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by alexfarran 16y ago
The point he's making about scientists is that they use today's technology right now and it isn't affecting their concentration. > These days scientists are never far from their e-mail, rarely touch paper and cannot lecture without Powe
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by alexfarran 17y ago
The readability bookmarklet is quite handy http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by alexfarran 17y ago
No mention of ctags. I use that more than anything to navigate around files in emacs: M-. SomeIdentifier takes you straight to the definition. I hardly care which file its in.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
> And what's to say Stack Overflow won't become like EE some day, and start holding answers hostage? Joel and Jeff have explicitly tackled that issue in the podcast, with reference to IMDB and CDDB as well as "the hyphen site". All the
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by alexfarran 17y ago
I usually see an encouraging initial weight loss followed by a slow climb back up after a period of stability. The article contains some advice on how he eats less - smaller meals not fewer and eat slowly. I think that could work. I'd like
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by alexfarran 17y ago
According Duncan Watts' research[1] the crucial factor in spreading a trend is how susceptible the population is to persuasion, not how persuasive the first person to start it is. You chose themes that your chosen population was already ver
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Credulity statistically associated with people who take MBTI seriously.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Lost me at football.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Last.fm does that.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
That may or may not be true, but it's not why this trick works. The need to take a breath is triggered by the level of CO2 in your blood. Hyperventilation exercises like Blaine's flush out the CO2 so it takes longer to build up to the thres
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Safari Books converts to flash. Users complain.(radar.oreilly.com)
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Yes
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TED talks: Predicting Iran's future with game theory(ted.com)
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Count calories and do 15 minutes of exercise in the morning. It doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
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by alexfarran 17y ago
I read the first 20% of this article. Think I got the gist.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Gmail with the Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension. http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download...
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by alexfarran 17y ago
> But he _defines_ intelligence as the science of making machines do things that lead us to believe they are intelligent. A chess computer that outsmarts me most definitely fits that definition of intelligence. No he doesn't. He defines
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by alexfarran 17y ago
It's on my list! If we're doing a feature comparison of web scripting languages it was obviously lacking from PHP and present in one form or another in everything else. Not sure about the use syntax but at least it makes it clear what varia
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Not much. The other difference is that closures can access the local variables that are in scope at the point where the function is defined. I guess you could hack this together in C by packing and unpacking the variables into a struct toge
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Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rule the field.(slate.com)
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They're suspending people's accounts pretty quickly if they tweet the google cash scam.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
It works pretty well for me. I also keep a rough running total of my daily calories - not hard to do after a week or so. Progress is gradual, but sustainable. I'm posting monthly updates to flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexfarran/s
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by alexfarran 17y ago
I think I'll give that a go. I do a reasonable amount of cycling and walking, but it would be interesting to see where my current fitness level puts me on that scale.
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Myows: A new service to protect copyright on digital creative works.(friskdesign.com)
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Well one side effect is that magic water displaces real medicine where it really matters. Such as: The recent case of the child who died of eczema, The recommendation of many homeopaths to avoid anti-malaria drugs, And the campaign against
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Not many people read techcrunch compared to real newspapers, so it might be hard to prove any damage to reputation.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Well in his response Russ Garret says its against data protection laws to transfer personally identifiable data.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Obviously to give the victim less opportunity to respond promptly to the slanderous story.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
I'm not at all surprised by this kind of controlling behaviour from Apple. That's how they've always been.
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Why people fall victim to scams – OFT research(oft.gov.uk)
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