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by 6ren 13y ago
Cue: If you're not the customer, you're the product. For balance: linux and open source in general.
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by 6ren 13y ago
The archaeological record shows that tooth decay increased dramatically with agriculture, and prior to that, was much less frequent than today. It's one step forward, two steps back - at least, for dentistry. Many of our dramatically
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by 6ren 13y ago
The modern way to ban books is steganography-like: hide them in a sea of information.
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The race to a $100 human genome(money.cnn.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
> You could argue that every media shift does that. I think the huge difference for VHS, CD, DVD, BlueRay is that every publisher supported the standard (after a format war). That can't happen for iPhone/Android, but yet anothe
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by 6ren 13y ago
Interesting and cool, but burning cow crap is still lower-tech than an electric fan.
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by 6ren 13y ago
A cheap idea I've had is to file only a "provisional patent application". Much cheaper e.g. $110 AUD for Australia (unless you're paying an attorney). I haven't checked other countries, but believe it's similar
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by 6ren 13y ago
How can I get the mobile version on my desktop?
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by 6ren 13y ago
how are you going to come back down to earth if you cannot release some of the hydrogen/helium? You compress it.
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by 6ren 13y ago
the reasons for this and the tradeoffs are covered in the Valve employee handbook I don't think we're going to see the Valve employee handbook...
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by 6ren 13y ago
They don't actually claim it's fast or give any measurements of speed (apart from " ultrafast laser "). It seems reasonable to be on the order of other laser-based optical storage systems (CD, DVD, blueray). EDIT see a
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by 6ren 13y ago
morphogenesis \holds up hands Or, perhaps their bodies and muscles were adapted to the type of terrain.
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An Analysis of Power Consumption in a Smartphone [usenix 2010](docs.google.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
I hadn't considered power, thinking it would be minimal. Research agrees - but task dependent: The RAM, audio and ﬂash subsystems consistently showed the lowest power consumption. ...RAM power can exceed CPU power in certain wor
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by 6ren 13y ago
Why don't gc languages have optional memory management - include free() , so there's less work for the gc?
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by 6ren 13y ago
Aside: in some circumstances, JIT can be faster than compiled, by recompiling based on run-time usage, and so choosing optimizations appropriate to execution flow.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Why not increase RAM x5?
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by 6ren 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/1235/
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by 6ren 13y ago
It's possible to be critical without being harsh or uncivil. e.g. your example can be shortened to "X is bad, Y doesn't work. We already have Z." And the opinion "bad" could be replaced with its factual/re
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by 6ren 13y ago
Seems similar to slashdot moderation; also enables meta-moderation.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Or, theologically consistent with "karma": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo
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by 6ren 13y ago
And presumably invisible to other users. But I thought users with high age upvote similarly to the whole, as shown by news.ycombinator.com/classic (and presumably similar for high karma, high average, etc)... Is the reasoning that a &
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by 6ren 13y ago
Sometimes a story that explains a name can help spread it - provided it's funny, interesting or an otherwise memorable viral vector. TSO might not qualify.
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by 6ren 13y ago
I suspect the real problem is not so much price-points as over-shot demand: phones are over-powered. The usual next step is a smaller form-factor with unique benefits, typically convenience. While powerful enough to do cool things, people a
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Bash Extended Globbing(linuxjournal.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Stretching it: natural language was grammatical before grammar was invented. Natural laws existed before they were discovered. But it can be easier to change grammar/law/types/schema when not explicit.
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Making Menus Escapable: ubuntu/mac/windows(thomaspark.me)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Thanks. Yes, you can do it in Java (I did my own actually, with annotations), but... 1. copying is not innovating (sinatra was 2007) 2. it's hard to get into: http://www.sinatrarb.com/ has code above the fold; after hu
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by 6ren 13y ago
> the more you constrain the outcome and guide the player along a small number of paths, the more effectively you can tell the story, but the game becomes less interesting by equal measures. Maybe there's some art to finding the rig
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by 6ren 13y ago
Going back a step, Java itself is just download, unzip. Oracle actually made it even easier than Sun, by doing the "agree" on the website. But they do lose by not having it in ubuntu/debian.

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