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benihana
11y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=boston+globe+tangled+history...
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11y ago
what's stopping you from putting it on github then posting it here and in the comments of this post?
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> But the real impact on the economy and humanity from eBay, AirBB and FaceTwitter is low. Yay! This post. A mathy-engineering type condescendingly putting down services with a billion users while the world communicates and shares thing
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>They could always stop using privacy-invading ad networks and external services which track users and then they wouldn't have to show any message. "if these companies would just invent and build a new infrastructure to pay the
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>build all major roads in tunnels, and bring the recovered surface area back to it's original state for all to enjoy. How deeply have you thought this idea through? What happens in places like Florida where the water table is so hig
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11y ago
Exactly! We've been building huge things out of stone, just because, for at least five thousand years.
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> The correct answer is to never Ah sweet, it's that one commenter who can prescribe the absolute correct answer to very complex situations with a couple of simple platitudes! Since you seem to be in a mood to drop the correct answ
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11y ago
Judging by the water colors I'm guessing Paper by FiftyThree.
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> If they say yes, then I'll probably entertain myself by asking how they'd run the company while mentally moving on to the next candidate. How condescending and arrogant do you have to be to take this kind of attitude to some
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11y ago
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3&quo
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> a brazenly cynical protagonist whose thoughts of war mostly involve hoping to find a way out of it... Catch-22?
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I think what people tend to get upset about is having their opinions dismissed and smugly described as a harassment campaign. Both sides of that stupid gamergate fiasco had legitimate complaints and both sides had assholes who harassed the
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Yeah just check out that picture of the clearly WW2 era all glass cockpit. It has a freaking digital attitude indicator!
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Ah, he found me out. I'm buying a new laptop every three years to impress strangers so they think I'm rich and are impressed with my status. Definitely not because my entire existence has happened in a time where the amount of tra
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That was a lot of words to say Apple is wrong about design and I'm right and I wish someone would realize this and build something that suits me exactly.
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> I don't understand how there could really be a community that revolves around a crypto currency. "I admit to not understanding this thing, yet feel okay spouting off some smug opinions about it." Ok.
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11y ago
So what happens to the particulates after they're collected? Is this a matter of "let's take these molecules and use them somewhere", or is it like we have a shit-ton of solid waste full of sulfur and hydrogen and we hav
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After reading your response it occurs to me that they're streisand effecting themselves. If they'd have just shut up, most people wouldn't even be aware of the adblocking capabilities in iOS 9. Each article they write brings
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Because numbers seem to point to iOS being the dominant device web browser (Android appears to be installed on many more devices, but people browse the web on their iPhones and iPads). The brouhaha is because the default browser now allows
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> Am I the only one thinks that the user's experience should be more important than everything else? No. I value UX over almost everything, but you have to realize that your values don't exist in a vacuum. Without something to
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Right, we've heard that rationalization before. It's not about that. He (and we) are aware of it not being personal but being business. He's saying, even if he's completely justified by that rationalization, he doesn
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But once you know how to do it (it's swiping from right to left in a chat screen, by the way) it's a genius use of touch movement, right? I'm torn about this - it's annoying that it's hard to discover, but I also ha
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It's much easier to justify wasting money on normal business things every day people understand, like buying office paper. Most people can relate to that, even when things go wrong and money is wasted. Most people, be they in the deep
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>Of course, people would rather that part of his heritage weren't brought up, because it's completely irrelevant to what Jobs accomplished. It always seems to be the people implying that other are people racist who bring up his
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You don't have much of an imagination then.
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For comparison, The Delta IV Heavy costs ~$350 million to send 28,790 kg into LEO, or 14,220 kg into GTO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy the Saturn V, the rocket that sent men to the moon could send 140,0
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> Also, I thought the consensus was that Apple was 'backdooring' iMessage by giving LE access to iCloud backups which include iMessage, not compromising iMessage directly? Consensus? First I've heard of this being a conse
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I don't get this guy at all. He opens with how hard networking is, then spends the entire article calling his readers stupid for not getting networking. Ok.
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Great read! I'm a web developer but I play the hell out of video games. I really liked how the author explained what effects you're trying to mitigate in the collision detection algorithms. It instantly put it into a very clear an
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So, if I understand this right, you're getting really really worked up at a slightly tongue-in-cheek post that tries to explain AWS in a way that's relateable to a lot of programmers. And you're upset because the words used i
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