puissance

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   by puissance 8y ago

   For anyone looking into getting a fuller picture, I'd recommend reading Churchill's Secret War ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill%27s_Secret_War ). Where this differs from some of the other works's
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   by puissance 10y ago

   Some of the secret names of sugar I came across when I was sleuthing in the supermarkets—agave nectar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, or corn syrup solids, dehydrated cane juice, dextrin, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, glucose,
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   by puissance 10y ago

   I did something similar last year and quitting sugar cold turkey was probably the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life. I documented my experiences over each of the four weeks: http://avadhutp.github.io/no-sug
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   by puissance 10y ago

   :-) Aren't you bikeshedding? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403557
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   The sordid history of .io TLD (2014)(gigaom.com)

   3 points by puissance 10y ago|0 comments
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   by puissance 11y ago

   In some cases, yes. You've to realize that each country in the WTO picks which battles to fight and which one's to let go. For example, when Novartis lost the case, in Indian supreme courts, to ban the production of Gleevec (a Can
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   by puissance 11y ago

   People wer exporting them from Canada, but big pharma lobbied for bans ( http://news.healingwell.com/index.php?p=news1&id=526618 ). Anywhere close to US mainland, especially Mexico, I am afraid, will meet with the same fa
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   by puissance 11y ago

   Might be unrelated to the topic but I don't understand how you came up with the summation "India is creating a drug resistant bacteria because antibiotics are overused" from that nytimes article. The same article also mention
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   by puissance 11y ago

   Sorry for your experience. But this is the problem with US visa process—it is not at all objective. It is very subjective and depends on the person interviewing you. Chances are that if you were allowed to speak to a completely different pe
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    Vegans who run(uta.edu)

    2 points by puissance 11y ago|0 comments
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    by puissance 11y ago

    If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. -- http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...
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    Why are refugees drowning(youtube.com)

    1 points by puissance 11y ago|0 comments
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    by puissance 11y ago

    I don't. Take the extreme programming approach. Don't try to familiarize yourself with a new codebase all at once. Start small. Work on a small ticket. It will, organically, help you assimilate what's happening.
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    Engineers and deadlines(avadhutp.github.io)

    1 points by puissance 11y ago|0 comments
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    No sugar for a month: Going cold turkey(avadhutp.github.io)

    1 points by puissance 12y ago|0 comments
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    Fibonacci as per Djikstra(avadhutp.github.io)

    2 points by puissance 12y ago|2 comments
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    SAMI: API documentation generator for PHP(github.com)

    1 points by puissance 13y ago|0 comments
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    by puissance 14y ago

    This is why I love programming!