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by goodness 1y ago
That appears to be the bed width between the wheel wells. I assume it would fit width wise on top of the wheels, which is still in the bed. As to the length, not even most full size trucks are long enough to fit the whole sheet. I guess
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by goodness 4y ago
The main reason for this is just fucking iMessage. It's not even just that iMessage segregates non-iPhone messages by color. It screws up video and group texts.
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by goodness 11y ago
The Fandango scores were also higher than the Rotten Tomatoes user ratings 74% of the time. But yeah, Fandango is obviously incentivized to be biased.
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by goodness 11y ago
I think this is a better summary of his conclusions from that same paragraph: I conclude that, even rather optimistically, it's going to take many, many deep ideas to build an AI. The appendix linked there doesn't seem to be rea
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by goodness 16y ago
You can use EC2 in somewhat similar ways to GAE. They have Elastic Map Reduce (which runs the MapReduce side of Hadoop) and SimpleDB/S3 for storage. SimpleDB is even one of the backends that Django nonrel supports. The only real instance
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by goodness 16y ago
I am more sad about the current state of android tablets. Are there any decent tablets available? When I looked recently, I found a bunch of announcements for stuff that was coming, like the Dell Streak. But the actual tablets available
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by goodness 16y ago
Sorry, you're right about the refined carbs. Also, going further along the meat lines, there was also recent research differentiating processed meats (e.g. bacon, sausage, lunch meats, etc.) versus unprocessed meats. If I remember correct
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by goodness 16y ago
The other thing to say here is that the latest research indicates that carbs may actually be a leading cause of heart disease rather than fat. For example: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carbs-again... So low carbs can
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by goodness 16y ago
This is actually where exercise can come in to play. The author is right that recent research says that exercise is not necessarily the most effective way to lose weight. However, there is evidence that exercise can help you maintain your
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by goodness 16y ago
Not the API, but I went to the homepage and tried out the help bubble. The text went outside the bubble, which made it hard to read and didn't look very nice. This is Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP. I also have a custom DPI, but that usuall
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by goodness 16y ago
Hmm, started with a vanity search and got totally irrelevant results. Then tried vanity searches with friends names. Again, bad results. Putting the names in quotes seems to do a better job, so the problem doesn't seem to be coverage. M
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by goodness 16y ago
Well, I would like to see Chrome-like private browsing in Firefox. I don't like the whole shutdown the browser to go in to private mode thing. I often use private browsing mode in Chrome to log in to the same site with multiple accounts.
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by goodness 16y ago
Actually, their docs claim that the limits aren't really related to the API key. The API key is just so they can contact you if they start blocking you: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/key.html That may just be disinformation
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by goodness 16y ago
There was an article at UIST (a user interface conference) making similar points about 15 years ago. Here's one free version of the paper: http://research.sun.com/techrep/1995/abstract-33.html That paper had some actual concrete recomme
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by goodness 16y ago
Like the article says, anybody can make money in the food business if they do a decent job. They don't have to be the best burgers on the entire east coast. They just have to have good food at reasonable prices. And I think they've got p
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by goodness 16y ago
Google is working with Adobe. For example, the flash player is now coming bundled with Chrome: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/03/improved_flash_pl... I also mentioned this above, but the CS5 release of the Flash IDE (due out in
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by goodness 16y ago
It seems like Adobe is already filling this niche, but it has the potential to be better than HTML/JS in couple ways. First of all, you're supposed to be able to deploy native apps to the iPhone/iPod/iPad in CS5. Second, you can develop w
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by goodness 16y ago
Also, I use a laptop with no scroll wheel. There are ways to do scrolling, like clicking both buttons, but it doesn't seem to send all the scroll wheel events. So I can't even find a way to get that version of the calendar to work. An alt
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by goodness 17y ago
Cool. There was just a post the other day on that Polyglot Chrome extension with a similar goal. That one is at: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/plpjkjplknknmhfh... The polyglot just auto-translates some of the words on the
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by goodness 17y ago
Exactly. The article says that Flash isn't inherently slow. Is anything inherently slow if you take time to optimize it? Why has Adobe/Macromedia taken so long to get decent performance out of Flash? I'd say the ball is in Adobe's court
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by goodness 17y ago
I just tried it with my old bike route to work. It actually did pick the route I used. In this case, the route is just the shortest path instead of the roads with the fastest driving time. I also tried http://maps.cloudmade.com that som
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by goodness 17y ago
Everyone here is negative, but I think the general idea is reasonable (though not new). I don't know that the length should be 7 years, but something significantly shorter than ~17 seems like it could help fix a lot of the current problem.
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by goodness 17y ago
I did something similar in Java, though it was for a company so I can't open source it. FYI, I noticed that the script changed drastically between (roughly) December and January. The new script works a lot more reliably in my experience.
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by goodness 17y ago
Are you saying that having a PhD will overqualify you for some positions? I have occasionally heard this claim, but I have found it to be pretty much utterly false. Almost everyone wants the most qualified employees they can get. I think
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by goodness 17y ago
I read the story. It claims to be "a product of a highly focused, laborious effort to write a song that was extremely simple to sing yet musically interesting and emotionally expressive, undertaken by a composer and an educator who happene
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by goodness 17y ago
If this is really the case, then it seems to be a loophole for a reverse scenario. You write a computer algorithm to generate vast collections of music. Since the computer, pretty much by definition, is ignorant of other music then you ca
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by goodness 17y ago
I'm no lawyer, but that doesn't seem consistent with any other law in the US. Ignorance is never an excuse. Also, the first result from a google search for 'copyright infringement willful' yields this: http://www.ladas.com/NII/Copyrig
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by goodness 17y ago
"...was the product of intense creative labor" I don't mean to downplay the amount of work that goes in to writing a song, but this seems a bit over the top. Short little melodies like this are trivial to write. My pre-school age children
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by goodness 17y ago
I wonder why there aren't copyright trolls similar to patent trolls. They could just release huge libraries of computer generated music with all of these interesting combinations of notes. Then do automated comparisons of popular songs to
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by goodness 17y ago
This is very similar to Powerset ( http://powerset.com ). They were bought by Microsoft a while back for a fair chunk of change, so you might be on to something.

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