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by dejb 18y ago
> iPhone (with bugs and all) is the dawn of new era The iPhone is the dawn of the US waking up to the fact that mobile phones can be cool and used as general computing devices. Much of the rest of the world had known this and been using
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by dejb 18y ago
It is sad that so many superstitious people keep wasting their money on these snake oil scams.
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by dejb 18y ago
I think this article is somewhat self-selecting. For any guy who agrees with it - then maybe it is true. For guys who think it's a load of crap - then it probably is.
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by dejb 18y ago
I'd hypothesize from your post than your experience with drupal is relatively limited. If by 'lot of crap' you are referring to things like a user account system with a detailed permissions, a flexible taxonomy system (categories, tags..) o
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by dejb 18y ago
I've used it as a replacement for our ancient bespoke directory system. So far it has been pretty good. Most of the issues I had where in trying to reproduce some aspects of our existing site such as urls. We haven't gone to the next phase
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by dejb 18y ago
I suspect you are deliberately missing the point for the purposes of mischief. I was talking about the population ones which would go like this Population Gold * Australia ---- 1,528,165 * Netherlands ---- 2,349,286 * Belarus ---- 2,4
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by dejb 18y ago
Many people find that physical endevour is an inherent part of being human. Watching the best people compete in sports provides an important perspective on the human condition. When the world comes together to do this it can be a celebratio
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by dejb 18y ago
Yes I agree. To make the list statistically valid you should probably only look at those countries with more than say 15 or 20 medals. I wonder who comes out on top then? :)
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by dejb 18y ago
> It explicitly mentions that human activities are "nowhere near the whole story" I read this as being relating to artists (specifically graphical) rather than the entire class of human activities. > even primitive organisms can be
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by dejb 18y ago
This article tends to define creativity as 'something that entertains humans' which is in my view a seriously flawed perspective. A bird call would entertain another bird more than the greatest music ever written. Human attempts at imitatin
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by dejb 18y ago
We need down-voting of articles
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by dejb 18y ago
"The documents were created with their law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and are available ->HERE<-." Is it just me or does the link on 'here' not actually work? Actually I found a link somewhere else to one of the actu
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by dejb 18y ago
Startup Task XXX : The western 12 tone music scale is limited and out of tune. Many of the reasons for it being useful (instrument construction, notational complexity) are no longer show stoppers. Anyone who can create software that makes i
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by dejb 18y ago
I'm just glad that people are starting to recognize that there are other mobile phone OS's out there. For a while there it seemed like everybody thought that the iPhone was the first phone ever to have computer-like capabilities.
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by dejb 18y ago
Interesting information. So it can work once. He obviously had a significant reputation before this and I'll bet people were a lot more suspicious of his moves in the future.
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by dejb 18y ago
From what you are saying you'd think the iphone is the first phone OS capable of running third party apps ever. Other phone OS's have been able to do this for 5 years and many of them haven't needed to restrict users so badly including Wind
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by dejb 18y ago
This is an interesting but fairly esoteric point. It requires the following to be true 1. The bluffer knows some secret information that is not known by other participants. 2. All other market participants must believe the the bluffer is ac
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by dejb 18y ago
> Within a few months, most of the participants had resorted to exercising as much as they chose to. That left researchers with a slightly different data set than they had planned for... This self-selection tends to invalidate the study
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by dejb 18y ago
I don't think the argument is that the current system of subsidies is well organised. It is simply that the over-production of food probably has some significant national security advantages. Running out of food is even worse than running o
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by dejb 18y ago
Understanding the algorithms in your code, both the ones you wrote and the ones that the the compiler/interpreter are adding, is the useful thing in my view. In as far as C forces you to explicitly deal with many of these issues manually it
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by dejb 18y ago
Thank god for some sanity. I cannot for the life of me understand why otherwise intelligent geeks fawn over locked Apple products and the iPhone in particular.
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by dejb 18y ago
Its a shame that often it takes 'last ditch' desperation for companies to launch their most open technologies. If this is what it looks like then lot of great ideas could be enabled. But one has to wonder how long 'BOSS' will exist for if
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by dejb 18y ago
Actually this is not correct. The perfect unbeatable game theoretical model actually doesn't take into consideration the history of the other player. There's maths and stuff by John Nash to prove this. The game theory perfect model will alw
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by dejb 18y ago
OK if we are talking about anecdotal evidence then how about a colleague of mine who smoked pot every day while doing his PHD. He spent several years doing very little work and then ended up having a major psychotic episode. Without people
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by dejb 18y ago
I was just about to vote you up then I saw the tobacco should be banned. As an ex-smoker (tobacco) I am against any smoking happening near me but banning it is not the answer.
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by dejb 18y ago
Interesting article. Would have like to have seen a graph adjusting for a combined CPI and currency changes.
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by dejb 18y ago
>There are a few portions of the code that we're keeping to ourselves, mostly related to anti-cheating/spam protection. I can understand why they want to keep these hidden but on the other hand these would be some of the juiciest bits.
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by dejb 18y ago
If you've already used Drupal why don't you take a look at Drigg. I haven't used it yet but it looks pretty good to me. If you aren't a hacker I think that will be the only way to achieve what you want while still having the flexibility for
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by dejb 18y ago
You are right that it doesn't offer any concrete predictions at the moment and perhaps it never will. But if everybody dismissed notions just because they couldn't immediately see what they could be used for we'd live in a pretty boring and
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by dejb 18y ago
... now I'm a lucky man who made the grade. Although the news is rather sad. Well I just had to laugh.

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