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by ablation 11y ago
A great loss, made no less shocking for all its foreshadowing due to his illness. The knowledge he shared through his work and his books have had a lasting impact on my life and the lives of others. Would that we all leave such a legacy.
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by ablation 11y ago
Geez. What an terrible article.
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by ablation 11y ago
Sometimes, things just get too toxic to have to worry about. I can't imagine it was pleasant to have to endure looking after 4chan.
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by ablation 11y ago
Quite a few player embeds on the pages I visit still default to Flash, rather annoyingly. That's been my experience at least.
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by ablation 11y ago
Yes, that's right. It's quite literally an opinion. I didn't realise that we had to caveat everything we type on HN with that. THE ABOVE TEXT IS ALSO OPINION.
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by ablation 11y ago
I hope that Google takes the next, bigger step and kills its YouTube Flash player. The HTML5 one is superior in almost every way and so many browsers now support HTML5[1]. It would be a really meaningful statement. This is just a bit '
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by ablation 11y ago
I would imagine that in most cases it would violate the service's ToS/rules. Content like this is clearly abhorrent to most people, and would quite easily fall foul of the boundaries set around "offensive" content on mos
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by ablation 11y ago
And yes, that is the same Chet Faliszek of Valve/Old Man Murray 'fame'.
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by ablation 11y ago
An interesting, but fairly poorly-written article.
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by ablation 11y ago
Yeah, to be fair that is worth noting. But I find that the increased accuracy, access to data and functionality makes it worth it.
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by ablation 11y ago
I'd argue Weather Pro by MeteoGroup is far, far superior. The only thing I find the Met Office app useful for is additional detail on severe weather warnings.
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by ablation 11y ago
Rags like the Daily Mail are FUDding the hell out of this story. The Guardian's take is at least a bit more balanced. Personally, I think it's a good thing. I like the Met Office (and in the interests of disclosure have worked wit
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by ablation 11y ago
I enjoyed the book: nice pacing, easy to read on a couple of flights and some snappy dialogue. I'm not convinced as to how well Watney's diary-style entries to the computer will fare when spoken aloud by Matt Damon (or anyone, for
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by ablation 11y ago
I would argue that they never really meant anything. Vanity metrics are just that - vanity. This blog post basically says "likes do not dictate reach, organic on Facebook doesn't work anymore, you need to spend to be seen." T
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by ablation 11y ago
It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but Gamasutra.com is a wealth of good information on the deeper mechanics of gaming and making/marketing/monetising your games.
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by ablation 11y ago
Is there a formula for the amount of time it takes between creating a new robot/drone/automated system and when somebody tries to arm it?
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by ablation 11y ago
This whole article feels very, very shaky to me. I'm no Kaspersky fan but nothing about this feels very convincing.
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by ablation 11y ago
Great idea, wish I could just try it out without booking a demo/emailing someone/etc. That would really convince that it may even be something to pay for. Publically visible info on the cap or a pricing tier would go a long way.
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by ablation 11y ago
This very same story (but on firstlook.org) has already been posted and heavily commented on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10000428
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by ablation 11y ago
So the default position of running out of material for jokes is racism?
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by ablation 11y ago
Other people his age seem to manage just fine not saying racist comments. Why is he an exception?
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by ablation 11y ago
Only 3% have asked for refunds as of 5th November last year[1]. Could be more now, of course, but demand is still high. They'll sell the returns no matter what. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov&#
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by ablation 11y ago
I think it was intended in good humor, not necessarily as a secure alternative to regular captcha.
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by ablation 11y ago
A fan was caught on TV spitting directly at Chris Froome yesterday. The hysteria that armchair power analysis 'experts' and irresponsible pundits have whipped up is disgraceful.
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by ablation 11y ago
The risk still doesn't justify the supposed reward. Why not a lower speed in a quiet street if you absolutely feel you have to do this on open roads?
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Self-Assembly Trick Embeds Quantum Dots Inside Nanowires(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by ablation 11y ago
Is it gauche of me to point out that OP's site itself uses at least five trackers, along with obvious UTM tagging in the URL?
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by ablation 11y ago
This was my first thought. To repeat what others have said: why on earth did they do this on open roads and high speeds? I can only assume it was for additional 'shock impact' of the story. Reckless in many, many ways, no matter h
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by ablation 11y ago
These "He/She [did something/is doing something]" headlines are a very peculiar and mildly annoying emerging style of headline writing. It doesn't quite parse correctly on first glance, and appears tailor made for R
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by ablation 11y ago
Indeed. While the peloton is undoubtedly not clean, I'm very, very sceptical of this kind of power analysis and modelling by armchair experts.

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