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by ebbv 10y ago
Your faith in Google and Alibaba's judgment is weird to me. Google squandered a lot more than $500 million on terrible projects in the past (Glass and Plus for example.) I see no reason to think Alibaba is run by infallible geniuses ei
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by ebbv 10y ago
Optimizing by hand is rarely the fastest thing to do nowadays. I wonder how the original naive approach fairs with all optimizations turned on for gcc and with realistic input?
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by ebbv 10y ago
It plugs into the TV. It has traditional controllers available. It's a successor to both. That's just a fact.
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by ebbv 10y ago
The original Wii had a healthy lifespan. It had quite a few good titles. I don't think it's fair to say Nintendo moves into the Wii U too quickly. The Wii came out ahead of the previous generation of consoles and the Wii U followe
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by ebbv 10y ago
Other forms of transportation have better trained pilots. :)
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by ebbv 10y ago
Personally I believe most people are really terrible drivers. That being said, there were 210 million drivers in the US in 2009. There's probably a lot more today. That's just 0.01% of drivers. That fact makes me have to question
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by ebbv 10y ago
This article is a reasonable rebuttal to the usual chicken little statements by people pushing industrial farming of GMO crops as the only way to "feed the world", but there are a couple of things this response misses. 1. If we st
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by ebbv 10y ago
I'd imagine the current one already is one. That's the whole point of this article, that it is being thrown off by this technique since there's no definition for the gender.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Yeah you're right I got it mixed up which of my displays my phone had the same resolution as. :P
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by ebbv 10y ago
I realize it's the best option right now, but it's terrible. That's my point. The system is awful. Theoretically you can change jobs but only to another employer who is in a position to sponsor your H1B. Which really limits y
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by ebbv 10y ago
Mechanical pocket watches or ship's clocks. They were expensive but accurate enough.
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by ebbv 10y ago
> which Apple (who makes their own SoC) could choose to use but hasn't. They don't make their own SoC for their laptop and desktop machines, which is who this primarily affects. 4K on iPhones doesn't matter since they only
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by ebbv 10y ago
The H1-B visa program sucks. It indentures the immigrant to their employer. If their job sucks their options are really limited.
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is story is currently on the front page.
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by ebbv 10y ago
What a crock. This is an extremely biased presentation meant to prime the reader for the awful right wing plan he's going to unveil in his next blog post. No doubt privatizing the infrastructure to "relieve" the taxpayer of t
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by ebbv 10y ago
Do you realize what percent of all IBM compatibles ever had any upgrades done to them internally? Almost none. It seems like a defining feature if you're a nerd like me who did it with all your PCs but most people and most businesses b
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by ebbv 10y ago
Developers are the core customers for MacBook Pros. In volume the Air used to be the top seller, because yes there are more people who just want "a computer" that works and don't care about specs and won't look at batter
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by ebbv 10y ago
There's several obvious reasons: 1. Every time someone brings this up other people say "It's fine." and it really isn't fine. 2. We want Apple to hear that their core customers are unhappy and they should rethink th
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by ebbv 10y ago
Your xenophobia is really sad. The US won't turn into Venezuela, Brazil or China because immigrants come here. Additionally, jobs won't go to zero because more population creates more demand for goods and services which necessitat
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by ebbv 10y ago
She got paid an obscene amount of money to continue driving a sinking ship into the bottom of the ocean. She is not a plucky entrepreneur risking everything against the odds. She gets zero kudos from me.
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by ebbv 10y ago
We need to open our borders and let anyone who wants to come live and work in the US come here. Fear of foreigners is a poison in the heart of this country. Previous generations of immigrants have made the US what it is. The H1B program ben
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by ebbv 10y ago
Without some information on how this data is calculated it's pretty tough too take it seriously. Not that I doubt Windows is the majority OS, it obviously is. But I didn't need a chart to know that. The chart may be inaccurate dep
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is a nice AstroTurf campaign by Uber. Regular taxis in NYC already give this information. It is about tracking the taxis, not the customers. It's kind of crazy that Uber is trying to leverage customer privacy concerns given they
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by ebbv 10y ago
The difference is when a PC couldn't do something a mainframe couldn't nobody got killed. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here, those really are the stakes with self driving cars. The problem is that when consumers think they
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by ebbv 10y ago
This just isn't true. Upping the resolution doesn't make the game more CPU intensive by much. Upping the resolution pushes the GPU.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Really? This tired old argument again? Nobody buys an iMac as a gaming machine. I have an iMac and a gaming PC. You don't need to spend even $2k for a capable gaming PC. Also you don't have to spend $4k for a 5K iMac. Mine was abo
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by ebbv 10y ago
Seems premature to announce like this before you even have a new version to show. I would think you would make the fork version and say "Here is our alternative. We have done X, Y and Z. Join us." when you announce. Anyway best of
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by ebbv 10y ago
String theory does not currently have any testable predictions. That's one of its major issues.
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by ebbv 10y ago
There is no serious evidence for the simulation theory. It is more of a religious belief than a scientific theory since it poses more problems than it answers (who is running the simulation? How did they come to exist? What is their reality
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by ebbv 10y ago
The way I prefer to do this is we have our own SCSS files which get compiled along side bootstrap, and they are all more specific than the Bootstrap SCSS so they get precedence. For example, we might want our default alerts to all be purple

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