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by alex_c 14y ago
Out of curiosity (I haven't purchased ebooks from either source), what makes Apple more reliable than Amazon?
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by alex_c 14y ago
Er... "single founders" as in "only one founder", as opposed to "two founders or more".
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See, here you seem to be generalizing from "my experience with traffic in SF" to "drivers in the US". For what it's worth, I found drivers in the Bay Area to be more timid and hesitant (and therefore more unpredictable) than anywhere else I
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by alex_c 14y ago
Fully agree, and that is my philosophy as well. It's working great since I live on my own and can therefore choose exactly where I want to live, but that is often (usually?) not an option for families.
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This would kill Kickstarter.
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>This will raise the bar for developers. It'll force them to do better app store SEO and it'll force the, to pay attention to design. [...] Developers should be welcoming competition and with so many crap apps out there today it's proba
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by alex_c 14y ago
>Ignoring the whiners, fanroids and Apple haters. I'm glad you included that preface, it provides useful context for the rest of your comment.
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That's only true for things requiring a physical infrastructure though. For example, Toronto has a reputation for being a hotspot for mobile development, and there are probably as many talented developers as in any other tech hub. But they
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by alex_c 14y ago
I was in TEST the entire time I played Eve (from day 1 of Dreddit until about a year later). I don't think I ever spoke to him, but had small indirect interactions - being in the same system during a siege, listening to him on voice chat, b
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by alex_c 14y ago
I've seen that in the States as well. Pretty much the only time I've ever seen Segways "in the wild".
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by alex_c 14y ago
You are, perhaps, reading too much into the word "winner" to mean "automatically succeeds" rather than "is unstoppable and bowls over obstacles that would stop most people". Have you never met anyone with an unusually high mix of intelligen
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by alex_c 14y ago
Great comment, and I agree with you on all counts. I believe western medicine should put more emphasis on preventive care and GPs, as most people's first and sometimes only point of contact for health-related matters, should be much mo
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by alex_c 14y ago
For specialists, sure. But for a GP shouldn't it be essential to be knowledgeable and effective about basic fitness and nutrition? My (relatively uninformed) impression is that studies of fitness and nutrition are surprisingly unsophistica
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I understand the argument, but in the absence of any data we'll just be trading anecdotes. Take, for example, The Walking Dead: a purely story-driven single player game that would be the perfect candidate to watch instead of play. I bough
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by alex_c 14y ago
The people involved create the content on Wikipedia. If it's a big deal for them, it's a big deal for Wikipedia as a whole. (to put it in web 2.0 speak: properly incentivizing users to submit quality user-generated content is essential to a
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by alex_c 14y ago
I almost can't tell if this comment came from some sort of Markov text generator.
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by alex_c 14y ago
I don't really know how purchased page likes work, but why would that matter? Bots / fake accounts used to generate likes have no reason to keep running and click on ads?
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by alex_c 14y ago
Mechanical Turk. A budget limit wasn't mentioned either :)
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by alex_c 14y ago
Why / where exactly does the sky crane fly away after releasing the lander? Is it just to get it safely out of the way?
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by alex_c 14y ago
And lose any app store rankings in the process. A bit similar to launching a new site every time you release a new version of your product.
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by alex_c 14y ago
>Nonsensical technical babble? Covered. I hope you're not referring to http://www.reddit.com/r/vxjunkies . I'll admit it is a bit hard to follow for the layman, but it's generally a great resource full of smart people and insightful d
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by alex_c 14y ago
Well... "sort of", then. PadMapper respects the robots.txt for GoogleBot, not for PadMapper.
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by alex_c 14y ago
I almost wish it were retroactive, just for the commenter remorse it would cause. Failing that, the Herp Derp YouTube Comments browser extension is easily the best plugin I have installed. http://www.tannr.com/herp-derp-youtube-comments/
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And this is why movements fail, because everyone wants to add their own agenda. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that privacy is not a worthwhile concern, but this movement seems to be about protecting the Internet from government abuse,
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I stand corrected - it seems it was electrodes rather than implants. Some interesting comments on the old Slashdot story: http://it.slashdot.org/story/02/03/14/2051228/airport-securi... From reading the New York Times article, it doesn'
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by alex_c 14y ago
The doctor's note is presumably to explain that the glasses cannot be removed easily and are actually implanted in him. A few years back he had airport security physically pull out wires out of him. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/techno
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Can you think of systemic risks or circumstances that would cause a significant portion of the tech industry to fail simultaneously? I'm not saying they don't exist, but I can't think of a good example. That is clearly not the case for the
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by alex_c 14y ago
... the postings in question are public facts about exchanges. Just as any price/supply/demand in a marketplace is open for any and all to notate and republish, so too is the entire set of Craigslist data -- as these offers between seekers
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Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2 - Blizzard Responds(alexc.me)
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The dial-in authenticator apparently doesn't work with Diablo, the only ones that work are the physical authenticator and the smartphone app. (source: various forum posts, nothing I can find right now). I'm not convinced there's any actual

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