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OKCupid adds targeted privacy options(voices.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by djacobs 16y ago|1 comments
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by djacobs 16y ago
Harvard, for one, doesn't let you do that. You can't even get into most of their library buildings without an ID.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Mm... I'm not sure about that. Google Scholar is a good resource, that's true. But there are hundreds of papers I've looked for that are simply not accessible without proper access. That said, I don't support this site.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm no expert about this topic (effects of society on evolution), but it seems to me like after a certain age, there are diminishing returns from having grandparents. One critical point might be when you get a stable job. After that, the ro
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by djacobs 16y ago
I think the title is a pun. The cells, as cancer, are immortal. But they will also be immortal for much longer than a typical patient's cancer cells because her particular cells have been commandeered for research.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Unfortunately, evolutionary pressure can't act on a) mutations caused by (foreign) viruses or b) hereditary mutations only expressed late in life, after child-bearing years. Once we've had our children and raised them to be independent, evo
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by djacobs 16y ago
True, but most people freeze zero-passage cells in liquid nitrogen so that such mutations don't occur. I'm not sure at what stage her cells were originally frozen down, though, or if they're routinely passed at repositories like ATCC.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Henrietta’s immortal cells weren’t just important in aiding in finding cures for diseases and the like, they also ended up indirectly causing major reform in how scientists worked with cell cultures, in terms of making sure
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by djacobs 16y ago
Based on race alone? I can understand culture being an important factor. But not race.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Why are the only routers supported using 802.11G? I got one of the Buffalo 300N routers and was looking forward to trying this instead of DD-WRT.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Is there a solution to this yet? He says it affects you whether or not you have the info page enabled.
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by djacobs 16y ago
When you use Ubuntu natively, it runs like a charm. Compositing makes for an even more beautiful OS than OS X (in some respects, though there is sometimes tearing), and the whole thing really jives quite nicely.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I meant the source-highlight dependency. Is that included with the binary?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Looks nice. One note: It says it requires MacPorts. You should probably say it requires the source-highlight package, regardless of how you get it. (I'm going to install via Homebrew, some might compile it manually.)
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by djacobs 16y ago
What's the advantage to this over getting feedback from honest, intelligent friends?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I can't imagine being able to visually distinguish products in a grocery store selling these pared-down brands.
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by djacobs 16y ago
A lot of people use #each this way in Ruby, yes, but I don't think it's usually justified. #each is primarily designed to handle side effects. "Do stuff to item" is usually better accomplished with a chain of #map, #select, #inject, #grep,
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by djacobs 16y ago
Because you know, your "example" YAML parsing is useless in and of itself, it doesn't result in a working ruleset, you skipped the whole part where you feed that data to your code and setup the stuff that actually does work
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by djacobs 16y ago
I don't have any superfluous lines in my code. I wanted to load a config file into my runtime, and I did. Not superfluous at all. The (extraordinarily) superfluous code is the code used to set up the object config system where none is neede
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by djacobs 16y ago
What's the use case, though? If you want config file syntax, use a config file. If you want a program, use code. Building up an object system like this for simple configuration seems excessive to me. I would do something like this: c =
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by djacobs 16y ago
I don't get the appeal of coding like this. To me, a unary operator shouldn't mutate its receiver. (Edit: neither should a binary one.) Instead, the resulting value is meant to be assigned to a new value or otherwise manipulated. This is a
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by djacobs 16y ago
In this case, yes. But not for all types of startups. When I say I won't "put stock" in another bookmarking service for a while, I don't mean I won't use one. I mean I won't use one like I would if I thought it was a permanent, reliable fix
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by djacobs 16y ago
It varies. I'd be lying if I said mood wasn't involved. But I ask questions like: 1. How responsive are the startup founders when I e-mail them about problems? 2. How portable is the work I'm going to put into the site? Da
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by djacobs 16y ago
One reason I don't sign up with every new startup that comes along--even if they're innovative and helpful and better than the competition--is that I don't want to invest time in something that could fail. And every time I see a web service
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by djacobs 16y ago
Regardless of its legal status, this post is really tacky. It leaves me with a gross feeling, sort of like when the awkward kid in the conversation follows every joke someone makes with the same joke a minute later--when he finally gets it.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm guessing it's broken only for people who have upgraded to the new Google Groups.
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by djacobs 16y ago
An e-book's container format is (essentially) orthogonal to whether or not it has DRM. Kindle uses a convoluted, badly designed container, where everyone else uses ePub, which is an open standard. Bottom line: There is not Kindle support be
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by djacobs 16y ago
It's interesting to me: This talk was much broader than any talk I've heard from him before. I can imagine watching this and thinking "this is all pointless fluff", if I were in a certain mindset. But having worked on a project for a while
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by djacobs 16y ago
So it's not clear to me: what is this app? Is it a text document? Did this group really go through development efforts to build an app as, basically, an ad? If so, I think people are misunderstanding the point of "there's an app for that".
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by djacobs 16y ago
To be fair, he did this in a couple of hours.

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