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by dcw303 11y ago
> Quetelet’s invention of the Average Man marked the moment when the average became normal, the individual became error, and stereotypes were validated with the imprint of science I wonder what would have happened had he used a statistic
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by dcw303 11y ago
I had a Windows Mobile phone in 2005 (One of the earlier O2 XDA models, from memory) and it certainly fell into the gestation phase. Email was passable if you were connected to an Exchange server, but tapping out long responses with the sty
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by dcw303 11y ago
You have a fair point in regards to responsibility. I'm guessing that I think similiarly to you that these experiences are subjective? One person's addiction with a 4x strategy game is another's gateway into a lifelong fascin
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by dcw303 11y ago
I came perilously close to failing several university assignments thanks to an unhealthy obsession with original Civ. And I loved every minute of it. I still play the newer versions now and then, but the original stands out as a paragon of
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China's Empty Malls Get Weirder(bloombergview.com)
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Australia has cloned the great American dream as well. When I lived in Sydney, real estate was all anybody ever talked about. Are you renting? Oh, too bad. Got to get on the property ladder, y'know. Yeah, my commute's about an hou
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by dcw303 11y ago
Very impressive letter. They've expressed their position in language that a layman can understand, there's abundant evidence that they respect the intent of the law authorities, and even clearer evidence that they are drawing a li
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by dcw303 11y ago
I live abroad and speak far from fluently in a foreign language. I'm personally invested in machine translation improving, and I really hope it does. > Today’s translation tools were developed by computing more than a billion transl
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by dcw303 11y ago
That the article mentions airlines using UTC is a good insight. When there is a need to coordinate amongst international actors, then the importance of a globally shared time system can be agreed. But that's complete overkill for makin
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Treasurer introduces 'Netflix tax' for GST on digital products to Parliament(theage.com.au)
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by dcw303 11y ago
There's a lot of things that I question about Google, but forcing their Gmail customers to adopt more secure practices is worthy of praise. They are the biggest free email provider in the world, and they are owning up to a responsibili
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by dcw303 11y ago
From that list, I only have a google account. I tried the link for the Profile URL, but it's sending a 404. Perhaps that's because they've gotten rid of their Openid implementation as you say. I'm sure there are ways aro
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by dcw303 11y ago
I don't get it. I went to gnusocial.no to join, and there's no link to sign up. I eventually found a register link off the help page (not visible on mobile for some reason), and I just get a messsage "Sorry, only invited peop
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by dcw303 11y ago
In the early 80s, when I was 5 or 6, I got Basic for Beginners and Programming Tricks and Skills (along with a couple of other Usborne books which were about video games) from my local K-Mart in rural Australia. These books kicked off my lo
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by dcw303 11y ago
There's a paragraph in the article that explains that when such an investor places an order with a broker, it gets broken up into many small orders, which are indeed at high risk of being tagged as "too much positive alpha".
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by dcw303 11y ago
Recently I searched Amazon to read reviews of a book I bought on Kindle a few years ago. Now every website with Amazon affiliate advertising is showing me ads for that book. Considering that Amazon could have run a simple account search to
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by dcw303 11y ago
Good catch! Indeed, I was running qbasic in an ms-dos window :)
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In Australia in the early 80s, we had MicroBee computers in our primary schools. I spent a good proportion of a whole year of out of normal lessons, and holed up in the computer room, as I was the only one in the class who had figured out h
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by dcw303 11y ago
It's a nice idea, and anything that gives .NET developers more power at the command line is going to get a thumbs up from me. But "one command to rule them all" does feels a little broad. To take a ruby/rails/linux
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by dcw303 11y ago
> the FBI will rely on backroom pressure to make companies compromise encryption, or even eliminate business models it doesn’t like. What does this imply for FOSS? I can't really see the feds organizing a sit down with the maintaine
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Toys could be used as spying devices, MPs told(bbc.com)
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Linux as a platform took off because it was possible for a smart user to install it on hardware they already had. If there had of been a way to install Firefox OS on an iPhone or Android phone, I would have certainly tried it out. Mozilla r
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by dcw303 11y ago
Awesome. Having recently done a large chunk of Microcorruption, I think I get what they are going for here. Super excited. But also a little nervous as to the timing. Like others have said, if this releases before xmas, my level of interact
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by dcw303 11y ago
I did a Debian Jessie install on a macbook pro last night. The only friction was setting up wifi, but I eventually figured that out with an ethernet connection and the wiki pages [1][2] and (particularly for my mid-2010 MBP/Broadcom BC
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This is great, I love the idea of building a complete laptop from the ground up to dispel all the "magic" that goes on inside a manufacturer built consumer model. Hypothetically speaking, if I was a super-paranoid type who wanted
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by dcw303 11y ago
I know these kind of discussions generally polarise people, and we end up with a bunch of subjective reports of how it does / does not work, but I'd really be interested to know if anyone has a use case where 1 or more os x mach
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by dcw303 11y ago
Yes, I know the link is a glorified commercial, but 50% off e-books seems like something the HN crowd would be interested in.
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O'Reilly Cyber Monday Sale(shop.oreilly.com)
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by dcw303 11y ago
I like the idea of McDonald's hamburger as a symbol of mass produced luxury. Reminds me of when John Gruber quotes Warhol on Coca Cola. Whether or not the product is to your liking, you have to be impressed at the level of consistent q
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Using ASP.NET WebHooks with IFTTT and Zapier to Monitor Twitter and Google Sheets(blogs.msdn.com)
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