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by fyi80 14y ago
If they aren't committed to memory, performance is far worse, as fetching from disk is 10-1000x slower.
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by fyi80 14y ago
It's pretty easy to test if people can detect being stared at, and yet no one has bothered to set up a clean demonstration. Why not? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_staring_effect
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by fyi80 14y ago
When I was a kid, I mailed $5 to the address listed on a shareware disk, to get an unlock code for the full program. Never got a response. I think that was last time I fell for the rebranding-resale scam.
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by fyi80 14y ago
That was a Saturday Night Live sketch starring Jon Lovitz yelling, "I'm Picasso!" and trying to pay his tab with a scribble on a napkin. I think Kevin Nealon played the waiter.
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by fyi80 14y ago
It's almost as thought Google designed the service for the benefit of users (who will then vote for developers with their feet) than for the benefit of spammers....
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by fyi80 14y ago
Hmm, looks like the blog post went up before the partners rolled out to their public-facing sites. None of the partners I spot checked have G+ login yet.
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by fyi80 14y ago
Indeed, Chesterton's Fence fallacy: Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32943.html
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by fyi80 14y ago
"A skeuomorph is a physical ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques" an on/off toggle isn't skeuomorph, it's symbolic.
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by fyi80 14y ago
> realistic toggles, iPhone invented the "guess whether OFF = light blue and ON = dark blue, or vice versa", not realistic toggles.
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by fyi80 14y ago
And "cyberspace" sheds the ugly association with car culture.
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by fyi80 14y ago
It seems that Emmy Rossum prefered Reddit's version, not the version you prefer. Emmy Rossum went to reddit for an AMA, and used the site's commenting functionality to ask people not to be rude. She did not cancel her AMA, ask to have the r
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by fyi80 14y ago
http://reddit.com/r/tabled , after a few hours.