UrLicht

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by UrLicht 14y ago
Yes, see https://familysearch.org
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by UrLicht 14y ago
Mormon developers do not donate their time. https://www.lds.org/church/employment?lang=eng (Must be LDS to browse and apply for jobs, but you can see the heading on the linked page indicating Information Technology jobs are available).
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by UrLicht 14y ago
The university of southern north Dakota at hoople? Yeah, it doesn't exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach ...making the whole thing satire.
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by UrLicht 14y ago
Wow, was it really 20 years ago? As a kid my family lived in the Summit at Warner Center townhouses in LA. One night my friends and I saw a bunch of movie trailers pull up and of course we just had to see what was going on. We watched for h
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by UrLicht 14y ago
The working parts, no. The iron frame, yes. But getting the frame out can be pretty rough.
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by UrLicht 14y ago
The tuning pegs might become stuck to the side of the pegboard holes they are in. Also, if the strings are not kept at the correct tension, there is a real possibility of the iron frame becoming warped or even breaking.
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by UrLicht 14y ago
Compared to pianos, violins are really, really simple machines. You have strings, a bridge, a sound box with some holes in it and a couple of posts inside, some tuning pegs and that's about it. A single key on a piano has way more parts, an
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by UrLicht 14y ago
I once bought a beater piano for $200 so I could practice tuning it. We didn't have room in our apartment, so a friend let us set it up in his and I'd come over once in a while and bang on it (thanks, Eric!). Most of the weight of a piano c
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by UrLicht 14y ago
Also, if you're at least semi-serious about becoming good at piano, you'll want a real one because of the action (and if you're really serious about it, you'll want a grand). Digital pianos, while having improved over previous models, are s
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by UrLicht 14y ago
I've found Command-T slows way down on large trees, causing a very noticeable interruption in my "flow" when I use it. Also, it's written in ruby which can be a bit more painful to get started with if your distro doesn't compile ruby suppor
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by UrLicht 14y ago
Sorry in advance for the pedantry. ;) Dissonance is when notes "clash" with each other and in traditional voice leading dissonance always resolves to consonance. Atonality, on the other hand, is a more recent development in Western music an
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by UrLicht 14y ago
Only easy because they are traditionally taught first. This is because from a music theory standpoint the keys in which those chords are tonic have the least number of sharps and flats. From a memory and hand position standpoint chords that
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by UrLicht 14y ago
The whole "Chrome as OS" thing will benefit from this.
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by UrLicht 15y ago
I'm curious to know what was so frustrating. I've had my tab for a few months and love it to death.
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by UrLicht 15y ago
Yes, you've managed to figure out why tax exempt status exists.
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by UrLicht 15y ago
Kudos to him for redistributing his own wealth the way he deems fit. I admire that. But let's not try to push this way of thinking on everyone else (not saying that's what you're doing here) - for any given person the potential for abundanc
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by UrLicht 15y ago
What a damn fine time to be alive.
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by UrLicht 15y ago
I did that with a $50 bill once on my company's big office copier just to see what it would look like (uh, I swear) and was pretty floored when I saw the copy come out with stripes through it. I tried it with every other denomination I coul
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by UrLicht 15y ago
"I just wonder why the US legislature would want to deliberately cripple US's strength on the web." I dunno, my guess is there must be a lot of money involved.
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by UrLicht 15y ago
So I've been doing every google search these clueless legislators have brought up in defense of the act: "You can search for 'free harry potter movie' and watch it for free" "You can go type 'j edgar' into google and piracy links show up ab
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by UrLicht 15y ago
An example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY1pcEtHI_w I can kind of do this, but the volume these guys get on their overtones is amazing.
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by UrLicht 15y ago
I didn't get a CS degree and therefore had no experience with state machines until I started programming professionally. Maybe that's why I took to them so quickly and used them from the get-go on my personal project. Their usefulness is
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by UrLicht 15y ago
"A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax." "'It's obviously very easy to create a bogus site like this - as all phishers know it's e
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by UrLicht 15y ago
While I agree with the conclusion that you only get out of something what you put in, a quick review of the history of genius will reveal several characters that did have an innate talent that was indeed cultivated through hard work, but wa
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by UrLicht 15y ago
My home network is based on the Batman universe: My shiny new power tower (Windows 7): Batman Same tower booted into ubuntu: TwoFace NAS: arkham Content Filter: gordon Wifi SSID: TheRiddler etc, etc
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by UrLicht 16y ago
...or to wave it around all over the urinal whilst trying to clean virtual graffiti? Seems like you could turn something like this http://www.toiletmarksman.com/toilet_fly.php into an ad platform too and keep the floor and surrounding wal
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by UrLicht 16y ago
When I was 8 my classroom had a subscription to 3-2-1 Contact magazine. Every issue they would include a BASIC program that you could type in and play around with. Since I couldn't take the magazines home, I hand-copied the programs to note
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by UrLicht 16y ago
...which on HN should mean the same thing, right?
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by UrLicht 16y ago
Thank you for putting this up! I have a goal to launch http://privio.net by the 18th. It's nice to get that out there - feels... official.
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by UrLicht 16y ago
Finishing anything you start is pretty damn cool.

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