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by lunchbox 11y ago
Yes but overall, isn't it better to at least have the choice to go to the supermarket? (As you kind of acknowledge in your own example.)
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by lunchbox 12y ago
Ah OK thanks!
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by lunchbox 12y ago
Just curious, what risk are you referring to?
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by lunchbox 12y ago
It can also be thought of as a pun -- when you want to "exit" an application, you "X it".
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by lunchbox 12y ago
Clarification: this is about MS Word 1.1a, which was released in 1990.
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by lunchbox 13y ago
> Chinese characters are not an alphabet, they do not carry phonetics, they carry meaning. And, guess what, this is arguably better. Why? Because phonetics tend to shift quickly. But I would think (and remember reading somewhere) that
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by lunchbox 13y ago
"Germanic languages have special words for 11 and 12, such as eleven and twelve in English, which are often misinterpreted as vestiges of a duodecimal system. However, they are considered to come from Proto-Germanic ainlif and twalif
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by lunchbox 13y ago
Dumb question: What does it mean that autocommit is now turned on? I no longer have to call mymodel.save()? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.6/#improved...
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by lunchbox 13y ago
Side comment: that's a nice website; how did you make it? I see it's hosted on GitHub pages and that you use Bootstrap. Did you write all the HTML/CSS yourself, or use Markdown, etc?
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by lunchbox 13y ago
Another name for "begging the question" is simply "circular reasoning"
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by lunchbox 14y ago
How do you know their issues are somatic, or that the relief they experience is a placebo effect?
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by lunchbox 14y ago
- 1-800-FLOWERS - 1-800-CONTACTS - hotels.com
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by lunchbox 14y ago
> Two-finger slide from the right sometimes opens up a sidebar that apparently contains settings (not sure what the magic incantation is). There's a grippie in the bottom right corner indicating the settings pull-out sidebar.
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by lunchbox 14y ago
Yes, but keep in mind you can't make Google Maps the default mapping application, so links to addresses (e.g. in calendar, web browser, contacts) will open in Apple Maps.
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by lunchbox 14y ago
OK, will log a bug if I can
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by lunchbox 14y ago
I love PTVS, but I keep running into a problem when I debug my code. One time it'll properly highlight in my IDE where an exception (or breakpoint) occurred; the next time it won't, and I have to look in the black Python console window and
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by lunchbox 14y ago
On the right of each song page is a section dedicated to explaining the whole song. I don't see the problem.
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by lunchbox 14y ago
It must depend on your definition of "abbreviation". For example, Hamas and Fatah (the main political parties in Palestine) are both acronyms. Fatah is actually a reverse acronym. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#Etymology http://en.wi
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by lunchbox 14y ago
How is this different from what happened in May? http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/21/business/la-fi-autos... "California Senate passes bill for self-driving cars"
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by lunchbox 14y ago
What does the "mixed nuts" example at the bottom have to do with this phenomenon?
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by lunchbox 14y ago
Like Netflix
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by lunchbox 14y ago
An issue with this puzzle is that the objective is not clearly stated upfront. The author should make it clear from the outset that the goal is to minimize the number of drops in the worst case, rather than to minimize the average case,
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by lunchbox 14y ago
Every movement has to start somewhere. If you felt a company was behaving unethically and wanted to boycott it, what would you do? Would your strategy not involve spreading the word to your friends and followers via social media?
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by lunchbox 14y ago
So you're opposed to boycotts? Or are you criticizing this boycott because it's not (yet) big enough to influence Apple? Lots of boycotts have been successful throughout history, and most of them started small.
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by lunchbox 14y ago
WalkScore has similar functionality (click on "My Commutes"): http://www.walkscore.com/apartments/CA/San_Francisco The numbers there are somewhat different. You can also enter more than one commute location. So you can find all places tha
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by lunchbox 14y ago
> Ok, your argument is that this stuff works for the other 95% but it won’t appeal to us hackers. My question to you is, how does Apple make ads that appeal to the rest of the world and something like 75% of the hackers? Asking that q
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by lunchbox 14y ago
That's a misleading analogy. Microsoft's goal here is not to get you to visit a Microsoft store, since the device won't come out for months anyway. This is the first step in a months-long marketing campaign leading up to launch. The goal is
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by lunchbox 14y ago
Successful companies have learned that a (shockingly) large proportion of consumers form impressions and make decisions on a primarily emotional , rather than rational or practical, basis. That's what this video is designed for. It inaugur
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by lunchbox 14y ago
Off topic: the "headlinese" title of this article results in syntactic ambiguity. I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers ( http://answers.microsoft.com/ ) cried because of a new development kit. Related: http://en.wikipedia.or
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by lunchbox 14y ago
Also see Pyvot, a similar tool that was created by Microsoft: http://pytools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Pyvot

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