stevep98

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by stevep98 14y ago
[LS spills water all over her note taking laptop] [JA quickly grabs her laptop and turns it upside down] JC: Ha ha ha! Why do I feel that has happened before? LS: Did you see how fast he was? It was like an impulse.
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by stevep98 14y ago
Annddd... registrations is closed. SOLD OUT.
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by stevep98 14y ago
Yeh the Apple WWDC was worse. If I remember rightly, it wasnt really announced ahead of time when the tickets would be going on sale either. I just woke up one day and 'poof - sold out'. I think you're right, it must be deliberate! (sigh -
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by stevep98 14y ago
Got in 10 minutes ago, press the pay button, then waited for 5 minutes as the transaction timed out. Sigh. Start again. Why oh Why do they have to do this at 7AN Pacific? What engineer is getting up at this unearthly hour?
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by stevep98 14y ago
Holding it wrong?
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by stevep98 14y ago
So, how long until someone engineers some 'helper pumps' to assist trees in pumping nutrients around. Be nice to see some 1000-foot trees in manhattan to crowd out some skyscrapers.
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by stevep98 14y ago
I never understood how contact-lens displays were supposed to deliver a focussable image on the retina. Is this doable? Maybe it will require some kind of magic metamaterials or something.
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by stevep98 14y ago
merely blips on an otherwise uninterrupted upward trajectory.
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by stevep98 15y ago
> I fail to see how mining asteroids to use their resources on Earth could make economic sense in any reasonable time-frame. It may not matter. Assuming Cameron has enough wealth to support himself and his family for the rest of his li
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by stevep98 15y ago
You should make the freeways a different color from the rest of the roads. I just tried to zoom into my house, and I discovered that when looking at the city-wide view, I use the freeways as a high-level roadmap. When everything's the same
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by stevep98 15y ago
Yes, the sync interface is universally derided. You can read all about the problems on various ford owners forums. Apparently there is a software update which addresses some of the responsiveness issues. And another, more major software upg
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by stevep98 15y ago
Interesting. The quicksort we were using was in one of the standard JDK classes from some ancient JDK.
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by stevep98 15y ago
A customer once reported a problem with a product I worked on. The issue involved a user interface intended to show a list of users which were fetched from the database. They said that the software took about an hour to display all the user
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by stevep98 15y ago
doesnt work.
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by stevep98 15y ago
Sorry, I linked to the 2009 amnesty. The 2011 amnesty program is described here: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=234900,00.html
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by stevep98 15y ago
Just want to point out that you could have reported missing reports of foreign bank accounts under the IRS amnesty disclosure initiative which just ended on august 9, 2011. This program also covers 5471's, which hit me pretty hard. If you o
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by stevep98 15y ago
When I was 12 I took the Commodore VIC-20 Programmer's reference guide to spain on vacation (!) for 2 weeks. I figured out how to program assembly and hand-assembled a short program to rapidly toggle the screen color from black-to-white. Hm
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by stevep98 15y ago
For an illustration how PHP is 'different' from other languages, consider 'implode': implode — Join array elements with a string string implode ( string $glue , array $pieces ) Note: implode() can, for historical reasons, accept its paramet
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by stevep98 15y ago
Here's my comments: * Math is full of symbology with implied meaning. For example, theta is often used for 'angle'. How many other symbols have implied meaning like that? Granted, it forms dense, concise, precise papers. Which brings me to