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pbhj

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    Comment #804042

    an equivalent to how pngcrush works then

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    Comment #803720

    http://www.google.co.uk/trends?q=(ckeditor|fckeditor)%2Ctiny...

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    Comment #803687

    Thats: %d - 2 digit day number by month; %b - 3 letter month name; %Y - 4 digit year CE; for those who don't recall so well.

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    Comment #803674

    Of course I meant a justification for the mixed up ordering as being of greater utility (more easily parsed, understood, less confused, more easily read, better sorted, more standa…

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    Comment #803663

    I don't think their market moves that much, slippers might be OTT.

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    Comment #803658

    When it's cold I sleep in my bathrobe (we call it a "dressing gown" which is a particularly poor name for it as one wears it when not getting dressed!). It has long sleeves, is bel…

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    Comment #803653

    No you couldn't, suppose your A does better in the first market and your B worse (accounting for size) in the second. You choose A. Which does even worse in second market. B was do…

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    Comment #798990

    It's 99% correlated (in line with) the longer test method. OK. Then you learn that there were 77 in the study. So they got the result wrong 1% of the time, for 0.8 of a child? Shen…

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    Comment #798977

    "My take away: easier to make money off rich firms than poor individuals." A worthy insight IMO, one of those 'I know it but it helps to be reminded' comments.

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    Comment #798963

    US date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets flip it. Then they rea…

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    Comment #798933

    They can request you don't use it as condition for access to their platform - claiming it's a trademark is different. The mark (in the EC at least) needs to be indicative of the or…

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    Comment #796760

    Was he homosexual or bisexual - his engagement and his acknowledgement to his fiancée that he had "homosexual tendencies" (eg http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cl…

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    Comment #796746

    "By all means express regret that a previous government did such and such" Of course the government didn't act unilaterally against the wishes of the people - they implemented the …

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    Comment #795140

    One of, if not the, scariest moment of my life was waking up at home on the couch and not knowing where I was or who I was. It lasted for maybe 5 minutes and then things started fa…

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    Comment #793949

    It's about programming, bad title.

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    Comment #793742

    I don't do a lot of web design but for my last two projects I was v.close to switching back to HTML4 to make the transition up to 5 easier when it's finalised. I think my next proj…

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    Comment #793738

    Um, sex!? Or was that to obvious.

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    Comment #790429

    Wouldn't that be "I pity the fool who breaks the two second rule" ?

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    Comment #790422

    When you have a good job, good food and good company times are nearly always good. I'm sure the varied interesting diet pays off in staff motivation and happiness.

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    Comment #790213

    You could simply name all respondents by their response position in the thread, first is person1 (hope that's not too limiting!): person1:yay person2:people here like intelligent c…

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    Comment #786163

    "only a fool breaks the 3 second rule" (takes roughly 3s to say)

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    Comment #786159

    Where do you drive? I tend to leave about twice the gap of other vehicles on the motorway, still strictly not the full stopping distance (but having been a motorcyclist I feel I re…

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    Comment #785808

    He could have got reasonable country data without any extra questions by using an ip-to-location API; I think Google have one available.

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    Comment #781976

    It's industrial design or product engineering, not science. They applied a known system of using "phase change material" to regulate the normalisation of the temperature of the con…