NickM

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by NickM 14y ago
If you look at peoples' gross paycheck income, it appears to have stagnated, but much of this is due to the rising costs of healthcare. Incomes are effectively continuing to rise, it's just that much of that increase is being funneled into
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by NickM 14y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
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by NickM 14y ago
There is no other explanation for getting rid of buyer reputation and providing no protection to sellers. I disagree. Back in the old days when I used to use eBay before they removed buyer feedback, it was considered unwise to ever leave
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by NickM 14y ago
Are the boards waterproof? I would love to have one but I live in an area that gets a lot of rain, and I'd be terrified of getting caught in a storm and ruining my $1200 board. On the flip side, if it does handle water okay, then I imagine
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by NickM 14y ago
This is definitely a cool trick, but the real problem with FB app privacy is that unless you completely disable the app platform on your account, any apps that your friends install can also see information about you. Does it really matter
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by NickM 14y ago
The new MBP has two Thunderbolt ports and an HDMI output so I assume it's just using each output separately. Not sure about the Air though....
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by NickM 15y ago
It may be a theoretical problem, but there are very sophisticated mechanisms in place to prevent this from actually happening in practice with current li-ion batteries. There was a big scare about it with Tesla vehicles a while back that tu
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by NickM 15y ago
I don't happen to believe in mind-matter dualism, but at the same time, I also don't believe it's possible to scientifically prove it one way or the other. Can science truly explain where consciousness comes from? I would argue it cannot, b
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by NickM 15y ago
It's amazing to me how many people write articles bashing Unity and openly admit right in the article that they only used it for less than a day before deciding it was terrible. How long did it take you to reach your current level of produc
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by NickM 15y ago
I'd like to be able to export the data so I have a backup in case Google accidentally loses some of my data, or locks me out of my account. I suppose if you totally trust Google then it might not be such a useful feature. Although I could a
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by NickM 15y ago
Here is the question that this immediately raises in my mind: if this drug can cure any viral infection, then why haven't any species evolved to produce the drug in their own bodies?
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by NickM 15y ago
Didn't Adobe try something like this already, and Apple changed their policies to ban apps that used cross compiled code? Did Apple change their policies to allow this kind of tool after all, or is this somehow different from last time?
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by NickM 15y ago
I've had the same problem as you with the case cracking, and have seen it mentioned in other places on the internet. Definitely a design snafu there. That being said, Apple will fix it for free, even if it's out of warranty.
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by NickM 15y ago
Erlang's module system isn't just a namespace mechanism; it really lends itself well to stuff like gen_server where you need to provide a set of callbacks. I'm surprised he didn't even touch on this in his post, as it definitely seems like
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by NickM 15y ago
I wonder if the target date for this was originally Saturday ;-)
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by NickM 16y ago
There's much more concern with asymmetric algorithms like RSA or elliptic curve crypto. I don't know the details on symmetric ciphers like AES, but nobody really seems to be worried about them. However, it's also not necessarily true that a
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by NickM 16y ago
It would be nice if they posted a diff between their version and the original, if only for the people who already read the original and just want to see what changes were made.
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by NickM 16y ago
If you're interested, there's been plenty of research done on the matter. Search for "well to wheel" studies. You can find a good number of them online if you look, and electric cars beat the pants off of everything else.
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by NickM 16y ago
I don't think the government is interfering as much as you think it is. EVs have been in the pipe for a while now, and the tax credits for them (at least in the US) are only a couple years old. If there were some other promising type of alt
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by NickM 16y ago
It's a common fallacy that electric cars are just "moving the emission source" and therefore no better than gasoline cars. However, even if 100% of the electricity is generated from coal, an EV is actually much more environmentally frie
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by NickM 16y ago
Sounds like they're essentially advocating an Erlang-style model of concurrency, which generally seems to be recognized as a good way of doing things. That said, they're not really eliminating all the pitfalls of threaded programming. It's
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by NickM 16y ago
This article is right on. I've been tempted by many smartphones over the years, but I currently pay about $10/month average for my prepaid cellphone, and it works great. Smartphones are cool and all, but I really don't feel like I'm missing
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by NickM 16y ago
I wish the article had given an explanation for their claim that lumbar support doesn't help anything. They say the spine needs to stay S-shaped, and that's exactly what lumbar support is designed to promote, so what's the problem?
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by NickM 17y ago
That's correct. However, there are still some significant issues with Subversion's merge tracking. There's an excellent blog post that summarizes these issues here: http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/07/subversion-merg.htm...
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Python Generator Tricks for Systems Programming(dabeaz.com)
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by NickM 17y ago
Ars Technica did an excellent writeup about exactly this kind of cherry picking: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/10/talk-of-global-c...
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by NickM 17y ago
Other than being physically larger, I really prefer the old iPods to the new ones. Sure, they didn't have video/photo/games/whatever, but they did one thing and did it very well. The iPad, by contrast, seems to do lots of things, but does n
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by NickM 17y ago
Overall, great idea. However, it's kind of annoying to use with Python, since when you copy in a function definition, you need to go to the interpreter and hit enter an extra time to get it to work. I was going to try and fix this myself, b
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by NickM 17y ago
As a side note, I found this article really interesting in the context of the recently released Demon's Souls . Despite being a fringe title with essentially zero marketing, it's expected to sell 250,000 copies by the end of the year. Why
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by NickM 17y ago
If something like this was actually used, I predict we would just see a shift from "I'm in ur base, killin ur doods" to "I am in your base, and I am in the process of killing your dudes."

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