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Nine Words You Might Think Came from Science but Which Are Really from Science Fiction  (blog.oup.com)
3 points by davo11 17y ago|0 comments
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New worm can infect home modem/routers(apcmag.com)
18 points by davo11 18y ago|3 comments
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by davo11 18y ago
I never said anything about forcing people into shelters. My point was by providing a basic level of social security the tent city could be avoided. In Australia there are still some homeless living under bridges and so on, this can't be pr
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by davo11 18y ago
I agree that it's not possible to calculate an economy. I was talking on a personal level, a rational person in a situation where at any time they may lose their job and be thrown on the streets will save and put aside enough money to survi
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by davo11 18y ago
Why would it be a cage? Isn't the idea of a free society is that it is a society? A group of responsible adults could agree that events could occur which result in people having to live on the streets for no reason of their own. I agree wit
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by davo11 18y ago
Some homeless people are mentally ill but this isn't a reason to not have a social safety net. There used to be a term 'noblesse oblige' where the more fortunate are duty bound to look after those less fortunate, to my mind this is where a
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by davo11 18y ago
Isn't there any sort of social welfare if you're unemployed in the US? I'm in Australia, and if you're unemployed here you get an allowance from the government, it's not much but enough to keep you able to share the rent with a couple of pe
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by davo11 18y ago
"the crash of 1873, the Great Depression—have a way of upending the geopolitical order, and hastening the fall of old powers and the rise of new ones." There has been much ado about the US failures, but the failures in the UK seem even more
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by davo11 18y ago
What about javascript's dynamic object model, where the objects can be changed at run time? I don't think this was possible earlier on, can't remember if this was possible in smalltalk or self? The idea of the DOM? Both mid 90's
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by davo11 18y ago
type inferencing as used in haskell et al, that's a fairly recent development - early 90's/late 80's? Category theory is another perhaps - it's from the 40's but it's application to programming is new - 80's perhaps?
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by davo11 18y ago
both these are outgrowths of C++ features - templates and rtti, which I saw first in the early 80's but were probably around earlier.
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by davo11 18y ago
Try a maths for engineers course at your local Uni. If you don't want to or can't enrol, you could probably just sneak in up the back and take notes, I've done this in the past for courses I was just curious about, lecturers usually don't m
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by davo11 18y ago
Is that available in all browsers?
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by davo11 18y ago
I spent much time researching why the tables are bad camp exists, and this is the result of my research: The beginning Initially tables were the only way to layout a web page, and so much abuse occured - this was before CSS and the only way
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by davo11 18y ago
+1 (alumni)
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by davo11 18y ago
By lodging a provisional and having a released product that implements the invention, I believe no one else can patent that invention, even if you don't proceed with the patent. Ask your lawyer. A patent search will reveal if someone else h
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by davo11 18y ago
If you'd like to get advice from other inventors there's usually an inventors association nearby. Expect every opinion under the sun, but it may help. Usually there are experienced inventors who donate their time to help out new inventors a
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by davo11 18y ago
I'm in the same boat, my provisional runs out in April, and am wondering what to do. I lodged the provisional myself and save a few $K. Here's my current thinking, over the course of the patent it will cost around $250K or more over 20 year
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MSDN Magazine free downloads 2000 to 2009(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by davo11 18y ago|0 comments
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by davo11 18y ago
Managing Director. Hay it's fun handing out business cards and seeing double takes - there has to be some reward to working for nothing at the moment. I must admit it felt a bit silly at first, but I preferred it to CEO, Managing Director h
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Buyer's market as crunch hits virtual realty(theage.com.au)
4 points by davo11 18y ago|0 comments
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by davo11 18y ago
pilates is great for back strength - it focuses on your 'core' muscles that keep your back straight.
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by davo11 18y ago
I dunno, it's more like I've fallen off the end of the world. Previously I was a corporate consultant, so I did incomprehensible things but I worked for a large company so it must make sense. Now I do incomprehensible things but not only th
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by davo11 18y ago
That was probably my point moving to a Mac from a PC is a large investment, you'd need to have very good reasons to do so. Personally I spend so much time in applications/ide's that the OS really doesn't matter much.
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by davo11 18y ago
Now that you say that, until recently I resisted calling myself an entrepeneur, it does have a lot of negative connotations. I'm past that and now I probably should try and drag some of them along with the dream, they'll be kicking and scre
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by davo11 18y ago
I'm not in America - I'm in Australia, There are entrepenuers here but it's not an accepted way of life like it seems to be in the US. If you have a shop front / product it seems acceptable, but people seem to have a hard time accepting tha
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by davo11 18y ago
You're probably right. You'd think with all the marketing brains and intellect here someone would have come up with an incantation.
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Ask HN: How do you explain what you do to your relatives?
51 points by davo11 18y ago|120 comments
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by davo11 18y ago
Think about the software too. I see you use Adobe CS3 and MS Office, so you'll have to buy new licenses of each of these, unless you're running them in a VM. I looked at moving to a Mac just like you are and after looking at the hardware an
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Make any website behave strangely in your browser(destructoid.com)
1 points by davo11 18y ago|0 comments

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