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13y ago
I got that as a gift, and I have to unfortunately state that it's a negative. It does not help. Actually it helps even worse than cracking the windows down a little. I do realize that the problem needs to be approached two fold - expel
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13y ago
>collect the inflation tax What does this mean? I do not understand.
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13y ago
>In Cory Doctorow's book... This is a really cool concept. You have just sold me to read this book man, I'd been putting it off for so long.
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13y ago
>Seebeck is incredibly inefficient Yep, I was going to try to use that (peltier) in conjunction with a small array of solar panels to cool my car because summer afternoons can get incredibly hot - outside temperature reaches 45C, so I&
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13y ago
>The Heat can call themselves whatever they want Ah, but it's precisely this what we're talking about. I calling myself a World Heavyweight champion because I defeated everyone in the country...
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13y ago
Along with the headline, the layout of the header picture (with the man holding the flag) gives me the creepy 1984-ish vibes.
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13y ago
Is 1 gigabyte fine?
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13y ago
My interaction with Americans has not been in a professional setting, but my opinion of them is that they're very unknowledgeable about things happening outside their country. This is not a slander, but they genuinely think that since
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13y ago
Also, isn't it true that the POTUS considers himself to have a remote killswitch for every American that exists?
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13y ago
I'm not a developer of any sort and this is exactly what I was thinking. "What's the guarantee that they don't change the code inside the .js file? I would've already provided them a hardlink and long forgotten abou
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13y ago
Oh totally. I didn't look at the code though but I'm impressed if that isn't a hardcoded behaviour.
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13y ago
Oh yeah, this is better. Fyi note that the AI is totally evil. Its first priority is to send you to a square that's already been won (does not matter who won) effectively rendering your move useless while you give it map mobility. It p
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13y ago
There's one unfair thing in this though. If the board has already been won, sending them to the same board allows them to place a mark anywhere on the megaboard even if there are vacant spots available on the said board.
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13y ago
Apparently their reaction page is up - http://www.adecco.com/en-US/Media/Pages/reaction.aspx
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13y ago
Fwiw I found this one better and it has a rudimentary AI too. (not mine) http://joeyrobert.org/projects/ultimatetictactoe/
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13y ago
>of 1.5mbps. Wow. There's this whole rest of the world that would kill to get that speeds. I'm confused as to why MS would try to alienate basically everyone not in NA, EU with that kind of a minimum requirement. People in Asia
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13y ago
I tried Firefox on Windows 8. I did not find any animation effects. However, Chrome on Windows 8 has those animations, and the applications' scroll bar is hidden. Bad UI indeed.
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13y ago
The other commenter says that gun ownership among people is on the rise yet I'm worried that such statistics could be skewed by selected people owning multiple guns. You're right and this is what I'm actually scared of. Unlik
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13y ago
[Honest question with absolutely zero bad intentions] I hate to bring this up again and again, but how long before the USG turns into Nazi Germany? Right now, they're in the data collection phase, and are squashing dissidents. I don't live
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13y ago
>For US citizens it is really hard to get rid of their citizenship Not sure about that. I've heard that you just need to go the embassy and you can get rid of it quite easily. However getting citizenship of another country may be a bi
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13y ago
Well to be honest, in retrospect the present Germans are lucky as compared to other countries that they already are educated either first, or second hand about the issue of government knowing everything. Another point could be made is tha
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I can't help this nagging feeling that this logo is "inspired" from someone else - http://in.pycon.org/_themes/pyconindia2013/img/2013/sponsors... My brain says it's either Square Enix or Dice but a simple image search proves me wrong. ED
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13y ago
Just a note to others checking out Sickbeard. It does not download the actual video clip. It only downloads a torrent (or in my case an nzb file) which needs to be further piped.
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13y ago
A python script allows you to enter the name of the show, scrubs it from a tv guide website and adds the release date of each episode into a scheduler. Then, the scheduler fires off and searches for each episode on a torrent aggregator (lik
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13y ago
Well, since I'm not an American nor living in the US, DoD jobs are out of the question. Secondly, I am unable to grok functional programming, which is why I quit trying to learn Haskell. I tried, I really tried but there's no way I'm able t
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13y ago
Is Ada worth learning?
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A small part of C was beaten into us for 2 years at the 11th and 12th grade. Today (I'm not a CS guy by the way), even when I write programs in python or any high level language I have this nagging feeling of 'loss of control' and that the
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13y ago
The one thing I've learnt is that it's hardest to learn to be content. With the rampant consumer culture and rat race, it's quite hard actually to step out of the 'box' and ask yourself "What the hell am I doing this for, at the end of the
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13y ago
I feel that I was a bit late to the game at 24 to buy my own domain and host my email. For one, I can stick to atleast the address for my life unless, you know, the ICANN is overthrown or something. Having something professional costs way l
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13y ago
Holy sweet jesus batman! That is exactly what I want, and the Effort vs. Payoff has drastically reduced. I know what my computer's going to be doing for the next few nights. Thank you!
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