brimanning

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by brimanning 6y ago
From the paragraph before your quote: > With Patton at the wheel, the Ku Klux Klan member fired onto the synagogue, destroying a street-facing window and spraying bullets and shattered glass near the building’s administrative offices, wh
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by brimanning 11y ago
From the article: > "A lot of young, reasonably educated people are having a hard time finding work there," Stoll said. "They're not staying in town after they graduate," leaving for the faster-growing economies
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by brimanning 11y ago
I saw that too. That's what made me check if I was shadowbanned. I'm not nearly as active as he was, but it made me realize I wasn't always just late to the discussion or something.
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by brimanning 11y ago
To add to this, you can also be automatically shadowbanned by spam filters which, at times, can be quite aggressive. I was once shadowbanned for "getting caught up with a spammy IP address" according to a mod.
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by brimanning 13y ago
They've been doing it since you could tag people in status messages and comments just by typing their name, which has probably been around 2-4 years, maybe longer.
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by brimanning 13y ago
Not that it's quite the same, but I can't help thinking of decimation in the Roman sense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
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by brimanning 13y ago
Not sure if you meant Instagram was not about to IPO, but rexreed meant Facebook was about to IPO (acquisition: April 14th, 2012, IPO: May 18th, 2012).
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by brimanning 13y ago
Not sure about the browser, but the app is decent, while limited (no charts in spreadsheets comes to mind).
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by brimanning 13y ago
Not that big of a deal, but it means when you right-click to open the image in a new tab or save, it gives you the lo-res image (the src of the opacity 0 img tag since background images don't have this browser ability). Not sure it mat
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by brimanning 13y ago
Retina screens on the 4S weren't impressive? Certainly since then we've seen far better screens, but at the time it was quite impressive.
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by brimanning 13y ago
You shouldn't be using the Express version for professional development anyway, you really need to use the paid version - that's a whole different Java vs .NET debate running into OS vs proprietary that will never end. As for NuGe
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by brimanning 13y ago
Kotaku makes it sound like the devs are saying female characters are just somehow more complex technically than male characters, and they literally didn't have the technology before to create them. What they're really sayi
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by brimanning 13y ago
Also, it's unclear if that's per capita or just the total number of fraudulent acts by IP origin.
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by brimanning 13y ago
What? I'm always happy when people see that my mom endorsed me for knowing HTML5. /s
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by brimanning 13y ago
Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano is a very interesting read on just this, albeit fictional and taken to the extreme, but it has some interesting insights.
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by brimanning 13y ago
Your example may be true, but many sites are actually 100x100kb, spread over 3-5 domains (tracking, ads, etc) and browsers limit the number of concurrent requests to any one domain. The recommendations here are actually pretty simple (thoug
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by brimanning 13y ago
Wunderlist is a good alternative. I'm a fan - syncs easily and well, you can create grouped lists if you want, star important items. Or just go super simple. Either way, it's pretty sweet. https://www.wunderlist.com/
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by brimanning 13y ago
For more on the history of oil, The Prize by Daniel Yergin is an excellent read. While long, it's quite captivating and interesting. http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/143911...
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by brimanning 14y ago
The biggest reason I like using pure CSS for this is because it separates the display code and functionality code more clearly. Granted, you can and should be doing that with your JS anyway, but the boundaries are clearer if you keep it to
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by brimanning 14y ago
It certainly encouraged innovative and creative developers.
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by brimanning 14y ago
"The American economy will have experienced a gentle yet relentless decline. Our children will not live such comfortable lives as we do. The spread between the rich and the poor will have grown, and crime will have become so prevalent as to
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by brimanning 14y ago
You, being merely a single example of an individual who does not fit her statement, does not invalidate her point that it's a marketplace that an older demographic audience uses. If she (and you) could demonstrate that as being true (or fal