DEADBEEF

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by DEADBEEF 8y ago
Well there's the old saying that "luck is where opportunity meets preparation". ...as in "you make your own luck".
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by DEADBEEF 9y ago
Just an aside, but much of the bailout money was recovered when the shares the UK acquired were subsequently sold on once the banks had restabilised.
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by DEADBEEF 10y ago
If push came to shove, would you be willing to go on the stand and testify as much if compelled to?
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by DEADBEEF 14y ago
...worked for youtube.
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by DEADBEEF 15y ago
Not even close.
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
"In fact, during this period, the travel industry lost over £2.1 billion in profit." Does this even make sense?
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
Surely you mean a 'frikkin laser beam'?
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
For games I'd also suggest opening the prompt just after the user has just beaten their high score. They're still going to be pretty pumped and are far more likely to leave a positive review.
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
An idea I had was a site where members can make a list of all their possessions and how much it'd take for them to part with each item. They then have the opportunity to search the stuff other people own and see much they'd want for it, and
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
Something like... (Pseudocode) for( i= 1,100 ) { if( i%3==0 ) { print( 'Fizz' ) } if( i%5==0 ) { print( 'Buzz' ) } print( '\n' ) } There's no need to treat FizzBuzz as a special case, as if the number is
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
How is the geo-IP lookup performed? It put's my location in rural Algeria (I'm in Nottingham, UK). It does this even if I check the 'share my location with geosay.com' type warning that Firefox provides. With Chrome & Opera it again put
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
The NHTSA spokeswoman said the agency wouldn't comment on its Toyota probe until a broader study is completed in conjunction with NASA, which is expected to take months. NASA? really? They then went on to mention 'the National Academy of
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
A few years ago I started helping out making user generated content for a HL2 mod in my spare time. The mod got quite popular and a couple of us got invited on an all expenses trip to the US to visit Valve's HQ and meet Gabe etc along with
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
I predict that 'real' 3D movies will go the way 3D sound did years back. 'Fake' 3D will die out as the camera technology gets cheaper. When Dolby surround first came onto the scene audiences were wowed by the immersiveness that the surround
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
Average CPM is around $2.5 - $5. Reddit gets 280M pageviews pcm. Therefore, if it's only breaking even and not turning a profit then their server, bandwidth & wage bill must be in the region of between $700,000 (2.8M/1000x2.5) and $1,
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by DEADBEEF 16y ago
For a similar project we used the IR sensors off a USB ball mouse along with homemade encoder wheels to provide motor feedback. This method costs next to nothing and is pretty damn accurate. It was a ball mouse which featured two scroll whe