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by chwahoo 15y ago
Perhaps psychology experts could chime in here: I've always been a little skeptical of the Stanford Prison Experiment's findings. It was such a complex experiment whose results might have been drastically affected by each participant know
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I find it shocking that "technical/instructive/informative" books are disallowed. I can't begin to fathom a reasonable explanation for that. To be more helpful, a mathy algorithms text, like CLR ( http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorit
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I think prevention of semantic extraction to diagrams would better pitched as "another unforeseen negative consequence of agreeing to Elsevier's terms", rather than as a significant part of the problem. If this story became a major part of
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by chwahoo 15y ago
> Whites boards are treated as RAM, not Storage. Your phones have cameras now, use them! This sounds like whiteboard space/time is a scarcity you haven't shown to be artificial. (I'm not saying your approach is wrong, just that it doesn
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I love creative policy ideas like this. It's an fascinating attempt to engineer a carrot and stick motivate the rich to help make all Americans better off. I'm not necessarily saying that I like to see highly engineered policies put into
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Does it? It looks like an utterly generic smartphone to me.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
People/organizations have bought into telecommuting to varying degrees. Like you, I'm still pretty skeptical, but there are certainly teams/individuals that wouldn't work any other way and have found success.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
This only scales so far. Once more books are priced at impulse levels, it will provide less of an advantage and ultimately hurt your bottom line compared to the current typical price level. It's similar to web apps being "free" in order to
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by chwahoo 15y ago
"One factual error that the article makes is that DRM'd content is harder to pirate. That is simply not the case; every piece of content ever released is easily pirate-able. The only thing that DRM does is hurt legitimate users." That's har
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by chwahoo 15y ago
However, if iOS is able to evolve additional flexibility as it is needed without too much pain, then perhaps they made the right design choices at the start?
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by chwahoo 15y ago
So an attempt at a brief summary of (the non-thread-priorities portion of) her post: The Android model of providing rendering isolation between apps/windows has limited hw acceleration of window contents rendering, which is a cause of some
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by chwahoo 15y ago
He's not arguing against capitalism. He's saying that the market is currently overvaluing certain kinds of businesses, causing resources to be misallocated. That's it. You may be right that he is either wrong or making his argument for se
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I suspect he means that investors are overvaluing small startups (relative to their chances of becoming successful). The consequence he worries about is that having too much funding available makes the opportunity too appealing to the be
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I think it's the dissonant claims that the employees in question are "non-performers" but those same employees would be deserving of their jobs if they were to relinquish their stock options. If they were truly "non-performers", Zynga sho
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by chwahoo 15y ago
The connection between the "Peter Principle" and this article isn't obvious to me. Can you say what you mean?
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Nice! Only with the help of a track of magnets. Still, this is pretty slick.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I wonder what the "least-GNU" distro is at this point. Are there any that use LLVM/clang and uclibc, for example?
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Is this true? Has Amazon/AWS asked people to take down blogs/articles that benchmark their systems?
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by chwahoo 15y ago
To redeem the coin, you have to peel back a sticker. The hologram for peeled coins takes on a honeycomb appearance according to the link.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
That page does allow you hear the changes. See the toggle-switch next to the picture of the guitar.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
3d is one of the claimed features of the Lytro: http://blog.lytro.com/news/it-gets-better-lytro-3d-demo/
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Perhaps in length, but it looks much thicker. It seems like it would be awkward to carry in a pocket.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I've been pretty excited about the idea of light-field photography/Lytro, but this thing looks pretty awkward to carry/use :(. I look forward to seeing reviews when they start to trickle out. Hopefully Lytro can figure out how to make it mo
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by chwahoo 15y ago
While I agree that those terms are unclear and might mean different things to different people, I think "banning" them is solving a non-problem. I don't know anyone who would ask a developer to "rewrite the code to not be ugly" (without pr
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by chwahoo 15y ago
"Utterly retarded" is far too strong a statement. The indie games of tomorrow may be built on "hitech ultra-HD" engines. The exploration of the space of games is advancing along many dimensions (including technology) and I think technolog
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by chwahoo 15y ago
Spotify, MOG, Pandora, Farmville, are all popular users of the platform.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
This isn't G+ "settling" for anything. This is a user's clever way of using the G+ API to present G+ posts on his outside blog.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I own a tablet (Motorola XOOM) and have used an iPad on a couple of occasions. Those tablets are pitched as substitutes for the PC, suggesting that you might produce content using them. (Apples early release of an office suite for iPad
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I use it for shopping for my next book when I'm too lazy to get out of bed and go to the computer.
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by chwahoo 15y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing your post. The passage you quoted concerns cases where advertisers might not like the material on sites that rank highly in search results. > so let's make some more money. Let's not send visitors to site

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