mccada

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by mccada 5y ago
Happy birthday Hacker News! It's usually the first site I pull up everyday, and even though I mostly just lurk I've learnt a lot of interesting info from the site. I appreciate the linked articles and insightful discussions on her
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by mccada 8y ago
On a similar note, any good mobile educational apps for kids? I found Khan Academy Kids which is quite polished and nice.
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by mccada 8y ago
Baldur's Gate was the first RPG I played on PC. Had to play it at a friends place (he had a PC), it was a very intriguing game with the strong characterization and choices you could make in the game. Once I finally got a PC, I bought a
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by mccada 8y ago
Even in places where a warmer climate might seem to give some positives, for example where I live in interior Canada, with warmer and longer growing seasons in a typically cold climate, it is hard to overstate some consequences of such a ch
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by mccada 8y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
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by mccada 8y ago
Instead of the usual doom and gloom, or abandoning all hope, are there any tangible ways a person can make a difference? Reducing consumption and consumerism, energy efficiency and habits changing surely help a little, but I'm interest
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by mccada 8y ago
Massage helps with loosening and relaxing the muscles, usually those muscles get tight and sore with trying to compensate for posture etc. But I've found it's just a temporary fix. Things like massage or chiropractors help a littl
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by mccada 9y ago
It is interesting how the editorial talks about perspiration being a natural way for the body to excrete aluminum, while aluminum is the active ingredient in most anti-perspirants. So we are effectively blocking the release of aluminum by u
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by mccada 10y ago
Location: Alberta, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, HTML / CSS, JS, Bootstrap, Unix / Linux Résumé/CV: http://spirelabs.ca/files/Resume_Developer_16.pdf
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by mccada 10y ago
Actually I think their long term plan will be to switch to ARM processors. Probably not just yet though. They have already made their software compile to platform independent code (I may have the terminology wrong, I'm not super famili
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by mccada 10y ago
I'm not sure if they use the same terminology in Canada, but the four chiropractors at the place I go to all use Dr. and DC as their title, so I'm guessing so.
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by mccada 10y ago
I started getting chronic back pain last year after being in a desk position for quite some time. I even considered switching jobs as I was that uncomfortable sitting. Some things that have helped: Movement. Try to get up and move around at
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Programming Phoenix – Beta on the Pragmatic Bookshelf(pragprog.com)
4 points by mccada 11y ago|0 comments
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by mccada 11y ago
This is fantastic. I'm hoping for some book releases in the near future now that the framework has reached version 1.
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by mccada 11y ago
You can use LibSass which is written in C++, to avoid the Ruby dependencies. https://github.com/sass/libsass
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by mccada 11y ago
Do you have a source for the data collecting for Win 7? Windows 8 is a slightly different story since they incorporated signing into your machine with a Microsoft account, so they have more personal identification linked to your machine (em
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by mccada 11y ago
Some people aren't comfortable with the amount of data Microsoft is collecting about them. There are a lot of privacy issues, and their terms of service are really quite jarring if you read them. Even turning all the the tracking and t
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Elixir for the Functional Rubyist crowdfunding campaign(indiegogo.com)
2 points by mccada 11y ago|0 comments