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by bparsons 13y ago
Everything looks a lot more like Android now. I am interested to see if Kit-Kat makes any significant stylistic changes.
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by bparsons 13y ago
>How do you know what percentage of ability corresponds to bad driving? It is based on reaction time. So if you approach a stop light that turns red and you have a 70% score, you are taking approximately 30% longer to hit the car brakes.
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by bparsons 13y ago
Swizec, if you are interested in additional resources for your book, I would be happy to connect you with some folks at Fatigue Science (they have a ton of data on how sleep deprivation contributes to reduced cognition and reaction time), o
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Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk(forbes.com)
110 points by bparsons 13y ago|67 comments
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by bparsons 13y ago
Author of that article runs a coal/oil propaganda organization called "The Center for Industrial Progress". You can take a wild guess who pays his bills.
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by bparsons 13y ago
Most people's diets are horrible. It is really hard to eat anything even close to balanced-- especially if you eat out at different restaurants quite often. So, even if these guys don't really know what they are doing, even someon
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by bparsons 13y ago
I guarantee that they were not expecting the intensity of the reaction on this one. A lot of stories, like the LavaBit shutdown for example, never elicited the strong backlash that it should have. It was however, well known in security and
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by bparsons 13y ago
What exactly are people doing with these Mac Books that could not be achieved on a $1500-1800 PC? If you work for a film studio, then I can understand blowing 3 grand on a machine. But most folks I know are buying these to run photoshop and
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by bparsons 13y ago
Haven't tried 7, but picking up a iPhone 5 after using my Nexus 4 feels like a big leap backwards. It is what my Blackberry bold felt like after using an iPhone for the first time.
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by bparsons 13y ago
If this was their strategy, it would be an extremely risky one from a political point of view. The NSA's endless budget expansion is now at risk, while almost half of the House of Reps voted to nearly shut the program down last week. N
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by bparsons 13y ago
Today was disheartening. The Guardian writes an expose on what should be the greatest political scandal of our lifetime- the fact that low level contractors and government employees can access all of our chat history, emails and browsing hi
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by bparsons 13y ago
This indicates not a problem with Samsung, but a problem with the benchmarks. Want better devices? Build better benchmarks.
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by bparsons 13y ago
Check out the UN investigation into the treatment of Bradley Manning. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning-...
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by bparsons 13y ago
His statement said nothing about using "enhanced interrogation methods" against Snowden. By their own legal definition, the US government "tortures" no one. Water boarding, sensory deprivation, psychological torture, str
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by bparsons 13y ago
Granted. It depends where you live. If transit is a priority, you want to live near the Canada line, which is fast, clean and has really good security. If you live out in the burbs, transit is okay, but not better than most European cities.
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by bparsons 13y ago
Classy.
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by bparsons 13y ago
Can't say enough about Vancouver. The skytrain will take you from the YVR arrivals terminal right downtown. Cost is 6 bucks, and you will be at your apartment or hotel in 20-30 minutes. The city is most the most walkable in the world,
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by bparsons 13y ago
Uhhhhhhhhhh
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by bparsons 14y ago
This is a pricing model where Android devices will start gaining serious ground. When the average consumer compares a Nexus 4 ($309) to an iPhone5 ($600) and starts looking at closely at the specs, the brand loyalty will quickly start erodi
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by bparsons 14y ago
"Gruseom likes McDonalds Hamburgers." It works if you just did it, or did it 3 years ago.
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by bparsons 14y ago
No, it just says that you "like" something. The tense works both in the past and present. Facebook never says that you liked something that you did not.
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by bparsons 14y ago
The only option that the author doesn't explore, is the possibility that the WSJ author may be correct in saying that the more robust Android ecosystem is gobbling up market share.
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by bparsons 14y ago
They should promote this guy and have him replicate the process across the entire organization. Cutting up your job into tasks and instructing others to do it is actually quite difficult. If this guy got away with it for so long, it probabl
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by bparsons 14y ago
Stephen Gordon has a good take on this: http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/14/stephen-harper-state-vent...
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by bparsons 14y ago
Yeah, you might recall that there was a huge push by public health officials to get folks to take the H1N1 vaccine. The actual flu that year was not that bad, so the spike was a bit of an anomaly.
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by bparsons 14y ago
The onion did an article very similar to this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-t...
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by bparsons 14y ago
"Though I had a Stanford MBA and regularly consulted on multimillion-dollar projects, I didn't know the first thing about starting a business." This guy was awarded a Stanford MBA and didn't know that you had to have paperwork to import goo