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by wmil 16y ago
These bombs aren't made by electric engineers. They just rip out the vibrate motor and wire a detonator to the connections. Soldiers have found IEDs that didn't detonate because they forgot to set the phone to vibrate. The display reads "
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by wmil 16y ago
It's more fun if you use it on politicians or celebrities. You get strange alternative world announcements.
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by wmil 16y ago
Has this been working for you? I haven't received any response. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if their system is down.
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by wmil 16y ago
Dmitri Lebedev had a public domain python script up at ryba4.com but the site seems to be down. It's handy, I've used it for KML generation and a command line SVG path simplify tool. Google maps won't download a file larger than 3MB so simp
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by wmil 16y ago
PHP was a one person project until 1998, the article talks about Viaweb from 95-97.
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by wmil 16y ago
Greenwald has an article on Salon calling solitary confinement torture. He's not alleging actual torture.
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by wmil 16y ago
They don't grow cherries. The factory buys cherries and makes Maraschino cherries (pickled, dyed bright red, and packed in sugar syrup). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraschino_cherry
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by wmil 16y ago
As long as it's only 2, you should be able to use orthogonal polarized filters.
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by wmil 16y ago
Agricultural policy is built around stabilizing income of farmers. If you look at it in terms of output it never makes sense.
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by wmil 16y ago
The "link to this" link is broken... <div id="linkToThis" href=" http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/?q=17&#62 ; <a href="">link to this</a> | <a href="mailto:wtfhasobamadonesofar@gmail.com">Wtf! You forg
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by wmil 16y ago
These days C is a hard language to learn. The best way to learn a new language is to start a small project in it. C isn't really appropriate for most small projects.
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by wmil 16y ago
I think the guy copied the video processing loop into the event handler. So the event handler goes into a while(1) loop instead of starting a new thread/process to do the video processing. That will lock the GUI and make the app unusable.
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by wmil 16y ago
The Database-as-IPC isn't that evil... If you're using PHP there are worse options.
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by wmil 16y ago
Links like that are a common way to implement "share on twitter" buttons. Twitter does monitor the referring URL and can automatically block suspicious sites. For some reason pastehtml.com didn't set off any alarm bells. Being around for a
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by wmil 16y ago
HN deletes posts to try to keeps things on topic. It's heavy handed, but there aren't a lot of ways to stop flame wars and pun threads.
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by wmil 16y ago
It was a 2.5D engine, but there were a lot of hacks put in to make it feel more 3D. For instance you couldn't do proper floors above floors, but there were some rendering tricks you could use to do bridges. It also supported slanted floors,
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by wmil 16y ago
It's also possible that Apple offered to help them. If Apple has been putting together dev tools to help track down Windows dependencies. On the other hand Maya already runs on Linux and Mac OS X. So they may be using Maya numbers to calcu
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by wmil 16y ago
Organizations don't even have to be large for this to happen. If you're ambitious there's no place for you to move up finding a new job isn't the only option. People often try to redefine or expand their current job. When it gets out of c
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by wmil 16y ago
In the original C implementation function names could be as long as you wanted, but the compiler only looked at the first six chars.
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by wmil 16y ago
It's an ego problem. They can't do your job, so they assume you can't do theirs. If you could, then clearly you're smarter and that's hard to handle. Of course the real problem is that non-tech people rely more on political skills and netw
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by wmil 16y ago
There many are more laws and regulations on businesses in Germany. You probably need a labor law specialist to keep track of them.