JeremyStein

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by JeremyStein 14y ago
If their only other option is to pull themselves together and get a job, then I suppose that's true. It seems unlikely. Don't use this as an excuse to do nothing. Be smart, but be compassionate.
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Stick to What You Know, a Tale of an Investment Gone Wrong(jacquesmattheij.com)
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by JeremyStein 15y ago
Thank you OP (kennethologist) for fixing the title of this article. The nymag title is "JCPenney Permanently Cuts All Prices by 40 Percent" which is certainly not true. Copy editor Bill Walsh writes: The company meant "permanent" in the
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by JeremyStein 15y ago
That wasn't a quote from the article; it was a quote from the wikipedia page.
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by JeremyStein 15y ago
The author gives his email address at the end.
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by JeremyStein 15y ago
Funny how articles about computer-generated prose are never computer-generated.
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by JeremyStein 15y ago
rsnapshot. It uses rsync to be fast. It creates directories with full snapshots of my backed-up files and uses hard-links to avoid duplicating files that haven't changed.
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
If you're using Firefox, try Lazarus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6984/
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
Be creative! How about Facebook only exports proxied @facebook.com email addresses?
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
How did they know how much money to transfer if it was stored on the lost card?
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
This is often quoted, but I suspect it's no longer true. When I referred him to an online article last year, he immediately replied about it. I bet he has access to a web browser when needed.
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
Ah, I love the ending! Aren't credit cards great? They actually believe their customers when you tell them you didn't get something.
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
Thanks for the link to the video. I had imagined it acting like expanding polyurethane foam. I see it looks more like mush, which doesn't seem as dangerous.
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
What happens if you swallow a dozen of these?
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
Whenever I read about bypassing real estate agents, I wish there were some good statistics instead of just anecdotes. You might think you saved money by doing it yourself, but could an agent have gotten you a better deal? For an anecdote o
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
Actually, the main reason for putting the important parts first is to give the newspaper editor flexibility for fitting stories onto the page. The end of a story can be left off if there's not enough room.
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by JeremyStein 16y ago
More importantly, you need to go through the string to determine where the nth character is. You can't jump to a character by index.
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
Please don't write "begs the question" when you mean "raises the question". http://begthequestion.info/
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
"It's a TAX on the YOUNG to care for the OLD." <sarcasm> Yeah! Who do those old people think they are, getting all weak and sickly!? </sarcasm> Most of the western world believes that society should be taxed to provide heal
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
I don't buy it. It's all anecdotal. Is there a statistical correlation between the cat remaining with a person for more than X minutes and the person dying within Y days? My bet is that staff predictions have a better track record.
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
> What is the pure copper supposed to help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-end_audio_cables James Randi will give a million dollars to anyone who can tell the difference. > electrons would be coming from a long ways I know it w
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
It's not a matter of skipping Starbucks, buying clothes from a department store, and having a "staycation". When you're paying $3000/mo for your mortgage, $1000/mo on school tuition, $800/mo on your car lease, etc. you can't cut your expe
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
Somebody asked me today how to write a script that would find all phrases (1 or more sequential words) in a text that appear more than once.
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
Bah. You're right. I meant ptr == 0 was changed to !ptr.
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
Are you assuming that talkingtiki agrees with tjpick?
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
Then you weren't writing that code in C.
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
!ptr is bad. I worked with a C programmer who changed all occurrences of "ptr != 0" to "!ptr". The program stopped working. In Windows, a null pointer is not 0. The C idiom "ptr != 0" compiles correctly, but when you try to get clever wi
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
OK, how did someone notice that?
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
I use ezgram.com. Same idea, same price.
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by JeremyStein 17y ago
Listen to college lectures in the Great Courses series. Your library probably has some. http://www.teach12.com/

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