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by sailormoon 16y ago
Bah, there's no need to use cork to seal wine anyway. A few years ago the entire Australian wine industry moved en masse to screw-top bottles and you know what? It's better. Sure, it felt a bit cheap at first, but there's no spoilage, you
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by sailormoon 16y ago
What you say is true, but it's splitting hairs really. The fact is that unless actively deleted, every mac has video editing software installed from the day it was delivered. Still, I have to concede that although it is present, it was not
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by sailormoon 16y ago
As of this very moment, MacOS X 10.6 and Windows 7. Neither of them ship with a video editor of any kind out of the box. That’s right. Of the three operating systems, Ubuntu is the only one that ships with any video editor at all. Huh?
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by sailormoon 16y ago
Oh yes, and haven't they been doing a sterling job of that.
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by sailormoon 16y ago
You can use the exact same argument to say the US federalism "experiment is doomed to failure". Actually, I wrote that with the intention of disagreement, but now I think about it ...
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by sailormoon 16y ago
That graph is a little misleading. For example, Japan is right up there but the majority of their government's debt is internal; not good by any means but not as volatile as the Greek situation. Worst comes to worst, the Japs can just print
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by sailormoon 16y ago
As far as I know you can use either when referring to the "levee" usage, but for the lesbian slang you need dyke . Where ambiguity exists, infer from context. I think the slang term "dyke" is a bit out of date anyway?
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The tide has changed for Dutch dykes(nrc.nl)
5 points by sailormoon 16y ago|2 comments
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by sailormoon 16y ago
I was trying to talk to a group of residents, some young and a few elderly, about the Olympics. Nobody wanted to discuss the Games, which were dismissed as just another government-staged event. All they wanted to hear was news from the Ame
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by sailormoon 17y ago
I don't presume to speak for HN but the impression I get is that you can be banned for seeming disrespectful, either to the HN institution itself or to other users.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Did anyone else look at the graphic up the top of the page and think "that red gear wheel has completely ruined the machine"?
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by sailormoon 17y ago
This is probably the wrong forum but there is a mistake in the regex in the makeFilename method. In trying to detect https it will strip the first letter of any domain starting with s. Check it out: >> name = 'http://super.com/'
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Vicarious embarrassment?
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by sailormoon 17y ago
76-10-167-252.dsl.teksavvy.com yep.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Yeah well, I like linking to original sources.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Just throw them away, dude. You shouldn't be eating that stuff. Watch this: http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16717
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by sailormoon 17y ago
I think ESR is respected more in the "philosophy of open source" department than for being a real developer. Kind of like the way I respect PG for his startup philosophies more than I do for being an actual Peter Thiel-style genius. There's
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Surprise!
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Trust me mate, once you're on that $200k you'll be able to list any number of reasons why you'll expect a happiness dividend from $300k. The highest-paid person I know makes about $700k/yr and to listen to him you'd think that making only s
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by sailormoon 17y ago
5 different web browsers It's more like 2 different web browsers. IE, and everything else.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
You should try reading some science fiction. It's all well and good to learn about the day to day startup business stuff, but science fiction will give you ideas about what that startup should be doing in the first place! My favourites are
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by sailormoon 17y ago
+1 for Haruki Murakami. "Norwegian Wood" remains one of my favourite books ever.
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Looting Main Street(rollingstone.com)
1 points by sailormoon 17y ago|0 comments
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by sailormoon 17y ago
The funny thing is, charging for content does work, if the content is known to be good. My favourite examples (ie, ones I subscribe to) are The Economist and Crikey magazine, in Australia. Both are best-in-class news services that actually
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Well, I love cars and like having one at my disposal. But yeah, driving to work would be awful, especially if it was more than a few kilometres. I can't fathom why some seem to think it's preferable. Personally I won't take a job that's mor
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by sailormoon 17y ago
And if there's anyone here who doesn't know regex - go and learn regex. It will take 30 minutes max and the investment in time and brain space will pay off countless times.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Well, that's less than 3 months away. Not so bad. 1.9.2 release plan, for those who missed it: - 31 Mar. freeze the spec - 30 Apr. freeze the code - 31 May. release 1.9.2-preview2 - 30 Jun. release 1.9.2-rc - 31 Jul. releas
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by sailormoon 17y ago
It's not like you can walk into a Starbucks and use their restroom Why not? And anyway, they could at least try to do it in semi-privacy - maybe behind a building, or in the bushes, or something. No, it seems almost deliberate to me, or a
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by sailormoon 17y ago
I guess that could be a contributing factor, but not being able to find a public toilet has never inspired me to take a shit on the street in broad daylight, and I presume most other people would say the same. So it must be more than that
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by sailormoon 17y ago
I find it quite incredible that so many Americans, mostly from SF, report seeing such things, indeed talking about them as if they're a normal part of everyday life. I have lived in a few places, mostly in Australia and Asia, all of them bi

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