stoney

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by stoney 16y ago
> Theres no reason to force people to "donate" without bothering to talk to them or their families even once about it I would have said a shortage of donor organs would be a reason to force this? Maybe not an acceptable reason to you,
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by stoney 16y ago
> i mean are there really any parents in the world who are able to put a filter on their net connection their kids can't get past No there aren't, which doesn't really give me any confidence that an ISP could do it either. Presumably a
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by stoney 16y ago
You will probably get caught out the first time or two - they charge you a cheap up front price but then add lots of little charges for all kinds of extras (luggage, checkin, that kind of thing). Once you know the system it works well.
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by stoney 16y ago
Not sure you got the right site - http://www.team17.com/ seems to be alive and well.
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by stoney 16y ago
JungleDisk might do what you are looking for (not that I know what it is that you are looking for!) http://www.jungledisk.com/
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by stoney 16y ago
Yeah, there's a limit to how much of a premium I'm prepared to pay for the benefit of bricks and mortar! Though cables can vary a bit in price depending on quality, so that might have come into it a bit too.
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by stoney 16y ago
I sometimes feel a bit bad about price checking items in a local shop against the web. For example, I wanted to buy some climbing shoes recently. I have never bought a pair before, had no idea what I should be looking for and what size I
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by stoney 16y ago
I'm not sure that the refraction of a lens is mathematically invertible/reversible? As I understand it, the problem with my eye is that my lens doesn't focus a point light source (e.g. a pixel) onto a point on my retina - one consequence of
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by stoney 16y ago
I'm not sure what you mean here - is it a camera app to bring stuff into focus or is it a warped screen image to bring your phone into focus? If it's the first one then I don't think the distance from camera to object is a problem - camera
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by stoney 16y ago
I think it's because "safest and easiest" is quite a definite claim - they would be saying that no other payment method is safer than them, which could lead to claims of false advertising from their competitors. "Safer and easier" doesn't
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by stoney 16y ago
No, but if you had a .com and .ly version of each domain/site then you could probably be reasonably confident that if one got seized the other would be ok (I'm assuming that the US and Libya are sufficiently far apart politically that they
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by stoney 16y ago
I've known several people who've found that moving department at a big company makes a massive difference to their overall experience (I've seen it go from bad to good and good to bad). Your coworkers and (possibly more importantly) your ma
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by stoney 16y ago
I dunno, if you want me to come and help you out at 3am it's going to cost you. If you want to pay less, wait until morning.
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by stoney 16y ago
I think most burglars already know more efficient methods of entering your house than fiddling about trying to pick a lock...
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by stoney 16y ago
Yes, but I don't use facebook because my Grandma's on it (well, actually she isn't, but if she was it wouldn't matter). If I found a new social network that I thought offered something new I would start using that in parallel to facebook.
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by stoney 16y ago
Assuming of course that you live in the US. In the UK it's relatively difficult to get rid of people - sacking is very difficult and likely to end up in court (you need a bulletproof reason for doing it) and the redundancy process is quite
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by stoney 16y ago
Is there such a large, morally important difference? I am going to simplify a lot here, but let's say that the train operator has a fixed operating cost and has a profit target, from which they know the gross revenue that they want over the
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by stoney 16y ago
I typically commit at least once an hour when I'm coding full steam ahead. My rule is I commit to my local repo whenever I have uncommitted work that I'd care about losing (if I made a blunder and had to revert everything). I also commit
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by stoney 16y ago
Definitely get Git/Mercurial set up sooner rather than later - it's actually very easy to get the hang of the basics and it will give you a noticeable productivity boost (having a decent history of everything you've done is surprisingly hel
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by stoney 16y ago
Looks like an interesting project, but you might want to think about rearranging the sales pitch to emphasize what it can do for me that regular email can't. Also some kind of demo of what I'll be able to do after creating an account would
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by stoney 16y ago
I find the main benefit of project-specific site-package directories is simply that it's easy to see what my project depends on and what it doesn't. If everything's mixed together in the global dir then it's not always obvious. This becom
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by stoney 16y ago
True, being able to teach yourself is a hugely valuable skill. But I think you also shouldn't underestimate the value of a mentor (as in someone to guide your self teaching) - I've been teaching myself guitar for years and finally got arou
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by stoney 16y ago
This looks very handy - hadn't heard of it before. Apparently it can also be used as an OpenID. Do you know of a list of services that actually make use of these domains?
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by stoney 16y ago
Alternatives to Limewire are "of interest to your readers" because they're looking for new places to download this copyrighted content. Limewire and alternatives are of interest to me yet I have no interest in downloading any content via
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by stoney 16y ago
The problem is, a lot of the time I don't want my various internet IDs linked together - I want something more like the coffee club loyalty card for each website I visit. I definitely don't want facebook knowing which sites I use (frankl
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by stoney 16y ago
I think the point is that few people carry their passport around with them on a day to day basis even in countries where they are very common. I've lived in the UK and Oz and in both countries my drivers license stays in my wallet ready for
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by stoney 16y ago
That's an interesting point to ponder - do corporations really have more money than private citizens combined? Aren't corporations ultimately owned by private citizens? Certainly the wealth of individuals is spread more thinly and so is h
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by stoney 16y ago
No - because the percentages are only for withdrawn papers. The likelihood of publishing fake results should be based on the total number of papers. If the US group had fewer withdrawn papers as a percentage of submitted papers then t
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by stoney 16y ago
Well in this fantasy TDD scenario (as in we don't know what happened in MS so I'm just making stuff up), presumably the product requirement was "make IE9 look very fast on the benchmarks without getting caught cheating". So sure, they solve
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by stoney 16y ago
I don't really understand the definitions - typeface is the style of the letters, you have a font file, which is the implementation of that typeface, but what does "font" on its own refer to? Is it the same as the typeface? I guess that's

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