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by adbge 16y ago
I'm sincerely hoping that the next generation of the Nexus One has a slide out keyboard. I suffer from pretty bad shakes due to the cocktail of medication I'm taking and often typing on my iPhone is an exercise in futility. Luckily, there i
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by adbge 16y ago
Or a drastic reduction in our bloated bureaucracy.
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by adbge 16y ago
This post has me convinced that people should be able to buy and sell degrees on the open market.
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by adbge 16y ago
These are actually pretty interesting problems. Hobbyists (myself included) might want to consider solving them for fun.
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by adbge 16y ago
> The apps were more useless than malicious, but could have been updated to capture customers' banking credentials, said John Hering, chief executive of Lookout, a mobile security provider. Seems like more fearmongering aimed at Google'
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by adbge 16y ago
The author sidesteps the issue and answers with (roughly) "education is never a bad thing." That's true enough, but that doesn't answer the question of whether or not a degree is worth the cost. Not a very informative article. One thing I'v
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by adbge 16y ago
The oft echoed sentiment "if you're feeling $EMOTION, just stop feeling $EMOTION" isn't insightful advice or good advice. It's a naive solution repeated by armchair psychologists and, frankly, does more harm than good. "Abused by your fathe
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by adbge 16y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's premature to claim that we're entering a "new era of computing"? I'm still far from convinced that tablet computing is going to "revolutionize" anything other than printed media.
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by adbge 16y ago
Personally, I think the best thing he could do would be to opensource the project and finally allow it to be ported to Linux. If he's worried about revenue or whatever, add a donate button. I'd pay _more_ for a FLOSS version than I would
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by adbge 16y ago
The bad thing about MPEG-LA and their patent pool is that they contend that one cannot create a video codec without infringing on their IP. If true, they have a government granted monopoly on all present and future video codecs not alread
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by adbge 16y ago
Some kind of tag feature would be neat. Say I wanted to read just Haskell code, I could click a link which would filter out everything that wasn't Haskell oriented. This is a really cool idea, though.
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by adbge 16y ago
Finally, a justification for religious cannibalism! I've waited...so long...
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by adbge 16y ago
Oh, please God. I hope Google does to Blackboard what Rome did to Carthage.
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by adbge 16y ago
I have to disagree with the author's premise. Just because the majority of Wikipedia editor's are male, this doesn't inherently mean the system will be biased. The writer points out that many editors are not university educated like this me
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by adbge 16y ago
This article reads more like an attack on any researcher outside the traditional scientific establishment than anything else. It occurs to me that a skeptic should not predicate his skepticism on someone's background or how "crazy" they are
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by adbge 16y ago
"It's a super simple extension that puts a button on the browser to share links easily using Tweetie for Mac." I really wish HN submitters could somehow tag articles mac-only or something. Or maybe just put a bit more consideration into art
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by adbge 16y ago
Exactly. Buying special shoes to run barefoot is completely unnecessary. The best analogy I can think of is the guitar: at first your fingers won't be tough enough and they'll hurt, but keep at it and you'll develop tougher skin for a pain
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by adbge 16y ago
Right, because Wikipedia doesn't have nearly enough facts for someone as hardcore as you. Give me a break.
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by adbge 16y ago
> Hackety Hack makes programming accessible to beginners, regardless of age or background. The current 0.9 version is nearly complete and in this project we’re going to push to a 1.0 release. That includes an editor, lessons, and a web
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by adbge 16y ago
Useful lists. I would like to see them fleshed out some more. Maybe more programming languages and longer descriptions.
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by adbge 16y ago
Gruber's thoughts can be summed up as: Google vs Apple, bring it on, but where's Microsoft? While he isn't wrong, it's not exactly much more than some common sense. I also think he _seriously_ underestimates Microsoft.
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by adbge 16y ago
This is someone protesting Muslims that believe that they should be able to infringe upon your freedom of speech because of their religious beliefs. Your apologist attitude and fear of offending someone is, quite frankly, sickening.
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by adbge 16y ago
Running Word 2010 off a SSD, I found startup to be near instantaneous. I was impressed with how responsive it was for an application with such a huge feature set.
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by adbge 16y ago
Why are you implying that less fonts is a good thing? Just because someone might misuse fonts, that doesn't mean we should force everyone to use just what you think is okay. Magazines use all kinds of fonts and they typically look a hell of
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by adbge 16y ago
Sounds like organized crime simply wants the largest note possible to reduce the raw size of their cash. Not sure how that translates to the fact that "Criminals love the 500 euro note."
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by adbge 16y ago
The movie industry should spend less time on frivolous lawsuits and instead focus on creating a product that people will buy. Piracy is just a convenient scapegoat: it's easier to blame pirates than to admit you did something wrong.
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by adbge 16y ago
Might be an issue in that it could be used to damage someone's reputation by spoofing their avatar/etc and then trying to push malicious commits. That's what occurs to me at first glance, anyways.
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by adbge 16y ago
I gather that what happened to him has grown into something of an "urban legend" of sorts, with some saying he was summarily executed and others claiming that he lives peacefully in Tibet, etc.
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by adbge 16y ago
The implication is that if you enjoy Family Guy, you must not like The Simpsons, while his point is that it is perfectly reasonable that one could enjoy both.
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by adbge 16y ago
C code cannot be easily read by normal human beings unless they have had extensive training with C (which would probably make them abnormal). Haskell seems to me, as one who has little experience with either, much more readable than C code.

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