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by com 15y ago
Apart from discussions on the quality of headline writers in popular and specialist scientific journals, I find it really interesting that the "out of Africa" hypothesis seems to need to merge with the multicentric model of human evolution.
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by com 15y ago
I'd add a couple more things to condition your list: * people are sometimes contextually gendered or contextually express specific sexuality (I know people who might describe themselves - and present that way too - as TV in some situations,
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by com 15y ago
You're right about architecture and location of homes. But: * there's a discernable trend in my social circles to locate well away from cities (and the first world) - but I can't find good statistics to back this up as more than just anecdo
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by com 15y ago
I love your coffee line. Totally agree (except for a little relativism; Sydney coffee is generally pretty bad compared with the average quality at corner cafés in Melbourne). I'm in northern europe now and while the espresso bug has hit the
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by com 15y ago
'Thanks', and 'please', are used in Dutch only when there is much to thank for (saving someones life, or at least possessions or the like). While in English they are part of almost any question or exchange, no matter how trivial. As somet
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by com 15y ago
In London, the night bus route I tend to use (to Walthamstow from central London) runs at a slightly lower frequency overnight - just once every ten minutes. It's about as fast as the tube because of the more limited traffic. And you use th
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by com 15y ago
It's been quite hard to find information about the re-analysis. It looks like there was a press-release in May last year where the pingers were identified after a re-analysis of the Emeraude towed-array sonar tapes: http://www.businessweek
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by com 15y ago
I'd really like to follow up on this recommendation: I used Perl first as a kind of sed and awk on steroids in the dark days on a VAX running BSD 4.3, wrote simple CGI in it in the early 90's then later recoded a fax gateway in Perl 4 on So
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by com 15y ago
As someone who values a fairly broad oligarchy of phone ecosystems, I'm frightened that Nokia will have 20% of a WP7 market that is perhaps a little more than one or two million devices per year, and stagnant. WP7 (or 8 for that matter) isn
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by com 15y ago
I totally agree with your comment about the SLA penalty as an incentive to the provider to take reasonable measures to ensure service. But that's just in general. When negotiating bespoke SLA penalty clauses, it can be very illuminating for
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by com 15y ago
Early days? Still happens for me with odd terminal apps here and there on things like Windows.
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by com 16y ago
I think there are a couple of things that can be good about sticking with a legacy technology: 1. Code maintenance can be quite lucrative if you can assemble a well-networked client base who'll give referrals 2. The number of other competit
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by com 16y ago
Bytes are 8 bits - UTF-8 gets most of ASCII in 1 byte (8 bits) and many (most?) other language glyphs can be encoded in 2 bytes or so (16 bits). A 16 byte field can hold up to 16 ASCII characters, or perhaps 8 CJK glyphs that might encode a
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by com 16y ago
As a victim/administrator of sendmail-based mail systems from the 1980's to the late 1990's, this was a pretty interesting interview: anyone know of good retrospectives from other epochal software, especially open source? I'd love to see re
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by com 16y ago
The list is quite revealing - it gives away some of the "command and control" tendencies in some (US?) businesses. Some of the suggestions are astonishing (I work in Europe and can't conceive of a non-customer facing/low security role where
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by com 16y ago
I'm sorry if "arguing" means "advocating" to you, my meaning was that the conclusion that you reached was an extreme end of a continuum. Decrease one or the other and you can still call it a government for many possible points on the contin
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by com 16y ago
I just picked up a pre-pay (no contract) Orange San Francisco for GBP89 + GBP10 calling credit. This is starting to be in almost disposable territory for the rich-world's middle class and absolutely affordable on a monthly hire-purchase for
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by com 16y ago
You're arguing the completist case: that of a totalitarian state, where legitimacy is significantly a function of the execution of power against part of the populace. One intermediate form of a state is a rule-of-law state which regularly t
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by com 16y ago
I suspect sarcasm is never lost on you.
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by com 16y ago
Yeah - but I wonder how long this kind of thing (I was just thinking "unethical goldmine") will last because it puts two parts of the business model of Facebook at risk. 1) the (laughable) idea that Facebook is a trustworthy place to put al
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by com 16y ago
I know what you mean about LCY - just a pleasure to use. It's a pain if you have to head over to say, Richmond or Ruislip, but for the centre or east of London, it's a dream. I choose it every time I go to London (which is always short-haul
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by com 16y ago
My fave is the swimming pool and spa on the roof of Singapore Changi terminal 1. Pack your bathers - they provide a towel, lockers and showers.
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by com 16y ago
The app store rules are a fairly smart move from a service and support perspective. They don't want to have to manage complex dependencies in the app store. Therefore no optional or deprecated packages. This move doesn't really support the
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by com 16y ago
But a big part of this issue is the upcoming Mac App Store. The rule that's been floated is apps cannot be based on "deprecated or optionally-installed technologies". This makes a lot of sense, dependency hell and all the other related thin
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by com 16y ago
What does this mean? "The continent" is normally - in English - a shortened form of "continental Europe". Are you saying that you moved from somewhere east of the Urals or perhaps Turkey (if you don't believe that that's culturally European
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by com 16y ago
It is so not lower middle class in California. While the couple earning that in the Bay Area may be doing it hard, the difference between that and the lifestyle of the poor is immense. There is a fairly thick layer (my bet is at least 35% o
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by com 16y ago
Um, you need to get out of Melbourne. I am always amazed at how universally excellent espresso is there: beautifully roasted, excellently barista'd and absolutely no milk or sugar required while still being dark, thick and tasty. Compare to
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by com 16y ago
I was extrememly surprised at the number of people at Singapore's Changi airport who were using their (Apple) tablets in the departure lounges. Still a small percentage of total laptop users, but very noticeable. And the number of kids show
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by com 16y ago
"Bad development" sounds like some kind of phrase from a 1950's development model. "Fundamentals" are things like: there's no identifiable data model, the code is pure spaghetti and structure is a fleeting concept. From my very quick scan o
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by com 16y ago
There's a lot of negativity and "I told you so" snickering floating around Diaspora on Hacker News. I'm putting it down to envy: these guys have shipped some pre-alpha code that's interesting to a large number of people. Excellent marketing

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