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by Permit 14y ago
Sounds like the end result could have been avoided had the "visionary" simply not been hypocritical and avoided doing "a bad thing".
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by Permit 14y ago
My first thought was that it's ridiculous to assume pilots would ever be reliant on Apple Maps when trying to land their aircraft. Then I remembered a few similar occurrences: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...
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by Permit 14y ago
>USPTO patent examiners will be able to search the site to find prior art they may have missed; the USPTO, complying with the new law, will also provide an online system for submitting prior art. We’re also integrating with Google Paten
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by Permit 14y ago
The longer a post has been around, the most points it requires to get to the front page. I believe this is still relevant: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 PG's post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417
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by Permit 14y ago
>Firstly, Banks do set the pin first, and the vast majority of people probably never change it. That's certainly not the case at my bank. I live in Canada, so perhaps things are done differently here, but when I was issued my card they
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by Permit 14y ago
I wonder if you could prepend your PIN with 0's. If the input is interpreted as a number, it might work. If they cast it to a string, it probably wouldn't.
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by Permit 14y ago
This is a vast, vast oversimplification. By your logic, Canada should be seeing massive unemployment as our minimum wage is 20%-30% higher in most provinces than most states. The reality is that Canada's unemployment rate sits at about 7.3%
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by Permit 14y ago
"DoesNotExist" error. At first I thought it was a joke related to the title, but now I see that it's just a Django error page. Made me chuckle at least. Here's a cached version in the meantime: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?
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by Permit 14y ago
>Warning Sign D3: Too Few Subjects >The author advertising smart drugs doesn't describe any careful studies, so of course he doesn't mention the number of subjects in any studies. Most so-called studies of smart drugs have been far
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by Permit 14y ago
>Would you take a pill wich makes you a prodigy but shortens your expected lifetime with 5 year? Absolutely. Perhaps it's the naivety of youth speaking, but I'd gladly trade 5 of the worst years of my life to improve the rest of them. &
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by Permit 14y ago
I'm surprised David Rose's talk on pitching to VCs didn't make it: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_s_rose_on_pitching_to_vcs.htm... As someone who has never been in the position to pitch to a VC, I found it really interesting and informati
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by Permit 14y ago
Looks pretty awesome, but the price tag instantly puts it out of range for a student like myself. Hopefully they attain some level of success such that they can mass manufacture them and bring the price down. I'd love to have one.
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by Permit 14y ago
Yeah, it struck me as bizarre that he would be so taken aback when someone suggested he was responsible for the leak, but then he made identical baseless suggestions...
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by Permit 14y ago
I am not a physicist, so I'm speaking outside my realm of expertise. On the topic, Hawking suggests the following: "Quantum physics might seem to undermine the idea that nature is governed by laws, but that is not the case. Instead it leads
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by Permit 14y ago
>Steve Jobs is saying it is easy to copy. But if you're great, you steal the fundamental idea and do something totally new with it. Is there an extended version of the linked video? I don't know where you got "and do something totally n
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by Permit 14y ago
How can it be deterministic if there are elements of randomness in our universe? I mean true randomness such as electron movement and nuclear decay.
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by Permit 14y ago
So instead of trying to hire the great technical people from companies like Zynga, you condemn them to continue working there? Not hiring someone from Zynga does nothing to hurt the company, simply the individual who worked there. The idea
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by Permit 14y ago
The idea behind choosing Apple, Faceboook, Twitter, Zynga etc. is to simply provide a filter for technical skills. Culture-fit, ethics and other flexible, qualitative criteria were not the target of this filter. Although if you're prepared
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by Permit 14y ago
That last point is completely wrong. Zynga is a lot more than the flash games you see on the front end, at least from a technical standpoint. Even with your obvious bias, you have to admit that they operate at a huge scale and that alone mu
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by Permit 14y ago
What? The whole point is that Spotify and Pandora are doing things legitimately via advertising or subscriptions and paying the appropriate royalties. You can get very rich by giving away others' creations for free. Sites like the PirateBay
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by Permit 14y ago
Maybe to promote the "learning over credit" model, Coursera shouldn't attempt to stop any kind of plagiarism. This would make the certificate essentially worthless, which would promote learning only for the sake of learning.
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by Permit 14y ago
>I still don't get why Microsoft is pushing Metro SO HARD to bet everything on it when nobody really likes it that much. I personally love Metro, and I'm not the only one in my circle of friends. I accept that not everyone likes it, but
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by Permit 14y ago
I read this article and imagined computing in the first half of the 20th century. Undoubtedly when some programmer first managed to get his room sized computer to add, subtract and multiply someone was present to scoff about how he could al
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by Permit 14y ago
If I use Twitter, it's not because of third party products. While I could see a decision like this severely impacting Facebook, whose applications I do use from time to time, I don't know that it will hurt Twitter. Are there any ground brea
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by Permit 14y ago
The ads I get on twitter and Facebook are not a dealbreaker for me. I dont understand how its an improvement over either service with the exception that there are no ads and will likely protect my data better. (Thats another issue im not pa
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by Permit 14y ago
You're prescribing a bandaid solution to what is a much deeper problem. The reason you're avoiding a search is to prevent the system from screwing you over so deeply and completely. Where does this leave individuals like those in the origin
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by Permit 14y ago
Yes he ruined his life. But only because the drug laws for possession are so over the top and counterproductive. The fact someone can do as little as he did and have it cost him his job and cause him so many problems is a sign of a broken s
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by Permit 14y ago
Haha, I wonder if they could use Bitcoin as their prevailing currency and avoid that problem altogether.
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by Permit 14y ago
>From Visual Studio Blog it is known that the source code for Visual Studio 2012, formerly known as Visual Studio 11, consists of about 50 million lines of code. And despite this fact new release contains lots of new features and improv
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by Permit 14y ago
Most vendors simply convert their USD prices to BTC during the day so anyone who uses them gets ~10USD out of them for the time being.

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