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by amurmann 14y ago
Knowing nothing about aviation, I find air planes with one engine very scary. Even when I am not traveling in it, since I don't want one to fall on me either. So I am glad we probably won't see millions of these "flying cars" being sold. If
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by amurmann 14y ago
What I find appalling about the Zynga, the Facebook and the Groupon IPO is that people at the top who actually are responsible for the mess can cash out early whereas people at the bottom who have to rely on people at the top who already ca
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by amurmann 14y ago
Well that's not true for everyone. I live in a nice loft in the Dogpatch and have a nice BayView. I would never trait that for a shitty Victorian. I would be happy if 90% of victorians were to be torn down to build some nice bright lofts wi
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by amurmann 14y ago
I would argue that this is actually an advantage of story points. You don't know who will be working on it at estimation time. But a 2-pointer should take any developer about twice as long as it would take the same developer to do a 1-point
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by amurmann 14y ago
Apparently the White House petition page uses Mongo and has no dedicated 500 side. I am sure the tax payer paid many millions for this "Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception. Original MongoCursorException: couldn&#38
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by amurmann 14y ago
Totally agree. CSS has media queries for that: http://blog.iwalt.com/2010/06/targeting-the-iphone-4-retina-...
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by amurmann 14y ago
Same here. I find it absolutely astonishing that they don't tell you how to get it. I had no idea how to get this. It wasn't even clear to me if this was an Android app or a web page. Especially from just looking at the pictures and without
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by amurmann 14y ago
Is that distinction into two parts, how you are seeing the world, or are you quoting the Chinese government? If it's your view, can you please elaborate, why you see this as the way to spli up the world, rather than let's say "the world is
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by amurmann 14y ago
So you think that if you write everything from scratch it won't have any flaws? Of course it will have flaws, you just won't know about it.
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by amurmann 14y ago
I think we did not see new Mac Pros and new iMacs because Apple wants to update them to use a retina display as well. I think it's more likely that Apple expects the displays to be available soon than that Apple doesn't care about these lin
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by amurmann 14y ago
There already are laws against identity theft, so we don't need another one that has the convenient side effect of adding more ways to cut free speech. This law might be used in rare cases like this, but probably more often to shut up negat
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by amurmann 14y ago
Now that you pointed this out, I notice similarities in writing style to the first chapter of American Psycho.
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by amurmann 14y ago
Can you explain why you think this is crap? Don't you think it's important that attnion is brought to every human rights violation everywhere?
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by amurmann 14y ago
With the same logic the US human rights report should not contain anything about other countries that respect human rights better than th US. That would lead to the exclusion of most other western countries from the report. Everyone should
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by amurmann 15y ago
Can anyone say how this compares to mediaelementjs? They seem to be very similar. I liked mediaelement.js, but ran into massive problems when using it in a colorbox under IE8.
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by amurmann 15y ago
Wouldn't jkl; be even better for that? (not saying that hjkl isn't a huge step up form the arrow keys)
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by amurmann 15y ago
I find it very depressing that the US space program now has come down to have to produce ads like this...
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by amurmann 15y ago
>"Ideally, what I would like (and I think most people would like) is something of the form factor of a MacBook Air (thin and light), that has a detachable touch-screen that can run apps written for iOS or Android, and when the screen is
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by amurmann 15y ago
In February 2009, before Wikileaks was well known, I listened to an interview ( http://www.kuechenradio.org/wp/?p=366 ) with the back then German representative of wikileaks. Back then they had the problem that big media didn't care about a
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by amurmann 15y ago
I wonder how long it will take until it is illegal to have a human driving a car. I am sure self-driving cars will cause much fewer accidents. Even better: once all human-driven cars are gone, traffic can be organized incredibly efficiently
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by amurmann 15y ago
As a developer and anti-corporatist I think this is a thread to our freedom and will eventually result in the MacAppStore being a giant rip-off for developers. However, as a son of parents who don't understand the difference between their A
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by amurmann 15y ago
"In particular, it thinks that, with the open access mandate, research institutions will stop subscribing to the journals, and instead decide to wait 12 months to get the research for free." So? That would be a sign that the value the journ
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by amurmann 15y ago
That also was the most interesting part of the article for me. I would really like to hear more about that.
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by amurmann 15y ago
This is once again caused by education inflation. It's easier for the HR department to compare formal education than to really look at the applicant. So Master's degree wins over Bachelor's wins over solid vocational training and society ca
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by amurmann 15y ago
"Microsoft's Internet Explorer still maintains a strong lead globally with 40.63%." "In the US Internet Explorer continues to perform strongly and is maintaining market share at 50.66%" I am very surprised to see that IE is so much stronger
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by amurmann 15y ago
Living in SF and paying the super high rent, I think it would make sense. If there was a nice bus with Wifi that allows for a good commute, that might be a good option. I would miss the SF lifestyle however, esp. in Modesto. A lot of the ad
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by amurmann 15y ago
It's more of a systemic problem with how democracy (if you want to call it that) works in this country. The costs of running a successful, political campaign are unbelievably high and contributions from corporations and lobby organizations
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by amurmann 15y ago
Video game consoles are always sold below production costs and money is made on game sales. Maybe that could have been a viable model for the touch pad. Sell the pad for cheap and make the money with app purchases
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by amurmann 15y ago
Finally we might get smart bots in video games!
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by amurmann 15y ago
I like the idea of having a service like this. However, I am worried about having one centralized service for this kind of thing. Interested parties, like certain government agencies will have a high interest in hacking it. I hope no one wh

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