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by frossie 16y ago
I think user engagement with /new needs to be substantially improved to reduce the effect of this. I'm a heavy HN user but only remember to check out /new once or twice a day. Hmm. I probably go to /new 10 times more than I go to the fro
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Use of rare earth metals outstripping supply(arstechnica.com)
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by frossie 16y ago
How did he know what guns and swords are? Excatly. I am very wary of the whole "we were gender neutral with our kids and then the girl wanted a pink dress SO PINK MUST BE HARD-WIRED!" argument. I am pretty sure if we took a human child to
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by frossie 16y ago
You are not buying a reader. You are "buying" a content provider. Think about this carefully. Although I am an enthusiastic Amazon customer, I have a nook and I hope this is a fight that Amazon doesn't win. I hate the fact that Amazon has a
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by frossie 16y ago
"OpenHatch: thousands of bite-sized bugs" http://openhatch.org/
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Altruism can be explained by natural selection(nature.com)
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by frossie 16y ago
Isn't that encouraged? From the guidelines: Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add
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OpenHatch: Making the first step easier(blog.lydiapintscher.de)
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by frossie 16y ago
A computational model [...] is a theory I guess that's where we disagree. I respect your point, and of course I accept we are in a regime where computational models are the only options in some cases (we can't start a whole new universe o
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by frossie 16y ago
I agree entirely with the OP, but I have also seen people treating computation as a "third leg", to the detriment of progress I think. Let me concoct a trivial example. Suppose you wanted to know whether a bowling ball would drop from the t
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by frossie 16y ago
That's the joke, dude... Re OP: Ah, the joys of being a Sybase user, nobody even makes fun of us.
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Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt4(cartan.cas.suffolk.edu)
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by frossie 16y ago
I guess I'll go straight for the old fart corner and ask: Ok. But why would you want to?"
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by frossie 16y ago
Fair cop. This one has the link to the PDF of the real paper though, unlike the Economist piece.
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Flash in freezer, Javascript on cutting board(timeglider.com)
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by frossie 16y ago
Me, I'd worry about the person whose most loyal employees were bad. It would mean they don't provide the kind of workplace where good employees stick around. The number one reason people leave jobs: they don't like their boss. There are a l
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How to Tell When Your Boss Is Lying(bobsutton.typepad.com)
1 points by frossie 16y ago|3 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
I'm not surprised. Anecdotally, I know two people with iPads, and both subsequently purchased nooks as their dedicated e-reading device for the same reason: someone else in their household had a nook and they wanted the same experience. B&#
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by frossie 16y ago
Not the advice you asked for: You're asking a bunch of similar minimalist questions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631060 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628036 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631430 I think you would
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by frossie 16y ago
Simply telling someone they are awesome will have no actual affect if they don't believe what you are saying Yeah, the same goes with child development - there's quite a lot of research that says that it is counterproductive to praise a k
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by frossie 16y ago
There's a big difference between living somewhere and traveling through it - which one do you want to do? Unless you magically have the right nationality, if you want to stay in a foreign place for any length of time you typically will need
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by frossie 16y ago
I think this is a variation of the "should the project manager of a software project understand software" question, which I have thought quite a lot about over the years. The answer is yes because: 1. As mentioned above, it enables them to
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by frossie 16y ago
I was a bit scared about what she'd consider the "top 5" She didn't rate them as "top 5". She got sent 5 unlabeled samples by the OP and was asked to assess their quality.
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by frossie 16y ago
I like the comment on the original site: "God damn it, this is not OCD. Being anal has nothing to do with OCD and vice versa" I don't see OCD behaviour in the design either - they are not tweaks, they are quite different iterations. I'm n
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by frossie 16y ago
Hmm. I have really complicated itineraries and so far it looks like ITA's matrix search only not as flexible/powerful. It has potential, though.
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by frossie 16y ago
Agreed. KDE is full of people who ran away from Gnome when Gnome decided to take away the ability of people to make choices. It's the average v. power user problem - both are important to a platform.
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by frossie 16y ago
If you have real trouble in interviews and you think this is a long-term issue that you can't address, you need to make your paperwork so strong that it is obvious to the interviewers that you are a poor interview performer rather than an i
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by frossie 16y ago
Good grief, 3+ meetings aren't meetings, they are work sessions. Not only you need physical breaks, but you do need mental breaks as well (like allowing the conversation to drift to some light-hearted off topic banter for a bit). Regarding
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by frossie 16y ago
Hmm I am pretty sure on quite a few of them (eg. mobileread.com) I have the option of a daily thread digest of subscribed threads. Not sure what the underlying platform is. Off the top of my head I suspect what I really want is for any thre
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by frossie 16y ago
He's talking about the satellite photo story from a while back in which Greeks had many more (taxable) private pools than were reported to the government. I assure you, that is the least of it. The fundamental problem in Greece is, as I s

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