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by uxp 16y ago
Most of my work is repairs of higher end mechanical watches. I do manufacture parts, but it is to repair as well. I've only "made" one watch from start to finish of which I still own. There really isn't much of a market for custom made watc
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by uxp 16y ago
I had a basket ball coach as a kid who would always ask us if we left our beds unmade after a day of doing horribly, or not better than we should be. Nearly every time, without fail, when I was asked that question, the truth was that I had
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by uxp 16y ago
I'm a professional watchmaker, as well as a geek and hacker. This is entirely the reason Rolex uses a fluted case-back, instead of a keyed case-back. It prevents the average joe from opening it up and sticking his fingers in the delicate pa
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by uxp 16y ago
The Poignant Guide is great for Ruby, which I highly recommend one has a decent understanding of before delving into Rails, but it is not very useful for Rails itself. After understanding Ruby, http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ is where you
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by uxp 16y ago
The American version of the BBC website, bbcamerica.com, is devoted to entertainment for the most part. Scrolling the top are plugs for The Tudors, Ramsay's Best Restaurant and Anglophenia. As far as I know, the BBC News site for us yanks i
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by uxp 16y ago
You might want to look that statistic up before you try and correct someone again.
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by uxp 16y ago
I recall the split between publisher or developer and Valve on steam is determined per game, but for many indie games it hovers around 40% to Valve. For larger publishers and franchise games, this starts to drop considerably.
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by uxp 16y ago
git and redo have nothing in common, except for being a utility developers may use. If nothing else, they should never be merged because they are trying to provide a POSIX utility, which should always be: "Do one thing and do it well"
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by uxp 16y ago
> Oh, that's right, they'll get the government to step in. Only by suing you, civilly, in a civilian court of law. Unless the company is the United States Military, you can't really be thrown in jail for breaking the contract on its own
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by uxp 16y ago
Or the AACS key, which is much more manageable as a permanent addition to one's body. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy tattoo: http://www.thenewfreedom.net/wp/2007/05/02/takedown-this/
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by uxp 16y ago
Reminds me of the busysignal I'd get after dialing into Prodigy. "Please wait while we allocate an IP address for your internet connection."
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by uxp 16y ago
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED is Chrome's DNS Timeout. The same error will occur if you navigate to a webpage without an internet connection.
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by uxp 16y ago
I tether my iPhone 3G to my MacBook Pro on occasion and never have any worry about battery drainage. When wired, I'm also constantly charging while it's tethered over USB, which is irrelevant for iPad tethering. When I do have to wirelessly
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by uxp 16y ago
If the software's business model was to be free, but be supported financially by ads or commercials, then that is still another business model to give contribution to the authors. It actually does something. As a user of free and commercial
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by uxp 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity Though, not a digital good, its a psychological way to increase it's appearance of being good.
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by uxp 16y ago
There is a major difference between being annoying about it's hardware "preferences", and a legally bound license and it's protection to prevent end-users from breaking those defined rules (VMs, Debuggers, and cryptographic DRM). The first
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by uxp 16y ago
I am no SEO expert, or even amateur. I understand the concept of pagerank, but I really don't care much for it, yet. I agree with your hunch; however, bounce rate is a relatively bad thing. If, using analytics, you see that most users navig
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by uxp 16y ago
I'd personally want to do a daemonized process so I and anyone else would be none the wiser, with a randomized delay of under a minute after the lid was opened. Regarding privacy? I doubt anyone would get into any sort of trouble with it. I
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by uxp 16y ago
I really hope this doesn't turn into a political battle thread. However, "Bush tax cuts" is an accurate term for the tax cuts provided by the Bush administration. It has no negative or positive (besides "tax cuts") meaning inherent in its w
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by uxp 16y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the second photograph of the Asian man is the one taken by authorities of a man who boarded a plane as an old man, then removed his mask and by the time the plane landed, he was young: http://www.news.com.au/travel/new
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by uxp 16y ago
To be fair, thats a problem with the way browsers render anything inside the <pre> tag. If anything, it is an example of what people should do, not force unnecessary restrictions on the way they write text. Lest you might end up wit
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by uxp 16y ago
No, just free of charge.
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by uxp 16y ago
For future reference, any text between two asterisks will be italicized , as you probably already know, but any escaped asterisk will show up as an asterisk ( \* ). Edit: or maybe not.
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by uxp 16y ago
Personally, I don't think the domain matters. If a developer is required to provide security, either to protect a secret, maintain personal or company profits, or protect customer finances, and that developer fails by "int rand() {return 4;
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by uxp 16y ago
I'm sure every result needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but there isn't anything obvious of foul-play besides a couple that are most likely coincidences. I'd expect there to be more blatant gaming in the poll if there was any at all.
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by uxp 16y ago
If you have the database dump from Gawker, you can search for either your associated Email address, or the username they had on record. Extract that line from the file, put it in a new text file and run John The Ripper[1] on it: "./john myp
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by uxp 16y ago
I know of a large holding company of luxury jewelry goods that has space in the building. For them, its not just cubicles. It would be a very poor publicity stunt to kick everyone out of the building in order to install racks and servers in
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by uxp 16y ago
The IP addresses I commonly get assigned on my iPhone with AT&T are either geo-located in Kansas (166.205.x.x) or Southern California (166.134.x.x). I actually reside somewhere in the middle of those points, but close to a thousand mile
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by uxp 16y ago
How does jailbreaking enable normal iOS store apps to access other apps sandboxed datastore? Or do you mean that only Cydia apps can access other apps datastores?
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by uxp 16y ago
I know many game developers that download assets (spritemaps, textures, etc) over http. In fact, it was one of the bullet points in Apple's Optimizing game development on iOS talk this past WWDC.

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