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What has it been like to watch China change so drastically in recent years?(quora.com)
2 points by ern 15y ago|0 comments
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What are some great stories about Steve Jobs?(quora.com)
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by ern 15y ago
The direction of mosques could also be a little unreliable in North America, since the method of determining their orientation depends on whether the Rhumb Line or Great Circle distance is used to find the direction of Mecca: http://en.wi
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by ern 15y ago
This was not the first time I made a mistake like this. When I was a kid, I had trouble seeing my teacher's blackboard. I just kept moving closer to the blackboard. I saw a doctor when I had trouble understanding what the teacher was writi
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by ern 15y ago
Not to diminish the genius of Woz, but it should be pointed out that in a design book (I think it was The Design of Everyday Things ) his CORE universal remote was singled out for harsh criticism because of its overly complex UI. Based on
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by ern 15y ago
Link to the original paper (or abstract, for those of us who lack access): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7367/full/nature1...
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by ern 15y ago
It will be interesting if the mice are subjected to behavioral testing over time to see if the exercise-induced changes improve neurocognitive outcomes. Hopefully they are working on that.
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by ern 15y ago
I usually have a cup of tea for breakfast and grilled cheese + tomato sandwitch for lunch. Dinner is either poached fish, grilled or curried chicken, steak or lambchops, and often features french fries or rice. Popcorn for a late snack. No
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by ern 15y ago
The confusion around hypertension is really annoying. I have a bit of white coat hypertension, and my BP is usually around 145/80 when measured by a medical professional, but is still around 132/80 when measured automatically. Getting it do
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An American Drug Lord in Acapulco(rollingstone.com)
2 points by ern 15y ago|0 comments
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by ern 15y ago
The book is called "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", and it covers the collapse of Greenland Norse society, not the collapse of Iceland, as the article claims.
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A PC in every pot (1999)(salon.com)
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by ern 15y ago
Are BBM messages "PIN protected" as the article claims, or is the BBM PIN merely an addressing mechanism? It's not the first time the Guardian has used the term "PIN protected" when referring to BBM.
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by ern 15y ago
In South Africa, Blackberry was voted "Coolest Brand" in a 2011 survey of urban youth, so the phenomenon is not limited to the UK ( http://www.newstime.co.za/ScienceandTech/Generation_Next_Nam... ).
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by ern 15y ago
There's a poll as well: http://twtpoll.com/swgdwm
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Request for feedback on .NET version numbering issues(hanselman.com)
4 points by ern 15y ago|1 comments
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by ern 15y ago
A hotel is likely to have CCTV in the lobby, full time security, contacts with local police and lots of institutional experience dealing with disruptive guests. All things that the average part-time innkeeper doesn't have.
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by ern 15y ago
This seems to be the original paper from 2004: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/surprise/llog/Gordon_Pi...
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The geeks who saved Usenet (2002)(dir.salon.com)
50 points by ern 15y ago|7 comments
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by ern 15y ago
It's paradoxical that this comes from the #1 search engine. Not the first time something like this has happened. Their Groups search was broken a few years ago as well, and it took some effort to get them to finally fix it: http://www.wi
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Visual Studio LightSwitch launches(microsoft.com)
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by ern 15y ago
Could there be some deeply ingrained idea, possibly derived from Genesis, that leads to dimished care for people as they approach 120, and hence increases mortality? I doubt it, but I wonder if this possibility has been explored.
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by ern 15y ago
There is a sidebar on the right hand side of the page that lists the top stories, and it has a smaller version of the image. I was able to see Marilyn in that one without much effort.
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by ern 15y ago
They used to have vanity URLs as a drop-down option in the Profile (I got it when I created my profile to try out Buzz last year). Even though I deleted the profile, I still had the option to choose it when I re-created the profile. It seem
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by ern 15y ago
You mention the complexity of the ASP.NET membership system. I've always found it to be quite straightforward (unless you write your own providers I guess). Where are the pain points for you?
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by ern 15y ago
If this was 2004, how did the author have 2GB of storage on Gmail and use "more than half", when it launched with 1 GB and was only upgraded to 2GB in 2005? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail )
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by ern 15y ago
If Asian countries are enthusiastically funding the research, why couldn't the US just license the technology after it is developed?
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by ern 15y ago
I'm not sure why Google is getting a free pass on the public profiles requirement. Every other social network I've used has an option to block search engines from indexing your profile.
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They Write the Right Stuff: Space Shuttle software engineering (1996)(fastcompany.com)
1 points by ern 15y ago|0 comments
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by ern 15y ago
My two year old managed to figure out the iPad, far better than I would have guessed. He can find games and load them himself, and uses the safety of the Home button to get out of confusing situations. He has also attempted to translate the

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