australis

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by australis 12y ago
Ideas are worth $0 Find out why the other apps failed. Firstly just the two of you thinking, then perhaps try contacting the previous builders (though initially, maybe not from the angle of "we're going to make it work better this
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by australis 12y ago
Single page link: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/08/whats-t...
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by australis 12y ago
A similar effect can be noticed on sections of roads with dedicated overtaking lanes. Cars that are travelling below the speed limit for long stretches of road (and can't be overtaken due to the road), tend to speed up to the actual sp
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by australis 12y ago
This is more applicable for a "normal" type of bad day that might occur a bit more frequently, rather than something on a much larger scale like what was experienced above. If you have something planned after work (or later in the
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by australis 12y ago
There's also the chance of it happening when writing a script Such as this classic: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
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by australis 13y ago
My bank did this to me. Called me to say if you close and re-open your internet based savings account you will get the higher "intro" interest rate for 4 months. I explained that I had always wondered about this loop hole... Bef
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by australis 13y ago
I'm trying to figure out if the '1' for the last character of the Google 404 error page is deliberate or accidental... pretty funny!!!!11!!1 (not)
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by australis 13y ago
Interesting to read of a 'normal' person sustaining an ACL injury and the subsequent fixing thereof (especially detailed costing breakdown - thanks for the detailed analysis). There has been somewhat of an 'epidemic' of ACL injuries in the
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by australis 13y ago
Great piece of writing, well done. I particularly liked this section: I was tired of thinking about the possibility of skateboarding to Wollongong ... But this was it, this time was different. I didn't even think about it. ... I just got u
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by australis 13y ago
Interesting, to me it looks like an 's' key from a keyboard. I've always assumed that's what it's supposed to be. I never thought it looked like a disk drive. I guess it looks like an external desktop hard drive a bit though.
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by australis 14y ago
I know one about the GNOME text editor, but it's ok, you might not gedit. This one is obviously better when telling someone in person...
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by australis 14y ago
I use PlayOnLinux, which works quite seamlessly. http://www.playonlinux.com/en/supported_apps-3-0.html However, an increasing amount of my documents are in Google Docs/Drive these days. It's only for really intensive spreadsheets I bust o
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by australis 14y ago
Can be followed on twitter as well https://twitter.com/bitnk/ also, e-mail sent to Assange informing him of the parcel: http://pastebin.com/44m5UViP
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by australis 14y ago
Guns, Germs and Steel http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/03... Life of Pi http://www.amazon.com/Life-Pi-Yann-Martel/dp/0156027321 Billions and Billions http://www.amazon.com/Billions-Thoughts-Death-Brink-Mi
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by australis 14y ago
I have similar experiences with the multi-pane layout - powerful, but cumbersome to micromanage (mainly because the target area for a mouse re-size is so small). For some reason I find the Ctrl+Shift+{#} keyboard shortcut awkward to use as
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by australis 14y ago
http://www.levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/index.html here is the intended splash page, provides a bit of context. interesting photos and commentary - makes it seem like it happened so long ago (i guess it did...)
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The danger of “negative” requirements(adrianreed.co.uk)
1 points by australis 14y ago|0 comments
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Why you suck at estimating – a lesson in psychology(blog.muonlab.com)
46 points by australis 14y ago|10 comments
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by australis 15y ago
Middle-click works as well
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by australis 15y ago
The clickable area may seem smaller, but the hit box for the button is actually larger than the graphic for the button (presumably to avoid the fiddly issue you were highlighting)