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by frossie 17y ago
Perhaps because she is too busy thinking "I have never been at the receiving end of such a patronising explanation before?"
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by frossie 17y ago
Why write a 5 paragraph email that can be expressed in 3 lines? Why waste your coworker’s time with a 2 hour presentation? It’s probably because your email is garbage and your presentation sucks. Or, you know, you might have a complex p
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by frossie 17y ago
You mean not finding online something that one can buy in a brick-and-mortar store? Never. The only time I can't find something online is if I am mistaken about its existence, or it is a discontinued line, or is a rarity. Of course, there a
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by frossie 17y ago
I agree with you, though I am not necessarily talking about "cutting corners", which to me implies slopiness. It's just that you can optimise for a certain environment of use, but if you don't realise that the software will be used 10 years
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by frossie 17y ago
Summary: There is a design pay-off line - having little software design may get you to market faster but then hampers you downstream; having too much design slows you down for no additional payoff. I call this the "less talk more code" poin
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by frossie 17y ago
Breeding two animals is practically useless - the gene pool would be too undiversified, and populations which have been brought back from the brink by such techniques have a bunch of problems. More to the point, the numbers are overwhelming
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by frossie 17y ago
Yeah. It's a damage limitation exercise - sure, some kids are mature enough to run their own lives at 15, but many are not - and you can screw your life far more comprehensively by making bad choices at 15 than at 25 (or 35 or 45). My impre
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by frossie 17y ago
The property tax model is a deeply flawed idea because it is subject to a kind of DoS attack. If everybody valued their home at 50% of its FMV, the government would not be able to afford to buy everybody 's home. Also, if everybody self-v
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by frossie 17y ago
Well I think there are two different problems - personal and professional addresses. While I may not want my info public in the cloud, my plumber (for the sake of argument) presumably does not feel the same way, because his details are on h
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by frossie 17y ago
Okay, that would solve my personal problem (so would seting up an LDAP server), but for the general population, getting a Google Apps account is using a canon to smite a gnat. I was hoping somebody would say "There's a start-up for that....
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by frossie 17y ago
Note my use of the word "software".
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Ask HN: Where is my cloud addressbook?
6 points by frossie 17y ago|5 comments
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by frossie 17y ago
I believe one of the reason the prints are rarely on display is that the paper he used was not of archival quality and has really suffered with the passage of time. The woodblocks are simply very rare - some recycled by the artist even IIRC
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by frossie 17y ago
Yes, even for cars with significant onboard user-oriented software systems (like the Prius) there is no upgrade path. It seems we are currently in the "early cellphone" phase, rather than the "iPhone" era where automotive software is concer
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by frossie 17y ago
People forget that much of Escher's work were prints done by woodblock - what he would do is not draw on paper, but carve wood, which of course means working in the "negative" of the image. Looking at the woodblocks is simply mindblowing -
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by frossie 17y ago
Similar advice is given to travellers - keep a "mugging wallet" with a bit of cash, a low-credit-limit or expired credit card, an old piece of ID, a photo of an ex-girlfriend - you get the idea. When accosted, just hand it over. The theory
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by frossie 17y ago
Why is it that so few Europeans believe that diabetes can be cured via prayer? It comes down to optimism again I think. A European devout Christian would certainly pray for their sick child - but they would not expect their prayer to be
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by frossie 17y ago
I expect this is why the quantity is more up-front now. I bet it is pretty unusual for anybody to buy multiple copies of a given book at once, so defaulting to one and giving the opportunity to adjust later made sense. Now that they sell ma
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by frossie 17y ago
As a book collector, I love print editions of books, I hear you, but that doesn't apply to all the books I own. If I could swap at no cost to me all my physical books with idealised e-books (say on a 100% faithful reproduction DRM-free
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by frossie 17y ago
I found the 5 monitor setup is interesting. Some of our ops (!= programmer) people have multiple (>2 monitors) but I have found there's no much point going beyond 3, tops 4 because then you start losing sight of important things happeni
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by frossie 17y ago
"I quibble with the suggestion not to drain the beans" I was a bit taken aback by that too, I always rinse heavily for the reason you mention, but I wasn't sure what the rationale for not rinsing is. I prefer frozen beans anyway - cheaper
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by frossie 17y ago
Speed has nothing to do with it. Cooking destroys some heat sensitive vitamins, but the method is neither here nor there, and anyway you are not going to eat raw rice as an alternative.
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by frossie 17y ago
In case people have an unsolved problem in this area, you can also check the "Email This" Firefox add-on. It's an easy way of getting non-techie family members to send you links.
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by frossie 17y ago
I realise this is probably the least relevant comment this essay is going to get... but you can make good rice in the microwave - the only advantage a rice cooker has is that it will keep your rice warm for hours. Get a deep microwave-safe
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by frossie 17y ago
because scientist working in US universities had to apply for the same green card quota as MS/Intel/Google This doesn't mesh with my experience. They had to work within the same H1-B quota as the commercial sector. I agree that this is
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by frossie 17y ago
Don't know how much this helps you, but from the PDF of the book on the page above: This book is about the functional programming language Pure. Pure’s distinguishing features are that it is based on term rewriting (a computational model f
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by frossie 17y ago
Yeah it is possible. It can either be shut down, or its accuracy can be degraded. See for example http://www.equipmentworldmagazine.com/apps/news/articleeqw.a... How is easy - all the GPS satellites belong and are operated by the US air f
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by frossie 17y ago
It's plausible. That's what happened with Apple right? - they turned iTunes into an industry cash cow, and then used that leverage to switch most content to DRM-free.
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by frossie 17y ago
I think the SETI guys just died laughing. The poor guys have been getting by on a shoestring for years - the chance of anybody spending billions to mess with them is.... remote :-)
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by frossie 17y ago
Well, I don't necessarily want to defend it, but I think there is a rationale to do with infrastructure. In the extreme case where everyone in a Hawaiian town offered a room to airbnb, the infrastructure would buckle under the increased pop

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