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by silencio 14y ago
I used to do this to random things I had on my desk, then a rubber duck (that I lost...), and eventually My Little Pony toys - http://pic.twitter.com/sijtDFZh ...turns out that doing a question/reply in my head with a MLP toy with their r
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by silencio 14y ago
I wrote a script that would unblur Quora answers (that one of my friends turned into an extension) a while back. Turned out that Quora started to just substitute blurred images instead of just blurring text via CSS soon afterwards. I'm pret
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by silencio 14y ago
> it's fueling demand for good exclusive secular schools I went to programs for the "highly" gifted as part of LAUSD (the largest school district in the US), half of it under NCLB. I watched my high school's program's decline firsthand
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by silencio 14y ago
If you want recommendations based on what you've read, I've found that goodreads recommendations ( http://www.goodreads.com/recommendations ) are pretty good once you've added a bunch of books you enjoy to shelves based on genre (they can b
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by silencio 14y ago
The tip in question was really a service charge for serving larger groups. While leaving a tip is not mandatory, businesses have a lot more leeway in adding on extra fees and whatnot, especially if it is already outlined somewhere (e.g. on
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by silencio 14y ago
South Korea has already sunk billions of dollars into trying to help the people of the DPRK without even considering unification, and is promising even more than that in exchange for certain concessions from the government. There are still
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by silencio 14y ago
At least in my personal experience in the US, it is nigh on impossible to find someone that will sterilize a younger, childless woman. I have tried to inquire about it in my past (I'm 23 now) and every attempt to even discuss it with people
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by silencio 14y ago
Mobile auction house and guild chat ;) Not everything in WoW is about raiding, although 90% of the reason I play is to raid..
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by silencio 14y ago
Please allow me to correct your mistaken impression that WoW players are all addicts that have no lives and no hobbies that impress other people: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/nordrassil/Spink/advan... is my main WoW toon (already
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by silencio 14y ago
I thought that it was the "click" part of the original navigation that really frustrated me, rather than only seeing a little bit at a time. I gave up on the original in a few minutes because my hands/wrists were aching after using a touchp
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by silencio 15y ago
There's also the huge difference in that RTR specializes in designer clothing that is more for one-time-wear-only kinds of occasion that might warrant renting (I've done it a couple times for a wedding and a super formal dinner event), whil
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by silencio 15y ago
I very much doubt it's thorough at all and I wouldn't be surprised if that was mostly profit, ignoring government inefficiencies. I signed up for Global Entry (the "backdoor" for this program, presumably with similar paperwork) sometime in
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by silencio 15y ago
Depends on the book and how fast you read. Most of my books were quick one-time reads, not that many mindbending or thoughtful books in the mix like the link contains. I think I read 30 minutes to an hour or so a day (while waiting for thin
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by silencio 15y ago
It helps resale value, but more importantly, it protects you from rubbing your fingers on a scratch in the glass (nothing dangerous, just irritating) or having an unusable part. Like the plastic covering the rear camera lens. I got a case f
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by silencio 15y ago
This is why I always look warily at the cups of hot coffee, salads, hamburgers and foods with plastic knives, glass bottles, physical books, newspapers everywhere, babies with their toys and more when I fly 2+ times a month, right? On top o
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by silencio 15y ago
Re: point number 3 I especially love how their support is actually fixing problems . When I had a lot of trouble booking my flight and idly complained on Twitter in the middle of the night, I had a response within hours and eventually afte
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by silencio 15y ago
Were you originally eating unhealthily before you lost weight eating that way? I am REALLY struggling with losing weight at the moment, and it's baffling as to why. Exercise - 3x/week 2 hours minimum cardio+weights and pilates, dance. I los
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by silencio 15y ago
While Siri is turned off by default, it appears that Siri-while-locked might be turned on by default once Siri is enabled. I wouldn't enable it in the first place if I had seen it, so it was news to me when I saw that it was turned on when
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by silencio 15y ago
Oh, I absolutely don't deny that Apple is getting more useful feedback in other ways. I just miss the totally random, occasionally useful, and controversial questions. It was just another thing now gone that made WWDC feel like more of a co
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by silencio 15y ago
I meant Jamba Juice at WWDC, for sure. Nowadays and for the last few years, it has just been Odwalla bottles during the morning and then they go lock it up so I have to lug around a few bottles to last me the entire day. The food seems to s
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by silencio 15y ago
I'm not sure which part of WWDC this might have been from, but long ago there used to be sessions with Q&A, feedback forums, and even sessions where you could talk to the VPs. What this guy did could even be labeled as perfectly reasona
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by silencio 15y ago
Virgin America seems to board back to front (after first class, families, etc.) and it tends to be just as time consuming as boarding front to back in my experience. It's even worse because the people sitting back occasionally decide to put
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by silencio 15y ago
The secret handshake is merely the Xcode Organizer. I actually find it easier to restore there than do the opt-click dance in iTunes.
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by silencio 15y ago
There was speculation that that might have just been betas expiring, and not developers selling access getting their access revoked ( http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/05/apple-disabling-ios-5-be... ). > must own at least one app in App
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by silencio 15y ago
> Virgin America, which sells early boarding as part of a perks package to customers who buy seats with extra legroom, experimented with giving early boarding to passengers who didn't bring large bags on board. That showed promise for s
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by silencio 15y ago
Things like a blog post in late 2006 promising support for something I've wanted in the app without hacks in TM 2.0. Now that I think about how that's almost half a decade ago, I'm feeling even more jaded than usual about TM 2.0's existence
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by silencio 15y ago
I live in LA, and I wholeheartedly agree. The compensation and offerings of many LA-area startups leave much to be desired and is the only reason why I'd be more than glad to look at SF/SV-area startups over LA-based ones. If I'm going to t
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by silencio 15y ago
I think the program would be useful for parents with (specifically younger) kids as well as frequent fliers. Register ahead of time, don't have to deal with the hassle of telling your super hyper 4 year old to stand still in the scanner. Co
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by silencio 15y ago
There's nothing overtly sexual about TSA patdowns, but I would not want to subject a kid of mine (if I had any) to TSA agents rubbing the back of their hands on their chests, legs, and tugging at their pants. We don't know enough about the
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by silencio 15y ago
If the store near me that just opened is any indication (I still haven't gone in though), they also promote other Microsoft products like the Xbox 360 and smartphones running Windows Phone 7. I think Microsoft is trying to attempt to provid

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