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Facebook Makes Games Less Noisy, But Only If You Aren’t Playing Them(techcrunch.com)
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Getting pregnant is natural and easy. As die_sekte points out elsewhere on the page: (a) Sex is cheap, good entertainment. (b) If you are already poor, children aren't going to make it any worse. (c) For some reason, most people really wa
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Edit: re-reading the nlavezzo's comment, it really isn't as dismissive as I had initially read it, and the reply below is more because this topic really touches a nerve for me. I'm leaving it here because I don't want it un-said, but I don
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Just to point out: by the definition of a lot of Americans, "travel a lot" is part of the definition of "rich". And it's a big part: most people can't really afford to travel at all . And for some people, "4 kids" is also part of that de
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I agree with most of this post. But, a small correction: food only commutes in, but then waste commutes back out again. Unless you propose to build landfills in the city.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I know they get a bad rap around here, but... this really is the use-case for traditional publishers. You package the posts into a book, they do the rest (if they like it).
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An Interview with Dr. Alan Sill of the Open Grid Forum - Cloud Commons(cloudcommons.com)
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I'm guessing you eat a lot of meat and/or fresh produce? There are plenty of foods out there which keep for longer than 48 hours: canned foods, crackers and other dry goods, and so on. They might not be as tasty, but keeping a decent food
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Who said global? A localized loss of power or connectivity for a substantial time period is not necessarily catastrophic. But there still has to be some exchange of goods and services both within this locality and between it and the outsi
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Perhaps; but it seems likely to me that another startup in the same niche would find it harder to be acquired, as megacorp #1 doesn't need another acquisition, and other megacorps might not choose to enter that space themselves. A new star
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by ajdecon 16y ago
To throw in my own experience: I have a BS in Physics, and I'm currently finishing an MS in Materials Science. I have friends who are working on startups while they do their CS PhDs. I hang out with electrical engineers, drink every Friday
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Why does it matter that this is a startup? I mean that seriously: you don't have any equity, you're not a founder. If this were a job at any random, established company and you saw the end coming, you wouldn't hesitate to get out. And it
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by ajdecon 16y ago
As I understand it: guide animals are generally trained to know when they're "at work" and when it isn't. When "at work", the guide animal is not given affection because it needs to be focused on its task. This is why seeing eye dogs have
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Most of my friends in bioinformatics still use Perl extensively, and it's the primary language in a couple of QA groups I know people in. I don't know that it'll ever be "hot" again, but it's certainly still a production language.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Our lab has an old 486 which still runs MS-DOS 6.2 as its primary OS. Why? Because it's got a bunch of proprietary hardware in its guts that runs our differential scanning calorimeter, for which there are no modern drivers and no replaceme
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Which works if you view writing purely as a way to sell your time or your other work. But if you want to make a living by writing , not by starting side businesses, then I don't think it's clear that your content should be free. Some peo
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Autodesk to Reintroduce AutoCAD for Apple Macs(nytimes.com)
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by ajdecon 16y ago
As someone who's done a fair amount of work in materials science and "nanotechnology", I have to admit there are some valid points in here. Drexler-type nanobots are still just as far away as when he wrote his book, and a large amount of t
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Facebook 'dislike' scam warning(bbc.co.uk)
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I would love to be rich, but I'm starting to realize that it's not what I need to be happy. What I need, personally, is a life in which I can work on things which I think are fun and interesting, and which pay me enough to live, save a lit
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Yes, mostly local organizations: humane society, anti-poverty programs, etc. And Child's Play, every December.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
My girlfriend plays roller derby and she absolutely loves it. I've not only learned what a blocker, pivot and jammer are, but all about the different permutations of wheels, bearings, and skates which are used to get every last bit of spee
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Unfortunately, InformationIsBeautiful.net basically exists to be an advertisement for the author's book, The Visual Miscellaneum. Which is a very pretty book--I own it--but not really full of informative infographics. There's some origina
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by ajdecon 16y ago
"Expert" is a tricky word, and I only know how to measure this in relative terms. For a given area, I know I have a high degree of expertise when colleagues who are working in similar areas begin to regularly ask for my help. That doesn't
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Charlie Stross's Laundry novels are a lot of fun. Sort of Lovecraft meets James Bond meets Dilbert...
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Exactly. In particular, it sounds like they've revamped the manufacturing process a bit to take advantage of modern techniques. This new process will probably be the new patent, rather than the glass formula.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I think it's better to say Java is another COBOL: a default choice for business, stable, and likely to hang on through several generations of programmers. I won't call Java the "next" COBOL until COBOL goes away. Which I predict will hap
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Big Data For Science 2010, course presentations (pdfs)(groups.google.com)
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The thing is, both things can be true. They're just true for different people. Those high salaries won't generally motivate an "in it for the tech", startup-friendly developer of the type that commonly frequents HN... but a bank with a le
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Champaign, IL. I have compelling personal reasons to stay here for about the next year, but would be happy to telecommute and willing to relocate afterwards. I have a BS in Physics and am currently finishing a MS in Materials Science, but

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