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by rue 16y ago
A common factor of these famous people who do not use a cell phone: they have at least one assistant/secretary.
602.
by rue 16y ago
That is what insurance is for.
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by rue 16y ago
Me, I like walking. Or going by bus/tram/train/airplane. I think what I really like is the going somewhere part in general, although not necessarily somewhere in particular. Walking in itself is one of the more pleasant ways of going somewh
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by rue 16y ago
Do you do all your shopping in one store, buy all from one brand? The cost of not using Google's services is very low.
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by rue 16y ago
If this Net Neutrality thing angers people enough to reconsider their relationship with Google, good. Been trying to avoid Google for years now just because it is not wise to entrust everything to a company. Currently DDG for searches, e-ma
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by rue 16y ago
I think it is more than sincere, it is earnest .
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by rue 16y ago
> When are people going to give up this notion that companies are evil or good? Companies try to make money and crush those that try to stop them. Trying to crush those that oppose you is pretty evil, all things considered. Particular
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by rue 16y ago
> The 19/34 year old defaults of vim/vi aren't good enough for the hipster rubyists. However they seemed to be just fine for the hundreds or even thousands of systems developers and hackers who developed the foundation for the systems
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by rue 16y ago
Been quite happy with my Galaxy S as well. I was actually going to get an iPhone 4 but the local carrier kept giving "dunno" as the availability date and number of units expected; at this point I am glad I opted out. The UI/UX is not quite
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by rue 16y ago
Protip: put on deodorant before shirt. (Also, get an antiperspirant/deodorant (without aluminium/titanium if possible)).
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by rue 16y ago
Coffee etc. is still mostly water. One unit of coffee/cola/tea, compared to the same unit of water will A) give you slightly less water up front and B) cause some loss of fluid due to diuretic effect but overall you still gain fluids. It is
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by rue 16y ago
The first line is perfectly fine to me, I read it "event is either given event or event from the window". The second part is convoluted because of poor responsibility handling: ideally this function would never be called without some even
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by rue 16y ago
Excellent. Wave was made using obsolete technology and some wrong choices made it in regarding push vs. pull, distribution, modularity, "social mediafication" and encryption among other things. There were some good things about it, and Hop
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by rue 16y ago
amount.within? "10.00".."20.00" Or somesuch. Ranges are always overlooked.
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by rue 16y ago
Disabling the GC means your benchmark is worthless. 1. Valid GC during execution: you are removing an actual factor; 2. "Invalid" i.e. unrelated GC during execution: your benchmark is too narrow in scope.
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by rue 16y ago
I am, uh, highly sceptical of the value of this. That is, even ignoring the variance between runs of the same code, differences between implementations and within an implementation with slightly different objects. Writing code based on "wha
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by rue 16y ago
"Becoming"? Just cursorily, first there were the colonies - some of which felt more British than others - who well into the 1800's were essentially nations: you had your Georgia mans and your Virginia mans and so on. Even during the secessi
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by rue 16y ago
" Dvorak " Normally, < ^ v > == h k j l " Here, < ^ v > == h t n s, d remains delete noremap t k noremap k t noremap n j noremap j n noremap s l noremap l s (And for those ac
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by rue 16y ago
Q: Achieve, achieve, achieve. A: Achieve, achieve, achieve. You are trying very hard to be Dashing Successful Hacker. Maybe you are not meant for that. Amidst all the insightful advice about how startups will change your life, perhaps a whi
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by rue 16y ago
"Rob Pike digs his own language".
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by rue 16y ago
"Google simply isn't capable of producing a phone OS that is better than the iPhone." "Apple simply isn't capable of producing a phone OS that is better than Symbian."
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by rue 16y ago
Continuing off-topic, the ultimate Holmes was portrayed by Jeremy Brett in the several TV series based on the novels and short stories. I do not think they are well-known in the U.S. so I would recommend checking them out if interested in t
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by rue 16y ago
Use MRI for short-lived and JRuby for long-lived. Problem solved?
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by rue 16y ago
Clearly the solution is to get a thin monitor and tape it to your cat or dog.
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by rue 16y ago
A friend with weed is better.
626.
by rue 16y ago
Sure. I was just poking fun at the, shall we say, "alcohol-normative" society we live in :)
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by rue 16y ago
What about the teetotaler investors?
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by rue 16y ago
> But I've seen this sort of crap in all sorts of "standard" lib's in Python, and it never seems to get cleaned-up... I assume you meant to write "I've seen this sort of crap and written patches for it "?
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by rue 16y ago
> Because you can't just get an Android phone and use it and be happy with it. There's always some hipster or yuppie or desperate-to-be-cool nerd that'll start going on and on and on about how amazingly great their iPhone is, was and a
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by rue 16y ago
Key quote: > Atkinson's explanation makes sense, says David Perrett, a psychologist at the University of St. Andrews, UK, who studies facial attractiveness. Since faces and bodies are shaped by the same hormones, he says, you should be

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