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by thomasmallen 18y ago
After that, I made toast, and found that toast is much better when made in an actual oven (400°) as opposed to a toaster or toaster oven.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
That's where I stand. I want a small government, and I think it's crazy that a government as hulking as ours doesn't provide something as essential as healthcare. On the other hand, I'm against social security and think that a general welfa
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
For impatient types like myself: Proposed flaw #1: That is basically the first flaw of libertarianism: If you shrink the government down to nothing and have corporations in control then you won’t have a rule of law. Proposed flaw #2: Tha
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
"Libertarian ideas are revolutionary. I've been told that Trotsky once said "Every revolutionary should study chess." The best book on chess that Libertarians should read is The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank, which left me certain after ma
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Er, that's JavaScript and only runs in the browser. The toolkits we're discussing are concerned with desktop apps.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Inbreeding is not interbreeding. Inbreeding is an accepted term, as in a people being "inbred." But I've had enough, you're clearly coming from a point of ignorance and are just frivolously debating now.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
And the first result for the second search has the title, "Can humans mate with other animals?" I rest my case. Edit: Also, Google result tallies for individual search terms is crap evidence, just so you know. If you're going to gather evid
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
By "animals," I mean that one would only use the term "interbreeding" when referring to wild or domesticated animals mating. It's an inherently zoologic term, much like the word "mating."
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Since when does "miscegenation" have racist overtones? It's a very common term in history and sociology and is the accepted term to refer to the mixing of races. It's certainly better than "interbreeding."
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Yes, the image would work just as well. Now try generating that image on the fly for 1000 product pages, for instance. sIFR draws content from HTML, making it far more flexible. I very easily implemented Trajan Pro product titles for an art
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I'm disgusted that they would use a term like "interbreeding" as though they were referring to animals. The correct word is "miscegenation."
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India's Madoff? Satyam Scandal Rocks Outsourcing Industry(businessweek.com)
25 points by thomasmallen 18y ago|5 comments
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
sIFR degrades gracefully and is accessible. I recommend that you read up on sIFR before recoiling in "no, it's FLASH!" horror. And yes, typography is important in design.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I'm not the most religious guy, but I think that posting ads stating that THERE'S PROBABLY NO GOD is probably a good way to get Him to show up in interesting ways in the responsible parties' lives. Also, I find it lame that anti-religious
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
"24. Carefully tear off strip of paper. Save the strip of paper because you are going to need it to make the tail." In my opinion, a proper paper airplane is made from a single, uncut paper. If you break that page into pieces, you might a
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I'm pretty skeptical of the heat resistant coating mentioned in the article...
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
That style of plane is best for speed and accuracy. A plane built to glide will travel farther. I used to invent paper airplanes as a kid, and I found that ones beginning with the cross-folds (more likely to balance) and broad wings yielded
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
And I installed FlashBlock.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Hyperbole and invective are the domains of politicians who use them to great effect. No need for it in a balanced press (wishful thinking).
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
He was asking about NotePad equivalents. And to call GEdit comparable to TM is ridiculous. Emacs is a much better comparison.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
It's called "yellow journalism." This crap sells right now, and the major news outlets are all over it. Remember all of the "dirty bomb" fearmongering a few years ago?
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Take a loan. If you can't, go work and save money until you can at least take night classes. This is how everyone does it. "I'll tighten my belt before I beg for help" is one rap lyric (Hov') I can really identify with. Life is much better
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Well, the Mac equivalent is TextEdit. I use xPad to take notes, and it has a file drawer. Nice freeware app.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Mousepad is a feature equivalent, but GEdit hs more functionality. Both are good to have, I think.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I wouldn't install Amarok (avoid loading Qt in Gnome and vice versa). RhythmBox does not handle an iPod well if that matters for you, but Banshee does. Banshee relies on Mono. Zim is a little-known note-taking tool that relies on text files
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
That is, if their business model depends entirely on ads. I think that the net gain of allowing services to complement their web app will more than make up for the loss of a small portion of ad views by making their application as a whole m
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Looks like Zuckerberg and co. aren't waiting to become profitable before embarking on legal excursions. Do they not understand that services like this one can only help them in the long term by doing work for Facebook to satisfy users, thus
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Ask HN: New Year's Resolutions?
1 points by thomasmallen 18y ago|0 comments
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I wouldn't mind a filter for awful typography either...Firebug to the rescue.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
MERCOSUR and the EU predictably come to mind. The US, I think, treats Canada and Mexico very differently from other nations (being a neighbor); North America is fairly unified. The US doesn't hold up its non-interventionist/isolationist end

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