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by alttag 14y ago
And they get (or would get) these same benefits by reselling content through Amazon's video-on-demand, iTunes, Hulu+, Netflix, or any other number of streaming Internet outlets. So, the argument makes sense in part, but it still comes acros
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by alttag 14y ago
> Earth's energy income will always be limited by the Sun's energy output. This seems to discount tidal, wind, and geothermal energy sources. Wearable devices that capture kinetic movements are a possibility too. As technology progresse
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by alttag 14y ago
I think that's an interesting insight, and in general I agree with you. However, I can't help but be amused at the thought of some stuffy prick having his nose tweaked by a billionaire in a hoodie. More particularly, your comment reminded m
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by alttag 14y ago
... only in Lion. I've been using that workflow for nearly a year now, and it's still driving me batty. It's inconvenient and backward, and I hope it gets reverted.
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by alttag 14y ago
Good points. Caused me to do some additional research (beyond my personal experience with hats). Patents for headrests were granted in 1921, 1930 and 1950. [1] According to some sources, they began to appear in cars in the 50s and 60s [2],
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by alttag 14y ago
If a designer knows some of these tips at the beginning of the design process, and is able to complete the initial design with them in mind (assuming time remains constant), then I'd argue "premature optimization" isn't an issue, but the en
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by alttag 14y ago
It's not just the roof distance .. when driving, it's significantly less comfortable to wear a hat with a (rear or full) brim against a headrest.
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by alttag 14y ago
The challenge of publishing "novel" work exists in many fields, not just psychology, and the debate about potential false positives is ongoing. It's great to see this reproducibility work being done. I'd like to see it in my field.
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by alttag 14y ago
The great part (or the problem) is that it depends on the parents. And on the kids. I was homeschooled for a bit, but it got to be too much for my mother (there were six of us kids at the time), so we went to public school. I needed the soc
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by alttag 14y ago
... would be nice if I could read the poster. "Account has been suspended" error message. Sometime after I loaded the landing page but before I could click a link, the account/site went "poof".
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by alttag 14y ago
Several years ago I visited a site that purported to have discovered the only acceptable use for the blink tag: Schrödinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead.
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by alttag 15y ago
On reflection, as head of the TSA, I suspect that any time he visited an airport he worked with the best agents at each location, as local managers worked to impress when a higher-up came in. He got to regularly see the best. We get to see
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by alttag 15y ago
It's an interesting turn, because initially the concept of interstate commerce was very broadly defined to include production designated for personal, non-market consumption only, using the argument that the very act of producing it lessene
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by alttag 15y ago
It started out as a $25K goal, and they blew through it ($24K in the first day). They reset it to $50K, and it was at $49K when I saw it yesterday, which means it gained ~$50K in the last 24 hours. Holy cow. EDIT: Spleling
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by alttag 15y ago
Except then the zip would need to come before the city/state visually, which sounds awkward for most uses.
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by alttag 15y ago
I think it's a round-about way of saying "We don't take (American Express|Discover|Diner's Card|whatever)" without actually saying it. Modern processors accept just about everything nowadays, but this was less common even a few years ago.
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by alttag 15y ago
It's only a protection if properly used. Bound parameters don't work well for some types of dynamic queries.
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by alttag 15y ago
Some fields (including, as I understand, IEEE and ACM) have codes of ethics that provide minimum standards on years retention of study data. Such a response from a researcher should be extremely disconcerting.
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by alttag 15y ago
I'm not in a medical field, but the problem likely exists for our discipline as well. The issue, I suspect, stems from the nature of publishing: top-tier journals only publish "interesting" research, which means reproducing research is less
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by alttag 15y ago
It was the "unnecessary and paranoid" bit that really turned me off. Flaming everyone who doesn't use the same style wasn't warranted, IMNSHO. I responded with snark. I think in general the answer may be to use the style that mimics the oth
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by alttag 15y ago
So, it sounds like safe harbor was upheld all around, but the case got tossed back to district so Viacom could fish for evidence that YouTube was "willfully blind" to infringement (that is, "a deliberate effort to avoid guilty knowledge") d
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by alttag 15y ago
> Coding with semis is like coding with parens around every expression; > unnecessary and paranoid. Unless, of course, one is using Scheme or some other Lisp variant.
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by alttag 15y ago
... or work primarily covered by NDA. Yes, I've contributed to open source projects, but that was before they migrated to github (or even to their current mailing list). Still, I've been bitten by this demand.
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, cultural fit is important. Programmers need to be able to work together ... BUT ... ... I once hired a guy precisely because of his strong stance against some of the norms in the local culture (and he passed the minimum programming thr
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by alttag 15y ago
As I'm currently in the middle of research trying to get to the productivity of programmers, my first question (since the one-day caveat has already been pointed out) is they say they're more productive, and they have incentive to. Were t
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by alttag 15y ago
Years ago I asked my mother about her retirement investments (she's been a career stay-at-home mom, for which I was grateful). She responded that she had eight retirement plans, and I was the oldest.
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by alttag 15y ago
He was diagnosed two weeks before Christmas (2007). The Make-A-Wish trip to visit Spider-man was the following July (they work quickly!), and last time he was healthy enough to be up and about. He passed away three week later, just before h
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes. My son spent several months in a cancer ward. ... His best (and only, to my memory) visit from an "outsider" was an honest-to-goodness Santa Claus in the nicest Santa outfit I'd ever seen. My son's Wish (from Make-A-Wish) was to visit
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by alttag 15y ago
I had the same experience (but after only about five years). I landed on Code Complete a couple years after devouring The Pragmatic Programmer (and requiring my developers to read it), and generally found some good ideas of varying quality
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by alttag 15y ago
What exactly is it that makes it a worthy replacement? (Yes, I'd like opinions on this; I haven't looked deeply at the guts of the matching algorithms.) My guess: File size (in a brief check, Rainbow appears to be about half the size, unpac

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