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drb311
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About drb311
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Comment #20324583
In the UK you can sign up for a Gmail account without any other contact info - just an unverified name and date of birth. Is this different elsewhere?
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Comment #18845683
Britain First is not for or against any religion. It's for traditional white British culture against anything new or brown. They're full of hate. They should be allowed to speak bu…
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Comment #16839643
Yes it originated hundreds of millions of years ago. And this new research indicates it was probably in China. (The land not the civilisation.)
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Comment #16839637
The article is saying that all yeast originated in the area we now call China, long before any civilisation appeared there. It's not saying the Chinese invented it. The Chinese mig…
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Comment #15852829
Even Worf doesn't go that far https://twitter.com/WorfEmail
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Comment #15851092
Nailed it.
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Comment #15844445
>>Hey Jane, I need your input on how to prioritize my current work. Can you provide guidance on where I should focus? >>Bug XYZ was assigned to me and it's taking longer to complet…
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Comment #15844429
The key is: 1. Reply now 2. Do the best you can in the time you can spare It's email. If people need more they can ask for it. At least now they know you'll reply.
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Comment #15423062
Just get rid of the dialpad and let us use the keyboard to dial numbers. Google Keyboard already has a dialpad-style layout and you can choose to centre it or move it to the left o…
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Comment #14211831
How often are P&T's guessed solutions better than the real ones?
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Comment #13036621
> the old Paint That's not the old Paint, that's the new Paint!
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Comment #12531322
"I see people put their forks, etc, on tables" What? If you can't put your forks on the table where can you put them? I always put my fork on the table, that's what the tables for.…
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Comment #12531313
If you really wanted to test the five second rule, you'd have to be broader. Who is overall better off? 1. The person who NEVER eats food off the floor 2. The person will ALWAYS ea…
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Comment #12143291
Steven I'm managing editor at Packt. Thank you for publishing your book with us. If you want to publish your next work yourself or with another publisher just mail us and ask. I'm …
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Comment #12001997
Discovering commands by trial and error isn't much fun because the fall back action -- a Google search for the words you said -- is so boring. The conversational UI in text adventu…
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Comment #11917176
I remember reading Dahl as a child and now I'm reading them to my kids. They didn't feel half as dark then as they do now. And compared to the nightmares children invent for themse…
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Comment #11870031
Funny how many tweeters are explaining Musk's joke back to him.
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Comment #11759991
It's a long time, but isn't this the software they build in the novel Microserfs? If so the idea's been around a long while, so I guess it just doesn't work in real life. It's a gr…
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Comment #11684425
> Confucius, say Shouldn't that be "Confucius, he say"?
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Comment #11668005
That's a relief.
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Comment #11667465
That's a great idea! "Now you know what's going on, here are some words that make it easier to talk about."
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Comment #11666961
That's really hard!
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Comment #11666950
Rare words can make writing more efficient and enjoyable. But it doesn't always. To my ears: "I use language for two reasons:" Is better than "To me, language is wielded with dual …