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by _greim_ 13y ago
If the ISP was a customer buying bandwidth from Comcast like anyone else, then Comcast has zero obligation to increase their bandwidth for free. If the ISP is Comcast, then when you pay for that 1Gbps uplink, you are paying Comcast and yo
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by _greim_ 13y ago
The bar Soylent needs to clear is not the ideal perfect diet that scientists may discover one day, but rather the diet of average joe in 2014. Not a very high bar.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> This is the best criticism of soylent I disagree. With sex, the enjoyment can be had no matter what, while the biological part (reproduction) is optional. But with food, it's often a mutually exclusive choice between enjoyment and
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by _greim_ 13y ago
The company is taking essentially an open-source approach, and is deliberately fostering an active DIY community. Ensure and other products don't operate that way, as far as I know. That's pretty compelling to a lot of people.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
In the interest of hearing both sides of the story, can someone explain what legitimate complaints prosecutors may have about these developments, if any?
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> How much of our economy is actually based on the kinds of small, plastic objects that can be printed? It seems more realistic to ask: > How much of our economy is actually based on the kinds of objects that can be printed? ...since
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Wired.com made (web) history by being one of the first major sites to deploy a pure-CSS design, which was based on floats because that's all that worked back in the days of Netscape 4 and IE 4. The web design community now primarily us
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by _greim_ 13y ago
This is something I've often wished for, but I had no idea it was on the radar of the spec hackers.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Can someone speculate as to why Jobs would have been opposed to this? The only thing I can come up with is that Jobs was trying to minimize the amount of times that "I know a guy at Google" was spoken in the halls of Apple.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
I have a theory. Competence increases with age. However, there's a fine line between older people not doing as many stupid things, versus older people not taking as many risks. The perceived "talent" or "smartness"
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by _greim_ 13y ago
So are ATM machines monolithic devices where you have to scrap the entire thing if you want to upgrade the OS? Or do you open a door in the side, remove the old computer and hook up a new one, and as long as you have the drivers that same c
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by _greim_ 13y ago
They took the path of least resistance and it paid off until now. Now that path is a dead end and they face a painful upgrade. But arguably it was still worth it in the long run.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Arguably, a world with less poverty would be a world more capable of focusing on space exploration. Poverty drags everyone down in so many ways.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Not actually. An impact is inevitable, given enough time.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
If you like this kind of stuff you might also like this: http://obadger.com/turtle/ Then paste/run this program: var triangle = (function(){ function frag(len, depth, left){ if (left === undefi
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by _greim_ 13y ago
This simple extension: https://github.com/greim/Backbone-Subscriptions ...eliminates much of the need to clean up the kinds of event handlers that prevent views from being GC'd. Essentially, it contrives things su
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by _greim_ 13y ago
It looks like they're playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma. They have to compete in the same employee market over the long term. You snipe my engineer, I snipe your engineer, same net engineer count, but loss of experience. We
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Not legal reasons. We don't want to do it for technical reasons.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Perhaps. I can certainly appreciate that a brand designer may be worrying about a wide range of print and advertising media, and in that grand scheme of concerns the web isn't all that important.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
It isn't inherently something that needs to be SaaS. I could host the webfont on my own server, for example, if it were a legal option. But that isn't allowed, so you're forced to load it off their servers. So yes it's a
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> Open-source typography is flourishing, but that doesn't mean commercial typography is dead. Agreed, I just think the pendulum hasn't swung far enough on the open direction, because of the relative newness of the tech. In othe
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by _greim_ 13y ago
This needs to sink into the collective brains of the world's brand designers, many of whom still standardize upon proprietary fonts. My company creates sites for a variety of brands, and we run into the same problem over and over again
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> there would be no Chipotle if the housing prices kept going up. I don't follow this at all. Are you suggesting that restaurants would simply disappear from SF entirely ? Or that locals would never go to restaurants? It seems much
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Yes but hysteresis effects likely come into play where actual price points can't keep up with ideal market price points when the ideals change quickly. E.g., residents would balk at a $30 Chipotle burrito (I'm guessing here) even
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by _greim_ 13y ago
The hangup with pagination is even if it can be done well, most people associate it with a full page reload, often very slow, often because of ads.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Wave didn't strike me as the most performant of client-side webapps, but certainly may have been ahead of its time in terms of what it was trying to do. I wonder if browsers could make this sort of thing easier, or even automatic. Quer
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by _greim_ 13y ago
So, who controls the list?
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> That wall street occasionally invests in companies that actually do create wealth and allocate capital to the betterment of society is more a case of broken clock sometimes being right. I don't think the two goals—greed and making
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by _greim_ 13y ago
So what's the difference between specifying a universe-simulating algorithm, and specifying its initial conditions, versus actually running it? Since the entire history is somehow implied in that specification, don't all those peo
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by _greim_ 13y ago
So as a non-scientist, let me see if I understand. There are lots of uncaught errors floating around out there in scientific papers, and many of them can now be found with this software. But the exposing the errors so that they can be corre

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