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by astine 16y ago
"Since when is having a poor user experience good for business." You'd do better to ask which situations it is good for business,and which situations focusing on a strong UX can distract from more pressing concerns, or worse. The article me
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by astine 16y ago
"User experience and business aren't mutually exclusive." They are not necessarily always aligned either and you may have to choose at one point. UX is very subjective and taking a dogmatic approach to it and how it affects your business i
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by astine 16y ago
Exactly. Failing to go through puberty is a developmental problem and it is doubtful that this child will live any longer than an ordinary human being, assuming her condition doesn't present complications that kill her long before that.
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by astine 16y ago
"Regular x-rays and metal detectors can be shown to have stopped a very large proportion of items immediately threatening to passenger safety" By that logic however, x-rays machines and metal detectors should never have been permitted in th
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by astine 16y ago
Even sitting at a computer, if I can do a calculation in my head, it's usually faster than attempting to do it with a calculator and it usually allows me to keep the mental flow of whatever it is that I'm doing at the moment.
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by astine 16y ago
You might think that economistshold pro-business, anti-tax, anti-worker rights biases. Or you might think that the more easily demonstrated principles of economics hold pro-business, anti-tax, anti-worker rights biases. Given my limited stu
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by astine 16y ago
> Unless the contract said that they couldn't. I was going to mention that, but I wasn't sure whether the GPL would prevent that or not. As for the later point, yeah, no shit.:)
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by astine 16y ago
The fact that is would be an incredibly stupid thing to do? Kidnapping English citizens was a capital offense and piracy doubly so. If they started doing this routinely, they would have been hunted down by the Royal Navy. I doubt many merch
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by astine 16y ago
Then they would have to share it with the contractor under the terms of the GPL. The contractor could then release it further. More likely though, the contractor would be brought in to work on the project and the military would argue that
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by astine 16y ago
Let's assume that people generally date about 6 months before deciding to get married and let's assume that the average engagement is another 6 months. Given that, there is something wrong if you are signed up for one of these websites and
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by astine 16y ago
If everyone's flies are open, you've wandered onto the set of a gay porno.
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by astine 16y ago
At least that sheep has a vote. I dislike eminent domain abuse as much as anyone but there is a big difference between what property right abuse looks like now and what it would look like without a discernible and relatively incorrupt gover
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by astine 16y ago
If there was no government, there would be no corporations. A corporation's power is dependent on the social framework a government creates. To give an example of what I mean, modern currencies are fiat, that is, they have value because var
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by astine 16y ago
In theory, but not practice. Hobbes particularly, makes the point that without government, property rights are largely unenforcible. The strong will out.
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by astine 16y ago
I think the spammer comment was about the fact that this is an email newsletter service, not that this is a self plug. I have a friend who works in email newsletters, we all joke that he's a spammer.
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by astine 16y ago
You mean Sun's keyboard business which Oracle acquired? I hate those, at least the "Unix layout" ones. Some of these are installed at some of the workstations at work. I don't mind having the control where the caplocks usually is, but I do
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by astine 16y ago
I'm sorry, I saw the 'p' and thought Pound not Pence. Excuse my ignorance of British currency notation.
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by astine 16y ago
90p ~~ $180... For a single box?! I can get them cheaper at Staples, though not in bulk. Who's your supplier?
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by astine 16y ago
I got the Star Wars reference. I used to live in Albuquerue and I was implying that Roswell was more like Mos Eisley than Albuquerque. Though that's just a personal opinion.
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by astine 16y ago
It's much closer to Roswell...
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by astine 16y ago
Cash4Gold is a terrible investment. you can nearly always get a better price at your local pawn broker (or hell, eBay.) They may not technically be a scam, but they are still perceived as such and have a terrible reputation amongst customer
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by astine 16y ago
Yes, but they look so sleek. Seriously, people will judge the trustworthiness of your company by the appearance of your boxes and the quality of your branding. I don't know the costs of the cardboard boxes you're looking at, but I suspect t
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by astine 16y ago
This way they don't need to work around the schedule of a busy major airport, which I'm guessing would probably be unwilling to accommodate them. Pleasure flights and pilot lessons are usually out of small regional airports for similar reas
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by astine 16y ago
I think that the 'phallic' aspect of rocketry has more to do with physics than anyone's actual obsession with penises. Personally, I think when you read phalli into it, I think that says more about you than rocketry. I think that the same c
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by astine 16y ago
No, America (meaning the USA) is somewhat smaller than Europe, especially if you count European Russia, another country whose size is often underestimated. Though, it is helpful to realize that the United States is, in fact, larger in terms
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by astine 16y ago
"fails to provide any clear examples of what makes a good teacher" I can provide what I believe the be an example of a good teaacher: When I was in highschool I had a number of teachers but the one who stuck out the most a man who taught us
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by astine 16y ago
"This is a very popular opinion these days, but since when do we have to win the hearts and minds to win the war?" I think we do. Extreme violence just isn't an option in our situation. If we did to Afghanistan what you suggest and nuke it,
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by astine 16y ago
"We don't teach English classes with the intent or expectation of turning all of the students into professional literary critics, and we don't make everyone take algebra because we think they will or should all become mathematicians." That'
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by astine 16y ago
Was wondering, thanks.
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by astine 16y ago
Not that I have any interest in this as a startup idea, but could the issues with Javascript be avoid by using Flash instead?

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