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by albeec13 12y ago
I can't believe people are dumb enough to throw 250k at this.
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by albeec13 12y ago
This is great! I've been tinkering with simple game mechanics like these, and you've included a few I've never looked it.
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by albeec13 13y ago
That still has nothing to do with what I said. The poster I responded to brought up Google in a conversation that was completely unrelated to them. Not only that, his comparison wasn't even apt, because Google has built and sold hardwa
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by albeec13 13y ago
My initial reaction was to ask why you brought Google into this conversation. Upon further thought, while Google does have a similar business model to Facebook, they have also built actual products and sold them directly to consumers, which
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by albeec13 13y ago
I was wondering the same thing. As a teen I drove a small car, and at least once or twice while playing around with shifting gears (mind you, this was an automatic) I accidentally shifted into reverse while in motion, causing everything in
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by albeec13 13y ago
I guess that is one valid point, assuming it can harvest more energy with day and night operation than solar panels during the day, which I doubt.
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by albeec13 13y ago
Haha, ok good. Because I've been in relationships like that, and they never end well. I just didn't want to be the bearer of bad news :)
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by albeec13 13y ago
And this is better than photovoltaic solar panels because? Everything in the article indicates that the power generated by both proposed methods is both negligible and difficult to achieve. I'd rather they focus on improving something
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by albeec13 13y ago
Interesting concept aside, if your wife gets that angry because you forget to respond to a non-critical text message, she really needs to relax.
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by albeec13 13y ago
Why don't you, you know, CALL them on the phone? They have a customer service line for a reason. Twitter isn't exactly that. Interesting analysis nonetheless.
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by albeec13 13y ago
Technically speaking, Jeff Bezos owes your friend absolutely nothing. He offered the producers of 60 Minutes half his fortune and a trip to Vegas if they could guess his announcement. He didn't offer your friend anything.
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by albeec13 13y ago
That's gotta be the most egregious product placement I've ever seen.
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by albeec13 13y ago
The only thing I want is to be able to choose the "main" desktop. Right now, this is reserved for the first desktop to the right of the Google Now page. So, when you press the home key, it takes you to that desktop. Prior to insta
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by albeec13 13y ago
Glad to help! (also I meant "through*" in the original post, but you got the point...haha)
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by albeec13 13y ago
MiniDLNA works extremely well on linux, and a quick Google search shows links for how to get it working (albeit hackily) on a Mac. It might be worthwhile to run a VM on your Mac with an easy linux distro like Ubuntu to run MiniDLNA. I use
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by albeec13 13y ago
Doesn't posting your public key for all to see on the internet mean any authorities you're trying to avoid giving access to your data can simply use said public key and get it anyway?
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by albeec13 13y ago
Would you care to elaborate on how they're a "very rich company"? (Edit: I actually read the article after my post and saw the section about Benchmark Capital's $13 million investment. The rest of my comments still stan
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by albeec13 13y ago
This appears to be a reaction to Google Hangouts more than anything else. From the Play Store description for Facebook Messenger, it sounds like you can indeed send messages to friends based on their phone number, but it does not appear to
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by albeec13 13y ago
Curiously missing from this post and most of the subsequent comments is AMC's Hell On Wheels. Maybe I'm the only one watching it, but it's one of the better shows on TV, in my opinion.
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by albeec13 13y ago
I was up to 500 before missing two in a row, but then I encountered a bug where the audio track seemed to not download properly, so hitting play caused the progress bar to jump straight to the end without playing anything. Pretty cool idea
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by albeec13 13y ago
The vast majority of the computer-using population, on a daily basis, has zero need for programming in order to use a computer. The same cannot be said for reading and writing. They do, however, need to know how to use a computer. This is
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by albeec13 13y ago
Why? Most people can't even use a word processor or spreadsheet right now, let alone comprehend algorithms and programming. Besides, we all drive cars and we all use refrigerators and air conditioners daily. Not everyone knows how tho
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by albeec13 13y ago
>I assume you mean a world where some people know more than others. No, not exactly. I'm referring to the tendency for most people to be experts in one or two fields and mostly ignorant in others that are not related to their core
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by albeec13 13y ago
The important distinction is that knowing how to read and write is a basic skill everyone needs in order to be an effective human being. Similarly, everyone needs to know math and problem solving skills (the major basis of programming) to b
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by albeec13 13y ago
Absolutely agree with you. There are basic skills at the root of every industry that we should all be exposed to and taught in school. I'd argue that "algorithmic literacy" falls into the "math" category, and thos
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by albeec13 13y ago
We already live in that world, and it's been that way for centuries. If all the automobile designers and mechanical engineers were to vanish today, do you think lay people would be able to hop into the driver's seat and take over
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by albeec13 13y ago
I agree with you to a point. Yes, I think computer literacy is very important, and far too many people think of computers/tablets/phones as magic boxes that show pretty pictures when you click/touch things. Your Excel exampl
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by albeec13 13y ago
You'd be surprised :P
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by albeec13 13y ago
"I am all for getting more non-programmers programming..." May I ask why? I completely disagree with that statement and all the initiatives pushing that agenda.
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by albeec13 13y ago
"'What we need is not more programmers. What we need is to enable non-programmers to participate in the creation process, not just the ideation process,' says Kenneth Kan, CTO of a company called Pixbi and a recent convert to

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