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by spectre 16y ago
selling $1 bills would likely be difficult using the bot in the article because the site (trademe.co.nz) is only in New Zealand where the smallest bill is the $5 one. Although there are probably other equally effective sales you could run u
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by spectre 16y ago
trademe is pretty much just the New Zealand version of ebay (albeit with a better reputation and more engaged community). They are also impressive because they cloned ebays business model early enough to prevent ebay from dominating the New
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by spectre 16y ago
On the compare page: "Reified generics (check generic types at run time)" Does anyone know how they've gotten around the issue of Type Erasure on the JVM?
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by spectre 16y ago
Reading these stories it makes it sound as if American Airports are becoming a virtual Police State (I haven't been to the US since 2002). I live in a first world country (New Zealand) and we only have metal detectors and x-ray machines (a
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by spectre 16y ago
Thats not a joke its an import mathematical identity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
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by spectre 16y ago
The advantage to the metric system is the ease of converting between units. I can convert from metres per litre to litres per kilometre by dividing the former into 1000. In this case 1000/3.4 = 294 (Approx)
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by spectre 16y ago
I'd hazard a bet that the type of servers deployed in cloud systems like Azure isn't really suited to large number crunching operations (such as rendering). A good example of a big FX shop is WETA Digital (they did LOTR and Avatar) who own
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by spectre 16y ago
Cricket already has a wider audience than most people realise, Its the second most popular team sport in the world (behind Football/Soccer).
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by spectre 16y ago
I recall a recent proposal about having ODI's played in the late afternoon and into the night to increase interest. I personally think its a good idea because even though I'm quite a fan of the Black Caps, morning just isn't the time to sta
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by spectre 16y ago
It wasn't until the third paragraph that I realised this wasn't refering to the Jade Programing Language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JADE_%28programming_language%29
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by spectre 16y ago
New Zealand is much the same, although we eliminated the 5 cent coin as well about 2 years ago (NZ dollars are worth about 9/10ths of Australian dollars, and 7/10ths of US dollars). Stores still do pricing in exact numbers of cents and only
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by spectre 16y ago
Any idea why there are two peaks for bar attendance at 8am and 10am?
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Worsley Navigable Levels(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by spectre 16y ago|0 comments
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by spectre 16y ago
Most of the items on that list are pretty realistic, but there are a few you can safely ignore. For example image the response you'd get trying to sign up for a bank account (in person), if you told them you didn't have a name.
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by spectre 16y ago
Let us know how you get on I'd be interested to know how naturally intuitive hex colours are.
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by spectre 16y ago
Last year. Was on a remote island with no cell phone reception and there happened to be a pay phone.
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by spectre 16y ago
Good on the Australia Ministry of Tourism using ordinary people to make something really cool. The professional artists/photographers mentioned in the article seem to just be whinging because something they took for granted is being taken a
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by spectre 16y ago
My University, considered going the other way last year and had a number of discussions about charging more for Engineering and Law courses than Arts courses due to future earning potentials.
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by spectre 16y ago
Maybe I should sue Land Info NZ, I fell off a cliff that wasn't marked on their map. Wait that was my fault.
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by spectre 16y ago
I really want to know how that guy in the white 4wd keeps it on two wheels for so long.
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by spectre 16y ago
As pressure decreases boiling point also decreases, so in a vacuum it is below your body temperature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure#Boiling_po...
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by spectre 16y ago
It's less of a mountaineering challenge and now mostly just a gamble.
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by spectre 16y ago
"Not really ’sure’ about how google / html / php / the internet language works" The author seems to have very little understanding of the topic to go along with their lack of writing skill.
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by spectre 16y ago
A friend of mine is the test pilot for them. He said their quite cool to fly, but scary as hell.
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by spectre 17y ago
I like the Apple Macbook in the promotional video.
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by spectre 17y ago
Or another alternative is multi-sport, you can get a good mixture of activities so you can spread out the physical punishment. A good example: http://www.coasttocoast.co.nz 3km beach run, 55km cycle, 33km run over a mountain pass, 15km cy
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by spectre 17y ago
It would be cool to see a javascript library with this sort of functionality, it could be quite useful for generating dynamic visualization's on web sites.
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by spectre 17y ago
Don't you mean just VM (Virtual Machine). Many people seem to forget that the J in JVM stands for Java, the term seems to be increasingly misused lately.
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by spectre 17y ago
In New Zealand: () == "round brackets" [] == "square brackets" {} == "curly brackets" <> == "pointy brackets"
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DIY Flying Hovercraft(trademe.co.nz)
2 points by spectre 17y ago|1 comments

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