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by starwed 15y ago
So, that totally looked like it was going to work. But after I "logged in" to google plus it just redirected me to the same old "We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon." page.
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by starwed 15y ago
Well, consider how the idiom works. It is asking us to consider a representative sample of four teens, and makes a statement about one of them. That's different than if you said "only 25% of teens are employed".
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by starwed 15y ago
I think it turned out that a large part of it was due to, like, 100 different small things. There was never a memory leak.
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by starwed 15y ago
To argue a point means to advocate for it. Your statement was unambiguous, and meant what you meant it to.
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by starwed 15y ago
The currently being worked on future version of javascript will have less verbose syntax. Brendan Eich has blogged[1] about his proposals. Instead of (function(x) { return x * x }) you could just write #(x) { x * x }. [1] http
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by starwed 15y ago
Argh, no! How many people would actually bother to visually verify their address? A typo here is actually more problematic than in your password -- if you typo that, you'll be instantly aware of it and can do an e-mail reset. If there's a
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by starwed 15y ago
No kidding it doesn't take a genius to figure this stuff out, also statistically at a 95% confidence interval, of every 20 studies you read 1 is pure chance. That would only be true if all studies were published. (And only applies to s
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by starwed 15y ago
Yup, I live in Kentucky and have to pay the sales tax. On the plus side, my orders often ship from the very city I live in.
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by starwed 15y ago
You should really look at modern IF, which retain all the good things you mention but have a more modern/humane approach to the actual game play. Lost Pig is a short, interesting one: http://pr-if.org/play/lostpig/
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by starwed 15y ago
If I could fit that into my budget, I would have been living in a nicer place to begin with. :P
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by starwed 15y ago
Really? I remember Oxford having a great many dedicated bike lanes (not just a part of the road), although maybe it's an outlier.
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by starwed 15y ago
I used to read the NYT quite often, but the subscription charge was simply too high for me to consider at this point. :( (While I'm thinking about it, WTF is up with their "All access" digital rate? It's exactly as expensive as buying bot
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by starwed 15y ago
My favorite complaint is that firefox has become slower and more bloated over time. I'd like to see such folk browse today's web with the original version of FF... :) The average webpage today is way more complicated than 10 years ago.
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by starwed 15y ago
Well, the byline is "Ars Technica."
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by starwed 15y ago
I'm slightly frustrated by my current apartment in this regard -- it's an older building, built with the assumption of no air conditioning. There are vents on the interior walls to allow air flow with the interior hallway, which is always
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by starwed 15y ago
I don't think I've seen that in Firefox since they shunted Flash into a different process, which was a couple of years ago.
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by starwed 15y ago
asking me to provide something twice (I'll just copypaste from the first field, thanks; would be more useful if you just printed a confirmation of what I wrote onto the next page). Asking for something (normally a password or email) twice
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by starwed 15y ago
I feel that's pretty self evident in context. Your landlord doesn't have the right to let the cops in to search your place.
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by starwed 15y ago
Could you easily pirate CS? From what I remember when you connected to a server it would authenticate a CD key with Valve, and while I'm sure there were servers that had that disabled it was easy to avoid playing on those. Likewise, there
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by starwed 15y ago
Heh, I remember how heavily Steam was derided back when they rolled out the beta. And people screamed bloody murder when they made it so you had to go through Steam to play CS online.
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by starwed 15y ago
Probably not. http://painting.about.com/cs/artistscopyright/f/copyrightfaq...
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by starwed 15y ago
When a user shares content through an application, you should not penalize the application itself when someone hides that content. I am almost positive this is a large reason why these bans are happening. It is a ridiculous measure of spam
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by starwed 15y ago
So technically, I bought TF2 last month. But what I really bought was the orange box, which happens to include it. I really doubt many people are buying TF2 by itself anymore. Anyone who hasn't played it will almost definitely pick it
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by starwed 15y ago
Because it's less like a copy, and more like a name? In any case, even if this was technically a copy, I can't imagine this possibly failing the fair use test.
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by starwed 15y ago
Yup. I guess I didn't think about opening a context menu being IO bound...
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by starwed 15y ago
Weird, with Helios, I see no lag at all for me an a MacBook Air. Not that I'm saying Eclipse has a super-responsive UI. :)
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by starwed 15y ago
I just find it weird that everyone regards becoming a citizen by birth as so much fairer than becoming a citizen by sneaking in.
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by starwed 15y ago
Probably an extension you had installed.
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by starwed 15y ago
If you use more than one search engine, keeping the term after pressing enter can make a lot of sense. Example: If I search wikipedia and that produces no results, I'll google the same term instead. That said, it would probably make sense f
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by starwed 15y ago
A more technical overview has the answers: http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/06/15/overview-of-pdf-js... But tl;dr: "we currently plan on doing a fast first-paint of pages using canvas, concurrently building an SVG document for the pag

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