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by redcap 17y ago
If you don't mind, could you list some of the films that you regard as funnier than the Life of Brian?
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by redcap 17y ago
Did you fake yawn 5 or so times before getting the real one out as the article suggested? I faked a couple of yawns and it still felt good :)
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by redcap 17y ago
I'm not a C++ programmer and do not know the complexity involved with a map reduce, but surely there is still a greater chance that with C++ that you will shoot yourself in your foot (or chainsaw, take your pick).
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by redcap 17y ago
While you can try infer the meaning of words by knowing the english 'meanings' of the relevant characters, what's worked for me has been just learning a lot of vocabulary by rote and doing a lot of reading. I think the Heisig approach has
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by redcap 17y ago
Of course there are exceptions, but a remarkable number of kanji share their on-yomi based on a common component. James Heisig's Remembering the Kanji I gives you the tools to write the kanji and assign an english meaning to it (same manner
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by redcap 17y ago
Oh well, you win some you lose some. In that case I'm impressed that Cory took the time to rewrite his boing boing piece rather than take from it outright.
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by redcap 17y ago
I'm just surprised at how similar the Guardian article is to the Boing Boing article ( http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08/rupert-murdoch-vows.htm... ). Admittedly the Guardian article does link to the boing boing one, but both make refere
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by redcap 17y ago
The newest one is all downloaded, the main problem is that the downloaded games cost the same as brand-new store bought ones - meaning you can't get cheapo 2nd hand games, and downloading games doesn't save you any money despite not having
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by redcap 17y ago
Or maybe they'll just do what Russia and China do and ignore the fuck out of any and all copyright shit.
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by redcap 17y ago
I know that's what they're hinting at, I just find it strangely offputting despite not being Christian.
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by redcap 17y ago
Sorry, I don't think that's sufficient. While it's sure that the political and hence scientific environment in britain was much better than continental europe, the above video makes it clear to me that the primary factors were the high cos
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by redcap 17y ago
The general consensus that I'm aware of is that 10.0 was ordinary, and started to get better from 10.1, which some people say should have been the first OSX release.
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by redcap 17y ago
I wouldn't call it restraint - calling it war is still hyperbole. Of course, Apple has really always been at odds with the PC industry, so making a play around the 7 release date comes as no surprise given that Vista tanked.
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by redcap 17y ago
"A number is even if it's twice some integer" You could argue that is the mathematician's definition - I think this is covered in the article to an extent. A layman's definition would be along the lines of that if you keep taking 2 objects
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by redcap 17y ago
Do you use your whole hand/s to rotate the broom handle or just your fingers?
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by redcap 17y ago
You really want governments to start failing? I mean California is getting close, but that's mostly because it hamstrung itself early on by allowing citizens to promote legislation. While there are a few governments that I would like to be
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by redcap 17y ago
One of my favourite articles combining science and cooking: The man who unboiled an egg: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/futureoffood/stor... Found again thanks to this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_g
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by redcap 17y ago
Based on the FBI's discovery of the subject's Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, they haven't yet found the subject's interest in the underground BBS known as 'Hacker News'.
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by redcap 17y ago
While I've always run heel first when using shoes, when running barefoot perhaps unconciously I've always gone ball/toes first - I guess it really is what comes naturally. There was also another article a while back that perked my interest
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by redcap 17y ago
Not a sane source but a personal anecdote: I stayed up all night before my sub-thesis due date finishing it off thanks to Red Eye (red bull analogue). I had so much of it that I was literally shaking late into the night. In general my caff
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by redcap 17y ago
Tell me about it - there's a summer activity here in Tokyo which involves kids going to various stations here and getting a Pokemon stamp - have to collect them all. The only thing they might learn is where all the stations are.
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by redcap 17y ago
There's a fair bit of information compressed into Pokemon cards and other card games so it's no surprise that if you're that into it you get good at it despite being so young. Same with sports - there's a hell of a lot of information in st
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by redcap 17y ago
He's just a coder. That is all.
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by redcap 17y ago
Actually had to look that one up only to find that it was by an American politician I'd barely heard about (Barry Goldwater). It's a really good line, and it seems he turned into a figurehead for the Libertarians. It just strikes me as fun
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by redcap 17y ago
I think in general it helps to be more polite in general, especially in forums or discussion boards. At least the respondant was good enough to quote a source. However, in my view as the civil rights protesters were 1 arguing for a greater
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by redcap 17y ago
Course, that was a work computer, so if we upgrade it may as well be for Windows 7.
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by redcap 17y ago
Don't know about your grandparents, but I'm sure that my grandparents mostly listened to music on the wireless. Buying records was a new trend for them (compared to their parents).
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by redcap 17y ago
"The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression." That's with version 3.5.3 of Firefox, default install on Windows xp. Any suggestions?
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by redcap 17y ago
Some success: 30% effectiveness in that 51 out of 8000 given the vaccine because HIV positive, and 74/8000 given the placebo did. I presume that really is statistically significant despite the chance it could have just been random? They al
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by redcap 17y ago
And if you squint just a little bit you can understand what they're trying to say instead of getting on a rant horse about proper English grammar.

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