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Gaben has made it pretty clear that Steam's role as a curator is not something he wanted, and not something that will continue in Steam's future. > "One of the worst characteristics of the current Steam system is that we&#
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What about the situation where a firm hires consultants expressly to do something that will not make them money? To complete a project that is simply not in the best interests of that firm?
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The website WIAT.com is for the radio station WIAT 42 based out of Birmingham, Alabama.
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In the video, the actors say they chose the wake-word themselves. So presumably you can use anything you like.
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Your analysis is extremely one-sided in favor of producers and against consumers. In economics, the difference between the maximum a consumer is willing to pay for a certain good and the the actual price charged is called "consumer sur
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I'm still using 2.95 on Windows 8
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> Your performance is measured in a single week at the end of each year by statistically-controlled standardized tasks. My main point was that if you're going to appraise teachers based on their students' standardized test sco
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> if VAM is measuring the amount of value a teacher adds to student test performance based on an average student of similar background, and the average student in a wealthy neighborhood does well regardless of the teacher, then every tea
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> If it sounds as if it doesn’t make a lot of sense, that’s because it doesn’t. To me, it sounds like it makes absolute sense. If you want to evaluate how good a teacher is, one of the things you need to measure is how well their student
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What counts as a large audience? 100k monthly uniques? 1 million? 10 million?
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> The title of the post is "How we Figured Out What Makes People Love Ghost 1,000% More" - which I think is still pretty accurate :) I disagree. If you choose the bucket "people who subscribed to Ghost Pro", they woul
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For this puzzle to work, you can't just assume their ages to be integers - their ages have to be integers. In other words, for this puzzle to be solvable, two people who are both X years old have to be considered to be exactly the sa
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For the record, the issue was this: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63099 and I was able to find a workaround and re-enable support for the affected devices
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The thing is though, for every topic I know anything about, the corresponding reddit communities are OK but certainly not the most authoritative place go to ask questions or read the latest news. The most knowledgeable communities still t
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Could part of the problem be that each subreddit can set its own CSS? You can disable this (once you have an account) by unticking Preferences > allow subreddits to show me custom styles
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The audio APIs themselves are mostly OK. As always, the big problem on Android is fragmentation. I tested on as many devices I could get access to, but have discovered since launch that there are crippling performance problems on the Nexus
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Show HN: A Soft Murmur (my first Android app)(play.google.com)
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Can you give a few examples of common JS mistakes that coffeescipt prevents?
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> Amazing how much thought goes into something as simple as a URL. As a rule, a great deal of thought should go into any website's URL structure. It's one of the most painful and costly things to change later, especially if sea
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Land rights in Scotland are even less restrictive - the 'right to roam' encompasses most agricultural land. Naturally, people are still prohibited from damaging crops or interfering with livestock.
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> On the other hand, young people (below 18) aren't that much into facebook anymore. I agree, but think this misses the point. I'm not "that much into" voice telephone calls, but I still rely on them and wouldn't
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> sorry, saying 4/5 doctors recommend X is not a rational cue to buy X If we assume for a moment that 4/5 doctors really do recommend X, and that X is something related to one's health, why is it not a rational cue to buy
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Betfair is probably the best known in the UK.
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> For the no campaign there was relief: a spate of > authoritative polls in the final days of the campaign had > said the vote was on a knife edge, bringing Yes Scotland > within touching distance of victory after a d
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On this note, is it possible to set up real-time alerts with Google analytics? I'd like to set up an alert like "If the number of real-time simultaneous users rises above n, send an email to this address." I don't believ
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I've been building the Android version of my ambient noise / productivity website A Soft Murmur [1]. It's for people who find that ambient noise helps them concentrate or relax. It lets you mix together different types of bac
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Odds at online bookmakers and betting exchanges still rate a "No" vote as around twice a likely as a "Yes" vote. http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/scottis...
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I hate being negative, but I have to say that I really don't think this an effective way to learn how to code for someone without some programming knowledge to begin with. I just watched someone with no programming experience whatsoeve
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> I suppose being open source doesn't stop you from giving user licenses for money, though. True, people can just use your program by violating your license. I don't follow your argument here. To qualify as "Open Source&qu
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"Expendables 3" scores 35/100 on Metacritic [1]. The original scored 45/100 [2] and "Expendables 2" scored 51/100 [3]. Perhaps it's performing poorly because it's a very poor movie. Or perhaps th

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