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by frossie 15y ago
This anti-TV meme is mostly luddite fearmongering intended to get joe and jane sixpack to stop vegging out in front of the TV and start being engaged as parents. That is not what the Academy of Pediatrics is actually saying. They specific
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by frossie 15y ago
I am not convinced hiding points results in voter apathy. My points received per comment seem to be higher after that change. Of course PG has presumably actual statistics about this.
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by frossie 15y ago
Your experience is consistent with research, eg. http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20110323/sleepy-pe... Not only does skimping on sleep raises your calorie consumption, but it seems that tired people show increased preference for
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by frossie 15y ago
Science can progress even without software Okay well, I don't know what field of science you work in, but where I am sitting, we can't make progress without fourier-transforming millions of samples for tens of thousands of detectors three
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by frossie 15y ago
The danger lies in being a company with a reputation of launching stuff and then not sticking with them. At some point that starts harming adoption levels of new products. Edit to comment below: "Trying and failing is a far better outcome t
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by frossie 15y ago
I suffer quite a lot from Firefox performance issues since I need to run two instances on one machine, and Firefox 7 fixed ALL my hanging/swapping issues. Great job on that and I definitely urge everybody to upgrade. While I'm here I'll add
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by frossie 15y ago
There should be an easier way to do this.
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by frossie 15y ago
I think it is also difficult to remember all the victories of "voting with your money" because so many have been normalised. Hormones in meat? Dolphin-killing tuna fishing? Formula better than breast advertising? There are myriad examples w
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by frossie 15y ago
... And people who don't speak English so well. Moreover if his customers truly prefer the phone, he could make giving the phone number optional and people would still give it out.
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by frossie 15y ago
There's no need to take it public. What would it serve? Well I can speculate: Because some issues seem like real debates when you have them internally, and then you tell a bunch of outsiders and they go "uh, it's a no-brainer" and that te
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by frossie 15y ago
Yeah. According to the Mythical Man Month (or was it Peopleware?), when someone gives you 100 software engineers to do a project, what are you supposed to do? Set up 10 teams of 10 people, don't tell them about each other and make them all
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by frossie 15y ago
The biggest difference between the US and somewhere like Germany is the price of land. While land can be expensive in certain highly desireable places, it is possible to buy habitable land in the US for what is a derisory amount of money to
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by frossie 15y ago
Customers don't know what they need? Not usually, no. The customers know what needs they have that are not being met - that's not the same. See also: The customer lacks the imagination to ask for what they really need. This is often enca
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by frossie 15y ago
The attack surface for other companies has just doubled If anything, that is an underestimate. I really can't understand what they are thinking. Since I am interested in both DVD and streaming, up to now I was completely locked into Netf
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by frossie 15y ago
Off-site meetings are useful to small teams too - it gets them away from the daily firefighting and able to focus on big infrastructure problems, kick-offs of new projects and so on, just like in the examples given. They don't have to cost
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by frossie 15y ago
You are not alone. This is such a common characteristic of productive programmers that (as a geek herder) I build "downtime" into my timelines.
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by frossie 15y ago
Savings from sophisticated method to board plane faster: 110 million dolars Getting passengers to board when (and only when) it's actually their turn: priceless (and, I suspect, far trickier)
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by frossie 15y ago
It's also quite duplicitous. It was represented as a social networking service, not as an identity service. Moreover people assumed (yeah, I know) that since privacy control was Facebook's Achilles' heel, that Google would do better than th
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by frossie 15y ago
I am not sure I understand the objection. It costs nothing and it clearly makes people happy. Let them be. Saying thank you, like most happier emotional expressions, has a positive effect for the sender as well as the recipient.
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by frossie 15y ago
Well, they don't just have the $240/yr plan. And file sharing isn't quite as sophisticated as you might think - it passes the grandparents test. I wish Dropbox would have a smaller priced tier (like $5/mo). The free plan is more than ample
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by frossie 15y ago
People are ordering fewer prints, but which percentage of the prints they are ordering are pictures of kids for grandparents? A significant proportion, I bet. Anybody who has walked into a relative's house and seen their gorgeous DSLR email
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by frossie 15y ago
And this loss might cost them their program: "This test flight was their last shot at success before the project is considered for closure." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/11/fastest-ever-pla...
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by frossie 15y ago
The problem is that this phenomenon (funding research where you know there is a good probability it will work before you even start) is not limited to medical research, it can be found even in fields where there are no commercial interests
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by frossie 15y ago
Yeah, but Neil de Grasse Tyson, fine chap that he is, doesn't have anything like Carl Sagan's charisma.
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by frossie 15y ago
If you want to stick to perl, you might want to check out http://pdl.perl.org/ if you haven't already. You can do a fair amount of scientific computing with it. Among other things it overloads the basic operators, so $a+$b will do the rig
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by frossie 15y ago
they'll only cover past damage that has already been reported I thought they said it was the first time it happened? Anyway, better late than never.
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by frossie 15y ago
I think it actually is different now. Oh yes it is different now. You know what's different? That you can be a housebound lonely widow and be able to share your needlework tips with somebody an ocean away. That you can be gay in a small t
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by frossie 15y ago
Yeah. I mean, pay people well, give them something fun to work on, treat them like people, and let them go home on time - it should be enough. There are definitely other industries (eg. big firm law, finance) where the bigger the hiring per
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by frossie 15y ago
Dude, have you even read the OP? The AirBnB thing has left the building, now it is Arrington drama. Throw in PG, and this is going to be HN fodder for days. C'est la vie.

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