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ChrisCooper
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About ChrisCooper
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Comment #5254065
Very true. On that topic, "...these communications consist of whistles, not words." Not to suggest that they're actually speaking a language, but a language consisting of whistles …
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Comment #5225440
I think you meant "Top Gear". ;)
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Comment #3427475
I think the double-PIN makes sense in the ATM case (because you don't want to alert the robber to your scheme), but in the phone case I think multiple PINs is far too complex. Why …
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Comment #3367982
It could also be referring to some of the comments that the tools are addictive.
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Comment #3258476
It's completely free to take, and no one will hassle you if you don't do anything at all. In addition, at least for the ones that happened this fall, if you are taking the advanced…
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Comment #3227077
Just playing the devil's advocate here, but would you not say Google's search homepage has a lot of "wasted space"? I don't think one can always make such a quick judgment about wh…
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Comment #3210074
I agree especially with #4. The cursing ripped me from my quiet place.
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Comment #3195386
Youngen here: Might I ask what an Advent is? It's a hard thing to Google.
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Comment #3161532
Perhaps something like this: http://company.mappedin.com/ Except down to a product level?
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Comment #3115243
I think his point is that you'll still have fun playing the main story, but it'll take far less time away from you, and still leave you with the satisfaction of completion. If you …
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Comment #2543402
If you're interested (or others are), this shader toy was posted a while ago: http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/ It is a very cool demo and allows you to mess around and bui…
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Comment #2403251
I thought this table was going to be an actual table of HTML5 elements, but organized into new patterns of periods, by, say, what context they are usually used in, or what purpose …
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Comment #2393156
Personally, I like the explanation they gave in the article: "It is the shape the oceans would adopt if there were no winds, no currents and no tides ... magnified nearly 10,000 ti…
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Comment #2393105
They don't really give any detail on exactly what is stopping them. I haven't worked with it myself, but as far as I can tell, YouTube has a perfectly public API: http://code.googl…
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Comment #2371875
I agree. I think this viewpoint is a little skewed. Web-based applications have definitely not killed the desktop differences. However, I think there is a much better chance of the…
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Comment #2367911
There has been a recent democratization of web- and mobile-applications, has there not? It's super easy for me now to make an site with Rails to do x . Same goes for creating and p…
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Comment #2348585
He said "boot camp", not active service. My best wishes to your dad.
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Comment #2341634
I think he's not suggesting it's bad to sell your company, but rather that going into a new one with the idea that you're only there to make money is a bad idea.
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Comment #2325081
I got a Django exception... maybe this will help you out: http://i.imgur.com/RiSZU.png