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by stefs 11y ago
i also wonder if muslim countries suffered significantly less from the plague. edit: according to wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Recurrence ), that's not the case: > The Black Death ravaged
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by stefs 11y ago
i recently wrote a small blog engine in vert.x ( http://vertx.io/ ). i'm not fluent with reactive programming yet (so i didn't use RxJava), but the callback hell was manageable enough. among the upsides are the seam
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by stefs 11y ago
this is pretty nice. install chrome app, launch, works. edit: on a second though: what are the security implications? anyone done some research on this?
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by stefs 11y ago
after almost burning out at my previous job (mo-thu 9 hrs + 1 hour break, so 10 hours at the office, friday until 3pm) i decided on a 30-hour week at my current job, 5x6 hours - with aliquot salary of course and flexible work time. i couldn
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by stefs 11y ago
pretty sure you wont make many friends by just throwing "pigs are way smarter than dogs" into the room without citing any sources. i mean, there are a lot more proud dog owners than pet-pig owners. that said, my guess as to why do
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by stefs 11y ago
> Show me a pig that can herd sheep with the help of humans whistling and shouting words. here's a documentary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112431/
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by stefs 11y ago
i forgot where i read this, but WoW is a bit of a special case because several issues were just circumvented through game design. example 1: there's no collision detection between players, i.e. you can block neither PCs nor NPCs. playe
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by stefs 11y ago
> The images on these pages were taken from episodes of The Simpsons that are copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox. I will not distribute audio, video or image files. sorry, but you already did. it's ok though.
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by stefs 11y ago
You need to escape them, like in every other instance where strings may contain control characters. That'd be my guess, at least, but, i guess, single quotes aren't valid characters for zDir.
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by stefs 11y ago
> A year back, in the second quarter of 2014, the combination of Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola and Lenovo together shipped a total of 129.4m smartphones. (...) > In the second quarter of 2015, the combination of that same group shi
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by stefs 11y ago
hit back button, continued.
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by stefs 11y ago
great article and a really fun read!
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by stefs 11y ago
of course you need a fitness function; why not pixel by pixel comparison of the rendered output?
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by stefs 11y ago
the german version doesn't tell much more. practically: "the swarovski family were avowed national socialists. swarovski joined the NSDAP before the annex when the party was still illegal." the references though! there is one
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by stefs 11y ago
i occasionally read local vice articles (not u.s. - they obviously employ writers in lots of countries) and most of them are unbearable trash. then, suddenly, a gem appears. the vice munchies take on weightlifter morghan kings diet is one o
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by stefs 11y ago
so many "could"s ...
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by stefs 11y ago
believable fakes have been produced with photoshop for ages. raytracing has been able to produce photorealistic images for decades (although not in realtime, but that doesn't matter here). in my opinion, this doesn't change much.
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by stefs 11y ago
and, well, that's just a faulty assumption. of course we do know how they work.
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by stefs 11y ago
well, i don't see how they - the spammers - would fake google's valuation system of valuing incoming links from valuable sources. it's not like many valuable sites outside this relatively insular system would link to those ge
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by stefs 11y ago
it's a completely legit invocation for awakening cthulhu.
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by stefs 11y ago
neal stephensons anathem is a novel addressing this (among other things): practically, is the brain at least partially a quantum computer.
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by stefs 11y ago
weightlifting (as in: snatch and clean & jerk). i started about 3 years ago when i was already past 30, so i'm one of the new crop of "old newbies" that emerged with the recent crossfit craze (never tried that though). i&
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by stefs 11y ago
> I don't think there is any proven metric for elegance. there is: http://www.osnews.com/images/comics/wtfm.jpg i'm not even joking.
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by stefs 12y ago
* weightlifting ~3 times a week. * intermittent fasting (16/8 with exceptions for weekends and social gatherings). i drink water and black coffee until 2pm and eat almost nothing before 4pm. * reduced sugar as much as possible. almost
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by stefs 12y ago
my guess is that you can't really effectively harden yourself against biting and eye gouging and neither takes it any skill to perform those moves. and they're comparably dangerous: eye going blinds you and biting can lead to pote
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by stefs 12y ago
there are a lot of half truths and in there, and i haven't even read half of it yet. and i wont read the rest.
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by stefs 12y ago
the problem is, UMG do have their own people for this. every little mom&pop shop has an army of lawyers, but some companies are so despised they need additional resources for challenges like those. a lot of musicians and movie stars cha
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by stefs 12y ago
at least that one's not the fault of osx or apple though.
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by stefs 12y ago
it's real. it usually happens when i working on mobile apps for big companies. apps are comparably new (compared to websites, desktop apps or server software) and for a lot of customers these are the first apps they launch. so new and
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by stefs 12y ago
one more beer, please

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