Pitarou

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by Pitarou 13y ago
It's a refinement of the idea. If you use Spreeder, your eye still needs to move sometimes. That slows you down. Spritz has been carefully designed to ensure that your eye never needs to move, and never wants to move. In my informal co
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by Pitarou 13y ago
And I think Amazon would like their customers to read more books, too...
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That really is impressive. I compared it with the speed-reading app at spreeder.com, and Spritz's claims do seem to be born out. 500 wpm was a little too much for me at Spreeder, but with Spritz's improvements it became manageable
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OfficeQuest... Gamification for the Office Suite(secretgeek.net)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That's the best "upvote whoring" I've seen all week. Gets a point from me! :-)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I noticed the same off-by-one bug on the BBC iPlayer: the volume setting can go up to 11.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
What does "DMMT" stand for? You made me think, dammit!
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I don't recall any dog food consumption in American Psycho . But it's a long time since I read it.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I'm working on a website that sells top-end, hand-made fountain pens at $2,000 apiece. They'd be wasted on me -- lousy handwriting -- but boy do I want one. I'm having to restrain myself from telling you, at length, just how
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by Pitarou 13y ago
You're solving the wrong problem. The combination of checking account, debit card, and local bank branch helps businesses: - take care of the cash that accumulates on premises. - take care of routine bills. - purchase goods by distance
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I would if I could, but I'm in no position to force my suppliers and customers to use BTC.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
357 words before they get round to saying "your credit card will be billed $1,850". Unacceptable. This would be more honest: --- Dear valued customer, blah, blah, blah, blah, have you fallen asleep yet? We're going to charge
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by Pitarou 13y ago
At least none of the letters were upside down. You should see some the absolute travesties of Chinese character tattoos.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I'd draw people's attention, in particular, to this principle: > Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime. This is in contrast to the US, where a cop's career pros
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That makes sense. Psychopaths burn everybody close to them, so their relationships have a pretty short shelf-life anyway.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That, plus the fact that it was the social contacts that broke him. If you could break all social and family ties, you could probably get away with a lot. But you'd also be alone and vulnerable in the world. Tough choice. Maybe the m
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I've had similar problems with Tor Browser when it has trouble getting the Tor connection set up. Maybe you're behind a proxy, or maybe Tor traffic is being blocked?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Good idea. I think I'll do the same.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Two big surprises from this article: 1. The author gives the impression that there's no big deal to fixing memory leaks in Haskell. I thought they were supposed to be its Achilles' heel. 2. Erlang lost on its home turf!
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by Pitarou 13y ago
In America in the 60s, it was easy to believe that technology had solved the old problems of allocation of wealth between capital and labour once and for all. And maybe, in the long run, the techno-utopians are right. But we've still g
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Makes me proud to be a nerd. :)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
It's a little non-standard, and some would argue that it deviates from the philosophy of "standing on the shoulders of giants", but I think it's acceptable. Note that you should still "cite relevant work in passing&
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That's kind of disappointing. Why is Mt. Gox in Japan at all, then? Is it simply because of the popularity of trading card games in Japan?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
No, no. The animal spirits are still there. But the structure of the economy is locked down tight. New business models that threaten to disrupt the established oligopolies are routinely killed off through the simple mechanism of outlawing t
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Just don't expect any "disruptive innovations" is all I'm saying.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
As a qualified, practising teacher of English as a foreign language, I guess I should be able to help. For competence, once you've got past the basics of grammar, it's mostly about memory. Create a database of words, phrases, and
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I'm talking about the outbreaks of diarrhea, because those are the only symptoms that are clearly epidemologically significant. From a crew of 6,000, there's nothing that strikes me odd about the occasional case of thyroid or gyne
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by Pitarou 13y ago
On its own, I can't treat this article as credible. The compensation lawyer presents the strongest possible case for his clients, and the journalist is clearly glossing over a great deal in order to get the juiciest quotes. From what l
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Ah, I see. As you say, to me that's not an object to overcome. That's a sign you're talking to the wrong people.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> If you are selling to enterprise often the biggest objection is "I'll be needed less" Seriously? Do you have experience of this? In my experience, people these days recognise that progress marches on, and the only viable

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