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by tcdent 13y ago
I'm not incredibly social, nor do I have a lot of variation in the clients I work for, but having a beard seems to be a positive attribute, if anything. I mostly notice the effect when meeting in-person; probably because there is far m
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by tcdent 13y ago
Except, this is software. My favorite expression when things get heated: "Nobody is going to die." There are exceptions, of course, but a vast majority of the work we do just doesn't matter in the context of life and nature.
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by tcdent 13y ago
Ah, apparently I do not fully understand the hardware implementation. Consistent, in software at least, is the concept of memory being linear; references using a start and end point, and points between.
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by tcdent 13y ago
For Objective-C (or any objective language): geometry. Qualities of objects, and their role in relation to other objects are really all there is. Also, memory, which is all we are manipulating at the end of the day, is linear; points on a l
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Designing for Print with HTML and CSS(tcdent.github.io)
1 points by tcdent 13y ago|0 comments
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by tcdent 13y ago
I applaud your appreciation for diversity. Taking it a step beyond occupation alone, I currently believe it to be a necessity for a healthy and contented life; specialization, due to imbalance, causes harm. Excessive amounts of one type of
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by tcdent 13y ago
That depends on wether you're a banker, or a peasant.
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by tcdent 13y ago
The article states there is a palace, but he has repurposed it as a shelter for the homeless. This is is a deliberate decision, not becasue of a lack of resources.
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by tcdent 13y ago
Thanks for the tip. I love what the Internet Archive folks are doing, and that's too good of a deal to pass up.
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by tcdent 13y ago
Care to elaborate on "all of the bad things"? If there's anything to take away from this discussion on Mandela, it's that there are a lot of misunderstandings about what actually happened, especially if you are primarily
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by tcdent 13y ago
Automatic downvotes for green accounts?! If that was a good idea, it would be built into the software. Read, comprehend, and then interact based on the content . Meta posts like this are a waste of everyone's time.
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by tcdent 13y ago
I don't think most Americans understand the second amendment, even if they are in support of it.
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by tcdent 13y ago
Hm, all the outlets in my kitchen are below the upper cabinets, so there's no room to fit a phone, and especially not a tablet, on top. Every home is different, obviously.
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by tcdent 13y ago
I'm very surprised this was so heavily backed, given the limited number of physical spaces it can occupy. What percentage of the outlets in your home are accessible? What percentage of those outlets would you want to keep all of your d
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by tcdent 13y ago
Well, not a day goes by that I don't already hear multiple airplanes and even more gas powered leaf blowers from my back yard. I expect drones will increase that form of ambient noise in my neighborhood substantially. Those who live in
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by tcdent 13y ago
I took this a step further for a recent client with a low budget and used separate social sites to manage the content. I'm certainly not the first to do this, but it's worth mentioning as a viable alternative for a lot of smaller
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by tcdent 13y ago
I don't think it's really necessary, since there's only one day a year that I can update it. Quite a few people have been calling it a 'real time' service, which is a bit silly once you actually think about it.
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by tcdent 13y ago
This my site. I would have submitted it here, since I frequent HN way more than Reddit, but I thought /r/WTF was more appropriate. The real-time pane of Google Analytics has been pretty entertaining: http://33c4d819db89
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This Is What America's School Lunches Really Look Like (npr.org)
2 points by tcdent 13y ago|0 comments
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by tcdent 13y ago
Are you advocating that the entire world should speak one language - English? How is typing an Arabic or Cyrillic domain disadvantageous to those that read and write Arabic or Cyrillic? Especially when the resulting site is very likely to c
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by tcdent 13y ago
Probably a result of supporting multiple backends. AFAIR, MySQL requires a length to be passed on VARCHAR.
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by tcdent 13y ago
How does recognizing global languages as "first class citizens" make the internet less global?
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by tcdent 13y ago
Are there any civilizations you're aware of that, after soil rehabilitation, wouldn't have a local source of food? Except for the poles and extreme elevations, this entire planet is well suited for life.
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by tcdent 13y ago
> Being natural does not imply safety or health. Definitely agree with you there. I was speaking to the "tried and true" or "test of time" aspect of traditional crops.
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by tcdent 13y ago
I think you should do a little more research before coming to that conclusion. Personally, I am not comfortable presenting any decision on that as fact.
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by tcdent 13y ago
Is it really necessary to lab test wild (though bred over many years) varieties? It's natural; it worked before we touched it. The biggest risk GMO has is over-confidence in human science.
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by tcdent 13y ago
Instead of trying to build life-supporting systems from the ground-up, look to nature, which had been thriving with no human intervention for thousands of years. Chemical fertilizer can't come anywhere close to the fertility and output
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by tcdent 13y ago
100 years is a very short time period when referring to the human race.
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by tcdent 13y ago
Is it technically 'air' when it's that far out?
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by tcdent 13y ago
JSON is cool and hip. More seriously, it has been gaining popularity because of it's direct relationship to built-in structures in most programming languages. For example: XML doesn't have a concept of arrays, but accomplishes sto

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