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by glimcat 15y ago
Minecraft is one of those games which is, first and foremost, a bucket of legos.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I'm pretty sure I can if what you said here is all there is to it. Not the bit about creating stuff, but the process is more usable with fewer steps anyway. The "hey anyone want to get coffee" and "sure let's get coffee at 5th & main" i
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by glimcat 15y ago
So, it lets me do something I can already do with Twitter, and I log in using Twitter?
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by glimcat 15y ago
Don Norman's DOET should be required reading for anyone making a human-facing system. It is not a complete education on the topic, but it's a huge step forwards.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I wonder if there's not an important distinction being lost somewhere between free speech and Google.
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by glimcat 15y ago
"Making a conscious (or unconscious, as the case may be) decision to scan through 20-something RSS items a few times per hour means that you're constantly interrupting what you were doing in order to perform another task." Okay, I call shen
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by glimcat 15y ago
Better article: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/electronic-ski... Abstract of paper, + full text if you have access. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6044/838.abstract
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by glimcat 15y ago
If you just want "the internet" and a few basics like a word processor then it doesn't matter much. Windows has Microsoft Office, which is going to trump any non-specialized options you can get on Linux. It also has a large library of comme
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by glimcat 15y ago
These things live and die on the communities they create.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Lots of typos on the front page. Also, bad math. 28638 received over 23634 sent is a 200.03% return rate? No. "Sent" and "received" are already very ambiguous - is "sent" what I sent you or what you sent me? But either way, it doesn't work
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by glimcat 15y ago
No, that's the #2 cause. Doing it at all gives you much better odds than not doing it, even if you make mistakes.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Better than not. It seeds the info to a lot of competent people. But IMO, it would work better if people would stop making such ambiguous postings. I'm not going to tell my friend about this awesome opening I saw on HN if you don't actually
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by glimcat 15y ago
"Designing with the Mind in Mind" by Jeff Johnson is pretty good. But it's a book.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I use both. It lets me use sites that totally break with JavaScript off (lots of them!) while still nuking external tracker scripts.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Space is vast, yet space is not empty. Anything could happen. Nice application of particle simulations. Direct link to PDF if anyone else wants it. Has transfer probabilities based on their sim, which runs over a 30 kyr milieu. It's probabl
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by glimcat 15y ago
Never underestimate the power of bored graduate students.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Slate tablets are getting small enough that they're eroding the laptop range for me. That and a small Bluetooth keyboard will cover most anything between needing it to fit in my pocket and needing a desktop for prolonged intensive use.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Style is actually a primary consideration in the design of the Thinkpad line. It's not enough to be reliable, it also has to look reliable. People complaining about the design are often failing to correctly identify the intended user.
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by glimcat 15y ago
If it was last year, the market penetration of the device was probably a big part of the reason. In the longer term, you might want to look at multi-platform tools like PhoneGap. It runs on the Nook Color but with display issues. It only fi
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by glimcat 15y ago
There are a few functions which whitelist locally like adding someone to your contacts. But I think "Not Spam" moves it to the inbox and provides feedback into the voting algorithm without whitelisting at any scope.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Probably. But it's one step away from content spam.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I have been using Windows Phone 7 since July 2010 and can say without a doubt that Windows Phone 7 has been the most stable and reliable mobile phone operating system I have ever used Out of the six modern smartphone operating systems, A
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by glimcat 15y ago
I like the general look of the site, but it comes off as a bit sparse in places. There's a bit of cognitive dissonance between Sam and Samantha. And who is Theodore Taylor? The portfolio is clean, but the whitespace under the item header ma
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by glimcat 15y ago
Many / most browsers will let you open a link by highlighting it. I can't think of any circumstances where "X dot Y" is appropriate. People do it sometimes for email obfuscation, as if spammers can't figure out how to do search and replace.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Because at the time everyone was calling everything eStuff. Apple wanted to jump on the bandwagon, but wanted something more brandable. Thus iStuff was born.
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by glimcat 15y ago
For one thing, talking to other developers is what comments are for. I tend to dislike header files because it means the information I need to grok a piece of code is squirreled away in more places. This is less a systems problem than the f
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by glimcat 15y ago
The Elements of Statistical Learning is pretty good. It's also available for free. http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
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by glimcat 15y ago
That, or the Spiders. But I didn't see an erupting binary with a disturbingly regular 250-year period.
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by glimcat 15y ago
The sky is made of diamonds.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Do a lot of reading and work on projects which stretch you. This doesn't depend on whether you have a CS degree - the field is fairly equal-opportunity that way. Algo and math is probably where you will be weak compared to someone who compl

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