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by 8ren 16y ago
I see that your reply to davidw was about actor/object; but I was replying to crayz, who was talking about "borrowing some DNA"/"being infected" ie. whether the effect was good or bad. hmmm... at least that's how I read him, anyway; but may
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by 8ren 16y ago
tvtropes is NSFWorking. Tangent: I disagree with Jack Sparrow being Crazy Awesome. He succeeds by the Rule of Cool, but I can't think of an instance where his craziness made him succeed (though that may be just because I'm very tired righ
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by 8ren 16y ago
Finally, Google gets a chance to appear non-evil! But note: nothing substantive about the patents which are the tricky bit.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I've been thinking about Oracle's stewardship of Java, as an intellectual exercise. I'm going to argue for Oracle (because that's the opposite of how I feel.) (1) Oracle is not a technology company. They don't have an engineering culture;
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by 8ren 16y ago
thanks! unfortunately it says as I feared: Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 Desktop PC - Black (40813AU) cannot be shipped to the selected address. (BTW: most things are OK for us with Amazon.)
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by 8ren 16y ago
Every new problem is hard. You are a beginner every time. Every dragon is a new dragon. If you already know how to defeat it, you should have built something to do it for you. Your first line is revealing succeeded at some of the hardest i
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Gravity simulator [flash] - try "Generate proto disk"(nowykurier.com)
89 points by 8ren 16y ago|40 comments
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by 8ren 16y ago
The Q150 looks amazing (though $350-$399 from their website: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/landing_pages/ideacentre/2010/q150 - you can even mount on the VESA bracket) Any idea how to get it in Australia? Lenovo's au site doesn't list it; and
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by 8ren 16y ago
This is awesome, but no demo webapp.
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by 8ren 16y ago
Outcome is reality. I recall a definition of mental illness that requires it to have a negative impact on the person. A mutation may be adaptive or maladaptive. It depends on the creature as a whole - and also the current environment. Tha
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by 8ren 16y ago
A boring project would be to regut an old eeePC with it - x2 the CPU and x2 the RAM. Seems like about the only way I'm gonna get an ARM netbook. :-( The board is 4"x4.5", but I couldn't find thickness, weight or power consumption. Some spec
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The Corn Personality Test: are you modular or integrated?(bentilly.blogspot.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
Cartoon shows are vividly pro-consumption: Simpsons has beer and crusty burgers; Futurama has alcohol; Spongebob has Krabby Patty burgers. Though often joked about, they are always seen being enjoyably consumed. This makes the shows very ap
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by 8ren 16y ago
There's a story about someone telling Einstein that he keeps a notebook on hand to jot down all the good ideas he's had. Einstein said he wouldn't need such a notebook. Because he has such a great memory? No, because he'd only had one or tw
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by 8ren 16y ago
The ultimate goal is to construe any arbitrary sequence of taps as a coherent message, grammatical and correctly spelled, and thus with no possible hint of error for the recipient. Ideally, it would also use information about the recipient,
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by 8ren 16y ago
I was afraid there'd be no content for this month but industry news and gossip - I was wrong. Good!
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by 8ren 16y ago
My reading has achieved unprecedented levels of unverifiable productivity I have a terrible memory for arbitrary facts, but great for things I understand (thus, I seek the reasons behind the facts.) Then I could then work it out from firs
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by 8ren 16y ago
Before relational databases and SQL, there was a successful industry of hierarchical databases (key-value stores), which was so utterly annihilated that not one vendor remained to give testament. RDB has since become standard. One aspect o
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by 8ren 16y ago
A taste of the next form-factor after smartphones? It's been reincarnated a few times without traction, but OLED+modern batteries might change that.
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by 8ren 16y ago
Our Moon is also in the Goldilocks zone, and rocky. But it lacks an atmosphere. Is this because the Moon is small, and some threshold of gravity is required? Or somehow related to the Moon's cold and inert interior, thus no gaseous volcanoe
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by 8ren 16y ago
Great questions. Success is best explained by product x market . So you can have great novels that languish, and massive movies that are rubbish. The idea of "what can be easily changed" is significant, and is the basis of Parnas' influent