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by scottjad 12y ago
IANAL but that license term only applies to derivatives of the Markdown code. Markdown is written in Perl. Standard Markdown has released implementations in C and Javascript. It seems unlikely that they are using Markdown code, therefore I
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Unfortunately not in portrait mode, at least for me. And in both portrait and landscape modes on my N7 Firefox only shows 3.5 tabs, about the same as Chrome.
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by scottjad 12y ago
Where I really want side tabs is on my Android Nexus 7 tablet. On it in Chrome I normally browse the web in portrait mode and I can see the titles of about three tabs, but only a few words of each. With a slide out side panel on the left (a
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by scottjad 12y ago
Treadmill desks can cause seasickness. At least for people video chatting with you :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-SKWfNWS08 Not sure how fast the person in this video is walking though. [edit: looks like he's wal
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by scottjad 12y ago
Programmers read a lot of blogs and use reddit, and paleo bloggers and /r/paleo are much more popular than vegan bloggers and /r/vegan. Of course the causation could go in the other direction, so I'm just guessing h
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I am quite sure that carbs is the most satiating macro, not fat. :) j/k It's the energy density and palatability, not macronutrient content. http://jn.nutrition.org/content/130/2/268.long "In s
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It is very nutrient poor and it is very calorically dense, almost as dense as bread. | food (100g prepared) | cals | |----------------------+------| | KFC double down | 224 | | whole wheat bread | 259 | | brown rice
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by scottjad 12y ago
It would be great if someone (anonymously) could get a working OpenGenera VM and upload the image so that people could skip all these steps and try it out immediately.
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When people recommend legumes, they're not normally talking about peanuts. It's like people recommending fruits aren't normally talking about tomatoes. | food (100g prepared) | cals | fat | |----------------------+-----
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My favorite resource on micronutrients and diet are the graphs in this article http://www.vegsource.com/harris/ten_categories.htm
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For a critical response to Gary Taubes and the many other cholesterol confusionists, I highly recommend the videos by the PrimitiveNutrition Youtube user. He has over 30 hours of entertaining video analyzing medical studies and arguments re
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Yeah, eating that much Kale would make Soylent very pleasurable in comparison :) I mention that it's a lot of Kale and allude that it's not practical to eat that much ("Obviously I'm not recommending people eat 74.6 cups
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Kale by itself exceeds that list of nutrients for almost every nutrient that I could find data for. For many nutrients it blows it out of the water. It also likely includes many unknown beneficial phytonutrients that are not included in Soy
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imap library with idle support. haskellnet and imapget don't mention idle from what I can see. javamail does.
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If this change lands, then a couple minutes into helping someone fix their computer you now not only have to change Windows Explorer to show file extensions, but you also get to disable this.
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Here are some use cases I thought of: go to the top level domain directly instead of hunting and hoping that they have a link there going up several directories on an ftp site go from reddit.com/r/starcraft to reddit.com/r&#x
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by scottjad 13y ago
What's with this stupid title where you have to read the thing to have any clue what it is about? Imagine if the front page were full with these kind of titles. We might as well change the titles to random numbers. The last post by thi
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by scottjad 13y ago
Capitalism is beautiful. It's the reason someone built the home that his family lives in. It's the reason why the resources and technologies to build that home were used for that purpose instead of another. It's the reason wh
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by scottjad 13y ago
You forgot to include state and local government expenditures, which perhaps almost double the number. And maybe he was thinking of a China GDP number from a year or two ago. When I google "China GDP" it gives me $7.3 billion from
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by scottjad 13y ago
Maybe they don't have room for 6 visitors (for a month in one case, assuming he's not going to spend a month away from his immediate family).
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I think you could use the Phonegap Build service to avoid running OSX.
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by scottjad 13y ago
Thank you. https://github.com/Zaku-eu/colourco.de/blob/be7a41500fd1b358... or a convenient Emacs command/function: (defun rgb-to-fgc (&optional background) "Returns a hex RGB triplet str
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by scottjad 13y ago
What formula do you use to calculate the color for the foreground text that shows the color of the background?
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by scottjad 13y ago
You can use Flash or Livestreamer on Linux and presumably OSX. There are also apps for Android.
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by scottjad 13y ago
My favorite terse world news source these days is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events For a long time I've wanted a new source that will only show me stories that are likely to be relevant in a year
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> Without trying to spark a partisan discussion, those taking positions against voter ID requirements are the ones you'd expect to be opposed to illegal immigrants voting, and those in favor of voter ID requirements are the ones you
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> I've never had the impression that the military was held in particularly high regard; serving in the military is the sort of thing you might be ashamed to admit that your children do. In areas where Republicans win elections (rou
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by scottjad 13y ago
"Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property" -- Bastiat The idea being that proper governments recognize rights that already exist, they don't create those rights. One could argue
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In combatting world hunger, are you thinking of a factor other than price, like transportability, perishability, predictability, controlability, preparationability? Given that the cheapest DIY soylent appear to be primarily based traditiona
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Amusingly Miami has 3 schools on that list (Florida has 5), and all of California has 2 (neither in the Bay Area). Though unless you're planning on sending your kids to one of these schools I don't think this really tells you much

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