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by ender7 14y ago
Same-sex couples can already adopt children in the US, they just can't adopt them together. Technically, only one member of the couple gets to be the legal "parent". The kid will still grow up in a same-sex household. He/she will still thin
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I can't emphasize enough how important it is for the OS vendor to "set a good example" when designing their own apps for the OS. Like it or not, devs will look to the built-in apps for guidance on what to make theirs look like -- this is al
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I'm trying to think through the way competition would work here. Imagine I'm the guy building the ultrasound machine. Company A comes to me with this new algorithm they've developed to do nifty processing of the data. Things I care about:
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Yeah...that doesn't really "prove" anything. I'll thank you to have some better evidence before claiming things about my true "nature". I remember traveling in France the summer before the 2008 presidential election. Every newspaper and tab
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Related: androgynes, hermaphrodites, and other "middle people" are surprisingly common features in cultures around the world, both historically and today. They are frequently ascribed to have shamanistic or other magical abilities. Sometime
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by ender7 14y ago
I've never understood why people like frontal return types. It seems to me that the most important piece of a function is its name, which 50% of the time will make it obvious what its return type is anyway. Also, certain languages such as C
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by ender7 14y ago
This is a nice, gentle introduction, but if you're going to start using modules you might as well go slightly farther and use something like RequireJS ( http://requirejs.org/ ) or Browserify ( https://github.com/substack/node-browserify ).
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You know what they say about a joke that you have to explain...
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So, I'm not a huge fan, but definitely an interesting attempt. Some commentary, because why not: - As others have noted, the "moonshot" imagery is a good idea and manages to seem classic and futuristic at the same time. - The wordmark is a
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Inman's lawyer is quoting Justice Harlan in Cohen v. California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California
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The phenomenon discussed in the article (the surprising lack of any de-facto currency arising in TF2's barter economy) is very interesting, because the economy in Diablo 2 did develop its own currency around a single item -- the Stone of
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by ender7 14y ago
Unfortunately, there's no real way to make JS prototypes easy, simply because it's a poorly-designed system with way too many "wait, what?" moments. If you want classical inheritance, there are many tiny JS libraries that will give it to yo
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_controversies#Tesla_Ro... Basically, they imagined the worst that could possibly happen, but when it didn't happen, they pretended that it did anyway. This is kind of like saying "we reviewed your iPh
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by ender7 14y ago
True, but having 30.1FPS doesn't protect you from that phenomenon either. If you maintain 30.1FPS over a long period of time, it means that, yes, you generally get one out of every 2 refreshes. The problem is that UI interaction events can
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by ender7 14y ago
This is a really good step forward, but it's disappointing to see the author using FPS to measure UI responsiveness (I've harped on this before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3777058 ). While FPS is a decent measure of performance in
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Also, no mention of thorium (or other liquid-salt) reactors, other novel reactors such as WAMSR, or the fact that a coal plant dumps much more radiation into surrounding environment than a nuclear plant ever does.
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Here's a video of the Maya in question using the device. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXBb_30NNYE
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Similarly, there is nothing to prevent a 'female Dave' from joining the next single-sex educational group. This is not to imply that there aren't good reasons for women-only education, but this isn't one of them.
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A great place to see this in action is with smartphone ads. Almost all of the smartphone companies have been producing ads that cater only to the young male (see: those terrifying Motorola Droid ads). Apple is an exception, as usual. They f
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Databases in a Song(youtube.com)
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Dear Mr. Stelter: Please link to the actual tweets. This is not 1972. I don't need you to read pieces of them back to me.
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[Addendum] A common use case where this crops up is with animations. If the user directly interacts with my view and causes the model to change, I may want the view to play an animation or otherwise respond in a context-sensitive manner. Ho
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First of all, I'm really enjoying my time with Backbone! Unrelatedly, but in case anyone's listening, there's something I keep wanting in Backbone, but perhaps my architecture is wrong: // inside my view this.model.on('change', this._
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Never underestimate your RAID controller's ability to fail (silently!) and start writing corrupted garbage to your disks.
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After we achieve mostly-realistic physics simulations I look forward to the new middleware that re-enables implausible effects. It turns out that most real-world physical interactions are nasty and short, and lacking in beautiful, orange an
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A lot of IKEA stuff is at a really nice price point, but I tend to avoid buying anything from them that involves wood. The particle-board composites they use are so heavy that their furniture becomes impractical to actually move around (and
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var statements are for commies.
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Really? Your is a common complaint, so perhaps I'm just weird, but I was neither surprised nor upset by the opening day crunch. It was certainly nothing compared to, for example, WoW's release day. Or some of Steam's releases, back in the
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Ah, Social Darwinism. Still alive after so many years.
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I just installed Diablo III, most of which was delivered to me via BitTorrent. It worked pretty great. In theory, Apple et al could also use BT to distribute movies, yes? Have iTunes run a modified BT client that only connects to other appr

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