alwaysdoit

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by alwaysdoit 13y ago
Yeah, but "0" is True. Why would you store a name as an int?
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by alwaysdoit 13y ago
Wouldn't it be nice to have some people working in government that are not interested in undermining privacy and feeding the surveillance-industrial complex?
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by alwaysdoit 13y ago
Sure, but Google has been pushing enabling HTTPS including forward secrecy by default for years now.
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by alwaysdoit 13y ago
It's not foolproof, but it does have a camera attached to it and presumably a tracking device.
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by alwaysdoit 13y ago
Why have we let the standard measurement of screen area be done with units of length? Sometimes I wonder if the proliferation of widescreens is due to actual demand, or just being more marketable.
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by alwaysdoit 13y ago
Just tried to use their uploader and hit the limit when I got to 300MB.
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by alwaysdoit 13y ago
I've tried pretty hard to get one. None of the banks I've found would provide me with one.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
And here I thought you were going to propose a solution? The implementation of "make the roads themselves cost more" is empirically non-trivial.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Just imagine if you had gotten one from a non-expert.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Yeah, it's basically the reverse of http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/US_states... but they didn't mention that correlation for some reason.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Now that we've read his post, if we follow his guidelines, we're back to being a follower.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
What if they demo it in a non-laboratory setting, especially one where noisy backgrounds would make vicon impossibly difficult. If I understand correctly, the main problem with vicon is that it can't really be used in a real world scenario
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
I want them to throw some sort a water-balloon like device at each other and have them try to gently catch it. Except this balloon explodes with fire instead of water if it can't catch it softly.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
The article notes that the properties are seen as a safe place to store money. Surely government services directly contribute to the increasing or at least stable value of these properties? Or do you believe that those condos would hold t
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
For the US, I think that electing representatives by proportional representation within states would work similarly and would work pretty well with our existing constitutional framework.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Districts should be deprecated altogether. Instead we should elect representatives via proportional representation. When we we had approximately 30,000 citizens per representative there was a chance at your representative actually knowing
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
DD/MM/YYYY doesn't make any sense either unless you write numbers with the most significant digit on the right. Only YYYY/MM/DD actually makes sense (which is why lexicographic sorting automatically works when you use it).
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
It's one thing if you release a buggy product. It's another if there's a surprise OS update and it breaks something in your app and you haven't been able to update it immediately.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
>Government is the least efficient allocator of resources. This is baseless dogma. Government may not always be the most efficient allocator, but it's not always the least efficient either. In cases of positive and negative externalit
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Yeah, it at least needs IP based localization.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
What do you mean? Google has never had control over the maps app on iOS. The previous app was also written by Apple, just using Google's Maps API. For all we know, Google could have released their own maps app only to have it blocked by A
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
If the government can give a subsidy that causes a business to do something that has positive externalities greatly exceeding the cost of the subsidy, isn't that a wise use of government resources?
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Never in my life did I expect that "Everything's Up to Date in Kansas City" would be true again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSbz_ciFSn4&t=1m09s
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
While I agree with you that accidental discovery is sometimes valuable, it seems like introducing you to things you weren't necessarily looking for was an unintended side effect of how the web originally worked. The goal was to help you fi
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Plus, even if you do become the best who ever lived, someday you'll get old and you won't be as good as you once were (just ask Michael Jordan). If you define your self-worth in comparison to other people, you're building your house on sand
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
List comprehensions are actually preferred over map() because they are typically clearer. Guido at one point was actually planning to remove them from Python 3000. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 I do wish itertoo
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Pshaw. 640K(bps) ought to be enough for anybody.
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
Did you miss the last two centuries where philanthropists built universities named after themselves (or their family members)? "Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the
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by alwaysdoit 14y ago
The amount of time I have been unable to access something because of a Google outage is much much lower than the amount of time I have been unable to access something because I lost my flash drive, left my laptop at home, etc.