andrew1

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by andrew1 17y ago
On the other hand, eating isn't just about consuming food. On the average day I probably spend more time talking face-to-face with people while I'm eating than I do for the entire rest of the day. And I doubt that that's unusual these days
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by andrew1 17y ago
I think your response is needlessly sarcastic.
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by andrew1 17y ago
As an Android user I wouldn't disagree with you; I was just trying to present an example which the article's author wouldn't feel the need to argue about (software restrictions is a holy war topic, price probably isn't :) ).
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by andrew1 17y ago
"Who will want a pale imitation when they could have the original?" I'd imagine it's the people who want a cheaper option that does most of the things an iPhone does and don't mind the lack of polish.
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by andrew1 17y ago
A few questions (I don't mean to sound overly brief or critical - it's a nice site - but I'm at work so can't spend ages writing): * Where do you get the data from about gender? Is it from users of your site? Is it from Amazon or something
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by andrew1 17y ago
If you're going to go down the 'indirectly' profiting route, then where do you want to stop? Does the grocery store where he spends his wages also profit? Does the farmer that they but their food from indirectly profit? Does the chemical co
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by andrew1 17y ago
I think there are two ways to look at (b). I'd agree that generally the problems we all solve are not particularly time critical, when you're working on something over a week or month, there's not going to be anything which needs doing in t
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by andrew1 17y ago
A friend of mine travels to the US from the UK about once every six to eight weeks (he works for a consultancy so goes to see one of their clients regularly). He always flies to the same airport, and every time he arrives, he's detained for
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by andrew1 17y ago
But unless its some kind of weird reverse psychology, it seems pretty strange that an actual terrorist would want to bring attention to himself by carrying cards with the words 'bomb' and 'terrorism' on them. It just doesn't seem like a ver
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by andrew1 17y ago
I presume it comes about through reporting the fact that the person has died. 'arrested on returning to the country' probably should have been 'arrested after reporting the suicide and having stated their own whereabouts at the time of deat
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by andrew1 17y ago
I think a preferred option for many people in this situation would be to go to an assisted suicide clinic like Dignitas in Switzerland where you can choose to die at a time of your choosing, without pain, surrounded by your loved ones, with
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by andrew1 17y ago
Maybe you could make one phone for each demographic.
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by andrew1 17y ago
> I thought I was going to have to get a joojoo instead You could always just not get a tablet thing and make do with whatever technology you already have. The stuff we have now seems to work OK.
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by andrew1 17y ago
That's very interesting, although without a little context, it's hard to know what to make of it. What do you do during the 3h59ms that you work? Where do you live? What do you do with the other 20h1m on the day when you work?
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by andrew1 17y ago
There's also a quote, about that quote, by David Moser: >> 'Someone once said that learning Chinese is "a five-year lesson in humility". I used to think this meant that at the end of five years you will have mastered Chinese and lea
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by andrew1 17y ago
Does your (1) point refer just to Flash? It's certainly possible to get a JVM to run on an ARM-based CPU. As regards (3), Java the language may be outdated (possibly a debatable point) but Java the virtual machine probably isn't. Both Scala
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by andrew1 17y ago
A good example of dividend behaviour can be seen in the 16th December dividend from Sycamore Networks (see http://www.google.com/finance?q=scmr ). This dividend was announced on the 18th November (roughly a month before the effective date)
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by andrew1 17y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by andrew1 17y ago
That's really interesting. Thanks!
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by andrew1 17y ago
I'm tremendously surprised by this (I don't doubt you're right, I've just never heard of it). I can't find any mention of this online, do you have a link where I could read about this?
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by andrew1 17y ago
It's exacerbated by the fact that once a new edition comes out (which can happen every few years) the old versions have much less worth for new students. So you could buy a $50 copy of an old version from an old student, but if it's differe
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by andrew1 17y ago
That limited number of times is probably quite high though. In our college library there were regularly used lend-able books from the 1920s/50s and older which hadn't worn out. Authors probably shouldn't hold out too much hope of repeat sal
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by andrew1 17y ago
He uses the word "Unbuntu" once, and the word "Ubuntu" three times. Therefore I'd imagine that "Unbuntu" was a spelling mistake, and probably doesn't have a great bearing on his knowledge of package management.
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by andrew1 17y ago
I appreciate that whoever runs the site can call it whatever they like, but I wish they hadn't chosen 'Hacker News'. I know that it's my own prejudices at play here but it's simply embarrassing to have 'Hacker News' staring out from the top
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by andrew1 17y ago
> paypal is too evil for me to even consider it I've never used PayPal (other than as a purchaser) so don't know what they're like to use for the average seller, but that statement seems a little strong. I imagine it's very much the cas
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by andrew1 17y ago
> ...can I go to the big guys (Microsoft, Google, etc?). Can I go become an associate at a VC firm? If you're interested in these kind of jobs then why not try and get one. If you want to work at Google, apply to Google. If you want to
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by andrew1 17y ago
I would hope that Google wouldn't buy it. If someone has gone to the bother of tyoing wwwbing.com into their browser it means they wanted to go to www.bing.com. Effectively re-directing them to Google seems inappropriate to me. Google has e
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by andrew1 17y ago
If you haven't done so already, why don't you email Paul Graham privately and ask him what you have done to cause your comments to be discounted. If it is for a reason that he wants to keep private then it might be more constructive than ra
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by andrew1 17y ago
But you can't say that a prediction is accurate until you have the actual data. They could still be wildly wrong in this instance; for example Nexus One users may be the early adopter types who will install loads of applications, thus artif
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by andrew1 17y ago
Three out of the ten failed for me.

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