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by stoney 16y ago
I interpreted the comment that I replied to to mean that Dubai being a strip along the coastline meant that it didn't look like a real city. I would say that it's probably more of an indicator that it's got nice beaches than anything else.
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by stoney 16y ago
How about: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38... Also bear in mind the relative populations of New York, Beijing and Dubai. No surprise Dubai looks "tiny". Not that I'm standing up for Dubai - I didn't like it a
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by stoney 16y ago
But Open Source!=Free Software, as I'm sure RMS would point out if he was reading this. Apple do contribute to open source software, but you certainly don't have freedom when using their products, which is what RMS is all about.
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by stoney 16y ago
I've often thought about something along these lines - not to run a whole marathon as was originally suggested, more like: "I'm going to run 4 miles after work tonight at an 8:00 min/mi pace, anyone want to join me?" I definitely think this
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by stoney 16y ago
Out of interest - how accurate do you think the distances are? Between my bike computer, Garmin footpod and Google Maps I get three different distances.
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by stoney 16y ago
The elevation plot is fantastic - it will help avoid any unpleasant surprises when I'm planning new routes! Would be even better if you could somehow link the elevation plot to the position on the route - e.g. if I hover over a point on th
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by stoney 16y ago
It might be worth asking about how easy it is to take unpaid leave. Some companies have no problem with employees taking off one or two weeks per year unpaid on top of their regular holiday. Or time off in lieu might be another option.
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by stoney 16y ago
It's also not obvious that the orange banner won't come back next time you visit the site. I've never closed it before today because I assumed that it would just come back next time, so there was no point in closing it.
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by stoney 16y ago
Ask yourself what's the Minimum Viable Product? How long would it take you to produce it? Would you learn anything by producing it or would it enhance your CV/portfolio? Would you enjoy producing it? If it doesn't sell could you open so
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by stoney 16y ago
The great thing about const is that if you don't like it you can pretty much ignore it. The only time it might be necessary to deal with it is if you are using a library that returns const objects. If you do like const (which I do) then y
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by stoney 16y ago
Furthermore, it doesn't matter what WordPress considers to be GPLed or not, what matters is what it says in the license.
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by stoney 16y ago
So what defines a public API? The Wordpress internals are all public so why doesn't that count as an API?
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by stoney 16y ago
I don't understand why just because something requires Wordpress to work it is a derivative work? Surely anything designed to work on any platform would be a derivative work by that argument? The GPL talks about containing the original Pr
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by stoney 16y ago
Go and speak directly to a potential target user if you can, see what they have to say about it.
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by stoney 16y ago
The old content is still there, you just need to know where to look: http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/training/2009day01.php You can probably guess the URL for the next 30 days from that.
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by stoney 16y ago
That was quick! Was it a deliberate design decision to make it easy to access other people's reports (by just changing the number in the URL)? Obviously anybody could run any website through the tool, so there's not really anything private
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by stoney 16y ago
Seems to come up with an error if you accidentally put white space in front of the URL. Otherwise looks like a useful tool.
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by stoney 16y ago
I don't search this way normally, but if I'm struggling to find what I want I will resort to this sometimes (in the hopes that a suitably titled blog post will appear somewhere).
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by stoney 16y ago
Derren Brown did a stunt where he flipped a coin and got heads ten times in a row, which is even less likely than Paul the Octopus's 8 in a row success. How did Derren do it? He made lots and lots of attempts. The point is that while Pau
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by stoney 16y ago
Steve Pavlina has a couple of interesting blog posts about this kind of thing, possibly worth a read if you haven't seen them already: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/09/how-to-go-from-intr... http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/
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by stoney 16y ago
And I suspect that in a world with no more musicians and a frozen archive of music, you would see a strong market demand for new music, so people would become musicians to meet that demand. Eventually it will reach a new equilibrium, with
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by stoney 16y ago
"You're only as young as the woman you feel" -- Groucho Marx
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by stoney 16y ago
Well being younger is sort of inherent to her - obviously her absolute age will increase, but her age relative to fleitz is fixed - she'll always be X years younger than him.
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by stoney 16y ago
But as mentioned elsewhere, there was (and is) no one "British" accent - so the immigrants would have had quite a mix of accents.
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by stoney 16y ago
I think you meant mean not mode...
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by stoney 16y ago
Yeah, Posterous are playing a little bit rough, but Twitpic shouldn't respond to that by making it look like they want to make it difficult for users to export their data. If something Posterous have said is untrue (maybe the dying platfor
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by stoney 16y ago
Which if I was a TwitPic user might be the thing that provokes me into leaving their service. "Oh, they're trying to crack down on users exporting their data? Better export mine now then..."
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by stoney 16y ago
I guess that this relates in some way to cases where newspapers complain about companies like Google indexing their sites and effectively repackaging their news stories - and where violating terms of service (civil issue) crosses into unaut
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by stoney 16y ago
Whether or not it's a good idea to incorporate some kind of cardio depends on what you want to achieve - fat loss? strength gains? larger muscles? better performance on the soccer field? aesthetic improvement? all round fitness? Being fit
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by stoney 16y ago
Sorry to say that if your exam is tomorrow you've probably left if too late to guarantee doing exceptionally well. Personally I always preferred intense study over one or two weeks to prepare for an exam, but I think that is a personal pre

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