ChrisCooper

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by ChrisCooper 14y ago
Very true. On that topic, "...these communications consist of whistles, not words." Not to suggest that they're actually speaking a language, but a language consisting of whistles could still easily contain words. It would just have a diffe
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by ChrisCooper 14y ago
I think you meant "Top Gear". ;)
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
I think the double-PIN makes sense in the ATM case (because you don't want to alert the robber to your scheme), but in the phone case I think multiple PINs is far too complex. Why not just have e.g. "swipe left to unlock to guest mode" or s
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
It could also be referring to some of the comments that the tools are addictive.
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
It's completely free to take, and no one will hassle you if you don't do anything at all. In addition, at least for the ones that happened this fall, if you are taking the advanced stream, you can drop down to the beginner one at any time.
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
Just playing the devil's advocate here, but would you not say Google's search homepage has a lot of "wasted space"? I don't think one can always make such a quick judgment about whether space is a bad thing or not.
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
I agree especially with #4. The cursing ripped me from my quiet place.
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
Youngen here: Might I ask what an Advent is? It's a hard thing to Google.
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
Perhaps something like this: http://company.mappedin.com/ Except down to a product level?
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
I think his point is that you'll still have fun playing the main story, but it'll take far less time away from you, and still leave you with the satisfaction of completion. If you go for finishing side-quests, you may not feel satisfied unt
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
If you're interested (or others are), this shader toy was posted a while ago: http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/ It is a very cool demo and allows you to mess around and build you own shaders online. This was very impressive as the
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
I thought this table was going to be an actual table of HTML5 elements, but organized into new patterns of periods, by, say, what context they are usually used in, or what purpose they are used for. And then maybe sorted by frequency or som
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
Personally, I like the explanation they gave in the article: "It is the shape the oceans would adopt if there were no winds, no currents and no tides ... magnified nearly 10,000 times".
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
I agree. I think this viewpoint is a little skewed. Web-based applications have definitely not killed the desktop differences. However, I think there is a much better chance of them killing the mobile differences to a greater extent, since
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by ChrisCooper 15y ago
There has been a recent democratization of web- and mobile-applications, has there not? It's super easy for me now to make an site with Rails to do x . Same goes for creating and publishing mobile applications. Anyone can now easily make a
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by ChrisCooper 16y ago
He said "boot camp", not active service. My best wishes to your dad.
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by ChrisCooper 16y ago
I think he's not suggesting it's bad to sell your company, but rather that going into a new one with the idea that you're only there to make money is a bad idea.
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by ChrisCooper 16y ago
I got a Django exception... maybe this will help you out: http://i.imgur.com/RiSZU.png