towelrod

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by towelrod 16y ago
I live in Hong Kong, and the people I know get paid roughly what they would get paid in the US. Most goods and services cost roughly the same as they do in the US as well. Some things are cheaper (taxis) and others are more expensive (imp
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by towelrod 16y ago
>Telecom, as an industry, is still the #1 or #2 source of political donations. Its not even in the top 30. http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/mems.php
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by towelrod 16y ago
In this particular application, I have to inspect PDF and TIFF files that might have hundreds of pages or frames. These files can be over 100MB easily. Running those through RMagick makes the process blow up to enormous sizes. Even if th
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by towelrod 16y ago
Buying an i7-950 right now is also a terrible idea, since the Sandy Bridge i5s are faster and cheaper: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/100?vs=288
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by towelrod 16y ago
No, its not. I just installed Skype yesterday, and the installer doesn't even mention the plugin. It just installs it. I immediately disabled it because it has caused problems for me in the past. The installer does ask if you want to inst
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by towelrod 16y ago
I use RMagick for a rails based image repository, and I have to shell out to run the RMagick code because of memory problems. When I used to keep it all in the rails process, those guys would get up to the 2-3G range over the course of a c
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by towelrod 16y ago
Not only that, but he's stripping out the two things that would actually drive traffic back to twitter.com: #hashtags and @names. I can see why Twitter might want to slow this one down.
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by towelrod 16y ago
Money quote, at about 15:20: "The very attributes of Ruby that I find distasteful are what give rise to all the wonderful software that the Python world can never have. And vice versa -- the very thing that makes Python aesthetically pleas
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by towelrod 16y ago
He didn't control for parental education, he controlled for recent immigration status.
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by towelrod 16y ago
No, he already said that Liberals like to say that public schools are bad so the government can spend more money on them. He has a strawman argument for conservatives, too.
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by towelrod 16y ago
>Which media outlets are those? Suggesting that outside of the context of an Op-Ed would be pretty unethical, but I haven't see that and I haven't read it anywhere. For example, http://www.slate.com/id/2261780/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/n
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by towelrod 16y ago
> First, the possibility that the logs contain more evidence of Manning's or Assange's guilt You seem to think its ok for Poulsen to hide the logs if doing so would make Manning look better, or if it would somehow make for a fairer tria
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by towelrod 16y ago
Unless they went out of business while trying to perfect the code instead of releasing any kind of product.
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by towelrod 16y ago
Most people don't care about things like this at all. Look at how many of them happily use Facebook. If Apple put in a warning screen that said, "Angry Birds is requesting the following information: your location, your contact list, and y
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by towelrod 16y ago
You guys are right, no one should ever write a book. About anything, ever.
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by towelrod 16y ago
I find it very hard to take this article seriously, since there are constant interruption with things like "Work your entire body in 15 minutes with these three moves for fast muscle" and "Tied to the treadmill? Try these seven ways to burn
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by towelrod 17y ago
I'm confused. How did tagged get his contact list? If he's dumb enough to enter his username and password from gmail or whatever into some spam of the week website, then its his fault. Or does tagged get that information some other way, l