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by Toucan 16y ago
"Taking a piss" is literally urinating. Piss is a synonym for urine. "Taking the piss" in this context means mocking somebody/something. You can also "take the piss" if you're lying, exaggerating or any number of other social mistakes. I
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by Toucan 16y ago
But any cheaper phone is still useless without a contract anyway? The difference isn't $899, it's $899 minus the cost of ownership of an equivalent phone. Even a free phone on a 2 year basic contract is going to be around $600-700, surely
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by Toucan 16y ago
First off, I'm afraid I don't understand what a phone subsidy is, perhaps we don't have them in the UK or I've never seen them on a price plan here. Assuming it's something you pay for owning a smartphone, would it still be there for a smar
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by Toucan 16y ago
True, but what would be valuable is a blog post describing the thought process that led to this decision and what the perceived advantages and disadvantages are. If this is an experiment, it would be good to know the hypothesis. It would b
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by Toucan 16y ago
Yes, for people with arrest warrants for example. It also gives information on people who are overstaying visas, which can be taken into account if they apply again in the future.
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by Toucan 16y ago
When taking a big fall rock climbing the advice is to relax, enjoy the fall and shout something. Animal noises are the most fun, expletives the most common. The shouting is to make sure you're breathing out as you fall onto your harness r
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by Toucan 16y ago
I wasn't arguing against this article being contrary to public opinion, more that it's not a change in what science has said up to this point. I'm more concerned about the damage done by provocative headlines such as these that imply that
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by Toucan 16y ago
This isn't a reversal, at least not on the part of scientists. Reporting like this just reinforces the public's idea of "Why should I do what doctor's say? They just change their mind. First it was eggs..." and so on. Seriously, ask you
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by Toucan 16y ago
It loads, it just takes a long while.
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by Toucan 16y ago
I think it's more likely that he means taking a photo of yourself is easier with the front camera, as you can see the image on the screen as you do it.
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by Toucan 16y ago
What degree of knowledge should be assumed? There's plenty on HN that I don't understand but I'm yet to come across anything that 30 seconds with Google couldn't explain. The only knowledge that is a pre-requisite is how to find information
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by Toucan 16y ago
Various dialects of Indian English are still quite similar to British English during the 18th/19th centuries, which is why sometimes Indian English sounds quite archaic (do the needful, etc.). Emphasised nouns are capitalised in some of the
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by Toucan 16y ago
Is there a specific reason it has to be an Apple monitor? I have an HP IPS monitor with DisplayPort that I use calibrated with my MacBook Pro. What am I missing out on?
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by Toucan 16y ago
But you'd have to do that for each brand that he sells. It's not the DecorMyEyes keyword that people are getting the "wrong" result for.
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by Toucan 16y ago
I've used both the phones in your post and by and large I agree with you. That said, you seem to be talking about phones in a business environment. Do the users of the phones you're talking about own them? I wonder if they treat them wit
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by Toucan 16y ago
This is a more recent version of the same course (CS 193). Fall 2010 being newer than Winter 2010 caught me out too, but it made sense when I thought about it in the context of the academic year.
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by Toucan 16y ago
It's still a discount on most of the individual packages.
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by Toucan 16y ago
You're confusing the reporting of science with science. The news article contains what (the media think) the public would want to know of the results. The actual study (I'm not sure I can find it, but it appears to be a follow on from: htt
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by Toucan 16y ago
Look at Apple. So many competitors have sprung up based on features that are missing in the existing products. Apple still win the consumers. It's more than adding features to a product. I suspect Facebook is easy to use because people ca
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by Toucan 16y ago
http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is... This is superb! Some odd handling of spaces though. See: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...
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by Toucan 16y ago
Reading this, my first thought was that it's certainly nice that Heathrow Terminal 5 has faster than normal baggage reclaim and smoother security procedures, and that Calgary International Airport has free wi-fi outside the Tim Hortons, but
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by Toucan 16y ago
http://emerose.com/timing-attacks-explained For others, this helped me understand the basis of timing attacks.
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by Toucan 16y ago
My expectation would be that more intelligent children have more demanded of them, and go on to choose or take more stressful careers. Are there any studies correlating stress levels and drinking? Personal experience would suggest a relatio
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by Toucan 16y ago
It would seem that's just for WCBO Championship fights. The amateur boxing world is almost entirely self-regulating.
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by Toucan 16y ago
Completely anecdotal, but I've tried chessboxing (as an amateur) a number of times. I'm an awful, awful chess player but a decent boxer and I'm reasonably fit. Personally I've found some sort of link between mental and physical exhaustion,
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by Toucan 16y ago
Montblanc make mechanical pencils. As do most of the luxury brand manufacturers (there are many who make more expensive pens than Montblanc.) This is potentially better then lead in that it's permanent after a while. I wonder how permanent
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by Toucan 16y ago
I do. It's not so much a standing desk as a lump in my room (there's a staircase below it) that comes up to about waist height. Laptop goes on a couple of boxes and a riser to get to eye height, keyboard and mouse go on a large board on som
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by Toucan 16y ago
There is an iPhone app already: (not mine) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news/id339408916?mt=8 A lot of the complaints are for older versions, you can at least vote now.
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by Toucan 16y ago
The headline is mildly ambiguous. To be more precise, this is the last roll of Kodachrome which was produced. Not the last roll of Kodachrome which Dwayne's will develop. From Dwayne's website: Kodachrome Film Status: The last day of pro
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by Toucan 16y ago
I've run a 250,000 pageview/month vBulletin forum (MySQL and PHP, you can judge for yourself how efficient you think this would be as a comparison) off a server destined for the scrapheap: 1.8GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, 1 x 5400rpm IDE disk Fo

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