JimmyL

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by JimmyL 17y ago
>>It's called a MacBook Pro and is marketed at more demanding users, i.e. professionals Which "professionals"? 8bit color is important to pretty much one professional group: graphic artists/designers (maybe two, if you include peopl
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>> this...will not gain much traction except in the Sharepoint world. OK - I would bet that's all MS is gunning for. If you're going to have the server capacity and administration skill set to manage a SharePoint system (which, from
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I've never used that term for it, but I know exactly what you're taking about. When I was trying to build up a habit of going to the gym every day after work, there would often be a part of my mind saying things like I'm too tired , I won
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As cheesy as his implementation suggestion sounds ( Don't break the chain! ) I found it actually works quite well.
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I'm sure the Iraqi people - let alone the Russians and the Chinese - would love it if the US set off twenty or thirty EMPs every day as they went about their daily business.
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So they'll find a new way - timer after loss of signal, FRS radio, long-range cordless phones, IR sensors, etc. Worse comes to worse, they'll do it manually and blow themselves up in the process. This isn't the kind of problem that you can
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What I found to be equally interesting was the effect Twitter (and the themes created by watching it) had on the Western portrayal of the protests. For a newsman, Tweeting Iranians were their perfect subject - people who were (by and large)
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re: Popcorn - I haven't read the book, but I have helped run a movie theater. The answer, if you're not going to read it, it that popcorn (and the associated food products) is how the theaters make their money. Sure, your ticket price contr
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Just graduated, so working on getting a job (anyone in Toronto?). In the meantime, brushing up on my Python with Project Euler and a Kenken solver.
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Someone tried it - http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/03/06/trying_to_game_swoopo_c... - and couldn't get that to work. The author does some interesting pattern analysis of how auctions actually work, and concludes (roughly) that you can't be
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If you're going to have a show gridlines option (Good Thing), you should probably have a snap to grid option for the form elements, so people don't have to stare at the screen and jiggle their mouse to make it all line up.
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Seems like quite a logical jump between the article content (one MIT student decided to hack his door to be controlled by his iPhone) and the headline (all MIT students have iPhone-controlled doors and love them).
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I think it's one hell of an experiment, but in all honesty I don't wish you luck. When it comes to many things having to do with politics - and the clusterfuck that is California in the wake of their ballot initiative system is the prime ex
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Mugasha is great, for the record. Here's hoping you find some money, keep it going, and get a full launch.
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The vaccum the article is referencing is the DC31 - http://www.dyson.co.uk/store/product.asp?product=DC31-IRSBL - with the Dyson Digital Motor , which I assume is branding-speak for what we're talking about. As others have mentioned, the
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Yeah - if I'm asked for payment info during a demo period, I'll probably just move on and find something else. For one, my wallet generally isn't near my computer - but even if it is, I don't like giving out my CC number for something I may
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Yeah - I'm seeing this as well. The real thing I've noticed - and this happens every time that a major new rev comes out - is how much my browsing experience depends on various extensions. Sure, stock Firefox works, but in order for it to b
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Yeah, I think they're designed for different niches. I use Posterous as my platform for publishing content that's text-based - I really like using my email client as a UI, and it makes it easy to post from anywhere. It's also dead simple (o
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Have a read of The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, and you'll be wondering even more. I'm not a vegetarian or vegan (meat is too tasty), but that book in many ways changed how I shop for food.
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>> the software is very simple and could be duplicated very quickly As is said so many times in what we do, if it's that simple why don't you hire a few hackers for a few weeks, build it, and then compete with them? SE has a very po
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This seems like it would have a serious early-adopter problem, in that it needs a pretty large network of people that somewhat know each other in order for things to work. Specifically, if I join this service, I can't do anything until some
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It may be - but for government work, that's the way it is. It should be simpler, but there's a whole lot of vested interest in making these things difficult and obscure to get into, which is something the Sunlight guys ran head-first into.
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We're not Microsoft's primary customer when it comes to considering Outlook. Neither is Travelocity, or pretty much anyone that would know what CSS even was, let alone be unhappy about the rendering used for it (or even know what a renderin
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I use feed43 a fair amount, and am pretty satisfied with it. It's certainly not user-friendly, but once you get the hang of it it works.
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I've got a similar question (I'm a guy in a similar place to cmpeters), so as opposed to opening another HN on a very similar vein. Like cmpeters, I'm a recent college grad (BEng in Computer Engineering) from a top school in my Western Engl
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Degree in Entrepreneurship? I've not heard of this, and (off the bat) it seems like it might be one huge contradiction, or a way for a school to bundle a bunch of pre-existing courses together into something "new and innovative" that they c
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It takes a hell of a lot of effort to release a textbook - time to (conceptually) design it, write it, edit it, have other professors edit it, etc. In the time it takes to do that, they could have banged out a few interesting papers to pres
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The presence of "freedom of choice" for the consumer depends on how you look at the industry. From a student's perspective, there is no real choice - you use the textbook you're assigned. Some professors will offer a few alternatives, but u
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If it's gonna be someone, he's not a bad candidate for it - his Calculus books are high-quality textbook that age nicely.
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Yeah - the legal issues surrounding the live-blogging of spots games (or even making a blog post about a game while it's going on) are unclear. In this case, though, it seems that the site is just a way of showing a pair of #search results

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