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The quest for the best in mechanical pencils
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"I must be stupid, but I can't believe someone can write a Javascript script to get this information. Seems like a real violation of privacy
I was wondering this too, but it says on the top of the site. Basically, what it does is creates a link to..." [
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2 months ago
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Best ways to prepare slabs of chicken?
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2 months ago
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"I absolutely recommend this. I went to Germany my senior year of high school, and it was totally awesome. Both of my host families treated me largely like an adult, so I was mostly able to travel and do what I wanted.. (Think like a college kid..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by msittig
3 months ago
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"Wow, lots of bias in this thread.
Alright, so here's the deal. PHP, Python and C# are all popular, modern languages which support the object-oriented programming paradigm. If you are working with skilled programmers whose aim it is to write solid,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thewalledcity
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't know how a computer could compensate for a pilot pulling the stick early, other than a tiny metallic hand slapping his wrist and straightening out again. If it was a computer-controlled takeoff, then that's something else.
Based on the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by matty
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"By analogy, it bans single-shot bolt action rifles but leaves machine guns legal.
A better analogy would be that it bans rifles, while leaving anti-tank missiles legal. The difference, as I believe spiderwire was pointing out, is that while..." [
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd watch out for this guys. After I used it, my login name disappeared from my Widows BC login screen. Fortunately, some other user had theirs setup without a password, so I was still able to use my computer. All my documents were gone though, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It should be noted that the cockfighting link also contains a different kind of cock than the one referenced in the post." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ZakDaddy, jessssse
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Confirmation bias, anyone?
No kidding. The best coders of which I've ever had the privilege of working were self-taught. Guys like Dave "Zoid" Kirsch. He could code at 70wpm. My best typing speed is only about 55 wpm.
Confirmation..." [
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4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"So? It's not a valid XHTML fragment, just close yer tags.
In all fairness, the site doesn't use XHTML, so there isn't any reason the OP would expect to need valid XHTML...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by timeistight
5 months ago
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"While we're at it, can we add "does not own a television" to the profile page?
I actually got rid of my profile page a long time ago, and, honestly, I've never looked back. I found I was spending all this time writing clever stuff on it,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blasdelf, Gary
6 months ago
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"As I see it, the problem isn't that people aren't civil, it's the people who show up and snark and drop one liners, trying to one-up each other on sarcasm and metafilter in-jokes. Granted, those have always been a part of Metafilter, but it's getting..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by whir, loiseau
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Mandarin? Is it possible for him that way?
Can you get it for me tonight because it is not possible for me to get it that way?
It is possible but I do not like it and I do not want it that way today.
I think at this point, it is more than..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah, lovely reductionist nutritionism. Food + sufficient exercise = no net change. Food is so simple when you can boil its effect down to a simple balance of carbs, protein, and fat. If only that simple model of how food works made any sense..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DU
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Really these aren't all that bad. It's actually pretty hard to come up with things to research (at least for me), and I always had trouble coming up with science fair ideas. I don't really like the "Haha, look at how stupid and unoriginal little..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Afroblanco, ShawnStruck
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I love the Beeb's science coverage.
Really? Or are you being sarcastic? I hope it's the latter. I hate how sloppy and simplified their coverage is. I know there's a lot of bad science journalism, but theirs is some of the worst. For..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by perilous, DU, tehloki, sebastienbailard, Blazecock Pileon
7 months ago
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"I have to say that many of his problems are because he's saying things into the microphone that he doesn't want typed. What does he expect to happen? Also, he keeps saying thinks like "equals" instead of "equals sign"...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dabitch
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"A collection of wikipedia links and one terrible website does not a good post make.
I hate when people say stuff like that, but it's true." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
7 months ago
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"I've a feeling that JScript differentiates between this and me, or between this and self.
Hopefully, I'm wrong and they all do the same thing.
this in javascript refers to the instance, just like anywhere else. There is neither a self variable..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by seanyboy
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've had far more luck with genre and band radio stations on last.fm than on pandora. Pandora seems consistently to pick the most general, boring features of the music I like, instead of the really awesome novel ones. last.fm, on the other hand,..." [
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8 months ago
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"Milkrate just missed an awesome opportunity to rickroll a bunch of people, while also being helpful." [
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9 months ago
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"One thing that stuck out to me was
I've tried to work through it and forgive and forget, and he promises never to say anything about it to anyone again and C has promised not to talk about it, either, but I am still resentful.
Now take a look..." [
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9 months ago
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"I speak German. After a quick listening, I'd say it's about a group of little people who lived in a place called Swabedo. These people called themselves Swabedolos. They greeted each other with friendly smiles, and when doing so, exchanged little..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by smackfu
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm sure there's something I'm insecure about!
Well it's sure as hell not being the biggest asshole on MeFi.
[NOT ASSHOLE-IST]" [
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11 months ago
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"for some reason at this moment in time i would like to jump in front of a bus.
now you might think that, to be sure of killing myself, it should be a huge, heavy, high speed rolling along crazy sandra bullock at the wheel kind of bus. but no!..." [
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Last year
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"Assuming you can code, you could write a script that periodically turns the tv tuner on, goes to a random channel, records 5 seconds of tv, and then goes to another random channel, gets another 5 seconds etc. Have it do that until you've got 11..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by poweredbybeard
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Well could you fill us in on what's interesting about it?
Well, like someone else said, it's not a flying wing or anything, but it does have a few points of interest:
All-composite fuselage: this means that the plane is lighter, and can have..." [
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Last year
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"Personally, if I didn't feel at risk of getting attacked by bees, I would just go up and poke my finger in and try a very small amount. If it tasted somewhat honey like, I'd find someone like Nahum Tate (or his website or page on eHow to see if I..." [
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Last year
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"I believe the poster's actual question is how difficult handguns are to obtain illegally online.
I don't know how hard it would be to get a gun illegally online, but it seems like it would be fairly risky, since sellers would need to display..." [
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Last year
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"Metafilter: It involves complete immobility and uncontrollable eating." [
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Last year
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"To take a totally different tack on this, I recommend the following methods anytime you can't decide between two things that seem equal. Read it through, though, I promise it isn't as retarded as it's going to sound at first
The coin method
1)..." [
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Last year
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"A friend and I used to do this for fun (back when we were idiots, natch, we're much more refined now). As far as I know I still get brain good." [
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Last year
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"This is a bad idea which will make AskMe less useful, for askers and answerers. I'd argue that part of what makes the site so successful is the serendipity between question and answer, a serendipity served by a flat interface.
This is something I..." [
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Last year
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The quest for the best in mechanical pencils
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