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by akamaka 17y ago
This is very cool idea, but the whole thing gives me the impression that it was developed without customer feedback. Is anyone using it? Group buying is something that can be done without any special tools. If people are already doing it,
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by akamaka 17y ago
I see the original poster's point. The punch line of the story is that the hunger artist has simply given up on finding food that he likes. Instead of continuing playing the game of trying new foods, a game at which he has always lost, he
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by akamaka 17y ago
I just use the tongue out smiley to show I'm not being serious online. For example: Yeah, right, a sarcastic font is just a great idea. :P
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by akamaka 17y ago
Why would an amazing designer want to reply to this ad? I don't even know who Dustin Curtis is. This ad will attract people who think that they are awesome and want to tell everyone.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I'm curious if anyone knows why chips like these are being used today. If you already have software that parallelizes to 16 cores, why not just use a few more x86 cores and save a lot of money?
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by akamaka 17y ago
When I was a teen I absolutely hated "teen-oriented" events, politicians who talked about involving the "youth", and so on. Anyone else feel the same way?
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by akamaka 17y ago
I live in Toronto, and my understanding is that Mississauga's budget surplus is largely due to lot levies paid by property developers. Building a new house means paying around $20k in infrastructure fees (for new roads, sewers, etc.) Most
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by akamaka 17y ago
My friend had a job that sent him there for a "tour" of many months, with similar pay. It was boring at times, and he lived in a trailer on a base, but he kept going back for more tours, so he definitely thought it was worth it.
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by akamaka 17y ago
When it comes to wifi, I'd drawn the line between stealing and innocent "borrowing" at the point when someone actually goes through the trouble of running a WEP password cracker, which is akin to what happened in this case.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Why does everyone forget about Messenger? With about the same number of users as Facebook, it's hardly a failure.
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by akamaka 17y ago
This guy is a complete idiot, and has obviously never even used and iPhone or iPod Touch. Apple almost got there with this one, copying someone else’s interface for iBooks. But then it hit me again, only one app at a time! I listen to musi
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by akamaka 17y ago
Not really, Lenna is more like the Utah teapot of images.
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by akamaka 17y ago
The two groups were constructed for the experiment, to emphasize the difference. If you're saying that powerful people in the real world are divided into two groups, that is your own opinion, not something that the study concluded.
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by akamaka 17y ago
The look and feel of the landing page, the woman's photo, and the GUI screenshot give me the first impression that this is some type of professional audio software (like Audition). Keep in mind, though, that I'm not in your target audience,
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by akamaka 17y ago
I think the most important truth about dog evolution is that we still don't know how it happened. Dawkins only discusses one of many plausible theories that have been put forward (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_domestic_do
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by akamaka 17y ago
This seems extremely serious, much more than the leaked email affair. The claim in question has been very widely cited. PBS Frontline even chose this glacier story to lead off their 2 hour special on climate change: http://www.pbs.org/
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by akamaka 17y ago
What makes me the most happy about Apple launching a tablet years after Microsoft's initiative is that stupid fanboys might finally be forced to stop claiming that Microsoft never innovates, that they just steal other people's ideas.
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by akamaka 17y ago
It's pretty disappointing how these types of stories get parroted around the web, without any valuable research added. As an EC2 user, I'd like to see less words and more measurements. Amazon has dozens of datacenters, probably each contai
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by akamaka 17y ago
What you say sounds true and good, but I'll ultimately listen to what the people around me have to say, rather than theorize about what's good for them.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I don't think it needs to be disrupted. While the philosophy behind reforming is noble, my own discussions with researchers have convinced me that this doesn't matter to them. They know there are flaws, but they also believe that good rese
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by akamaka 17y ago
I voted you up, not because I agree, but because for me, this was more a reminder as to why JavaScript is a tricky language, and not one that should be jumped into as mindlessly as many of us do.
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by akamaka 17y ago
3. Not caring whether the laws are just, but being willing to enforce them?
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by akamaka 17y ago
I've heard the reasoning in this article before, and it's deeply flawed. It's true that we in the West have the right to offend, but being a troll doesn't make you a righteous defender of freedom. . Those cartoons weren't some type of bri
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by akamaka 17y ago
It fits, he got arrested for posting an idiot comment about Obama on the Yahoo message boards.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I usually like Gruber, but he shouldn't blame iSuppli for the way fanboys complain about profit margins. I've never seen iSuppli do anything except take products apart and look at what parts are inside. They're simply providing a service t
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by akamaka 17y ago
Just like MS developed Vista for healthcare? See this link from 2004: http://tabletpcnursing.blogspot.com/2004/09/longhorn-in-heal...
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by akamaka 17y ago
Lock-in is definitely a big concern, but the article vastly overstates the cross-platform benefits of OpenGL. Different platforms have different capabilities and limitations, and most of the work in creating high-performance 3D software in
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by akamaka 17y ago
Don't read. This article is simply a manifesto calling for developers to use OpenGL. The mindset of the author is firmly locked in the late-1990s, which was the height of the OpenGL vs. DirectX flamewars. I'm amazed that he didn't bring u
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by akamaka 17y ago
Wow, this is great, thanks for posting! The 1980s were a fascinating time in computer graphics, and there are few people who are better qualified to talk about it. Ed Catmull practically embodies the history of the field, starting out at t
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by akamaka 17y ago
I'm getting really sick of these articles about how stupid airline security is. This type of complaining is in the same vein as end-users bitching about how the IT department locks down their computers and forces them to change their passw

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