albemuth

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   by albemuth 15y ago

   > "Not to really generalize, but a lot of Asians, they have perfect SATs, perfect GPAs, ... so it's hard to let them all in" Why is asking for ethnicity even legal?
2. 182.▲
   by albemuth 15y ago

   I wonder how many people saw the video and wanted to make a WoW/Aggro/Leeroooy related comment but held back afraid of being downvoted.
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   by albemuth 15y ago

   I don't think this applies for this comment, I mean, the title suggests teaching something to an AI, which in the case of Siri would open a lot of very interesting options, I'm sure I'm not the only one who expected something along those li
4. 184.▲
   by albemuth 15y ago

   Not sure if this is a zsh thing only, but I do this: grep import **/*.py
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   by albemuth 15y ago

   Another scenario: Certain venues will not allow mobile devices unless they have iDisable technology. That's a win for the user I guess...
6. 186.▲
   by albemuth 15y ago

   The chrome2phone plugin works quite nicely for these cases
7. 187.▲
   by albemuth 15y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Other_details Sounds like quite a big turn off, I wonder how bad this will be in practice
8. 188.▲
   by albemuth 15y ago

   Compare some of the apps Apple just "killed" with Lala, Coverflow; the latter just seem like a win-win to me. Even if it's not technically the best deal for Apple the developer good will might just be worth it.
9. 189.▲
   by albemuth 15y ago

   Maybe windows can have good looking icons now
10. 190.▲
    by albemuth 15y ago

    ... in the US
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    by albemuth 15y ago

    >The Google mentions and plugs seemed a bit nauseating Not at all, he wasn't even using a Android tablet as a card deck replacement.
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    JQuery.fn.each vs. jQuery.fn.quickEach (jsperf.com)

    33 points by albemuth 15y ago|11 comments
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    Google docs for android(market.android.com)

    140 points by albemuth 15y ago|23 comments
14. 194.▲
    by albemuth 15y ago

    Probably the fear of being discarded before being seen face to face.
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    by albemuth 15y ago

    Funny, I thought you mentioned the VPS because you could still reverse tunnel and share the app in your laptop without deploying. I was going to say that it's still a good idea since the day pass is just $1. p.s. surprised they didn't go fo
16. 196.▲
    by albemuth 15y ago

    That's got to be a tough number to swallow for RIM since they're making the Playbook somewhat dependent on having a BB as well.
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    by albemuth 16y ago

    Reminded me a lot about GTD, for that there's Things (OS X/ iOS) and I also know of http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/
18. 198.▲
    by albemuth 16y ago

    I miss being able to copy paste by just selecting and pasting it with middle click, which iTerm does allow. Also OOTB it doesn't support fn + arrows for home, end so you have to use ctrl + a for home which is also used for screen. Tiny anno
19. 199.▲
    by albemuth 16y ago

    so as long as your contribution covers the bandwidth cost you should be good.
20. 200.▲
    by albemuth 16y ago

    how about Bow Tie?
21. 201.▲
    by albemuth 16y ago

    Not when that thing nobody knows is how to compile that damn library in your specific environment :(
22. 202.▲
    by albemuth 16y ago

    I guess it's just bit of cpu for memory trade-off
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    by albemuth 16y ago

    >>allows you to select an item from collected without having to rewrap it with the jquery object I think the following does the same thing: var collected = $('a').map(function(element) {return $(element)})
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    Google offers researchers 1 billion computing core-hours(googleblog.blogspot.com)

    120 points by albemuth 16y ago|25 comments
25. 205.▲
    by albemuth 16y ago

    no seatbelts?
26. 206.▲
    by albemuth 16y ago

    you're thinking like a human, I reckon 640kb of memory would be enough too ;)
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    Tesla's response to Top Gear executive producer(teslamotors.com)

    13 points by albemuth 16y ago|8 comments
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    by albemuth 16y ago

    maybe we should start a Spartacus-like "I am blickmaniac" movement
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    by albemuth 16y ago

    Even worse is when you try to _buy_ something but can't because it's not available for your country or because they only take domestic (US) credit cards. No, it doesn't seem unethical to me, not one bit.
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    by albemuth 16y ago

    I was reminded of the movie Contact (I don't know if it's the same in the book) when Eleanor argues that aliens would not be hostile because it would be analogous to us sailing from one continent to another to destroy an ant colony.