dwyer

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by dwyer 7y ago
The interview is from 34 years ago.
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by dwyer 7y ago
The UN was founded in 1945. I have reason to believe that countries existed long before that.
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by dwyer 7y ago
I just rebase my feature branches before merging. Keeps the tree more or less linear.
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by dwyer 8y ago
Anything with e. coli I presume.
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by dwyer 8y ago
The author didn't say "most", she puts the number murdered at 300. Either way most people rightly describe the incident as a massacre.
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by dwyer 8y ago
Who are "they"? The "chicom globalists"?
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by dwyer 8y ago
There's a command for that. " Use Unix line feeds. :set fileformat=unix " Use Windows line feeds. :set fileformat=dos " Shortcut :set ff=unix " See the current format :set ff
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by dwyer 9y ago
He didn't declassify them. They were scheduled to be declassified. Trump's involvement was that the IC asked him to stop them from being declassified and he ignored their request, probably out of spite for the IC.
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by dwyer 9y ago
I'm no Chinese expert, so somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I've found that the Chinese word 茶 (cha) doesn't always necessarily mean tea, but can refer generically to a number of different brewed drinks. e.g. barley
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by dwyer 9y ago
Or maybe he deactivated it to get attention.
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by dwyer 9y ago
Why would you ever exit vim?
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by dwyer 10y ago
How does one secure a deer to their bumper anyway? I figured a better place would be the roof or the bed of a truck. A Google image search for "deer on the bumper" only turns up roadkill. I'm beginning to think either these
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by dwyer 10y ago
The problem that the author describes is that eBay does not accept proof and offers no way to submit it.
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by dwyer 10y ago
It's worth noting that there's a Taiwanese BBS established in 1995 that's still extremely popular, with "over 150,000 users online during peak hours" according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by dwyer 10y ago
Do you mean Ramblin' Jack Elliot? If so then it's ironic because Bob Dylan wrote in his autobiography about Elliot's voice and guitar playing and that he was jealous when he first heard it because it was more or less what he
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by dwyer 10y ago
Taipei, Taiwan. * Clean and modern. * Very safe. * Nice people. * Excellent public transportation. * Good housing (relatively inexpensive). * Great restaurants (extremely inexpensive). * Low sales tax. * Mandarin is a fun language to learn.
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by dwyer 10y ago
It's all fun and games until somebody with less noble intentions hacks his account to access all those passwords. I'm sure somebody's working on it.
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by dwyer 11y ago
> maybe I should go back to Snow Leopard; I can't think of a single valuable change to OS X since then... I wish I had that option, but I'm an iOS developer, so I upgrade when Apple forces me to, and right now their forcing Mav
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by dwyer 11y ago
> most of the public content is under free licenses Is it? I've read reports that all but a fraction of Github repos are single-commiter code dumps. > the TOS explicitly dictates that you grant certain licenses to other users for
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by dwyer 11y ago
> one of the leading complaints being that it takes a lax approach to software licensing I never understood this criticism. There's plenty of software I haven't bought a license for. I don't feel that just because somebody
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by dwyer 11y ago
Much better article IMO. Introducing the low level commands that the higher level ones wrap around is a much more fun and interactive way to understand the .git schema to me.
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by dwyer 11y ago
Yeah, the non-phonic nature of written Chinese leads to dozens of dialects in which two Chinese speakers can read the exact same sentence without a single overlapping syllable between them. Regarding scientific communication in particular,
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by dwyer 11y ago
I've been using http://10minutemail.com/ for years now. It's not pretty, but it works and I can't recall any of the generated addresses ever being rejected.
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by dwyer 11y ago
> McVoy was adamant: "sorry, we're not in the business of helping you develop a competing product," he replied. This business model is precisely what lead to a killer competing product being developed. Good job.
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by dwyer 12y ago
I understand it, I just don't buy it. Reader was a great opportunity to apply machine learning. When left neglected to a couple of days, my feed reader becomes a huge pain to sift through. There's a lot of room for innovation in t
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by dwyer 12y ago
That's a good point. A feed reader is responsible for delivering the ads embedded in feeds. That leaves not much room for any of your own. I think Google's strategy was to get their ads into people's feeds with services like
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by dwyer 12y ago
Just yesterday I was debugging a piece of code I was writing. I started with a printf where I suspected a segfault was occurring. printf(...); for (...) {...} The printf never executed. So I fired up gdb and confirmed the segfault
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by dwyer 12y ago
> {user: "aBlackDude", pass: "12inches", flag: "u"} Cool racism, bro.
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by dwyer 13y ago
How I found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia: by browsing it.
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by dwyer 13y ago
Yelp is very aggressive against crawlers. They IP banned me for curl'ing their site a few times for something or another that their API didn't provide. I had to email them and promise never to do it again. I'd imagine it has

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