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by 0x12 15y ago
That review completely weirds me out. Atheism does not have it's roots in the 9/11 attacks, nor is it 'new' by any definition. Sure, Dawkins wrote 'The God Delusion' chronologically after 9/11. But that doesn't mean his views were much dif
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by 0x12 15y ago
I've got a problem with that viewpoint. I'm not sure if I'm able to articulate it properly but consider that without Michael Faraday's fathers religion his son might not have been born at all, and if he was he might have followed a differen
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by 0x12 15y ago
Yes, and that is the way it is supposed to go. But here is another quote to illustrate the counterpart: "Die Wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre Gegner sterben nur aus." Rough translation: The truth never triumphs, its opponents simply die out.
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by 0x12 15y ago
The ability to see presented/available evidence depends to some extent on your frame of reference and how much time you've spent believing something and how deeply that belief is ingrained in your psyche. Lots of scientists go to their grav
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by 0x12 15y ago
The process of getting rid of google is very much akin to the process of getting rid of closed source. You may lose some functionality or maybe some polish or convenience but on the whole it is definitely doable. The hardest ones to get rid
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by 0x12 15y ago
I think Dawkins was hoping for a different world during his lifetime and is losing patience with those that oppose the change. He's an extremely smart man, compared to him most of us really are stupid but that's not a reason to be judgmenta
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by 0x12 15y ago
> they probably spend their time on the road giving presentations rather than actually delivering value. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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by 0x12 15y ago
It depends on whether you normally are comfortable wearing a suit. If it makes you feel uncomfortable or gives you a 'dressed up monkey' feeling then better dress for your own comfort. If you are used to wearing suits, look good in one and
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by 0x12 15y ago
That's pretty neat. I hope they have enough sandboxing in place that this will not be used as a means to ddos innocent bystanders.
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by 0x12 15y ago
So, go write yourself a web based racing game in javascript. As for books: Computer Gamesmanship by David N Levy is a classic. It's not very flashy but it will give you a solid understanding of the basics of all kinds of games, not just arc
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by 0x12 15y ago
What this does mean is that you should always look carefully at where you get your traffic and your hosting. You don't want to be dependent on a big competitor for either of those. All it takes is one tweak of an algorithm or a prolonged ou
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by 0x12 15y ago
Screencams. One good reason to not allow 'dowload' of a video is if it is a live stream of a person. People will say/do stuff on cam that they may later come to regret, if your platform can reliably (see 'screencams') stop others from rec
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Metro style browsing and plug in free html5(blogs.msdn.com)
8 points by 0x12 15y ago|1 comments
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The title is nonsense, here is the microsoft blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-br...
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by 0x12 15y ago
Here is the reg on public companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_Fair_Disclosure For privately held companies there is no equivalent afaik. Especially critical is the time of transition from a privately held company to a publi
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by 0x12 15y ago
This may apply to 'small fry' as much as it does to larger companies but the wandering eye of the SEC will make a special exception for you when you do this for a public company. That is when they go after you with a bunch of very sharp pit
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by 0x12 15y ago
That was, unfortunately, quite predictable. What I don't understand is that at least someone at apple HQ should be familiar with the Streisand effect. Pulling this app was the worst thing they could have done from a PR standpoint.
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by 0x12 15y ago
Yes, storing files is fast. We ran similar tests to yours and storing never was the problem, deletion also wasn't a problem as long as the number of files was in the low millions. The problem comes around when you start to delete files once
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Anybody know what kind of protest this is?(caption-of-the-day.com)
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by 0x12 15y ago
Yes, large files are fine. But contrary to your claim many (10's or 100's of millions) of small files and performance is terrible, orders of magnitudes slower than vanilla ext3. I don't consider the linux kernel to be 'many' files.
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by 0x12 15y ago
I'm fine with some of the criticisms but using XFS as the posterchild example of a free file system done 'right' is a bit much. XFS has absolutely terrible performance for lots of use cases (deletions, for instance). What the author also fa
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by 0x12 15y ago
Not everybody is in it for the fame and the money.
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by 0x12 15y ago
The catch here is of course that intel is a hardware company. In 2010 alone intel received 1600+ patents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_United_States_paten... If intel wants to stop the patent madness they could start with remo
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by 0x12 15y ago
That's a good backup policy until your building burns down. Better do some off-site backups too!
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by 0x12 15y ago
Why is this? Sufferers of other diseases have no such problems, what is it about Crohns' disease that makes people shy to talk about it? I looked at the wikipedia page and I can't tie the disease to anything that you as a sufferer should be
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by 0x12 15y ago
That's the 1997 way.
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by 0x12 15y ago
> I have heard stories of course but only have first hand knowledge of one person with whom Google decided to fire because they did some open source work they didn't like. Wow. That's quite a statement, I'm pretty sure there would be qu
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by 0x12 15y ago
Still up, 1 hour and counting... Someone is going to get fired over this.
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by 0x12 15y ago
I like that page, thank you for setting it up. Now I wonder what the 'rest of us' are using, it would be great to see this same list with a larger number of people and what their reasons for picking one technology over another in the same s
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by 0x12 15y ago
This article misses out on one small detail: it is a lot easier to update software than it is to update hardware after you ship it. It was a silly tweet and I think that it may be a little bit too soon to call the race run. For now iPad is

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