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by alsocasey 15y ago
This whole argument could have been summed up to some high school debate club member expecting to find someone with qualifications re: the feasibility of space colonization... which, frankly, deserves derision. What is he really looking for
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by alsocasey 15y ago
Let's not forget the tack-a-tack sound...
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by alsocasey 15y ago
Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a 10 year gap in your IM technology timeline there. AIM straight to Facebook? Was I the only one using ICQ, MSN, Google Chat before Facebook came along?
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by alsocasey 15y ago
Ideas are worthless refers to the fact that an obvious thing is obvious - I would argue that most ideas that go on to become successful products are obvious. Seldom are they really revolutionary. The implementation might be, but the idea it
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by alsocasey 15y ago
I'll add bitcoin to that list.
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by alsocasey 15y ago
I want to thank you for your insights regarding breakage and perishability - I had never considered this aspect of the Groupon model (having simply concluded that the reasons so many spas and restaurants were represented was due to their re
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by alsocasey 15y ago
All these pros, except weight, is really just down to the SSD - which you can get in any MBP trivially. 1. With an SSD, any current MBP would feel just as snappy. 2. Can't get around that - though I seldom feel my 4lb MBP is too heavy. 3. I
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by alsocasey 15y ago
Well, USB2.0 maxes out at what, 480Mbps? So about half what a Gigabit ethernet would give you. In practice, it probably depends on your GigE hardware - NIC, cable type, etc...
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by alsocasey 16y ago
I was under the impression that the professional organizations kept a pretty tight grip on the number of medical school students allowed to graduate every year - the reason we could use more doctors is that doctors enjoy the job security th
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by alsocasey 16y ago
I find it equally facile to rely on the market to set the price when dealing with an industry that has a history of price fixing and collusion...
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Precisely - I do this with a pogoplug already. Cloud player simply means higher uptime/reliability for me.
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Or they only worry about trends that have a forerunner with deep pockets. Suing amazon is probably much more appetizing then suing pogoplug...
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by alsocasey 16y ago
If the music industry goes after them for this, they apparently completely missed the boat on pogoplug and the service they offer. I stream movies/music and view files remotely via an external drive hooked up to my pogoplug server at home.
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by alsocasey 16y ago
People like to point to population density but I find the answer a little too easy - about 80% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US boarder and a similar proportion live in one of 3 dense urban areas (Quebec City - Windso
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Since R isn't included in RStudio, merely acting as an interface with the R session, I doubt this is an issue at all.
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by alsocasey 16y ago
That article is misleading for a number of reasons, foremost that they performed a full format before getting started, effectively trashing the SSD's performance. See here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486847 However, TRIM support
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Why aren't people lying about this on their resumes then? I wonder this every time a story like this one makes the rounds.
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Most HR departments aren't burdened by an overabundance of common sense...
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by alsocasey 16y ago
But 2.35$/GB for overages.
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Speaking of Fluid - which should rightly have been in the list as a decent and free Mailplane substitute when combined with a few extensions/userscripts - why oh why is it so slow when compared to the same website running in Chrome. I was u
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by alsocasey 16y ago
But Grooveshark is available in countries where Pandora (sadly) isn't.
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by alsocasey 16y ago
I don't understand what's to stop the system accidentally generating sponsored ads following negative interaction with a brand: you'd get John Smith says - Starbuck's sucks! - sponsored story!
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by alsocasey 16y ago
This is the setup I aspire to one day have. I've spent the better part of the past 6 months getting very comfortable with the command line and editing within the shell via emacs - now if only I could convince work to make the server I run a
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by alsocasey 16y ago
The far more substantial commentary by Zaddie Smith ( http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generat... ), which the author refers to a few times should really have been the article linked. The author's entire point is much mo
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by alsocasey 16y ago
However, what this does show is that CCR5 is more than simply protective (which we knew) it could, if properly targeted via therapeutic intervention, eventually cure someone.
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Mobilicity and (in Quebec) Videotron run on the same band as Wind, so should be on this list as well.
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by alsocasey 16y ago
To be completely fair, the link downplays the news more than it really deserves imo. That a bacterium (even an extremophile) can even be coaxed into substituting arsenic for phosphorus in some of its basic biochemical processes is quite min
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by alsocasey 16y ago
This is a fair point. Though ultimately I doubt Groupon and Groupon-clones can expect to continue to strike the kinds of deals they have been with local businesses. So while they might see a cost saving in the vertical integrating groupon a
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Your point on doctors is well taken - I myself hold 2 degrees, one in genetics and a second in computer science. I run whole genome sequencing analysis as part of my job and am acutely aware of the kind of knowledge required to properly int
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by alsocasey 16y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. Who doesn't like LaTeX? This makes it better because it saves me having to install a local copy of one of the absolutely humongous LaTeX packages (MacTeX was 1.6GB last time I looked), which, on my small SSD, is consid

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