Perceval

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   by Perceval 15y ago

   there's more downside than upside. One failure cancels out 3 or 4 successes Some should be so hard that the hardest exam problems go for years without being answered. Make it so hard that 20% is passing and 60% is exceptional-- instead o
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   by Perceval 15y ago

   > "For engineers, the biggest [moral] issue with weapons development is that it is fun". This reminded me of a very similar quote from Edward Luttwak about the disconnect between students of war and the people who fight wars: http://ww
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   by Perceval 15y ago

   There are some apps for browsing HN in the app store, but I haven't bought any of them to try. Right now I browse HN through http://ihackernews.com/ which is a nicer stylesheet for mobile browsing.
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   by Perceval 15y ago

   There are plenty of image threads that are not porn. Especially if you forego /b/ for the work-safe topical boards.
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   by Perceval 15y ago

   I have that Chrome extension and a similar one for Safari. I just dislike opening images inline or all loaded into one separate tab, because then it turns saving individual images into a mouse-driven task rather than a keyboard-driven task.
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   by Perceval 15y ago

   That's certainly true, but Chrome ostensibly doesn't know that, and spins a new process per tab (or close to it). Creating 150 new processes, even if just to load an image in each, increases memory consumption and processor overhead.
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   by Perceval 15y ago

   Go to 4chan and find a funny or creative thread with a bunch of image replies. Use the Linky Firefox extension to "Open All Image Links in Tabs". Voilà.
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   by Perceval 15y ago

   Let's say you're on 4chan and there's a creative thread with a bunch of images. Threads can reach 150 images before they max out. You could use the Linky extension to "Open All Image Links in Tabs" and you would instantly be up over 100 t
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   by Perceval 15y ago

   Thanks, I enabled 'shortcuts' in the omnibox . We'll see if that improves my results.
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    Doesn't work for me for whatever reason. Oddly, it will show the google search for "nfc east blog" from my history (www.google.com/search?aq=1&oq=nfceast&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=nfc+east+blog), but it won't show the ac
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    That's definitely something that's kept me from adopting Chrome full time. A lot of people grouse about the AwesomeBar, but the Omnibox has taken a very long time to achieve feature parity, and still isn't there yet. Using the AwesomeBar
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    I saw your comment last night and it bothered me, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. I think it's because it doesn't actually respond to my link, evidence, or argument. You acknowledge that I made a comment, but then reassert you
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    You seem to be placing the blame for girls not going into to tech on other girls. Are girls' peer groups really the ones holding back girl in IT? I don't see the "nerd phenomenon backing guys being interested in tech." It's a negative ste
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    I think the narrative you're constructing is inaccurate. Even given that society only just recently realized that women could be equal members of the workforce, I don't think that tech fields were especially male dominated when they starte
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    As I recall from my own primary and secondary education, being a nerd who likes reading about science and math, and spends most of his time after school on his computer is not exactly encouraged by society either. Your parents want to cut
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    That was Jack Welch's famous method at GE: fire the bottom 10% of management every year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch#Tenure_as_CEO_of_GE
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    Certainly not. All of the top-rated comments in this thread express a negative opinion of Apple's policies.
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    Please don't include passive grubbing for upvotes as a coda to your comments. If you have something to say, even if it's controversial, have the courage to say it plainly without projecting anxiety about karma (of all things). It's insultin
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    Please don't include passive grubbing for upvotes as a preface to your comments. If you have something to say, even if it's controversial, have the courage to say it plainly without projecting anxiety about karma (of all things). It's insu
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    I've emailed John before to ask him about language issues on OS X – I think this was back around the time that Apple decided they weren't going to roll their own Java runtime anymore. He responded back promptly and pointed me toward some r
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    This reminds me of the kerfuffle over the Drunken Batman slide "Black People Don't Use Macs" http://www.flickr.com/photos/rtmfd/1097058025/
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    I'm in a poli-sci department with a bunch of continental political theorists. I cannot stand Slavok Žižek. Probably the biggest living bullshit artist in political theory.
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    At the top of this thread, ojbyrne says we need to have government regulation in order to create competition. Here you say that we needed regulation to make AT&T a de jure national monopoly so that we could further regulate AT&T.
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    The original AT&T was made into a national monopoly by U.S. government regulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Telephone_%26_Telegrap... Likewise, in many European countries, telecoms were originally national monopolies. Bo
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    Native English speaker – I had the same problems with non-Anglo names. It seems to discount the possibility that one is searching for a foreign name (in my case, an Italian name), and instead tries to interpret the name as if it were an En
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    Mozilla has launched a dedicated group to tracking down memory usage problems: http://www.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/06/mozilla-launches...
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    There's a good book on the political and social consequences of the last little ice age: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan.
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    Germans were traditionally known for beer, singing, and culture. It was the Prussians who were known for their militarism.
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    The cost of hiding from the law must be less than the cost of abiding by the law.
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    by Perceval 15y ago

    Reasoning was not designed to pursue the truth. Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments. I guess the Sophists get the last laugh over Socrates.