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hennypenny
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About hennypenny
I'm a hacker, founder, and realist who isn't seeking the approval of the entrenched masses of the populist echo chamber.
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Comment #3089724
Other than making baseless accusations without a shred of evidence I don't see any point in your post. Windows 7 install (recently) from disk is dead simple, please give an example…
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Comment #3059578
In the this case 'to' means 'through' and is inclusive of all the days. By adding the difference we do not twice count the number we arrived at from the first part of your calculat…
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Comment #3059564
If I were to say 1 day ago, I would mean yesterday, which would mean we were on day 2. Thus yesterday would have been day 10001.
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Comment #3059562
By subtracting the day he was born you're not counting it. You're making it 'day 0'. 2 days - 0 days = 2 days.
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Comment #3059419
Your formula doesn't work. There have been 7 leap days including 1984. The date of the leap day is relevant to your formula because if he were born on Jan 1 there would be a differ…
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Comment #3059357
I think what he actually wanted was http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=May+14+1984+plus+9999+d... Which would be 10000 days inclusive of May 14. (Wolfram says in this case that i…
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Comment #3050785
Not a big Frozen Synapse fan here but I like donating to the EFF through these things. Since they have Amazon payments it is dead simple and it helps me expand my Steam library. In…
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Comment #3050756
Either the movie industry is poisoning the well, or this is a well waiting to be exploited. A site that explains step by step how not to get caught might be more useful.
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Comment #3032801
MAC addresses are easily changed. You don't have to be in a store, or even near it, to use its wifi. And you don't have to bring your cell. Or you could use a throwaway prepaid. Lo…
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Comment #2969678
I meant that in the most general sense possible, like in the sense that if you know how to type, you can write. No offense meant.
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Comment #2969642
If you know how to use photoshop, you can design. You can make a website that works and that you can test with. But if a designer knows nothing about code, knowing where to start a…
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Comment #2942356
I'm not touching that thing. I hope there is a supplemental app that you can download to your phone instead. Yes, I realize menus would have germs on them too, but this seems like …