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by a-priori 16y ago
The risk there is that it can take a lot of effort to productize an internal tool. You need to polish it so people think it's worthwhile paying for (good design, integrations, etc.), harden it against security concerns, and so on.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Now that I think about it, I believe I was remembering an interview on the Brain Science podcast with Douglas Fields[1], author of The Other Brain[2]. So sorry, but I don't have primary sources for what I said in my earlier comment... [1]:
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by a-priori 16y ago
There's no single mechanism in neuroscience to explain learning in general, because the current understanding is that "learning" is a very vague term that covers many types of adaptation, and each has its own mechanism. I'm not familiar wit
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by a-priori 16y ago
I didn't think this was new... I remember hearing about this effect last year and having it attributed to Oligodendrocytes, I believe. That said, it's a very important development, because until the last few years the glial cells have mostl
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by a-priori 16y ago
In my limited experience, painless. I'm Canadian, and I've been to Switzerland twice: first as a tourist, then on a work visa. Both times I entered the Schengen area via Charles de Gaulle, then flew to Geneva or Zurich respectively. Both ti
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by a-priori 16y ago
I know a guy who, if I remember this correctly, is half Lebanese, half Italian, was raised in Germany and now lives in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. From that he speaks French, Arabic, Italian, German and English. Another fellow
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by a-priori 16y ago
Yes, that will break Gravatar since its algorithm uses the hash of the entire address to find your image.
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by a-priori 16y ago
I have heard that babies do not realize that their thoughts are private and assume that thinking by itself is a form of communication. I haven't heard this one before, but it wouldn't surprise me. Children up to age 7 or so can't apprecia
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by a-priori 16y ago
Don't forget the last step: refine and repeat.
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by a-priori 16y ago
I was joking, of course, but this is something you see with linkbait blog posts quite a lot. The title is an outrageous question that gets people to click on it, then the body is a mundane argument why the question is false. Title: "Is Stev
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by a-priori 16y ago
Needs more question marks. You can get away with any title, no matter how bogus, if you make it a question.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Well, that depends entirely on how fast you're going.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Thanks for this description. An extra logic gate (A20) was added to the keyboard controller that would enable or disable access to memory above 1MB. Yes, the fact that it's on the keyboard controller is the single biggest WTF about the
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by a-priori 16y ago
I suppose it depends what you want to get out of it. There's certainly educational value in going as deep as you have the stomach for. But, for me at least, learning the specifics of how to get a processor on the PC architecture into a usab
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by a-priori 16y ago
While it's cool and all to write your own bootloader, this means you have to deal with a lot of the really ugly bits of x86/PC architecture... like the A20 gate, for example (if you don't know what that is, count yourself lucky). Instead, I
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by a-priori 16y ago
I think this is a good approach for identifying who this is, but you should assume good faith. They probably don't even know they're causing you problems. Try asking them nicely to limit their request rate, and only block them if they're no
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by a-priori 16y ago
I too don't buy the argument that the aggressive, degrading sex you see in lots of internet porn is what every male secretly wants. My theory is that the reason lots of internet porn is extreme is the same reason as why movies revolve aroun
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by a-priori 16y ago
I would guess no, since it includes only a mock of the DOM. But really, are element locations something you want to test?
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by a-priori 16y ago
If kids want to go all stabby stabby in a school, they don't need ceremonial daggers to do it. It happened at my high school, in Canada, using a cooking knife stolen from the cafeteria kitchen.
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by a-priori 16y ago
I'm pretty sure Grey's Anatomy (the book, not the show!) doesn't draw clothing over the figures...
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by a-priori 16y ago
You're not crazy. They just listed the parts of the heart separately. Look for the atrium and the ventricles.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Morals are in the realm of science insofar as they can be measured and examined as part of a person's decision making process.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Shouldn't be surprising since Hans Rosling (the guy in the video) co-founded Gapminder.
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by a-priori 16y ago
I heard a joke once that the weight of bike+lock is a constant regardless of price. People with more expensive bikes buy bigger, heavier locks to protect them.
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by a-priori 16y ago
There are a few advantages apart from straight up hourly rate: 1) The big one is that you get a ready-made team of project managers, UX designers, QA, developers that have either worked together before or at least share methodology and cult
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by a-priori 16y ago
If I'm reading it right, the black line is the best fitness in a given generation, and the green line is the average fitness.
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by a-priori 16y ago
This is a strawman. The real lesson here is not "don't outsource your code" but rather, "if you decide to outsource your code, don't skimp out". There are plenty of skilled and motivated software developers that do outsourced work. I'm one
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by a-priori 16y ago
I appreciate the correction... but there's no need to be nasty.
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by a-priori 16y ago
More accurately, they did build ARM chips -- the XScale line. But they sold that division to Marvell in 2006, although they still retain an ARM license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale
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by a-priori 16y ago
"Our co-workers thought we were a bit odd," says Brettle, "but we assured them it was all in the name of science." My heroes.

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