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by cliveowen 12y ago
40 years ago people were born from thin parents, today they're born from obese parents. This has to have an effect on the genetic makeup of the children.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
If you read any subreddit people seems to discover the golden diet and way of living. You have to remember theyre just strangers on the internet and you have no reason to believe them over doctors. If there was actually a way proved to resu
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by cliveowen 12y ago
"C left around for the UNIX layer" BSD is implemented in C, so it's not left around, it's the foundation of the system. The syscalls at the base level (read(), write(), socket(), fork(), etc,) are implemented in C and so
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I think the iOS 7 design looks like a joke, but I'm nonetheless happy they're changing OS X, it needed a renovation.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I'm told not to use easy to guess passwords, so I generate them randomly with Apple's Keychain. I can't possibly remember a random password, so I store them in a text file which I diligently encrypt with a strong master passw
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Agreed, and that enormous thing on the roof just shouldn't be there. "Google plans to build 100 to 200 of these prototypes, and work towards safety approval by the end of the year. The future’s coming a lot faster than we thought
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by cliveowen 12y ago
That's really outstanding, I didn't expect that.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
There's something I've always wondered and maybe here is the right place to ask it, but what is the practical and theoretical accuracy of the GPS? Can it track the position of a device in, say, a radius of 2 feet? It always looked
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I sincerely hope Google will officially support Go in future, that would really make the difference. Having to use Java and Eclipse is one of the reasons many mobile developers go the iOS route.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
What if you get more users, like 50.000, you still have 20.000 users (40% of the user base, which seems reasonable) and it will still take 3 years.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Came here for the same exact thing, I was wondering if it's actually legal to take a mortgage on a house and then rent it out to third parties.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I don't know what is it, but this new one just feels wrong. I hope they change their mind before it's too late.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I completely agree with you and frankly I'm shocked to see most of the responses here purporting copy-pasting someone else's code to be a legitimate practice. I also imagine that most if not all of these people are into web develo
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Frankly, it's just called programming. Programming is that pesky, resilient three-headed monster between your idea and the finished product, you have to give in and tame it.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Symmetrical ADSL is an oxymoron, the word you search for is SDSL.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
The real problem imho is that votes, and in particular downvotes, shouldn't be visible, they should be implied by the ranking. While HN doesn't publicly show the votes of a given post it turns grey posts with more than 4 downvotes
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by cliveowen 12y ago
It actually makes sense that Facebook doesn't provide a dislike button, for two reasons. First of all on Facebook you're interacting with friends mostly and disliking a friend's post cannot lead to anything good and generate
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by cliveowen 12y ago
shitu, not the best choice of word.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I hide everything too, but I wonder if there is a quick way to hide everything but the current active windows.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
It's amazing how accurate it is.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Strangely I've been here for less than a year but I don't remember how I came across HN, not a clue.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Id' really like to have some opinions about Google Now that everyone seems to find awesome. Let's start with the fact that if I want to set a reminder and I don't have an internet connection I can't. Since when having an
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Just yesterday I realized that they removed the estimate of fuel costs. Why? That doesn't make sense, it's one of the things you expect to see when you search for directions. It's backwards, but they managed to "update&q
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Vampire Science: Young Blood Recharges Old Brains(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
3 points by cliveowen 12y ago|0 comments
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by cliveowen 12y ago
It's just a subjective take on the age-old question that doesn't add anything to what you already know from philosophy classes.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
If anything Go is the successor of C, Java has nothing to do with Go.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
That's obviously not what they meant.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
"People tell us" People don't tell you anything, they don't have a way to do it. Facebook just does whatever it wants without caring about the users, lets cut the BS.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Making this kind of statements and then not providing any kind of proof is just pointless. No one has any reason to believe any of this and this can't therefore be considered a leak because it carries absolutely no value.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Between people shifting from pc to arm-powered phones and major data-center users doing their best to cut costs this is shaping up to be a tough decade for Intel.

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