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by frossie 17y ago
"Broadcast has to reach a massive audience to stand any chance of reaping a return " While I sympathise with geuis's complaint, I agree that that this is a limitation of the broadcast format. This is a particular problem with children's (s
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by frossie 17y ago
By the way, did anybody notice the sequence at GPS headquarters (minutes 24:00 to 27:00), where the air force guy couldn't even name a commercial GPS manufacturer? It is amazing how much indifference there was towards civilian use of GPS, c
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by frossie 17y ago
Well yes and no (the codebase originated as VMS-only). The point is that going to Gnu tools helped us solve the problem, it didn't create the problem (as the OP was implying). And this is the thing - the complaint seems to come down to "ens
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by frossie 17y ago
"I used to use this scheme exclusively" So what do you do now?
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by frossie 17y ago
And little use without some kind of category browsing.
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by frossie 17y ago
Is it? Around here (Hawaii) there are ordinances in many areas restricting the number of B&Bs that operate, and neighbours have been known to complain to the authorities when they see excess traffic to/from a property.
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by frossie 17y ago
We support 3 million lines of code on every flavour of Linux, 32 and 64 bit architectures, as well as Mac OS X and Solaris (we use the Gnu auto tools). I think the portability problem is over-stated.
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by frossie 17y ago
I swear, Brian Cox is the next Carl Sagan. He is the most charismatic science educator I have seen in a long time.
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by frossie 17y ago
Yes, great Washington Post coverage. Every time I hear about airbnb though, I wonder - don't you need a permit to offer paid accommodation? For example in my part of the U.S. you need a "special use" permit to run a B&B. How is advertis
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by frossie 17y ago
I too am curious to see the downmod/upmode ratio (anonymously of course). I think mine is probably 10-20 upmods to 1 downmods, and I mod sparsely (maybe 1 comment in 20? depends on the thread). I downmod "noise", not signal I disagree with.
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by frossie 17y ago
But a set of rectangles outlines a polygon, right? You pack them however they are and draw between exterior vertices. Voila, polygon.
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by frossie 17y ago
If I understood the question correctly... you want to Google for "minimum rectangular covering" eg. http://www.springerlink.com/content/d707j4x7107qq362/ Disclaimer: IANAMathematician
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by frossie 17y ago
Is it silly? There is a problem already noted with rising ocean levels increasing the salinity of fertile soil in many coastal nations. In fact I remember reading a story about rising storm lines killing rice fields and the search for more
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by frossie 17y ago
Under discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=720433
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by frossie 17y ago
I actually think it is a textbook apology - short, no excuses and straight to the customers. I think having a quick apology is more important than presenting some kind of ten point plan as the first step. But I agree that the end of the mat
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by frossie 17y ago
I can't bring myself to do that. In my brain "mark as spam" is synonymous to "Mummy! Make the Bad Man go away!". I have trouble overloading this with "Gee I guess I'm just not that into you".
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by frossie 17y ago
Notify Mee performs a very simple but invaluable task: I may be alone here, but I get rubbed the wrong way when people presume to tell me how invaluable [definition: having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth] their se
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by frossie 17y ago
Summary provided by the following two quotes: "I define true love as the best person who is willing to date you" and "The basic advice: Reject a certain number of people, no matter how good they are, and then pick the next person better
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by frossie 17y ago
I agree, the problem (and the solution) lies with the people who are the interface between makers and managers. The job description for these people varies but you know who they are - project leader type people. Here's what we try to do: al
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by frossie 17y ago
I find it a bit annoying (sometimes there is a rapid-fire good debate) but I can sure live with it if it really helps the S/N of the site. I concede there is a certain logic in "If you can't wait a few minutes to say something maybe you d
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by frossie 17y ago
Well I haven't been around that long so let's see if I can pass the test. why one is sometimes unable to reply to a comment There is a cooling off period when there is vigorous activity on a subthread to avoid flame wars. I think this is
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by frossie 17y ago
Sorry to be pedantic but the title is a bit misleading. TMT has selected Hawaii as its preferred site. In order for it to be actually built on Mauna Kea, it has to obtain a Conservation District Use permit, as explained in the linked articl
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by frossie 17y ago
"Friends say I should start a blog" This is not a good reason to start a blog :-) I read just under 20 blogs (by which I mean real people's blogs, not tech news that just happen to use the blog platform to publish). The best blogs are def
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by frossie 17y ago
That's really interesting. Give the enormous size of the Greek expatriate population, I would have expected stronger showings from some of the countries with immigrant Greeks (eg. Australia - cue the joke about Melbourne being the second la
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by frossie 17y ago
When you think about it, this is actually totally useless. It is much easier to just generate a puzzle on the fly Serious Sudoku players tend to scorn machine-generated puzzles and regard those build by Sudoku masters as superior. See for
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by frossie 17y ago
I dream of my major worry being how obsolete my users' Linux distributions are. I still have users running on Solaris 7 for god's sake.
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by frossie 17y ago
I am confused by the little science that was quoted in the article. For example, it reports that college students are studied that are survivors of child abuse, and it is found that the effects they suffer as a result are small. There are t
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by frossie 17y ago
Okay, sorry to hijack the topic, but I'm curious to know how many hits you get from *.gr versus from the rest of the world, if you are bothering to track geolocation that is.
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by frossie 17y ago
I don't think the world needs "Ruby babe in search of Django framework" :-) That said, if those two get together they should let the rest of us know.
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by frossie 17y ago
Eh? That doesn't make any sense. Are you saying that radioactive nuclei decay slower near old people?

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