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Vitamin company sues national broadcaster for exposing false claims(brisbanetimes.com.au)
1 points by akandiah 13y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 13y ago
I believe he/she was being sarcastic there :)
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by akandiah 13y ago
Pathetic speculative article with a link-bait of a title.
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by akandiah 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia Obligatory Dilbert reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqzoxBBQ4pU&t=7m15s
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by akandiah 13y ago
> The interesting question is whether the people panic selling were skittish human traders or twitter-based algorithms trying to get a jump on the headline. It's sometimes neither of those. A lot of stop-loss orders will have been trigg
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Self-proclaimed LulzSec leader arrested(abc.net.au)
37 points by akandiah 13y ago|40 comments
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Coffee and qahwa: How a drink for Arab mystics went global(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by akandiah 14y ago|0 comments
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The Mechanical Keyboard Guide(overclock.net)
35 points by akandiah 14y ago|58 comments
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by akandiah 14y ago
This article has some good points, but doesn't explain some of the basics. If you're after a good read on fitness, try this article: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou... The recommended reading list at the end o
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by akandiah 14y ago
If it weren't for the code comments, it would've been hard to notice that it was the OP's code. It's sometimes very hard to find the differences between C-based POSIX/BSD socket code written by multiple parties - especially when it comes to
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by akandiah 14y ago
> Again - if you ever need to swap, then you must be coding on a netbook... Please read up on virtual memory. > You need Resharper for all of that. And VS can easily grab 500 MB of RAM too, especially after a week of work without r
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by akandiah 14y ago
>340 MB is heavy? What are you coding on? A netbook? I take it that you haven't tried coding on Visual Studio? Just because you have the memory, it doesn't mean that you should be using as much memory as you can. > I work on some re
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by akandiah 14y ago
There's an interview with Elon on Bloomberg which answers some of the questions that people have raised here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-02/tesla-to-begin-mode...
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by akandiah 14y ago
There are a fair number of these open source learning management systems. A small list is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_learning_management_sys... How is this different from any of these?
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by akandiah 14y ago
I've just downloaded and tried AppCode (which I believe this product will be an extension of). It is written in Java and is rather slow when compared to XCode and Visual Studio 2008. The real memory usage on my system for this product is ~3
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by akandiah 14y ago
It's not that impressive. Then again, Nielsen has rarely given importance to aesthetics in UIs.
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by akandiah 14y ago
> drug makers trivially re-formulate their drug upon patent expiration in such a way that the old medicine cannot be made generically without also infringing on the new patent This seems to happen in the pharmaceutical industry too ofte
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by akandiah 14y ago
>At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion Where did you get this price from? It's 1598USD/ounce. I agree with your point. Given its rarity, gold has always been treated by a lot of cultures t
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Tesla Takes on Texas Dealer’s Association(wot.motortrend.com)
6 points by akandiah 14y ago|1 comments
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by akandiah 14y ago
I took this screen-shot a while back: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sugoI5o0K2U/TiEaQ1-qOgI/A...
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by akandiah 14y ago
Here's a page which provides a bit more information than the OP: http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/newsroom/more-news/archive/2012... And here's a paper on the subject: http://evmc2.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/laser-scribing-of-h...
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by akandiah 14y ago
I haven't used Apple's system, so I can't comment on it. However, Google's system has a few gaping holes that make it far from effective from a usability standpoint. First: A large number of Google's web applications still rely on applicati
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by akandiah 14y ago
I was one of the early adopters of this service. The trial (which I signed up to) started in March of 2012.
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Crown casino hi-tech scam nets $32 million(heraldsun.com.au)
2 points by akandiah 14y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 14y ago
What do you think OSX is based on?
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Japan extracts gas from methane hydrate in world first(bbc.co.uk)
58 points by akandiah 14y ago|22 comments
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Why Does A Horse Need A Full-Body Suit?(gizmodo.com.au)
2 points by akandiah 14y ago|0 comments
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How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines(dranger.com)
1 points by akandiah 14y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 14y ago
Would this work on an Android device with Froyo/Gingerbread? Because, some of those devices will never be updated. Hence, this can be used to practically disable a device.
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Elon Musk on the future of the future(arstechnica.com)
9 points by akandiah 14y ago|1 comments

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