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by drats 16y ago
As much as the cult of genius is often overwhelming and contributing people have been written out of histories of discovery I still feel uneasy when I see a Prof and a PhD student listed as discovering something as you never know what the P
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by drats 16y ago
Small sample, improvement mostly in the people who were scoring worst to begin with if I recall correctly. http://www.iapsych.com/articles/jaeggi2008.pdf Jaeggi et al also have a 2010 paper extending/replicating the results. More interest
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by drats 16y ago
Yeah this is just fires up my dual tone WWII era fan-boy siren.[1] This intimates Jobs somehow innovated massively in typography, when we see tons of logos experimenting with typography throughout the 20th century (and much further into the
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by drats 16y ago
Ah ok. My usage is business and development so I suppose the cpu matters much more to me, as do open source reliable drivers. I see the point for a fast GPU for entertainment usage, but going all the way down to a 1.4 gighz core 2 duo seems
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by drats 16y ago
Until Apple releases one, but it's not just a 7" tablet, it's a the full-fledged 9" ipad, but minified.
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by drats 16y ago
My x200 12" appears to have the docking port on the bottom.
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by drats 16y ago
It's not the best machine you can afford though for a lot of people. I have a X200 thinkpad at 12" which is 600 grams more than the 11" and 300 grams more than the 13". But it has a dual core i5 at 2.5 gigahertz which is a fair bit faster t
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by drats 16y ago
Which have been available for years I would add. I had a white plastic one (without the hole in the back) in 2006. Just saying, as with most things Apple, it's not a massive innovation.
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by drats 16y ago
More to the point, what's the cost of a Moon base - where a return and even a rescue is feasible - AND a one-way extensive robotic exploration of Mars. It just seems an overly dramatic waste (there will be no shortage of people willing to g
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by drats 16y ago
After reddit and HN I am horrified at even the useless stuff slashdot crams into their comment system but going to php forums of any kind is just another dimension of crazy: multiple animated gifs, the specifications of the machine the pers
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by drats 16y ago
Over the past few months the O'Reilly ebook deal of the day at $10 (although they seem to be testing the water for selling at over $10 at the moment unfortunately) has lead to quite a few acquisitions on my part. Additionally you can regist
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by drats 16y ago
Even removing jazz and pool it still looks wrong. http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22,+%22ruby+on... Adding python as a keyword probably lowers it a little too much, but at least it starts in 2005 when Django was released and
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by drats 16y ago
What I don't get is people complaining about the name "LibreOffice". "OpenOffice.org" including the .org, a web-related indication for a website, in the name of a desktop application has to be one of the single greatest trainwrecks in histo
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by drats 16y ago
1. I have a white plastic netbook too that cost almost half. I don't see any cracks in it. You are arguing that a $1000+ machine can have cracks in it after a month because it's not a "premium" product. That just sounds like the bleating of
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by drats 16y ago
For me it's the opposite, I had a white macbook and the casing cracked and the hdd failed (along with an iPhone with 3G that didn't work - powercord that frayed and headphones that died). The X200 on the other hand has a much higher quality
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by drats 16y ago
I think a lawyer has a bit more utility, in terms of avoiding massive potential liabilities, than telling me that amazing wisdom - until now unknown entirely to business people anywhere on earth and not to be found in any book on business -
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by drats 16y ago
I don't read most of the 37 signals stuff, but it feels pretty cult-like for people to be paying $1000 for a one day "master class". I mean seriously, for the same cash you could get all of the following: a professional logo designed for
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by drats 16y ago
>"do you actually have any concrete complaints" Yes, the central point of my comment that you didn't address.[1] That is, Novell looks like it's going to be acquired and there seems to be no reason for the purchaser to continue with Mon
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by drats 16y ago
>Mono is open source, so anyone can continue developing it. "Can" but who will? You already implicitly concede the point that mono has no community strong enough to survive without the Novell employees. Your hypothetical entrepreneur th
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by drats 16y ago
Who exactly stands behind Mono after Novell is sold (if and when)? Isn't there a significant risk, beyond the present one of MS making some move against them, that it will be left to stagnate by a new owner? And even the MS risk hasn't bee
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by drats 16y ago
10.10 doesn't provide much over 10.04 for a server, so people should wait maybe? I installed the 10.10 RC a little while ago on my primary machine but I am on 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04 on various other machines.
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by drats 16y ago
Hacker News?
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by drats 16y ago
Just two colours changed with chrome inspector: http://i.imgur.com/K2RXW.png
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by drats 16y ago
Looks great! I can think of countless sites that need this. Even if when you embed you take the colours of the site you are embedded in you still need to improve your own site to make the pitch; it just looks too plain jane at the moment. I
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by drats 16y ago
I think it's the other way around. I had a classifier in python hitting a sqlite db for every new training instance and it was taking forever, with the SSD it was done in 20% of the time. So developers these days are in danger of presuming
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by drats 16y ago
I'm not a computer scientist nor really a programmer and I found it very readable. Care to elaborate?
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by drats 16y ago
Graphics cards aside - I am not sure how many people in the market for a silent workstation require a graphics card with a fan, but I imagine there are plenty who don't need it - it's perfectly possible to get a fanless PSU[1], a SSD drive
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by drats 16y ago
Basically yes, it's just a bundle of the kinds of things a hacker type would like - both in terms of privacy and in terms of information customisation. So someone pays $5 a month, they have their https to a no-advertising DDG, an email addr
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by drats 16y ago
The guy in the slashdot comments complaining about the duckduckgo toolbar warning against his site is amusing. His legit domain has a warning on it because formerly it was parked (or perhaps worse, he doesn't say) and he refuses to go throu
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by drats 16y ago
"The first person to create a pleasant end-to-end system for programming JavaScript web applications wins the next five years of web development, period." That's the point which always got me going the first few times this language appeared

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