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by huxley 13y ago
It is their loss, the modern reader needs to take a cue from Ahab and not give up on Moby Dick. Nathaniel Philbrick's "Why Read Moby-Dick?" gave me the kick I needed to tackle the book and I am grateful to him that I did (and
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by huxley 13y ago
Moby Dick is so encyclopedic and digressive that I'm not surprised that any given random fact about whales might appear in it.
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by huxley 13y ago
Is that really that significant a problem? Moore's Law should have dealt with memory and processing power issues severalfold in the time since IPv6 rollout was called for. It strikes me that it's more likely a lack of strategic in
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by huxley 13y ago
He's back on, so unless it was an accidental pre-announcement, it was likely an error in the CMS.
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"We apologise for the inconvenience"
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Would a parent universe that didn't share mathematics as universal noumena be capable of creating a simulation of a universe like ours?
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Here are the two paragraphs in question: "And if humans are the cause of only, say, 50% of the warming (e.g. our published paper), then there is even less reason to force expensive and prosperity-destroying energy policies down our thr
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by huxley 13y ago
Here you go: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/13
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by huxley 13y ago
Some of it is interesting and worth considering but the "reptile brain" mumbo jumbo is based on the discredited Triurne Brain Hypothesis, which is not supported by modern neurological or anatomical science.
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by huxley 13y ago
It's possible that Itanium outsold POWER but only if you ignore PowerPC which was its most successful commercialization. As an architecture it existed not only in servers but in in PowerMacs, Xbox 360, PS3, Gamecube, Wii and in embedde
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by huxley 13y ago
According to the author, most of Google's choices seem to be brilliant: "With the Moto G, Google is executing Nokia’s strategy better than even Nokia themselves" http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2013/
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The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang (story)(subterraneanpress.com)
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by huxley 13y ago
While I generally hate the idea of Google Glass, a recent story by Ted Chiang gave me a lot think about regarding omnipresent recording: http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of...
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by huxley 13y ago
Would Google be able to keep the tax benefit of Motorola's losses for 5 more years after they sell Motorola off? "[Robert Willens, a New York accounting and tax expert] estimated that through the acquisition, Google can expect to
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by huxley 13y ago
The battery is replaceable under AppleCare or for a $109.77 +tax after warranty/AppleCare+ expires: http://www.apple.com/ca/batteries/replacements.html
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by huxley 13y ago
All the self-service aisle kiosks I've used are horrible machines that scream at you for tiny deviations. Their UX reminds me of the Onion's video: "Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport":
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by huxley 13y ago
Google Bus issue: a bunch of kids breaking a bus window. Protestors embarrass major corporations into paying inconsequential fee to park their buses on public streets. Kristallnacht: 91 murders, 1000 synagogues burned and 30,000 put in conc
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by huxley 13y ago
He owns a customized Japanese fishing trawler (called "Dr. No") which he uses to transport his own submarine. He lives in Jimmy Page's former mansion. The bubble he lives in has its own zip code.
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by huxley 13y ago
Read the original letter in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230454950... It's as bad as it sounds. Update: that's at least 3 times this story has been killed.
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by huxley 13y ago
My jaw just did a Tex-Avery style drop. "Perkins goes on to describe recent attacks on the wealthy in the San Francisco Bay Area, like the Google and Apple bus protests. He also writes that the public's turn against the rich repre
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by huxley 13y ago
Man, I used to have to rent overhead projectors for an academic conference until 2009! Some of the profs were seriously old school and their acetates were hand drawn. Thankfully the number of projectors went down from 15 to 5 to "1 jus
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by huxley 13y ago
I wrote extensively for a number of sites and magazines about NeXT technologies in the mid to late 1990s, I can give you chapter and verse on the history. The number of developers increased in absolute terms just as they did when the iPhone
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by huxley 13y ago
Or you could read it as programmers being only subset of all people and computers were finally becoming mainstream enough that the ratio began to reflect that?
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by huxley 13y ago
"Acquiescence" or "compliance" may be more appropriate terms than "support" given the power imbalance in the relationships. "Living next to [the USA] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matt
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by huxley 13y ago
Sadly for Nokia, the majority of their sales will likely be the low margin 52x and 62x Lumias.
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by huxley 13y ago
Back in the mid-90s, when I was doing digital editing, it got so I could easily spot a single bad field (often just a portion of one television scanline) appearing for 1/60th of a second (or about 16 milliseconds). It wasn't quite
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by huxley 13y ago
I wonder how many these XP users are customers in any sense that involves money, it appears (from the outside) to be a worry about losing theoretical marketshare.
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by huxley 13y ago
Compared to when? I'm not sure I follow how you arrived at the $1 billion decline per year.
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by huxley 13y ago
It was used occasionally before that, for example the old English poem "Widsith" (~10th century) refers to Scandinavian raiders as "wicinga cynn" or Viking kin. But it wasn't a common appellation and may have referr
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by huxley 13y ago
Andrew has said in the past that his intent is to provide a migration path from classic South to "South 2.0" which will backport migrations to earlier versions of Django (versions 1.4-1.6, I believe) and also build on top of the m

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