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by effigies 14y ago
I got some Vibrams around Christmas and have been wearing them solidly for about 2-2.5 months (since the weather warmed up). The harder layer of rubber has already worn through on the heel, exposing the softer layer. I'm not so sure I'll be
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by effigies 14y ago
The issue isn't what format the content is in, but that it's retrieved through client-side logic rather than as part of the query response. Also, what's wrong with HTML/CSS that is in any way resolved by XML/XSLT? I'm genuinely curious why
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by effigies 14y ago
If you turn off Javascript and cookies, a ton of sites that serve what at least could be static content and which you don't need to log into simply stop working. What happened to graceful degradation? Is it not agile enough to expect a serv
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by effigies 14y ago
It's a gradient, not a binary. Adding colors to the metaphor adds words with no increase of understanding.
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by effigies 14y ago
> they are still inherently hypocritical in that they shift that oppression to the opposing class. Calling affirmative action oppression of the "opposing class" (by which you presumably mean the privileged group) is serious decontextual
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by effigies 14y ago
To mangle a famous quote, "The greatest trick privilege ever pulled was to convince the privileged it didn't exist." One of the toughest problems with structural inequalities is that they hide themselves from those who are benefited, largel
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by effigies 14y ago
Once more, with feeling: pagination is an inappropriate paradigm for most web content. While I appreciate that they did not take advantage of the multiple page views to just get more ad impressions, it's still a pain in the ass to view a si
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by effigies 14y ago
Are people really under the impression that Google and Facebook opposed SOPA for surveillance reasons? SOPA would have broken the Internet so fundamentally that they couldn't continue operating without special immunity from the US Governmen
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by effigies 14y ago
Personally, I like Adblock Plus (Good Karma Edition). By default, it allows ads through, but blocking them on a website that uses them badly (which for me means flashing or making noise) is only a click away. My reason for using adblock is
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by effigies 15y ago
Nothing terribly new, but it's good to see it on Forbes. Maybe finally these arguments, which have seemed patently obvious to those of us on the consuming end, will penetrate the business and legislative classes.
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by effigies 15y ago
I doubt it, but we're talking about gamers here. They are being inspired to give because it fits in with their hobby and there's a giant progress bar that they can do their part to bump a little higher every year. This is not to say that
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by effigies 15y ago
Same, here. It's really just the consistency I like about it. Or we could switch to Xtmas.
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by effigies 15y ago
People abbreviate Christmas as Xmas. I feel that, for consistency, it should be Xian, rather than Xtian, but Xtian seems to be the standard. Incidentally, I enjoy that you used the slur "Christain." alt.atheism?
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by effigies 15y ago
That was actually one of the particular things I was thinking of when I said "multiple solutions to the same problem", so I didn't add it as a separate thing. Though it is a pretty major difference that can trip someone up moving between tw
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by effigies 15y ago
In general, the main differences between distros consist of: - Versions of software included - Whether any "non-free" software is included - How the directory structure is used (for instance, do you use /opt or /usr/local)
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by effigies 15y ago
My favorite 404: http://www.rathergood.com/404
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by effigies 15y ago
You know you can hit the cancel button and it'll take you to the actual article, instead, right?
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by effigies 15y ago
> Penalizing both students is clearly wrong if one student did the assignment properly without cheating, and the other student copied the first student's work. I had a professor who would actually give the person who did the work the wo
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Anonymized personal data as a public resource(boston.com)
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by effigies 16y ago
It doesn't do any training during the game, except that it uses the correct answers already seen in a category to give weight to a specific interpretation of the category title.
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by effigies 16y ago
I was at a watching party with a couple of IBMers who worked on Watson, and one thing they said is that it's not a question of speed, but of timing. Players time their pressing to an estimate of when Alex will finish the question, and Brad
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by effigies 16y ago
Yes: http://www.nexenta.org/
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by effigies 16y ago
While I'm not sure if there's an actual fusion in the depths of the naval, for practical purposes, the abdomen can be considered homeomorphic to the punctured plane, and treated accordingly. ... "for practical purposes" ... Sigh. I guess I'
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by effigies 16y ago
This is kind of neat. It seems like it'd be useful as a more easily debugged Haskell. I'd be more inclined to actually play with it, though, if it accepted a superset of Haskell, which allowed arbitrary IO tainting. So I might write:
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by effigies 16y ago
Perhaps I have not paid much attention, but I wasn't aware this community was so fond of companies tracking their internet usage.
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by effigies 16y ago
This fellow's argument doesn't seem to be against GM but rather against the predatory practices perpetrated by the purveyors of GM seeds.
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by effigies 16y ago
With floating point, the first 9 bits are sign and exponent. You could thus check with: int ispoweroftwo(float x) { return !(*(int*)(&x) << 9); } This only works for exact powers of two, though. It's possibl
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by effigies 16y ago
Woops. I totally missed this one: > It has to be a "real" language. As in: a language that is actually used by a significant number of people in paid jobs. Either way, as first languages go, they're not bad, as they let you get those i
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by effigies 16y ago
My first two were Logo and VBA. (I don't really count the tiny bits of dabbling in Basic. I got bored by hello world.) I'd say both of these meet his criteria. But neither of them got me hooked. It wasn't until I started on Perl to help a f
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by effigies 16y ago
Personally, I don't use it to stay informed. I don't think it's well designed for that purpose. While there are many people/companies who update their twitters with new product information or blog posts, it's all too specific and in order t

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