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by dejb 17y ago
> Try to avoid the tofu that comes waterlogged in a little failure tub. Why? Is there some problem with storing it this way or do those brands just tend to be the crappy ones? After you used some storing in water is the only way to keep
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You stole my 'recipe'. The only difference is that I usually use tofu or similar for protein (vego) and I add it first to get a just little of that tasty-but-probably-carcinogenic browning on it. Anyway I'd like to see a book of other 'Cook
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Nice sentence structure. Bad Logic. Successful products usually DO fulfil a sense of entitlement for their consumers. Some structures scale and others don't. Time wasted with a poorly structured system holds things back, just like Marxism d
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Read a great short story by Charles Stross about this called 'Antibodies'. The notion was that a discovery like this would rapidly lead to strong AI. Never connected the two myself like that but now it seems obvious - AI is essentially an a
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True platforms that scale are more than just their physical manifestations of phone or computers. They are like ecosystems, marketplaces, economies, even societies. In the end the strength of a platform is the combined efforts of all it's '
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I'm guessing that you used it because many others before have also used it. The problem is it tends to propagate an untrue and unfortunate meme that the iPhone is the only mobile computing platform. Now that many are starting to doubt the '
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> You're using loose terminology that a system administrator might use, How dare you insinuate that I might be a system administrator. Or that system administrators really don't know much beyond their domain. I won't stand for it! I'm s
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Centrally imposed restraint is different from self control. We aren't talking them deciding not to add a feature. We are talking about them actively preventing others from being able to do so. That's not restraint. That's totalitarianism.
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I'm thinking more in terms of the person sitting in front of the computer rather than than the app. They are the ultimate 'client' who is served by the computer in front of them. That computer (thin client) is the client of the application
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Brisbane, Australia
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It always felt wrong to me because the remote computer acted in response to your actions. You click on something and it responds. I'm sure there were valid technical reasons for it but commercially it must have been disaster.
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> About giving users enough rope to hang themselves: for every one user like you that could make a conscious tradeoff there are thousands who would never connect the dots between Adobe and battery life. People are too stupid to be trust
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Imagine if someone came if with a generic idea for a computer program and they described it as 'Windows Blah Blah'. Many would see this as reflecting poorly on the author's knowledge of computing. What about Linux or OSX? Why are you so clo
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> Does that make their points any less valid? If you are relying on them to provide a reasonable and unbiased summary of the scientific consensus on an issue then yes. There is no reason to trust what they are saying. They are likely to
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Flash for pocketpc seems to work OK. Shouldn't the user be able to decide if they can spare the battery power. Most people would have a charger handy at work so I don't see what the problem is if you do need to recharge anyway.
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by dejb 17y ago
Check your sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_on_Science_and... Some quotes "ACSH frequently defends industry against claims that its products create risks of injury, ill-health or death." "The ACSH has been accused of
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And it there is substantial evidence that it (red meat) increases the risk of cancer.
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I always just figured (foggily) that I was half asleep when this happened to me. It can be pretty scary/frustrating being essentially paralysed even when you think you know what's going on. I think that sometimes in dreams you can transitio
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by dejb 17y ago
Windows was at more than 90% of of desktop market but the iPhone would be less than 30% of smart phones not to mention phones where they would be way less than 10%. The only reason it feels like they are at a Windows level of dominance is a
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by dejb 17y ago
What are you talking about? Just 6 months ago this place was so thick with iPhone devotees you couldn't swing a metaphorical light sabre app without hitting one. I don't think think there are too many 'cutesy type' teenage girls on HN (alth
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For me the best malloc for me is one I don't have to know anything about - whatever is built in to the scripting language I happen to be using. But I know you aren't playing around with memory allocation for the sheer geekery of it. There a
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by dejb 17y ago
I live in Brisbane and I know a fair few people who commute between here and the Gold Coast (about 70k away) every day for work. Many wouldn't think twice of driving 100k north or south on the weekend to go to the beach. So my impression is
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I agree with your sentiment but I think the differences between the UK and the US due to fuel prices are quite noticeable. Here some that I noticed - UK cities and towns are built more for people. In the US they feel like they are built mor
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I wonder if the GV thing was a result of internal politics with the aim being to force Schmidt to resign. I mean it seemed a bit too heavy handed even for Apple. Either way he had to go. Hopefully this will mean it's 'game on' for full comp
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It certainly has been a strange phenomena, seeing otherwise intelligent geeks arguing the virtues of such a closed and locked down system. I frankly started to wonder whether Apple had a team of paid voters. Hopefully all this results in a
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What about measuring the speed of light? or measuring the distance from the earth to sun? Where do these fall in your neat divisions between subject and objective? Is there a certain class of proposition that is too complicated to be called
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I don't believe the your notions of objective and subjective confidence really stand up too well. I think you'll find that the more you try to define the exact difference between them the more it will fade away. Perhaps it is a philosophica
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> One can be quantified, the other cannot. I've just described a method for quantifying probability. How hard is this to understand? Neither really exist. The measure of X is some exact amount just as a clearly defined proposition is ei
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My 4 year old WinMo phone can run whatever I want it to. I'm in Australia. Hasn't this been possible in the US?
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> All we have is confidence in something. Yes but if you can't define what confidence is what does it mean? When I studied physics we learned to provide confidence intervals for each measurement and subsequent calculation so every varia

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