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by chris_j 14y ago
That is very true and something that I hadn't given thought to. Still, consider how much greater the confusion would be if, for example, you had to remember to get up at midnight, eat lunch at 5am, go to bed at 4pm and so on.
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by chris_j 14y ago
Ironically, this idea would make international travel more difficult in some respects because, when travelling to what today is in a different timezone, you would have to memorise a different set of times for when to get up, go to and from
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by chris_j 14y ago
I never understood why ISPs think that bandwidth heavy sites ought to pay them. Surely if a user is wasting bandwidth on sites like YouTube then the ISP should ask the user to pay for that bandwidth. Why don't they do that?
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by chris_j 14y ago
I think it's been quite encouraging that, while they are talking about a whole load of features that they'd like to include in the future, they're being pretty clear about the things that they won't support in the first release (landing on
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by chris_j 14y ago
Ubuntu 12.10 and Fedora (16 I think).
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by chris_j 14y ago
Minor nitpick: Romania has been a member of the EU since 2007.
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by chris_j 14y ago
Does anyone have any data on the number of normal users vs power users that Gnome actually has? The worry has to be that, if Gnome stops targeting "people who tend to use Linux" then there's a strong chance that they'll fail to attract enou
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by chris_j 14y ago
It sounds like you're saying that Gnome 3 is now targeting non-nerds and that nerds should use something else. Fair enough I suppose. The thing that's incredibly frustrating from my perspective is that Gnome 2, for me at least, was perfect.
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by chris_j 14y ago
Would you mind talking about it a bit more then? Tell us what aspects of Gnome 3 are great and what's great about them?
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by chris_j 14y ago
Are you aware that the name wish already refers to the wish shell that comes with tcl? http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl7.6/UserCmd/wish.1.html
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by chris_j 14y ago
Indeed. When a large company has a problem, there are an awful lot of people in that company who aren't empowered to fix it.
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by chris_j 14y ago
One problem with this is that it trains the user to ignore a security warning which might not be crying wolf next time.
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by chris_j 14y ago
Don't forget that many bands consist of kids in their late teens and early twenties who might be more naive than you are and who may not have a full understanding their chances of making it big vs getting screwed over.
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by chris_j 14y ago
Quite a few artists/bands have crowdfunded albums on pledgemusic ( http://www.pledgemusic.com/ ). This seems to work reasonably well for established artists that already have a decent fanbase but I'm not so sure about how well it would work
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by chris_j 14y ago
That doesn't address the central part of taligent's comment. Yes, Google is an advertising company but they fear a future where their products (and therefore their adverts) are frozen out of smartphones. If Android didn't exist and the iPho
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by chris_j 14y ago
How is it clear from the quote that Google did not offer unreasonable terms? Would you mind expanding a little?
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by chris_j 14y ago
When I studied physics in highschool, we were taught to measure mass in kilograms and to measure weight in newtons. While this seemed a little strange at the time, it had the effect of forcing you to be clear which one you were talking abou
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by chris_j 14y ago
Where would you choose to put application config instead?
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by chris_j 14y ago
In order to reduce the computational overhead on the server, perhaps one option is to run (at least part of) the hash on the client (eg in Javascript). Does anyone have any idea of how that would perform and if it would be feasible?
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by chris_j 14y ago
Would you mind expanding on how a prior art search works? It might be of great interest to folks here.
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by chris_j 14y ago
If Google moved away from Java, what language(s) would you prefer them to use?
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by chris_j 15y ago
What do you think the reason for that is? That those people without a bachelor's degree will be really discouraged from applying if you state that a master's is required?
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by chris_j 15y ago
What makes you specifically mention fast performance? I wasn't aware that this was the most important selling point of Clojure. What kool aid is it that you won't drink this time? For me, Clojure is great because it allows you to build pow
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by chris_j 15y ago
Check out http://mosquitto.org/ which is an open source implementation of MQTT.
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by chris_j 15y ago
What is the relationship between your Audiogalaxy and the Audiogalaxy that existed back in 2000?
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by chris_j 15y ago
I'm British and 'runs' sounds correct to me too in this case. It looks like a typo to me.
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by chris_j 15y ago
Many banks in the UK do require the use of a card reader or a device that generates one time passcodes in order to use online banking. Ironically, a lot of people complain about the inconvenience of having to use them. I wonder if banks hav
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by chris_j 15y ago
When flagging stories, please could we get asked for confirmation before the story is flagged? Since I started using HN on a touchscreen phone, I have found myself unable to precisely control where I click, meaning that I have accidentally
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by chris_j 15y ago
That's not correct. We7 isn't just another web radio service. It absolutely is a service where you can listen to whatever you want, with a fairly decent selection of (major label) tracks. The major advantage over Spotify up until now has be
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by chris_j 15y ago
For anyone in the UK, I recommend trying we7 ( http://www.we7.com/ ) which is a similar service to Spotify and which which already has a web client.

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