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by T-hawk 16y ago
It seems that much of this consternation about munged URLs (here and in other threads) is about preserving the functionality of the "back" button. Why do we need a back button? The DOS and Unix command lines never had a back button. Lotus
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Do we need an update? I'm not sure if the iOS app market has changed in just a few months. The Verizon iPhone seems to be making a small splash at best and selling mostly to existing iPhone owners.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> Ugh, another frivolous down vote. Why do people do this? Fat fingering the downvote button? Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence...
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Using whatever editor or CLI you want sounds like a nice touch, might not be so expected in such a big company. Does this extend to browsers? Is it open to use Firefox or Opera or Chrome as your main personal web browser, or is there a cor
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by T-hawk 16y ago
The best way to ask a coworker for help: Look for a moment when he or she is not in flow that you will break. Returning from the water closet or coffee maker, or just if you happen to glance at their screen and see Gmail or HN or something
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by T-hawk 16y ago
To be precise, what you would like is a USB port and software support for what could be a subtly wide range of peripherals. A USB port brings the expectation of seamless software support for all of the following: - removable storage - wire
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> because there are so many and their skill set and salary requirements translates so well to other industries. The skill set of completely fabricating what you and the company can accomplish, getting other people to believe it, accepti
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by T-hawk 16y ago
In addition to the business cost of giving away discounts, are you accounting for the business cost of increased support incidents for forgotten passwords? (Good idea though)
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Well, garden collapse was one factor among many. It could be argued that Atari had to rush their shoddy Pac-man to market lest a competitor jump in with a clone first. Another factor was the appearance of pornographic games (Rule 34 appli
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by T-hawk 16y ago
What you say is true for the Atari 7800, not the 2600. The 2600 had no protection or verification at all; it wasn't remotely thought of when the 2600 was designed in 1977. The 2600 happily runs any ROM at all containing executable 6502 ma
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Relativity demands and demonstrates that there is no such thing as "'reality' in the physical world". Events only occur and exist in the context of an observer. From the perspective of an Earthbound observer, the photon emitted by the ship
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Would you hire somebody that already stole something major from your very company?
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by T-hawk 16y ago
We don't like it, but Apple's got every allowance and reason to do this. Either Readability will cave to Apple's pricing model, or somebody else will come in with the same technology and do so. Apple believes that the competitive position
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Good point. Maybe put downvote between "X points" and "by"? Gives unclickable buffer space on each side of the arrow.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Lightboxes are a very effective tool for FORCIBLY FOCUSING YOUR ATTENTION RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW. What do most commercial websites want to forcibly focus your attention on right here right now? Yeah. Adverts. It's an arms race. Advertiser
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side I'm seconding that suggestion. It's the minimal possible coding workload, and solves the pr
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> Transparent updates, especially when they're nigh-totally transparent, are in an entirely different world than "do you want to update yes/no/cancel" Transparent updates are great, until something goes wrong. What happens if someone m
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by T-hawk 16y ago
What the naysayers are missing is that it probably IS a good way to get hired. Yes, he's going to get dismissed by a sizable chunk of resume readers for all the reasons listed: no Facebook account, doesn't fit into HR's straitjacketed pro
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by T-hawk 16y ago
I think the parent meant Adobe Flash.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
How did your previous ones "die"? Software is not mortal. Why can't your past web apps be product material for a startup? Did you just lose interest? You may not like this answer, but the actual hacking and coding is a very small part of
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Not too surprising. Any talk of outsourcing will hit a pretty personal nerve among the hacker and programmer community.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
=====MILD SPOILERS FOR DAY 2 BELOW===== (I posted this in another thread, but this one seems to have most of the action.) I think it's become apparent that most of Watson's advantage is in signaling speed. Figure that a top human player lik
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by T-hawk 16y ago
=====SPOILERS BELOW===== I think it's become apparent that most of Watson's advantage is in signaling speed. Figure that a top human player like Jennings knows about 80% of the answers and Watson about 90%. Watson should be winning, but
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> The best strategy for humans, then, is to start at the highest value questions. Also because doing that searches for Daily Doubles, which are concentrated at the higher value clues.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Debunked by Snopes. Coca-Cola already had HFCS five years before New Coke. Here's the link, and also follow the "Cokelore" link at the top for the whole category. http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> But I think there isn't a viable competitor in the "C, but better" space at the moment. In the Microsoft ecosystem, C# is this. No, C# isn't OS-independent or hardware-independent or HTTP-server independent. It's not meant to be. C
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> He hops from category to category, while most humans pick a category and stick with it. Ken Jennings himself did that for the express reason of throwing off his opponents. As the category selector he would have an extra couple second
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by T-hawk 16y ago
The Terminator famously used 6502 assembly code from the Apple ][ boot ROM for the robot's point-of-view camera.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> its pure reaction time may be its winning factor. Indeed. Jennings himself has said that his buzzer instincts and reflexes created his winning streak more so than actual knowledge. You can easily see that when he clicks and then com
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> If you discriminate against people whose names are 'weird' I'm curious why this issue triggers a knee-jerk response of "that's discrimination". Seems to me that Quora may just perceive that it's not a worthwhile use of customer-servic

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