villedespommes

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by villedespommes 10y ago
tl;dr (too many pictures) 10" e-reader with a note-taking/drawing feature. Supported formats: pdf, epub. pre-order price : $379 availability date : August 2017 I wonder if highlighting and note-taking of pdfs is supported. $379
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by villedespommes 10y ago
Stoyanov's "OO JavaScript" is probably one of the best books on advanced programming in JS. It packs quite a punch, includes lots of concise examples and incredibly well structured. It really emphasizes the flexibility and po
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by villedespommes 10y ago
The game is rigged)) this is à textbook catch-22 situation
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by villedespommes 10y ago
Damnit! should've requested a Mac when they first announced this initiative
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by villedespommes 10y ago
Unfortunately, I wouldn't know :-( I lived in Ontario where people mostly spoke English. A couple buddies of mine were from Quebec. When they spoke French they would never use an anglicism. I suspect they were making a conscious effor
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by villedespommes 10y ago
Russians do this to common nouns too. The short forms of the common nouns are less "common" (sorry for the tautology) in every day speech in English. Exceptions like mommy, daddy, granny, breakie, aside, of course.
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by villedespommes 10y ago
"Natalia" would be the name she'd use in official documents like a birth certificate or passport. "Natasha" is a less formal form of "Natalia". It's indeed a diminutive but I wouldn't call it an
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by villedespommes 10y ago
what we really like to do is to append a bunch of affectionate diminutive suffixes to English common and proper nouns. It's just soooo entertaining. You can do it all day. Here's a few examples: Mr. Obama (Обама) -> Obamushka
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by villedespommes 10y ago
my two cents. I took a couple of French classes in Canada and I can vouch that those guys don't mess around; they are like French vocab nazis :-P so it's always "la fin de la semaine" and "courriel electronique&qu
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by villedespommes 10y ago
Rent a couple servers in Russia, Send a couple of pro-Trump tweets, Publish this finding, Media will happily run with it Voilà, Trump is now implicated
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by villedespommes 10y ago
great job, guys!!! > 47 different SSD cards used did they mean hard drives or did i completely miss out on storage tech evolution?
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by villedespommes 10y ago
if this news is even partially true. I'd say the US gov is pretty adept at manufacturing any "proof" at will http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/us-government-pentag...
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by villedespommes 10y ago
Ontario 5.05% on the first $41,536 of taxable income, + 9.15% on the next $41,539, + 11.16% on the next $66,925, + 12.16% on the next $70,000, + 13.16 % on the amount over $220,000 vs Oregon Oregon Taxable Income Rate $0 - $3,350 5.00% $3,3
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by villedespommes 10y ago
this is a good starting point. however, these numbers don't paint a full picture. The provincial taxes in Canada can be pretty steep.
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by villedespommes 10y ago
i don't think i'm comfortable enough to share the exact numbers. let me just say that i'm probably a mid-to-upper middle-class guy and i was comparing tax rates in Ontario vs Oregon.
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by villedespommes 10y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This is exactly how science works. One observes, posits a theory and lastly proves it. Theories are a speculation by default
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by villedespommes 10y ago
IMO, real enemies are within... running for President. They dragged the US into numerous and very expensive conflicts all around the globe and make huge profits off the backs of ordinary people. To my biggest dismay, my income tax rate is e
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by villedespommes 10y ago
Your passport is another first world problem. "There are so many visa-free countries I can visit! How do I pick one to go to for my next vacation?"
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by villedespommes 10y ago
How much u wanna bet that the guy would shoot at them anyways? Only in twisted US reality can authorities use this incident as an opportunity to advise on the safety of playing a game on a cellphone