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by alex_c 13y ago
It's been different every time I've taken the test.
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Rogers is billing and capping customers for network bandwidth on in-home LANs(reddit.com)
3 points by alex_c 13y ago|0 comments
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by alex_c 13y ago
True, but teens and young adults are much harder to reach through "traditional" advertising and much more valuable because advertisers can influence purchasing habits that will last a lifetime. As a group, they are worth a lot
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The Silicon Valley letter(economist.com)
1 points by alex_c 13y ago|0 comments
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by alex_c 13y ago
I suspect we'll find out more, but it doesn't seem he could've done anything different other than not being in the wrong place at the wrong time. As much as we want to make sense of tragedies, sometimes there's no sense
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by alex_c 13y ago
RIP Milt. He was one of the good guys.
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by alex_c 13y ago
$98,600, on the other hand, is entirely out of the question. And don't even dream of $99,000 or $100,000.
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by alex_c 13y ago
It's actually not. This one was a good article.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Funny, I don't think of it as misogyny as much as wasted potential in the industry. I greatly enjoy many of the male-targeted games today and have zero interest in a game like The Sims, but looking back I realize that many of my all-t
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by alex_c 13y ago
You... missed the point of the article so completely that I don't even know where to start. That, or you're trolling.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Counter-example: can you honestly say that you have never, not once in your life, paused to consider whether an item (a jacket, an accessory, sunglasses, whatever) is for males or females before deciding to buy it?
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by alex_c 13y ago
Is there any non-anecdotal evidence that marketing has anywhere near the power this article ascribes to it? I think you're overstating how much power the article ascribes to marketing. The article makes two arguments: 1) Video games
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by alex_c 13y ago
Huh? They do. There are new "in" colors every year.
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by alex_c 13y ago
>It's not a problem we want every programmer solving anew for every program. Yeah, I completely agree. You can make an argument that this stuff belongs in a library (or even several libraries) rather than the language, simply becau
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by alex_c 13y ago
Search is always a hairy problem, you would probably store a normalized version of your searchable text and match a normalized input on that. What should actually match will be different depending on what you're doing, so I wouldn&#x27
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by alex_c 13y ago
>The first 3 failed so miserably that there's not even a crater from where they imploded. Beautiful way to put it.
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by alex_c 13y ago
You seem to have a bone to pick with Tesla - this is not the first emotionally charged, negative comment I've read from you in a Tesla discussion. Is there a reason? The part that makes me wonder is your example of having to tell a pa
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by alex_c 13y ago
Interesting, we seem to be reading it differently. I don't think there's any real basis to say one reading is more valid than the other. The way I read the construct, which the article touches on, is as shorthand to refer to unive
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by alex_c 13y ago
What's fascinating to me is that, unlike so many other language "changes", this isn't caused by laziness or carelessness. This seems to be a rare case where removing words adds information, rather than removing it: &q
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by alex_c 13y ago
OK, I tried to do a bit of digging but all I can find are vague allegations and handwaving everywhere. Where does the 25x number come from?
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by alex_c 13y ago
So, what is the issue that needs to be addressed exactly? That cars get damaged when they hit things?
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by alex_c 13y ago
I'm always fascinated by suggestions that one solution to unethical working conditions is to eliminate the jobs entirely.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Dear god, how you feel about Singapore compared to Canada is exactly how I feel about Canada compared to, say, an European country. If the comparison holds, then Singapore truly sounds like a wonderful place to survive but a dreadful place
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by alex_c 13y ago
Ah, I see. AFAIK the lyrics and the recording are considered distinct works with separate copyright (and often different owners), so the lyrics count as the "full" work in this case.
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by alex_c 13y ago
>Since the near total majority of people who will be reading the lyrics already posses a copy in audio form If you mean "legally possess", I very strongly doubt that's true...
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by alex_c 13y ago
I see where you're coming from, but that argument opens up a pretty big loophole to use any copyrighted material however you please. There's a big difference (in terms of both effort and value) between a documentary and some user
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by alex_c 13y ago
That seems like a pretty circular argument. Do you mean the ones that aren't supposed to be eaten as a primary source of a diet? Or do you mean the ones that are, indeed, harmful if they make up too much of your diet? Either way, I
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by alex_c 13y ago
The UI changes in iOS 7 make supporting both 6 and 7 more of a pain than most previous iOS releases. Certainly possible and not a huge deal, but it doesn't just come down to iOS 7 specific APIs.
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by alex_c 13y ago
They are far, far from basic requirements for a job. They may be for engineers and highly skilled professionals, but for the majority of workers the only basic requirements are reasonable workplace safety and humane hours - and even those a
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by alex_c 13y ago
Yeah, I understand what you mean - the devil is in the details. There are two possible kinds of guidance, I think. One would be actual tutorials - draw a circle, the circle becomes the head, etc. - with the goal of teaching technique and bu

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