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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 on Sunday March 13, 2016 @05:32AM (#11276992)
They're using the distributed version for these matches, this question was just asked in the post match press conference.
Re:First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos on Monday August 11, 2014 @03:39AM (#8162344)
People using the HTTPS Everywhere extension will have the site URL as https, but not the embedded videos.
Re:Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF on Saturday January 18, 2014 @07:39PM (#7082920)
Re:Childhood amnesia kicks in around age 7 on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @04:57PM (#7027031)
I was 2.5 years old when my brother was born and I remember a lot about that night - being at home with my nan, what our curtains were like, how the room was laid out. What the hospital was like, the toy I was given, the fruit jellies that someone gave my mum. Everyone's always been surprised that I remember so much.
There's an explanation in Mark Forsyth's excellent The Etymologicon claiming it's based on the size of sheepskin.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KUZxTvay3PMC&lpg=PP1&... (I can't seem to get a direct link to the page, but just click page).

Re:A review of RubyMotion on Friday May 04, 2012 @02:46AM (#3927376)
I didn't know about the new @{} syntax for dictionaries - http://blog.ablepear.com/2012/02/something-wonderful-new-obj... - very nice.
Re:Sh*t… Twitter is exciting… again on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @07:14AM (#3532926)
Re:Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0 on Thursday January 05, 2012 @08:13AM (#3428544)
When I've done similar upgrades, I've often found it quicker to have the previous code available to me in another checked out repo rather than switch branches and have to deal with any possible uncommitted changes issues.
Re:Revitalization of the Chernobyl zone on Sunday November 06, 2011 @04:47PM (#3203970)
The Battle Of Chernobyl is also well worth watching : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdMLFJJyWnM
Re:Revitalization of the Chernobyl zone on Saturday November 05, 2011 @05:51PM (#3201030)
It's extremely peaceful and quiet there, so you'd probably be quite happy.
Re:Revitalization of the Chernobyl zone on Saturday November 05, 2011 @03:43PM (#3200706)
I went there last year on a tourist trip - walking around the exclusion zone and through the abandoned buildings was an amazing experience and I'd recommend it to anyone.
Re:Microsoft's acquisition of Skype is a done deal on Friday October 14, 2011 @03:47AM (#3110393)
It took me a while to realise it wasn't a screenshot he was using in the post.
Re:Facebook for iPad on Monday October 10, 2011 @04:54PM (#3095794)
Sounds like you've installed the iPhone app - it seems the iPad app isn't live just yet.
Re:Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free” on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @09:38AM (#2941356)
You can change how much disk space it uses in the settings.
Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:05AM (#2908810)
I write Erlang every day and love it, but I have to agree with most of the points raised by http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html
Re:Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? on Saturday March 19, 2011 @11:23AM (#2343785)
http://www.badscience.net is Ben Goldacre's blog, and he publishes his Guardian articles there.
Re:Review of the 11" MacBook Air on Saturday January 01, 2011 @05:46PM (#2058687)
Does the same on my 13 inch - it freaked me out the first time I saw it. Same for everyone else in my office who owns one.
Or even/sometimes worse - tracks which you were able to play previously, which this week are now not available.
Re: Google Reader reader? Would you find this service useful? on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @02:59PM (#1595652)
This is my biggest annoyance with my RSS feeds, I'd love to see this have a solution.
Weird. Was totally broken for me, but a refresh fixed it.
Re:Ask YC: What do you actually pay for, you, yourself? on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @06:04PM (#288554)
I pay for Flickr, Last.fm and Github.