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by rlivsey 16y ago
I've just measured all my pairs of 34" jeans and they are consistently 36". I only buy Paul Smith these days because I've come to know that they will fit me well without having to shop around. Last time I was measured for a suit I came out
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Value of Twitter Ecosystem Shrinks as Funding Falls(gigaom.com)
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by rlivsey 16y ago
Yep, the equivalent would probably be something along the lines of: if baz > 10 func = :foo else func = :bar end result = self.send(func)
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by rlivsey 16y ago
"File -> Make a copy..." from the toolbar should do the trick
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You’re a failure: Deal with it(boagworld.com)
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Subscription Revenue Model (spreadsheet)(spreadsheets.google.com)
37 points by rlivsey 16y ago|14 comments
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Conway's Game Of Life in APL(youtube.com)
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by rlivsey 16y ago
I think it's "What You See Is What You Get When You Leave Everything Alone For Two Seconds"
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by rlivsey 16y ago
Radiolab also featured a story about them last year: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/10/02 As an aside, I think Radiolab is one of the best podcasts out there and it's certainly worth a listen if you've never heard it bef
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by rlivsey 16y ago
I've never run into this myself (BSc Comp Sci, MSc Management), but that might be because most jobs I've had have come through word of mouth / networking. Plus, once you've got a bit of a career history, your education doesn't matter much c
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If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?(activevoice.charlesbivona.com)
200 points by rlivsey 16y ago|147 comments
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by rlivsey 16y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy [1] explores the colonisation of Mars and the political and societal issues that come from that. Well worth a read if you haven't already. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
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by rlivsey 16y ago
That's what I do, I bought myself a trimmer and give myself a #3 buzz-cut about once a month. I haven't been to a salon in ~4 years now so have more than paid for the trimmers. I still use shampoo & conditioner though, seems to be bette
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by rlivsey 16y ago
I think that's Jeremy Bentham and the Panopticon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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by rlivsey 16y ago
It makes sure that it returns a boolean value as opposed to something truthy/falsy which could lead to oddness if you try and directly compare it with a boolean value. According to the spec, media.canPlayType returns either "", "maybe" or "
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by rlivsey 17y ago
When I was at school I seem to remember that we weren't allowed to use computers for most homework in order to encourage developing handwriting skills etc... Not that it helped, my handwriting is atrocious! That's mainly because in the past
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by rlivsey 17y ago
Indeed, this works fine for pages which just contain CSS for that specific page but I'm not sure how often that actually occurs in the wild. And if you've got just a one page site then surely managing the CSS for that isn't a big issue? For
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by rlivsey 17y ago
We got similar uniques on MinuteBase when that was featured - 4,000 visits on the first day and 2,000 for the next 2 days until it dropped off the front page.
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by rlivsey 17y ago
That was my first thought too, seems like the simpler solution and the way I've built multi-site apps in the past. It sounds like they are still using a different database per site, as opposed to one database and scoping data by an account_