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by aiscott 14y ago
From my personal experience with prescribed narcotics for things like wisdom tooth extraction, kidney stones, etc., is that they don't do much in terms of pain management. That is interesting about marijuana being anti-inflammatory...I did
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by aiscott 14y ago
"To date, the NSU researchers have received about $1.7 million in grants for their dental stem cell research." They should have done a kickstarter. How much did facebook pay for instagram again?
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by aiscott 14y ago
"I'm my own app's #1 user." That is always a good sign.
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by aiscott 14y ago
There is no point to doing this. It's a waste of cycles. People believe what they want to believe, and will only change their mind when they want to. Your own point, that the ones that bug you are the "willfully blind" ones... do you e
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Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning @Twitter(infoq.com)
1 points by aiscott 14y ago|0 comments
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by aiscott 14y ago
As I recall, google wasn't happy with people using the term as a verb for search. Also, I assumed the name was a play on the children's game: Duck Duck Goose.
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by aiscott 14y ago
I said this in another reply, but I'll reiterate here. It's not the lack of Objective-C that is the big deal here. Afterall you are still interfacing with cocoa, and are stuck with a lot of the verbosity in doing that. The real key to t
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by aiscott 14y ago
For me, the REPL is the key that makes this interesting. I don't really know much ruby, but I would consider picking it up again just for the interactivity you get with a REPL tied to the app running in the simulator. This is a step in the
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by aiscott 14y ago
I was glad to see this popup on hacker news again. I'm a backer now. Personally, I do see this as more of a purchase than an investment. I'd see it as a donation over an investment as well. To each their own.
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by aiscott 14y ago
However Apple doesn't put users before dollars in the case of the kindle app and the recent dropbox debacle, regarding the whole in app purchase crap.
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by aiscott 14y ago
This is very neat! Have you considered putting the photographs under a license such as one of the Creative Commons licenses?
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Assembly Hello, World for OSX(peter.michaux.ca)
13 points by aiscott 14y ago|0 comments
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by aiscott 14y ago
Money doesn't sit still unless it is truly hard cash and stuffed under a mattress. When companies sit on huge piles of cash, what that really means is they have invested huge piles of cash. That means they gave that money to someone else,
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by aiscott 14y ago
Very nice! I doubt my old MacBook pro can tolerate much more in minecraft, sad to say.
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by aiscott 14y ago
So what is it like trying to debug something you've written in clojurescript? Regardless of the backend target language, it seems so disconnected. Is there a REPL for clojurescript? EDIT: answered my own question about the repl: https:/
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by aiscott 14y ago
I have a kindle, iphone 4, and ipad 1. I like reading on all of them, but I mostly read on my phone. This is mainly because I read in bed at night, and having a light on for the kindle would bothers my wife trying to get to sleep. I rarely
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by aiscott 14y ago
Bruce Schneier's discussion on this particular episode: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/amazing_round...
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High-Stakes Prisoner's Dilemma on British Game Show(boingboing.net)
3 points by aiscott 14y ago|1 comments
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by aiscott 14y ago
Teetering must be the marketing term they chose... the phenomenon in play has been known as metastability for as long as I've been a digital designer. And generally speaking, it's something you want to avoid in your designs, not only becaus
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by aiscott 14y ago
I really wish people would quit writing "whilst."
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by aiscott 14y ago
I think having a massive fan base really just helps to speed up the launch of something, and it doesn't determine success in the slightly longer term. With a new and great product, you have an exponential growth curve. People find it, thin
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by aiscott 14y ago
"Some people may consider: [example A] uglier than: [example B]." Do people really think that? I ask in all seriousness. I am a hardware developer by profession and don't often dive very deep in software, though I love exploring software
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by aiscott 14y ago
The current pricing structure is discouraging backers, in my opinion. You tell us that when it's released it will most likely be pay-what-you-want, but if we pay early and support the project we are pushed into $50. I can guarantee you th
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by aiscott 14y ago
It warms my heart to see so many get excited about "bare metal" low level implementation.
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by aiscott 14y ago
It's an interesting idea; I look forward to seeing how it turns out in the longer term. I'm sure this would never be sanctioned but I think it would be great if people could temporarily patch these damn things on their own rather than waiti
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by aiscott 14y ago
Oh yeah? Well as soon as Steve Jobs popped out of his mom, he cried out iPhone! So there.
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by aiscott 14y ago
I think this is pretty neat in retrospect, but it seems to me it didn't do Atari much good. Makes me wonder if all these "Vision of the Future" videos that companies put out now are equally as pointless.
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by aiscott 14y ago
I agree with you about the movie studios, but I think Abrash overstated his point a little. There is certainly value in taking someone else's idea and making it better. "Everything is a remix" and all that. Perhaps not as much value as the
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by aiscott 14y ago
"Never rub another man's rhubarb."
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by aiscott 14y ago
Note that it does not appear to have an e-ink display. They called it e-paper which doesn't necessarily mean the same thing. The display appears to be this one: http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html or something like it

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