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by culebron 15y ago
Robert Wood in a 1909 experiment proved more carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases in the atmosphere reflect the sunlight and reduce sun heating. Quite the opposite of what the mainstream climatologists predict.
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by culebron 15y ago
We did hire a prostitute for a depressed friend to make him feel better. Not openly. I have no idea how it works for your company, that's why I wrote "maybe". Your trying to be judgemental and look down on everyone around completely discred
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by culebron 15y ago
The author is from Britain, which is much better mapped in OSM than the US.
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by culebron 15y ago
I agree with the commenter who points out that the culture is not dominant, and if it's that bad, it won't have much acceptance. And all who care of the sexism in IT, geek culture, etc., should turn themselves to the core problem. Use the J
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by culebron 15y ago
The fed money transfers from Moscow to Caucasus and nat. republics are huge, and that's their deal: Moscow pays, the republics' rulers provide near 100% votes.
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by culebron 15y ago
In this case it's an obvious fraud, but technically such an outcome is possible and legal: voters can take a special paper and vote at another spot, rather than their home one (say, if they are in another city). So, in theory 140% can be ac
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by culebron 15y ago
Not at all. The majority of the people aren't that fool. I'd say you can't fool others at all: earlier or later this gets discovered. A small number of the ruling party supporters do suppose this. I guess part of them are real zealots, but
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by culebron 15y ago
I don't believe in these numbers. Badoo's strategy is scraping other social networks and spamming you and your friends with emails, pretending they sent messages to you and you to them. It's the second worst spammer on the web I know.
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by culebron 15y ago
This looks impressive, but I think an SVG image would be just enough and the right tool for single-color logos like those of Adobe, Twitter and Nike. For Nike it will be just a background declaration, the curve with Bezier parameters and th
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by culebron 15y ago
I agree that even this book is good enough. The main thing is try thinking of what others get from you, and curiously thinking of what you thinking of yourself. I can recommend the "59 seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot" by Richard Wisem
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by culebron 15y ago
No I can't :) But some societies have quit drinking hard or smoking, so getting off a widely accepted addiction is possible.
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by culebron 15y ago
As Paul Graham noticed earlier, computers became something like TV on the working desktop, smartphones are even a more danger. I hope in my lifetime I'll see something new to displace smartphones/tablets and make them look old like TV now,
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Ask HN: How to get a partner for a startup at a garage project phase?
1 points by culebron 15y ago|1 comments
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by culebron 15y ago
I am really disappointed seeing the "yet familiar" argument behind the C-like syntax. It takes a day to get used to Python syntax, and another day to make it subconscious, that is to stop forgetting it. The arrow in CoffeeScript is a pain t
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by culebron 15y ago
Python has a great, clean, compact and expressive syntax and a lot of syntactic sugar. Erlang does concurrency and error handling well. A mix of the two would be a great language to work with.
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by culebron 15y ago
This was the most useful episode of the series that I've seen. Basically, before watching this I had no idea of the most fundamental feature of Javascript, which is events loop and that only one function is executed at time. This means that
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by culebron 16y ago
Here's a set of videos on YouTube with Monderman on site in Drachten explaining what's been done http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo3KWHqmDhA&feature=relat...
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by culebron 16y ago
This article seems too simplistic and an immature viewpoint to me. 1. People do note if you are interested or not. Speaking all the time mostly equals to being self-centered. Making questions all the time can certainly please a self-centere
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by culebron 16y ago
An irrelevant degree takes some years that you could invest into a working experience, and more importantly, it delays maturity. But it can give you a valuable knowledge (of course, if you earn grades for real things, not for imitating some