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talboito
18y ago
Its tempting to counter with something snarky like a good "whoosh!", but maybe a better response would be to remember that human beings write science fiction and fantasy.
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That's kinda how my dad ended up a lawyer. He called a guy for some legal advice (a taxi had driven through his storefront, trashing the place). He got the lawyers' bill the next week or so. Decided law school might be a good idea, soon aft
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18y ago
As the article mentions. I won't, usually, highlight text in a word processor because I'll sometimes drag the text somewhere. The interaction isn't free.
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18y ago
I'd thought the Helicopter Ben nickname was due to his frequent and effective use of Zangief in Street Fighter II. The Fed's focus over the last 25 yearsish has been on controlling inflation. Its focus over the last 8-15 months has been eas
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18y ago
Seems like what he's describing as anticresis is a form of <a href=" http://www.nolo.com/definition.cfm/Term/639E3D61-87F1-4663-9... ">shared equity mortgage</a> enforced by some interesting informal arrangements. That write
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18y ago
One of the things that complicates Scheme for many beginners is the prefix notation for arithmetic and such. It's just not a concept most Freshmen are acquainted with.
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18y ago
Seems like we'll continue with the red=Republican thing for the forseeable future. There isn't anything intrinsic about communism that says "red, that's the color!". It was just a useful convention. I don't know how much the Nike swoosh can
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18y ago
Ooh, do I get to call Todd Zywicki a propaganda artist, just because I disagree with him too?
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18y ago
"I'm happy with waiting 20 or 30 years and seeing how Krugman's research does. Are you? Or do we have to settle this now for once and all?" The awards committee cited papers Krugman'd written in 1979, 1981 and 1991 as the basis for their de
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18y ago
I imagine he meant major cell phone carriers and their app decks.
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18y ago
If that's your reading list, you must often be disappointed.
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18y ago
I don't know if the parent post was edited, but I don't see too many weasel words there.
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18y ago
Yes, the majority of other, modern cell phones provide novices "an sdk and a few simple functions to get position via GPS". BREW: http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/11195 J2ME: http://developers.sun.com/mobility/apis/articles/location/
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18y ago
I would think more influence on English will come from India. They have many more native somthing-like-English speakers.
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18y ago
Wow that site is sure accurate in its domain name. http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=37043&Posts=...
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18y ago
Lurid and uninformed as well. This is pure speculation with the some definition of terms.
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18y ago
The governing metaphor doesn't work so much. The right/left political metaphor is overloaded enough as it is. How hard is it to say that some frameworks provide some features that others do not?