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by delackner 12y ago
Im no lawyer, but an API is the most creative part of an entire developer ecosystem to my mind. not the implementation. What made Cocoa so joyful to work with while years of previous Java and MS coding were dissonant painful experiences?
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by delackner 12y ago
This could be a coping strategy actually. Yahoo japan is notorious for throwing up overlays on their web properties that if accidentally tapped, force your default search engine to yahoo. How do you get back to google if you have no idea
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by delackner 12y ago
That quote at the end from Kagan is just utterly damning. It sounds like a magistrate ordering the burning of a witch for the seeming similarity, from an observer's perspective, of a telephone and magic.
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by delackner 12y ago
Oh man i hope you manage to continue this bold and positive direction in moderation! At times it seems I have to wade through an entire thread just to see one or two comments about the content and not about something vaguely related. Worse,
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by delackner 12y ago
Thank you for highlighting a difficult point! The most instructive item for me was seeing a comparison of video of Bush in his run for the Texas governorship, showing his sharp mind. In such context though, the dissonance. erwee. his stat
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by delackner 12y ago
This is really weird, but the / on the end of the link breaks it. http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/14/5561250/cool-planet
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by delackner 12y ago
I wasn't sure which article to submit, since this was on gimodo, popular science, and various other places, but this (albeit behind a paywall) is the original journal article.
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Universal computing by DNA origami robots in a living animal(nature.com)
50 points by delackner 12y ago|14 comments
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by delackner 12y ago
I understand your suggestion and your point is well meaning, but you are saying no one should ever write downfor others to read, their own experiences or impressions, of things they have seen. In your original comment and this reply you re
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by delackner 12y ago
Total disagreement with your premise. Having experienced a place and a culture, it is perfectly reasonable to gain a sense of the uniquely different cultural attitudes and priorities that are prevalent in a society. Trying to relate such
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by delackner 12y ago
It takes some effort to recover quality standards after an entire country's industry and economy have been reduced to burning rubble.
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by delackner 12y ago
well said and i completely agree. That said, the story of the hamburger maker is instructive. While it is true that many people in Japan practically lose their minds with the stress of contemplating perfection or failing to achieve perfec
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by delackner 12y ago
Sorry, I'm a developer and tapped that API link and the first docs page said not one word that stood out about the main questions I wanted answered: what exactly are you doing and what is the latency.
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by delackner 13y ago
They sell Stevia powder packets that look just like sugar packets, albeit much finer powder.
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by delackner 13y ago
Rarely have I seen a single article that more concisely summed up the total failure of the media to inform the public. The real story is the colossal decades-long failure of California state and city governments AND CITIZENS to produce a c
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by delackner 13y ago
How we treat minority groups is important in part because they are so easily ignored. There are real people around the world who yes, have reliable fast internet (something much more common outside the US) and yet are denied legal access t
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by delackner 13y ago
Fair enough, but when i lived there, every single person i knew had a car and real estate in SF is so astronomically expensive that none of my friends, all of them highly paid, live IN the city. So living in SF but never getting in a car do
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by delackner 13y ago
In general yes, but as a someone who that fits that story arc, I find the dichotomy of insanely overpriced tiny city vs desolate parking lot, well, lousy. I love the idea of what apple is building but there is still no walkable / bicy
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by delackner 13y ago
This is exactly how I have been sitting this week, on a sofa actually, since my chair was getting too uncomfortable, and now my neck feels alarmingly stiff.
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by delackner 13y ago
CEO loved the idea of getting a patent because he thought it would make us look impressive and it would defend us in advance if someone else made a similar thing and tried to attack us with their own BS patent. Makes me sad when i consider
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by delackner 13y ago
As holder of a US patent on a purely software "invention" (aka, some game I wrote) I can categorically state that the only way it could have been granted was that it was rubber stamped because it is just a lot of talk about the al
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by delackner 13y ago
It also doesn't work with pure ATM cards that lack a Visa/Mastercard logo. Maybe I am a bit over-paranoid, but I don't like the idea of staring at a zero bank balance while some fraud department promises to fix things up rea
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by delackner 13y ago
Anecdote != data. You put $100k of equipment in checked luggage, then you probably have some very specific insurance that covers you. If you don't, you are lucky. Most people most of the time do not have anything stolen. If a baggage
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by delackner 13y ago
People, please read the whole linked post before passing judgement. It sounds highly believable, from someone who was teaching pilots in Korea very recently (2003-2008) and makes the claims of a fantastic turnaround success story sound mos
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by delackner 13y ago
For your own peace of mind, please never put expensive gear in checked luggage. It is very likely to get stolen.
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by delackner 13y ago
It is perfectly reasonable to maybe make one comment saying "I think congress should just abolish this abomination, and be done with it" would be a measured response to this side-issue. Spending a lot of energy arguing about the
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by delackner 13y ago
Revealing such a recording would enable the government to prosecute him for "targeting" such information without a warrant. Of course he has bigger worries than whether they try to tack on such a trumped up charge...
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by delackner 13y ago
The whole point of backups is that you should never expect a single hard drive to stay alive, no matter how young it is. Lots of hard drives with defects die early. For your own sanity, it is best to think of any data you have only one ph
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by delackner 13y ago
No one is attacking you personally here. You have simply said some misguided accusations about a country whose history you clearly have not read very much about. That is fine, we all make mistakes. Digging your heels is unnecessary. Per
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by delackner 13y ago
And just a few days ago people were discussing how that ATMs prefer to just give you money and overdraw an account rather than deny you cash when you go overdrawn. I guess this is the result? Systems that are only synced once an (hour? da

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