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by waitwhat 15y ago
Well, it's either that or the upvoters simply find the topic intriguing and want to hear more discussion on the subject.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Mr. Jenkins and Premenos also maintained extensive contacts with the Crown of England, including prominent English Lords involved with Internet communications technology. So... The Queen is in on it?
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Myths About Microfinance(blog.givewell.org)
1 points by waitwhat 15y ago|0 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
side-by-side windows
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The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold(businessweek.com)
98 points by waitwhat 15y ago|69 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
British English requires the preposition.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I assume you're aware of this? It might appeal... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo...
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Who Pinched My Ride?(outsideonline.com)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
"Don't break the chain". I've used Jerry Seinfeld's method to just get stuff done since I first read about it a few years ago. http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Be the guy who says "this is going to be hard, but I'm sure it's possible". Don't be the guy who says "I'm sure I can find a way to circumvent the laws of physics". Why be either guy? If you know that something really isn't possible, just
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by waitwhat 15y ago
January 18 is shaping up to be my most productive day ever.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
$ cat foo.sh #!/bin/bash echo $BASH_VERSION unset filename if [[ $filename == "foo" ]]; $ ./foo.sh 4.1.2(1)-release ./foo.sh: line 5: syntax error: unexpected end of file If $filename evaluates to an em
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This Is Why You Don't Go to the Gym(theatlantic.com)
218 points by waitwhat 15y ago|121 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Netbooks (or more generally: small screen devices) where you can more easily lose a few pixels from the side than the bottom.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I would be interested in knowing what the browser client was set to You mean the User-Agent? It's referenced all over mocality's blog post http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-t...
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Scroll down a bit to "Results (2)": These new accesses were coming directly from Google’s network. The IP address 74.125.63.33 made 17,645 requests (15,554 to BusinessProfile.aspx)
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Ten 100-year predictions that came true(bbc.co.uk)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
If you only ever need to do system administration from one or two known locations that you can test in advance, this works. But if you're travelling and need to connect now over a mobile data network or public wifi or any one of a myriad
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by waitwhat 15y ago
"It has to be the only tablet who’s [sic] touch screen you’ll need to use your nose to touch." -- a commenter on http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/11/getting-a-handle-...
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Project Fiona raises the stakes for gaming tablets(engadget.com)
1 points by waitwhat 15y ago|1 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
It isn't currently a requirement, but I assume that this is largely because there isn't a significant supply of potential students who know the fundamentals at the moment. Increase the supply, and some courses/universities have the option
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by waitwhat 15y ago
the exam-board system is a mess, with boards competing (essentially) on who can make their exams the easiest and thus attract more business from schools This has got so blatant that one board was caught telling teachers what questions wil
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I don't dispute that Facebook played some part in the revolution, just whether the people whose revolution it was actually call it a Facebook Revolution. Related anecdatum: I live in an ex-Soviet Republic. It is rare for someone here to act
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Facebook [...] contributed to the Arab Spring to the point where the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt are known as "the Facebook revolutions" They're certainly known as "Facebook revolutions" (or "Twitter uprisings" or whatever) by foreig
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Sadly, this will all be reversed in a couple of years by the next minister who will believe that "Children should be taught the essential workplace skills that employers are demanding in the 21st century. Driving schools don't teach their s
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by waitwhat 15y ago
While it's true that TechCrunch-the-brand isn't just a blog now (it's an event! it's awards! it's an investor! it's InternetDrama!), www.techcrunch.com-the-website really is just a blog. A big blog admittedly, but still a blog. And unless
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I have never had a client require a user account which can edit comments but not edit content. This is an extreme edge case. Actually, that's a moderator.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Being "largely spherical" is (post-Pluto furore) a necessary but not sufficient condition for being deemed a planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_planet
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Pirated versions of XP are perfectly capable of running IE7/8. The problem is that a few years ago Microsoft pushed Windows Genuine Advantage updates automatically via Windows Update (they might even have done this twice), with the result t
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by waitwhat 15y ago
To save anyone else the googling: Reason 6 requires a dongle.

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