psherman

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by psherman 6mo ago
Go on a Tuesday or Wednesday and tickets are 50% off at AMC (and maybe other theaters). While still not cheap, that gets you down to $16.49 for an imax showing at the metreon AMC and $9.49 for a standard screen.
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I have to learn another router?(medium.com)
1 points by psherman 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Curi – A single-page app router that lets you render however you like(github.com)
1 points by psherman 9y ago|0 comments
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by psherman 9y ago
Small correction: you flipped the yes/no counts.
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by psherman 9y ago
The actual title of the article is "The ecological impact of spiders" with the submitted title being the byline. While the actual article's title is not clickbait, the submitter clearly went with the byline to attract more in
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by psherman 9y ago
> Each of these consumes, on an annual basis, in the region of 400m tonnes of other animals. The amount of food consumed by spiders is certainly impressive, but limiting the comparison to the tonnage of animals consumed must just be for
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by psherman 10y ago
Perhaps a not so serious answer, but Larry Niven has a number of science fiction stories based on this concept, which is dubbed organlegging [0]. The one that sticks out in my mind is The Jigsaw Man [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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by psherman 10y ago
You can switch to the metric system on their website [1]. The graph can also be switched to metric by changing the "uom" query parameter from "E" to "M" [1] http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page
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by psherman 11y ago
Reminds me of the library trek in Asimov's Bicentennial Man. Asimov had a great perspective on the various ways humans would react to robots. His robot series is a really enjoyable read (and once you finish those, there's a good c
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by psherman 11y ago
That would be preferable to what happened to me once. I tried using a + filter and it was accepted but I never received booking information for my trip. When my trip was getting closer I realized I didn't have a confirmation number, an
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by psherman 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/the-dutch-elm-dis... The article isn't particularly about the conference, but what it does mention I wouldn't consider too complimentary.
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by psherman 11y ago
It is interesting to me that Teespring seems to force sellers to advertise each specific design. I was looking for, but couldn't find, a way to see all designs created by a specific user. On a cursory search, I found a few designs by t
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by psherman 12y ago
If you have a function that requires both the species and a speak message from an animal, it would make sense for the interface to have a function that returns both the species and speak strings. I think that this [0] does what you would wa
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by psherman 12y ago
Unless the students have a mouse plugged in to their chromebooks, it's more of a comparison between a touchscreen and a touchpad. If the comparison is between two methods where you're dragging a finger around, I think that a touch
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by psherman 12y ago
I seem to recall reading that it is advantageous to launch a rocket closer to the equator, and Cameron County is at the southern tip of Texas. Wouldn't it seem more likely that location played a bigger role in SpaceX choosing Texas tha
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by psherman 12y ago
I'm not sure why so many people seem so intent on sexualizing a logo. I think that it's pretty clever to incorporate the location marker into the A.
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by psherman 13y ago
Cars have the obvious advantage of being on the ground, so if something goes wrong there would presumably be fail safes to pull the car over to the side of the road instead of plummeting to the ground.
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by psherman 13y ago
Assuming you give your form elements names and the form an ID (unlike in the linked example) its trivial to get the query string using serialize and you don't have to fuss around with string formatting if you modify the form. $.ajax(
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by psherman 13y ago
alt + f (found that in the keyboard shortcuts from right clicking on the video) should maximize the video in the browser window.
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by psherman 14y ago
I don't have this activated myself, but I assume that Osmium is referring to this setting: Account Settings > Security > Login Approvals
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by psherman 14y ago
It looks like someone took the liberty to add Matz to that list since your comment, although the reference they used is just to Ruby's wikipedia page which makes no mention of him being a BDFL.