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by adamt 14y ago
But doesn't schooling pretty much scale horizontally? Is schooling 84M really any more complex then schooling 1.5M? If anything, I'd suggest there is a fairly large fixed overhead for a country to set up a school system (teacher training,
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by adamt 14y ago
The FEN notation(1) state of the the board is in the HTML: data-fen="7r/3k1ppp/3bpn2/1p3P2/1PbP4/2r2P2/P2K1Q1P/q5NR"> Any chess engine could load this and solve these problems in milliseconds. Which is far easier than most ca
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by adamt 14y ago
That this team has focussed on using cheap off-the-shelf components (such as their choice of sensors) to make the total cost dramatically lower than most similar projects.
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by adamt 14y ago
I am from the UK and been programming in Python since before that domain was registered and happy to help. Am I missing something, if you go to Amazon.co.uk and search for "python" (not just in books, but a top level saerch) - (e.g. http:/
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by adamt 14y ago
I think this is about apple to cease shipping the _current_ Mac Pro to Europe. If Apple had a new version of the Mac Pro around the corner, then they probably wouldn't bother release an update/redesign of the existing version in order to me
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by adamt 14y ago
Profit === Earnings ( http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/earnings.asp ) From the article: "reported net income of $2.5 billion, or 48 cents a share, down 27 percent from $3.4 billion, or 64 cents a share, a year earlier" Which is a 27% dro
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by adamt 14y ago
Looks very pretty, but can't decide if this is useful or not. I love bootstap, but I am not convinced this is much quicker than a text editor (even if it is much prettier) Quick bug report: MacOS/Chrome (latest) - create navbar - click or d
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by adamt 14y ago
And this is on the front page?! Apologies for the meta-discussion, but this highlights go me just how much HN has changed. This tutorial is simply download, untar, uncomment relevant (and labelled) lines of a makefile and type make.
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by adamt 14y ago
Err .... is this some attempt at humour or have you guys commenting about less (the more replacement) here not read the article (about less the CSS framework)?!!
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by adamt 14y ago
A few years ago oracle DBAs used to (and some still so) dismiss MySQL and PostgreSQL saying they were toys that didn't scale. 10-15 years ago 'real men used Solaris' and Linux was a toy for hackers. Any time any with any technology those t
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by adamt 14y ago
Or how about - “One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA” – Alexander Graham Bell, c.1880.
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by adamt 14y ago
> we should be aiming for 1Gbps minimum in cities Without wishing to make a "nobody will ever need more than 640KB ram" comment. There has to come a point where bandwidth speed starts to matter less. I have 100Mbps down at the moment, a
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by adamt 14y ago
In the context of the $15Bn total cost of the games, the cost of providing a data API to results and medals is hardly going to be significant.
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by adamt 14y ago
The bbc is almost entirely funded by the licence fee. There is a small grant to cover world service (mainly for political reasons eg providing news in Arabic) and BBC worldwide makes some money, but the vast majority is from the tv license
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by adamt 14y ago
From that article: he Missed bail; traces of explosives; carrying home made rockets; had a stash of encrypted storage drives with him and the authorities wanted to see what was on them. In such cases the person is still innocent but the aut
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by adamt 14y ago
I don't like or support the legislation - but I think this is a bit of an over-reaction. The law as I understand it says that if you've got data (and the context of the law is in focussed primarily on targeting terrorism, child-porn etc) th
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by adamt 14y ago
Rats are a common menace with all sorts of cabling. Large parts of scotland recently lots broadband due to rats eating cables ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/12/dirty_rat_downs_virg... ). Apparently it's the insulation on the wires
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by adamt 14y ago
I agree with a lot of what the author says, but I am not sure I agree with the main premise in his title. Luck and timing often play a big role in setting up a business. I think there are some people who saw an opportunity through being in
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by adamt 14y ago
On that note it doesn't work (doesn't bring up keyboard) on iOS browsers.
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by adamt 14y ago
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by adamt 14y ago
In most of Europe a tip is far more discretionary and often smaller. Eg In the uk I would not tip at all if the service was poor/average and perhaps 10% for good service. I would think of it as being much more performance related and far
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by adamt 14y ago
I am not a lawyer but have been involved in various trademark registrations and disputes. The trademark is for the concatenation 'whoshere'. Given that both are common words obvious to the topic I would have thought the interpretation would
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by adamt 14y ago
I would have thought inadvertent trademark infringement is unlikely to lead to any damages. I would feel the other party would have to show continued use after some prior cease and desist (or agreement between the parties a year ago) and a
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by adamt 14y ago
To what extent did they 'agree' to the change of name a year ago? You say you 'agreed' to do it. But did they agree to the new name? Eg did you inform them about your name or reach any sense of resolution. Unless they could somehow prove yo
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by adamt 14y ago
What is the "GW per hour" referenced several times in the article? Do they just mean GW or do they mean Gigawatt Hours?
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by adamt 14y ago
My experiences with gmail are very positive. I have about about 10GB of mail across 4 gmail/apps accounts with about 100k messages, and the performance is almost always instant (search, send, read, file). Furthermore if I travel to the oth
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by adamt 14y ago
For tweeting no. For making vile racist comments over the medium of twitter yes. There is a difference.
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by adamt 15y ago
But if your growth is in some way viral/exponential due to word of mouth/recommendations, then you're better off having 5x as many users today. In very crude terms: $1 x 5x5x5x5x5 is a lot more than $5 x 1x1x1x1x1x1
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by adamt 15y ago
Personally speaking (as a UK based user of many cloud services) - I have no objection to be being priced in dollars. Amazon charges for its EU and APAC datacenters prices in dollars ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ) And to be honest, I
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by adamt 15y ago
Anyone that has tried it knows just how hard it is for pan-european payments across the 'single-market'. For some reason since we've been able to define common european legislation for the curvature of bananas(1), but not for stuff like pay

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