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by elblanco 16y ago
Depends what's on the advertisement. There's nothing that prevents somebody from writing ads in javascript/canvas and using your browser to fold proteins.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I would immediately move to Malaysia and retire. http://www.workpermit.com/malaysia/malaysia.htm
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How to Steal a Four-Star Chef's Secret Cooking Technology(gizmodo.com)
5 points by elblanco 16y ago|1 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
I personally don't like this. On reddit for example, I find I have to spend an inordinate amount of time uncollapsing comments and threads to see if there's something interesting to see. Most of the time there isn't, but if it wasn't coll
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New data proves your mobile marketing strategy must include Android(econsultancy.com)
3 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
The first thing I thought when I watched the demo was "awesome!" the second was "oh my god, look at those rivers, it's like the freaking Mississippi delta!"
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's a pyramid. Lots of folks, particularly young people in my experience, don't really understand that you have to do lots of crap work in order to get to do the fun stuff. It's simply not possible to only do fun things, or if it is, I've
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by elblanco 16y ago
Man you must really enjoy paying bills and filling out paperwork and other wonderful, fun, life affirming activities (haggling over a car, getting sick, stuck in traffic, selling stuff). 'cause you can't get through life without that.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Steps to happiness 1) Go to college (yet another monthly "should I go to college?" posts on HN sigh ). I didn't go until my 20's either, and I've yet to regret going. I certainly regret going that late. The reasons to do it are numerous, b
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by elblanco 16y ago
You'd think devices with different resolutions would never make it in the marketplace (typed on my desktop with a different resolution than yours).
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by elblanco 16y ago
At least we have vnc.
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by elblanco 16y ago
wouldn't these be 2nd gen MBAs?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Exactly, basing the assumption that computers are only about data in->do something->data out, is a bit of an old-fashioned way of thinking. These days, the vast majority of computation involves execution loops: 1 - Display something
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by elblanco 16y ago
Dataflow systems like LabView ( https://www.ni.com/labview/ ), Starlight Data Engineer ( http://www.futurepointsystems.com/ ) and the Data Model subsystem of ArcGIS can be massively useful for a very large class of problems. However, they t
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by elblanco 16y ago
Of course the unsaid is that the TSAI is really just trying to protect those expensive metal flying tubes, not the people who fly in them. If you look at it from perspective, their policies seem rational and consistent.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Some of the sorting algorithms, as somebody learning them, it's almost entirely opaque how somebody could come up with those. It seems like they must have sprung forth wholecloth to the inventor in the shower...it's almost impossible to hav
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've always had the impression that pg works on Arc as a hobby, a service to himself. If it's useful to other people, that's fantastic, but that's not why he's doing it. It's like writing music for yourself. Of course you want to share it,
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by elblanco 16y ago
You'd probably need some really good and hard metrics on that to make a case...say my lawyer normally charges $400/hr, now she wants to charge me $700/hr but claims, "I can do it twice as fast". I'm not sure I'm totally sold on that claim.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I always thought the stuff they made for dig was really great looking, but darned if I could ever find any utility in any of them.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> It's most of a computer, but nearly impossible for a user to accidentally get into an unusable state. Thank you for this. It seems so obvious now, but this wonderfully captures something about the iDevices I couldn't quite put my thum
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Maybe the problem will go away on its own. How many younger people read the manual for their cell phones, or a video game? And yet they figure it out anyway, by exploring. I agree, this seems to be a problem I notice far more intrinsi
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by elblanco 16y ago
>They form a mental model of how to do something, look for something that fits into that model, and then are happy. If they guess the wrong model, though, then they are stuck forever. >Most people will do this for anything but compu
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by elblanco 16y ago
I think there are a couple barriers to entry for new people to watch out for (having tried to go down this path in a past venture): 1) Don't try and save time (or at least don't focus on that), lawyers charge by time spent, saving time loos
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by elblanco 16y ago
I was saying "should" as in "it'd be nice if it did". But in retrospect I see why that was confusing.
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by elblanco 16y ago
selecting text in the addressbar should cause it to switch modes to reveal the full URL for the user to select.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yes, it was sarcastic snark pointing out that all their selling now is a high priced netbook -- even after Jobs shat all over the form factor for the last year. It was the first comment here noticing that at the time.
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by elblanco 16y ago
So your counter argument is a bulleted feature comparison then? Glad I typed that up front so you wouldn't miss it. This review http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/apple-macbook-air/4505-3121_... Directly compares it to these devices http://
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by elblanco 16y ago
So I lost 80% of it pre-whine...any other hairs you'd like to look at cutting?
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by elblanco 16y ago
>Making some hardware and writing a device driver is hardly fragmentation. What exactly is your definition of "fragmentation" then?
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by elblanco 16y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a wide disparity between Mac adoption rates at state schools vs. private schools.

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