donaldc

40 ms·

151.
by donaldc 16y ago
From their graph, looks like Gen X got screwed even as to the number of years their generation covers. Boomers and Millenials are both allotted 19 years, while Gen X only gets 13.
152.
by donaldc 16y ago
There are two issues here, and your post only addresses what Facebook is doing about one of them. The issues are: (1) The fact that the API went down for an extended period of time. The post addresses this issue. (2) The fact that, accordin
153.
by donaldc 16y ago
It's about glycemic load, rather than glycemic index.
154.
by donaldc 16y ago
Perhaps you are right, but the studies seem to indicate that the level at which sugar becomes "excess" is very low, especially if the sugar does not contain fiber (i.e. apple juice rather than apples). Even a single soda is in excess of the
155.
by donaldc 16y ago
The analysis, overseen by Ronald M. Krauss, director of atherosclerosis research at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, found no association between the amount of saturated fat consumed and the risk of heart disease. Consi
156.
by donaldc 16y ago
It's not dead. It is in fact used a lot more than ten years ago. I've yet to get a voice message that google voice was not able to decode sufficiently, and most of the transcribed messages have been 100% accurate. General speech recognition
157.
by donaldc 16y ago
I've actually found that if I speak slowly and clearly, the nexus one figures out exactly what I'm saying for more than 90% of the sentences. This is very useful, and much better than any voice recognition program I'd seen about ten years
158.
by donaldc 17y ago
There are quite a few 20 to 40 story high-rises in the area, all built in the past 15 years.
159.
by donaldc 17y ago
The hyperinflation of coastal real estate and the super-concentration of talent in these places is getting absurd and insane. The latter leads to the former.
160.
by donaldc 17y ago
It is certainly possible that the center of gravity may eventually shift to Portland and Seattle. However, I'm not sure what you mean by "unwillingness to build": Twitter, the main company in the story, is located in a repurposed warehouse/
161.
by donaldc 17y ago
Another advantage with the locations of Seattle and Portland in particular is that they're in the same time zone as Silicon Valley.
162.
by donaldc 17y ago
Speed is only one factor in their ranking. If a site is notably better than other sites for a query, they said in the article that it will still rank first for that query.
163.
by donaldc 17y ago
From the article: Against that background, though, they were worried about a much more practical matter: When, they asked, would online video generate enough money to cover their current costs? ("They" are the network broadcasters.) Sound
164.
by donaldc 17y ago
Perhaps the liver or some part of the digestive system can only handle a certain amount of HFCS per hour.
165.
by donaldc 17y ago
Sugar is actually rather bad for people also. Corn syrup is just even worse, apparently.
166.
by donaldc 17y ago
Obviously Apple needs to do that, or they're dead. But they do not appear to be able to threaten Google's core business the way that Google is able to threaten Apple's.
167.
by donaldc 17y ago
I'm going to guess that Apple is in the weaker (or at least more vulnerable) position, given that it was the first to resort to lawsuits. I'm not sure they really have an effective counter to Google entering the smartphone market.
168.
by donaldc 17y ago
Assuming an average lifespan of 70, that implies that an average citizen there now has about a 10% chance of dying by murder. Gruesome.
169.
by donaldc 17y ago
Bill Gates' original vision was "a computer on every desk, running Microsoft software". Once he more or less reached this goal, around the mid-90's, of course Microsoft stagnated. I'd say that Bill's real failure was to not accept this fa
170.
by donaldc 17y ago
But I don't think either Rocky or the Karate Kid greatly misrepresent the amount of effort it would take for an exceptionally talented individual, with a great trainer, to make the leaps they did. The studies on experts found that even th
171.
by donaldc 17y ago
Is there a technical reason why Ruby doesn't do this? More likely it's political. Matz (the creator of Ruby), and many of its early contributors, are said not to like Unicode.
172.
by donaldc 17y ago
Some of this may be due to selection bias. The good programmers find jobs quickly, whereas the non-programmers go to interview after interview, until they finally find a company dumb enough to hire them.
173.
by donaldc 17y ago
Likely at that point, they'll probably just ship basic assembly off to other countries where the cost of living is still lower...
174.
by donaldc 17y ago
I prefer redis to SQL for all-in-memory data. Fast, easy, and simple.
175.
by donaldc 17y ago
It's not that they want to imprison innocents; it's a prosecutor's job to get the defendant convicted no matter what, whether or not they personally believe the defendant is guilty. I think that in some cases, they want to imprison some
176.
by donaldc 17y ago
It is actually less likely that the children of the top 1% will have a better standard of living than their parents, than that the children of the middle or lower percentages will. The parents in the top 1% have a standard of living it woul
177.
by donaldc 17y ago
nothing we produce today will be of any use 40 years later I'm living in a building that was built in the 1920's. It is definitely still useful. True, consumer goods generally don't last that long, but capital goods can last for a half-ce
178.
by donaldc 17y ago
Three hours a day five times a week? If I were in that situation, I'd either move closer to my job, or find a job closer to where I live. Unless the train had wifi...
179.
by donaldc 17y ago
Why did that ruin it for you? Things need not be pointless in order to be fun...
180.
by donaldc 17y ago
I haven't pre-ordered, but was planning to buy one once they actually started shipping. I don't care at all about any advanced features -- just basic reporting and whether it will be able to wake me up at an opportune moment each morning.

More ›