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by donaldc 14y ago
Is this your personal experience?
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by donaldc 14y ago
I personally have found that f.lux is insufficient. It does significantly tone down the amount of blue that my laptop screen puts out, but even when set to the most red-shifted setting possible, my laptop screen still puts out enough blue l
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by donaldc 14y ago
The point the article makes, that you can't get things for free, seems more appropriate to the online website examples it uses than to the Kindle Fire about which the article is ostensibly written. Unless I'm mistaken, Amazon isn't giving a
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by donaldc 14y ago
This is a meta-study, which looks at a couple hundred studies done on this. From the article: Many of the studies didn't specify their standards for what constituted "organic" food.. I'd say this is a pretty serious limitation to both the
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by donaldc 15y ago
Given the article talks about decades-long lead times before a cancer metastasizes, I hope that more attention begins to be focused on much earlier-stage detection and treatment. I think a lot of the problem is, by the time a cancer has met
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by donaldc 15y ago
He agreed but pointed out that there's no reason to be upset with the lawyers. It's congress who's allowing them to get away with it. There's more than enough blame to go around. The law profession should take more responsibility for what
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by donaldc 15y ago
I hope that thing is reasonably quiet.
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by donaldc 15y ago
None of this patent fight between facebook and yahoo will "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". It's a giant waste of time and resources. Software patents should be invalidated. (Quote from the Copyright and Patent Clause of th
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by donaldc 15y ago
It's not up in the air. Everyone else just wants the right answer. Even I sometimes just want the right answer, and I love mental models..
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by donaldc 15y ago
The difference is that you'd have a reasonable chance of being able to get authorization.
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by donaldc 15y ago
I'm at a small startup with ~8 people, which is currently working out of a 5000+ square-foot warehouse with dozens of spare office rooms along the side. And you know what? All the engineers work together in just one large room, so they can
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by donaldc 15y ago
Once again I am happy that non-competes are generally not enforced in California. Otherwise, the companies involved wouldn't even need to reach illegal agreements to interfere with the employment free market.
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by donaldc 15y ago
I'm amazed he was convicted/pled guilty three separate times in Germany and yet never had to do any prison time. After going easy on him twice didn't work, you'd think they'd want to try something else.
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by donaldc 15y ago
As such, I think cheating on a college degree is similar to cheating on an exam when you're 13. C'mon, it's not that important that you got it fraudulently. I'd say the main issue here is not that cheating on a college degree indicates a
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by donaldc 15y ago
But the bill soared to $3.1bn after construction problems and a series of bond and derivatives deals that went sour in the financial meltdown of 2008. Investment bank JP Morgan Securities and two of its former directors have been fined f
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by donaldc 15y ago
Having multiple joysticks that can be in different positions at the same time and yet all simultaneously affect the flight of the Airbus is a serious design flaw.
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by donaldc 15y ago
His complaint that more engineers won't go to work for larger tech companies instead of either working for smaller startups or starting their own company is rather hypocritical. A cursory read of his wikipedia page shows that he has never j
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by donaldc 15y ago
For me, the most shocking thing in the web is that Ireland and its banks owe $867 billion. That's approximately $188,000 for every man, woman, and child in Ireland.
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by donaldc 15y ago
It seemed to get rid of dead wood. I'm still not sure why. My guess would be that, those people who were no longer growing at Apple, after six consecutive weeks off, filling their mind with things other than working at Apple, realized the
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by donaldc 15y ago
its more than likely that the mess was largely the result of of groupthink and really bad decisions made in good faith. More like bad (but probably legal, and probably profitable) decisions made in bad faith. Anyone with half a brain coul
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by donaldc 15y ago
It could also be argued that, because the acoustic neurons on that side of the head are being used more, they're more likely to be cancerous, or that both are caused by a similar issue. That sounds pretty convoluted to me. It could be tru
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by donaldc 15y ago
The most interesting part of this article is that the CEO of the company enforcing the non-compete says that the Massachusetts economy would be better off if they were non-enforceable. (He just doesn't want to "disarm unilaterally".)
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by donaldc 15y ago
If you asked guys whether they would rather be permanently poor but be able to have sex with attractive women whenever they wanted, or to be wealthy but have no possibility of sex, I'd expect it to be close. I'd be very surprised if it we
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by donaldc 15y ago
I'd say that in this case I'd give more credibility to someone who follows logical punctuation, as long as they followed it consistently. I prefer it both logically and aesthetically, and, perhaps because of this bias, would wonder if someo
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by donaldc 15y ago
At that point, build up.
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by donaldc 16y ago
It is exponential, but it's more a result of the exponential growth in hard drive storage space and internet bandwidth.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Notability requirements for an article to exist at all is the wrong approach. Instead, wikipedia should allow most any article to be added, but have one or more groups that "certify" articles as notable. People who want to avoid all the non
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by donaldc 16y ago
From the article: Meeting friends-of-friends is the best way to find cool people, because liking is transitive AND because the low social distances force people to be on their best behavior. If I were looking to date friends-of-friends in
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by donaldc 16y ago
I thought that this was the most interesting part of the article: and that Elop would start looking to Nokia's new Silicon Valley campus as its center of gravity, with execs and senior management expected to start spending more time outsid
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by donaldc 16y ago
I can't speak for the grandparent of this comment, but I'd like to see a Perl 6 release that is actually competitive with perl5 and python in a production setting. Last I heard, the Perl 6 implementations were still very slow, and lacking

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