz bandwidth and thus if you have too many devices in one physical location you're screwed.
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by poutine 16y ago
Right, just like it has won on the desktop and all applications are now in the browser. Right? Pass the joint around...
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by poutine 16y ago
My most successful naming scheme was using the names of Cheeses. There's a crapload of cheeses out there.
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by poutine 16y ago
Hmm, well it's not so bad then. If I want to stay anonymous then I'll not click on the like or comment or whatever. Seems reasonable.
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by poutine 16y ago
I haven't looked at it in detail but I assume this is done with javascript so that the site doesn't actually see you or your friends, Facebook just includes a bit based on the site you go to. This not the case?
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by poutine 16y ago
Agreed, Nambu is way better. Tweetie on OSX is pretty feature poor, all flash and little substance.
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by poutine 17y ago
While I cannot forgive the Chinese regime for their methods, there is a point here that shouldn't be so quickly downvoted. China has raised 400 Million people out of poverty in the last several decades.
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by poutine 17y ago
Well, both the USA and China are foreign countries to me and this is an (albeit US dominated) international forum so I'm not swayed by your 'at home' argument. However I am more concerned with what is happening with the US than China even g
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by poutine 17y ago
I did not and would not applaud Google. They're a massive and soul-less multinational with far too much influence over the Internet. You are mostly incorrect in your hypotheses: - While I indeed do not like the Chinese regime I see lots of
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by poutine 17y ago
Well yes, of course Google is a self-interested corporation whose likely reasons for acting are much more complicated than the public story. All the do no evil stuff is marketing and self delusion by Google'ers. Does this surprise you?
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by poutine 17y ago
Complete and total nonsense. While the US Government has severe issues it is not by any stretch equivalent to the Chinese Government in its repression of human rights and freedoms and censorship of the Internet.
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by poutine 17y ago
I like the flash presentation on the site, I'm doing an iPhone app right now and am wondering what's the best way to put together a similar flash video of a screen capture of a iPhone app along with the touch indicator? Anyone have any sug
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by poutine 17y ago
Well don't let the downvote brigade discourage you from posting here. I'm sure many of us like hearing from an entrepreneur that's made it, even if you do ruffle feathers. Personally I like hearing from people who tell it as they think it
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by poutine 17y ago
Safari/OSX it would bring the browser to the foreground every couple of seconds. Even if Safari was hidden. Very irritating.
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by poutine 17y ago
e-xact: ruby on rails based group out of Vancouver, check out their hosted checkout product which is what we use so we don't need to store credit cards ourselves and avoid all that PCI BS: http://www.hostedcheckout.com/
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by poutine 17y ago
Ah, a simple metaphor we all can relate to. :)
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