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by brianpan 9y ago
I think it's the opposite. If you want a feature phone, you don't want a smartwatch. But if you use your phone a lot, maybe a watch can reduce the friction of some of those tasks. If the laptop can stay in the bag and the phone
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by brianpan 9y ago
You are in control of that- doesn't your watch let you configure notifications? My watch is always on mute (vibrate only) and it has only a subset of the notifications that my phone has. My experience is it is less demanding of my atte
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by brianpan 9y ago
Is there anything in all of biology that IS attuned to subtle and long-term issues? I think I would argue that we are the closest to that.
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by brianpan 9y ago
I believe the concern is everyone else using gmail compromising your privacy.
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by brianpan 9y ago
You set you destination for: gym Are you sure? Your calendar says that Bobby needs to be picked up from practice. Why don't I go ahead and set the destination for you?
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by brianpan 9y ago
I'd add to that and say that there are non-death threatening things that are very enjoyable to control and master (a cello, a paintbrush, code). It just so happens that some of those things that are enjoyable to master also involves
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by brianpan 9y ago
What's unbelievable? I was in the market for a Mini Countryman and the Mini rep was pushing me away from it and warning me that it was underpowered. I could see people having a certain expectation of Minis being zippy cars. It's n
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by brianpan 9y ago
15 years ago, I spent way too much time trying to figure out why Thunderbird was not able to create a folder for my "aux" emails. :(
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by brianpan 9y ago
Isn't emacs an IDE? :)
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Sometimes you find a repo and you want to figure out who "owns" it or is the "expert". That's what I'd use it for.
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by brianpan 9y ago
Lenovo fits that bill. I would guess the reason is that a Chinese company has plenty of market in China already and if they expand they would expand to other Asian countries first for language and cultural similarity reasons. Same reason US
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by brianpan 9y ago
Note to self: Use subdomains, not subdirectories in the future Wait...
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by brianpan 9y ago
I have a musician friend who doesn't think drums are a musical instrument and that drummers are not musicians. As far as I can figure it's has primarily to do with drums not having the same concepts of pitch/melody. I feel li
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by brianpan 10y ago
Acanthamoeba is an amoeba that lives in the water. So yes, it's tap water plus handling your contacts in the same way that touching a door knob can give you a cold. Just because you've touched door knobs without getting a cold doe
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by brianpan 10y ago
This prevents fat-finger mistakes. You could go further and try to prevent cat-on-the-keyboard mistakes, which is maybe what you're describing (solve this math equation to prove you are a human who is sufficiently not inebriated). Or e
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by brianpan 10y ago
A good UI should be able to help, especially in critical situations. I imagine Amazon will consider something like this: > The dosage you ordered is an order of magnitude greater than the dosage most commonly ordered for this medicine. C
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by brianpan 10y ago
Teasing is a social thing. And like other social things the reasons are not necessarily concrete and "rational". Why do you smile and say hello to a person you pass in the hall? You don't intend to start a conversion- there&#
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by brianpan 10y ago
This is under the PrimeNow banner- everything is delivered under an hour.
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by brianpan 10y ago
This is completely off-topic, but can we take a moment and recognize how fantastic it is that the article has a picture of a hacker's desk with an assortment of mobile devices like: a calculator, 3 bluetooth mice, and a stapler?!
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by brianpan 10y ago
For the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Transmission_character
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by brianpan 10y ago
Generally a good approach when it comes to security- default to no access. Much safer in the even of programmer error, misconfiguration, etc.
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I'm guessing this is more for in development or debugging issues.
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The relevant bit was: during the season coach Kerr recognized faults that he found difficult to correct. Not in hindsight. The discussion is about what happens when you are winning. No one is making excuses for losing.
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by brianpan 10y ago
I don't know if it's apropos to talk sports, but in a very real way this is what happened to the Warriors. They had an historic, record-breaking season that allowed them all sorts of bad habits. In the Finals when they are on the
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by brianpan 10y ago
Is the President a good guy that we are obliged to follow? I think you have it backwards. The FBI derives it's power from the people it serves. It is in all our interests to have healthy functioning governments that serve their communi
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by brianpan 10y ago
> only had that one. Did it? The deal of the century was when SAIC bought Network Solutions for $4.7M in 1995. Five years later, they sold it to VeriSign for $21B.
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You got 0.5, but where's your free will now, human?
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As a motorcyclist, if the Tesla just maintains its course that would be perfect. And when they get to switching lanes, if they signal before they move, that would be perfect. I don't need cars to move over (what if there's a motor
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Oh, god, my mom is in on it too?!
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The story is the journey, and there is no story without suspense. The URL is the dust jacket- some people are going to see the URL even before the title. No one said anything about clickbait. Any URL without the spoiler is better.

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