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by flashman 10y ago
I follow @internetofshit on Twitter, who provides a running list and commentary on items of this nature.
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by flashman 10y ago
It will come. Once upon a time computers were a lot more expensive than hiring a pool of secretaries to do the same work. The price of lab-grown diamonds embodies the energy, materials, equipment costs and technical knowledge that goes go i
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by flashman 10y ago
Huh, this looks cool. Good job.
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by flashman 10y ago
I look forward to the inevitable HN 'What is this thing?' post in ten years when somebody implements this in a one-off system then leaves the company. "Here is a recording of the two devices talking, one in the left channel a
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by flashman 10y ago
> Apples targets the premium segment of the market. Who are less likely to have such limitations. I frequently tether my MacBook Air to my phone's data connection, which is limited to 1.5GB a month (on an overage rate of 20c/MB
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by flashman 10y ago
> and ordered them by list price, Missing steps: opened Excel, created a new document, pasted them in, did 'Text to columns', clicked the 'Price' column header, went to the 'Data' tab, clicked 'Sort&#x2
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by flashman 10y ago
I have tried the game multiple times but have not had the patience to stick with it. I am glad that it exists, though. I want to live in the kind of world where two brothers are happy to devote the majority of their life to a project like t
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by flashman 10y ago
That's an interesting point. Is there any case law on negligence versus malice?
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ParaText: CSV parsing at 2.5 GB per second(wise.io)
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by flashman 10y ago
Any time you read somebody saying "Everyone knows...", question that claim.
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by flashman 10y ago
Sometimes it's complete serendipity. The Rocket League creators were originally making a deathmatch-with-cars mod for Unreal Tournament. Then someone dropped a giant ball into the map, and they realised 'car soccer' was a muc
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by flashman 10y ago
Having "a well-defined concept before beginning development" would seem to include Dota and other successful mods, because Valve is starting with a successful game concept (compared to the vast majority of mods that never find a
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by flashman 10y ago
> You're answer boils down to "because liberals are right and the others are wrong" I disagree. I read the OP's answer as, "The more education you have, the more you're prepared to accept the possibility tha
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by flashman 10y ago
I remember, back in the old days, messenger client ICQ would send your keystrokes as you typed them, exposing your spelling mistakes for all to see.
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by flashman 10y ago
One proposed solution is putting shade cloth over parts of the reef. Not sure how much this would alter the water temperature, but it may be enough to reduce heat stress in the corals.
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by flashman 10y ago
You've kind of contradicted yourself. Regulation, tax rebates and research funding are all versions of picking winners when viewed through the lens of the regulations/rebates/research not chosen. Unlike VCs, governments have
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by flashman 10y ago
"A recent study suggested $10bn investment was needed to adequately reduce pollution levels and improve the reef’s resilience." Sorry reef, we need to spend that money on F-35s, a dozen new submarines, and tax deductions for peopl
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by flashman 10y ago
I want to know whether Imgur's dark patterns are because the site isn't profitable, or because it isn't profitable enough . Because they've sort of cut their own throat here, and it would be interesting to know whether
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by flashman 10y ago
Good; there SHOULD be a chilling effect on publishing private material of the sort being litigated. There's a difference between 'what the public is interested in' and 'the public interest'.
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by flashman 10y ago
Yes, I think that should be the message you build your site around. Your homepage looks good though, it just needs to be aimed at artists.
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by flashman 10y ago
I think you're wrongly focusing on the fans instead of the bands - you are Kickstarter for vinyl. Here are some potential competitors whose service you could beat or streamline: * http://www.mobineko.com/ * https:&#x2
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by flashman 10y ago
Ten exabytes, in other words.
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by flashman 10y ago
DGraph's 0.3 release was a day ago: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/releases/tag/v0.3
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by flashman 10y ago
From my experience so far, Stellaris will benefit greatly from performance and feature patches (I hear lots of complaints about grinding late-game framerates even in modestly-populated galaxies). It does seem to suffer from a lack of gamepl
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by flashman 10y ago
Well, lots of reasons. For starters, you have to consider the privacy of every person who appears on camera, including students and guest presenters. But let's assume a blanket waiver can be put in place (ha, good luck). Then you have
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by flashman 10y ago
Anecdotally I've found my Charge HR's measurements to be most accurate when I'm stationary, but querying several months' of data via Fitbit's API showed a few instances where my heart rate was supposedly 200 while I
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by flashman 10y ago
Brr. My phone is even more personal than my computer. There is no way I'm putting a pirated APK on it, considering how easy it is to insert arbitrary code into APKs: http://www.georgiecasey.com/2013/03/06&#x2F
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by flashman 10y ago
They appear to be using a Ramsey STE3000 RF test box: http://www.ramseytest.com/product.php?pid=10
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by flashman 10y ago
Sounds like 'normalisation of deviance': when something is dangerous but has previously been done without incident, so it becomes standard procedure. NASA has some guidelines on eliminating it from your practices and systems: htt
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by flashman 10y ago
> The reason it's so cheap is because Uber keeps carpet bombing my phone with 50% and 75% off promo deals. Does this affect how much the driver receives? E.g. do they receive a share of the full fee, or the discounted one?

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