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by steadicat 12y ago
That's not how parallel circuits work. The voltage is independent of how many devices are connected. That's how your wall plugs always provide 110V. Edit: Sorry, I misread, I thought this subthread was about parallel circuits.
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by steadicat 12y ago
Based on your logic, even iPhone ("I phone") is out the window. Besides, Apple has never shied away from punny names. Think iSight and Airport.
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by steadicat 12y ago
Funny you should mention that. I just had the best Banh Mi of my life at Ferran Adrià’s new restaurant in Barcelona.
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by steadicat 12y ago
If anyone is interested in a Node.js alternative, it’s pretty straightforward to use Gulp ( http://gulpjs.com/ ) for this. Take a look at the deploy task for my personal web site for an example: https://github.com&
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by steadicat 12y ago
Thanks for the promo code! App works great so far. Here's some feedback: 1. Would be nice if I could swipe left/right or up/down anywhere on the screen to adjust the speed. Hitting the tiny buttons in the corner is hard when
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by steadicat 13y ago
They did that as well: https://www.facebook.com/lookback/edit/
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by steadicat 13y ago
You can see the home where I grew up in your site’s photo. I freaked out for a second, thinking it might be some kind of message from above. Or some crazy breach of my privacy. I guess it’s just a freaky coincidence! Wow.
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by steadicat 14y ago
As an Ally customer, I am thoroughly underwhelmed. The transactions UI is cool, but you have to use your debit card to take advantage of it, which means you're leaving 2-5% of money on the table with every purchase. The only feature that co
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by steadicat 14y ago
Not very convincing. We all know the value that Padmapper brings to apartment seekers. What's harder to explain is what (if any) value Padmapper brings to Craigslist. That's really the case you'd have to make to get Craigslist to reconsider
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by steadicat 15y ago
That binary includes the static assets. They're the origin for the CDN.
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by steadicat 15y ago
I actually find the discussion on Slashdot of much higher quality than this one.
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Stupid Debate Questions(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by steadicat 15y ago|0 comments
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by steadicat 15y ago
I typed 'ita' and the first option was 'United Kingdom'.
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by steadicat 15y ago
Ally is rolling out the eCheck deposit feature: http://community.ally.com/straight-talk/2011/04/ally-bank-in... In the meantime, you can simply mail them your checks, using their free pre-stamped envelopes. It only takes a couple of days
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by steadicat 15y ago
You no longer need any relation to the military to join USAA. That said, I recently switched from USAA to Ally. Same features, better rates, and better support. Both banks have decent web sites, and let you withdraw for free at any ATM, so
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by steadicat 16y ago
The following sequence of commands worked for me: openssl rsa -in ec2.pem > ec2.rsa chmod 700 ec2.rsa ssh-keygen -y -f ec2.rsa > ec2.rsa.pub Then I added both ec2.rsa and ec2.rsa.pub to the app.
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Font-face face off: web font delivery services compared(fffo.grahambird.co.uk)
2 points by steadicat 16y ago|0 comments
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by steadicat 16y ago
It's not just any carbohydrate, it's fructose, if you believe Dr. Robert M. Lustig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM That explains why mediterranean and asian diets, which are high on carbs but low on sugar (or artificial fructo
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by steadicat 16y ago
Care to show some numbers to support your argument? Here: Nation Total Fertility Rate ------------------------------------ Iceland 2.14 * Ireland 2.10 * New Zealand 2.10 USA 2.01
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by steadicat 16y ago
Don't forget that the content that JavaScript displays comes from somewhere, typically an HTTP API, which you can access with any HTTP library the same way JavaScript does. If a JS web site also provides you with a clean API to the actual r
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by steadicat 16y ago
Why use canvas for this when plain divs could do the job more easily and more efficiently, with wider browser compatibility? Simply for buzzword compliance? When we developed swarmation.com we started with canvas and later switched to plain
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by steadicat 16y ago
Why does he conclude that we need 4 primary colors? He knows that our eyes have three kinds of 'sensors', which roughly correspond to [R, G, B]. How the brain processes the initial perceptions, allegedly [R-G, (R+G)-B, R+G+B], doesn't chang
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by steadicat 16y ago
Is nobody else afraid that instead of IPv6 we're now going to get more and more layers of NAT? Sure, for us geeks that's totally unthinkable... no servers, no P2P?!? But most users, who are content with just web & email, will probably n
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by steadicat 16y ago
This is probably also a really clever use of captcha as a way to train their face-recognition algorithm.
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by steadicat 16y ago
Point taken. I switched my recommendation from UCO to DBO. (I kept the original text there so as not to invalidate your comment.)
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by steadicat 16y ago
Actually the portfolio is bonds, an index fund, and only a small fraction in a commodity and one stock. You could argue that I should keep the individual stock out of it. But the rest of your argument is just straw man.
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by steadicat 16y ago
Burton Malkiel (author of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"), the guy who popularized index investing, doesn't condemn individual stock picking. He is fine with it, and he does it himself, provided you have a pool of safer investments in ind
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by steadicat 16y ago
Funny you should mention "The Random Walk Guide to Investing". Towards the end of that book the author mentions Scott Adams himself, and ends up basically saying "what he said". I think the book adds very little to what you can get from Sco
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by steadicat 16y ago
Right. One of the talking points in my "discuss" section was "is BND safe enough"? I'm still looking for something better. Suggestions welcome.
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by steadicat 16y ago
Spot on. I do mention in the article that the price of ARMH probably takes everything I mention into account already. I fully realize that buying ARMH right now is a gamble. It's one I'm willing to take though (even if just for the fun of i

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