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LaaT
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Comment #7445439
Would agree for liquid employment markets. Some, maybe even most, don't have the depth to support corrective actions.
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Comment #7445383
I might be wrong, but apart from Germany no one has owned up a genocide. I suspect Germans wouldn't have done it if it wasn't forced upon them during allied occupation of Germany. …
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Comment #7444711
And he didn't even get his facts right. His atrocities were minor at best. Much of the killing had happened long before his time.
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Comment #7444695
Out of curiosity, how does an organisation gets recognised as religious? Can a sufficiently determined white supremacist set up a church of all blacks are evil and start lawfully d…
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Comment #4094271
Your access logs. Extract the referrers from last 12 month and you have a pretty good list.
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Comment #4007753
I had the impression that Samsung was readying themselves for this with Bada. There will probably give more weight to it from now on, while investing less and less in Android. It w…
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Comment #4007695
I suspect other phone manufacturers will be less eager to invest in Android as a platform. Symbian's ownership was a huge problem back in the day. We will see a repeat of the drama…
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Comment #3954659
Something that takes an URL and returns the tag that displays the media. Is this URL to a jpg file, spit a img tag. YouTube video? Iframe. Instagram link? img with the pictures URL…
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Comment #3950706
http://phpir.com is a good one. The blog claims to be on IR but has decent ML articles too.
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Comment #3950699
I am surprised nobody here suggests that he should build a product out of this. Aren't we all in business of unemploying people?
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Comment #3943806
I was thinking more of tablets actually. It's not a secret that Ubuntu has aspirations in this segment. Jumping from tablets to phones is much almost trivial.
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Comment #3943183
Because Android's UI framework is quite behind that of iOS and even that of Windows Phone's. Forking and fixing the UI framework is not doable. Besides Ubuntu is in OS business, th…
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Comment #3939833
AFAIK there's no DB, everything stays on memory. In addition to that the HTML served is pretty minimal.
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Is there a rich preview for URLs JQuery plugin out there?
I am developing a social link aggregator application and need a JQuery plug in which can inspect URLs and produce preview elements for them. You obviously need server side magic to…
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Comment #3807178
I wonder how much of this is due to novelty factor. I doubt that one could reach such good numbers, if asking for solving puzzles becomes a common practice.
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Comment #3807038
Totally irrelevant, but your blog is revealing email addresses of commenters. Do you really want that?
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Comment #3806882
R8 is a piece of art. Too bad, the waiting lists are over a year for that car. It would otherwise be sweeping the segment.
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Comment #3675557
Thanks, that was it. No, it's not about representing how the world looks to normal visioned people, it's about how we cannot differentiate between some colours, or all colours for …
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Comment #3675383
Well, start with collecting statistics and see if there's a recurring theme in your bugs. You can't find a cure, if you don't know what the disease is.
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Comment #3675368
Its name escapes me, there's a website which you enter a url, it goes and fetches the css, changes the colours such that I can't differentiate it from the original but a normal per…
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Comment #3675114
Why not do this with hieroglyphs instead of colours? I have deuteranomaly and colours don't work for me. I remember reading %10 of male population has some kind of colour deficienc…
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Comment #3672819
Is she really interested in learning? Or is she just being nice to you accepting this? Anyway, I'd start with HTML and Javascript. More familiar territory for a complete beginner.
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