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by weavie 12y ago
It's the sort of management email that I would read with my internal management spam filter fully engaged. I would probably get to the end and delete it without even taking in what he was saying.
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by weavie 12y ago
Its worth pointing out that this all works because of the rule: * { box-sizing: border-box; } This rule enables you to set a % width of a column and specify a padding in pixels without pushing the width of the columns beyond the 100%. (I
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by weavie 12y ago
> On the issue of efficiency of Prozac or similar drugs, sometimes the explanation is that they simply work and you know it if you have taken them. This can often be down to the placebo effect. Chris Kresser talks about this [1], saying
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by weavie 12y ago
I think he is trying to say that because there are so many Android devices out there, you can afford to ignore the troublesome ones and still have a huge market to cater to.
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by weavie 12y ago
Hmm. 40 year here who really likes using them. I find over instant messaging, which we use a lot at work, when you are just typing text a lot of the real meaning behind what you are saying is lost. Compare the following mentioned during a c
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by weavie 12y ago
Maybe its just because I came from Windows, but I generally expect hitting the maximize button to take the app to take up the whole screen space. On OS X, some apps do and some don't. This violates #3 for me. Another one is minimizing
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by weavie 12y ago
This looks great. Will try it out. It has always surprised me how OS X has such a poor window placement story given how much emphasis apple seems to place on User Experience.
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by weavie 12y ago
1996 lines to be precise. But, to be fair it is well commented.
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by weavie 12y ago
Or you are in the store, you see something you like, you point your phone at the item, press a button and buy it from Amazon.
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by weavie 12y ago
The fact that it is a niche market doesn't necessarily mean you won't make money out of it. On the contrary if you can work out a good way to monetize it, niche markets can be the most lucrative.
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by weavie 12y ago
I'm guessing, since this is a set of sweet.js macros you could mix Ki and Javascript code in the same file. So you could only use the lisp bits when you really needed to.
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by weavie 12y ago
So, basically - learn both.
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by weavie 12y ago
They may call it natural. From Wikipedia[1] "To produce agave syrup from the Agave americana and A. tequilana plants, the leaves are cut off the plant after it has aged seven to fourteen years. The juice is then extracted from the core
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by weavie 12y ago
These so called experts seem to constantly go back and forth between which processed foods are good and which are bad for you. The obvious answer is probably to just avoid processed food all together. The skeptic in me thinks that these exp
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by weavie 12y ago
It isn't clear. It says : 'Traci Mann says the emphasis should be on measuring health, not weight. "You should still eat right, you should still exercise, doing healthy stuff is still healthy," she said. "It just do
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by weavie 12y ago
Plus intellisense means its a solved problem.
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by weavie 12y ago
The general point of Googles page rank algorithm is to find the best and most relevant content. It's premise is that people are more likely to want to link to good content than bad content. When people start using money rather than qua
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by weavie 12y ago
All the browsers could be abbreviated to COFFIE. if it wasn't for IE we'd have a perfect acronym there. Darn IE messing things up again...
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by weavie 12y ago
It seems every week now there is a new guide to Machine Learning coming out. Is it just that I have started noticing them, or is there a real resurgence of popularity for these algorithms?
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by weavie 12y ago
They don't even allow pasting into the change password field, making using a password manager much harder. Why on earth do people things that's a good idea??!?
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by weavie 12y ago
So because of .Net MVC you're now programming on the JVM?
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by weavie 12y ago
This basically means "the entertainment industry lost".
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by weavie 12y ago
That would probably cost them a lot more than just setting aside a few of their servers (of which they have millions) to be used by schools. What they are doing here is utilizing resources that they already have, so low cost to them. These
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by weavie 12y ago
Yup this is the hardest part for me. No matter how clear I am about how I'm not to be disturbed, she can be incredibly cunning about it. The 'here's a cup of tea because you are working so hard' ends up becoming a 30 min
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by weavie 12y ago
The key to this was mentioned early in the article. You have to really like your work for it to work.
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by weavie 12y ago
I prefer it. First I have my library with me at all times. I'm pretty busy and never know when I'm going to get a chance to do some reading, so when the chance comes I know I will have my book with me. Also I like keeping several
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by weavie 12y ago
You get contact-less now which doesn't need any pin at all, just tap the card on the machine and your purchase is complete.
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Common misconceptions about Lean Startup(experiencinginformation.wordpress.com)
2 points by weavie 13y ago|0 comments
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by weavie 13y ago
I'm not surprised. The first thing my sons friends do when he invites them onto his server is see how much of it they can blow up. Unlike my son, at least these guys have backups of their world.
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by weavie 13y ago
The earth doesn't have an unlimited supply of resources. Asteroids are literally loaded with minerals. At some point we are going to deplete the earth and will have to start looking to the skies to get what we need.

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