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by huxley 13y ago
I don't remember hearing about "Countdown to Looking Glass", but the TV movie I remember causing a lot of public reaction was "The Day After": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
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by huxley 13y ago
For the Chase and Sandborn Hour, Edgar Bergen was actually just doing multiple voices (being a radio ventriloquist was just a humorous hook). You can hear some episodes here: https://archive.org/details/BerganMccarthy
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by huxley 13y ago
Adding a Gaussian blur to images can significantly increase their compressability (for many codecs), perhaps that is what's happening here?
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by huxley 13y ago
Not always, look up "implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing" which can be a broad exemption to "at will" employment in several States including Utah.
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by huxley 13y ago
Yes and privacy problems are still real issues especially as privacy rights are continuously eroded every single day. Just because you wanted something in your pocket to solve all your problems, doesn't mean everyone else did. Many of
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by huxley 13y ago
Sure ideally, I've played with pyenv a bit but for my main machine I've kept my systemwide installs down to just enough to run virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper (everything else lives inside virtualenvs). For several situations tho
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by huxley 13y ago
When I was running the developer version of Mavericks, the site_packages weren't preserved, which meant pip & setuptools were broken, so I had to reinstall them like so: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest&#
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by huxley 13y ago
Definitely, also worth reading is "Mind's I" which he co-edited --and did commentary-- with Daniel Dennett.
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by huxley 13y ago
Pixelmator sells very well, in their first 20 days on the Mac Store they grossed $1 million. http://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2011/01/25/pixelmator-grosses... Not Apple level of sales, but if your developm
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by huxley 13y ago
Yeah but I think more beginner material should spell out the proper way of doing things even if it is "unrelated". My pet peeve is beginner material that reads something like: "to make this example simpler, I am going to do s
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by huxley 13y ago
It might be worthwhile finding out if your dad is suffering from panic attacks (I can testify that it can give you pretty freaky symptoms). It might also explain some other things like the 15 hour work day and even contribute towards his we
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by huxley 13y ago
Four years earlier and you would have seen them doing the Bellamy Salute which was dropped from the Flag Code in 1942 due to its similarity to the Italian Fascist and German Nazi Salutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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by huxley 13y ago
The decline can be very rapid and dramatic, fishermen have to work harder and harder to maintain their catch levels (my hometown was one of the ones that suffered with the collapse of the northern cod fishery): https://en.wikiped
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by huxley 13y ago
It is easy to misidentify something ordinary when it is somewhere you don't expect it: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lone-cow-hikes-blo... For a few weeks, Park officers were getting calls ab
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by huxley 13y ago
To be fair, they might also compete by having wider lanes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq3w7RVnvc [Seinfeld - The Pothole]
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by huxley 13y ago
I guess the question is difficult compared to what? How do you go about limiting ad tracking on Android devices? As mentioned in another comment, the setting was buried in IOS 6, in iOS 7 it is in the Privacy section, has a link to a page t
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by huxley 13y ago
Likewise, the Nobel Prizes can't be awarded posthumously which is a terrible discouragement to the brilliant dead.
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by huxley 13y ago
Krugman's comment was a criticism and analysis of the Fed policy in 2002, not advice. The Fed helped inflate the Dotcom bubble to the extent that when it collapsed, the only path it left itself to get the economy back to levels approac
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by huxley 13y ago
Really? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see it, there is a Dieter Rams influence to it that says Jony Ive more than Marc Newson to me.
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by huxley 13y ago
I think you may be misreading him, Chesterton isn't saying you should stop improving yourself, but that you can't hope to find that improvement in a book detailing the supposed habits of the wealthy and successful (or the one weir
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by huxley 13y ago
It's rare to get a definitive confirmation from Google or its partners, but the revenue split was reportedly one of the early concessions Google made to bring carriers into the Open Handset Alliance. This article talks about the curren
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by huxley 13y ago
Predatory pricing occurs when you sell a product at such low prices that it deters other companies from entering the market. Apple has many flaws but that isn't one of them. You are correct that patents are considered a form of monopol
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by huxley 13y ago
Also good for keeping track of Ted: http://tedchiang.blogspot.ca which mentions that "Story of your Life" was optioned for a film directed by Nic Matthieu (also working on Robotech) and adapted by Eric Heisserer.
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by huxley 13y ago
Ted Chiang's "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" novella was read (by J.J. Campanella) on Starship Sofa back in 2008, it is one of the best things I've read/listened: http://www.starshipsofa.com&
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by huxley 13y ago
It's true that Ethiopia has had large ancient Christian (and also Jewish and Muslim) populations, but it also has established Folk traditions that exists even today, there are still about 2 million animists in Ethiopia.
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by huxley 13y ago
I can't even begin to parse what you're saying here. Mom is not the opposite of dad, they are just paired ideas. This isn't semantics, this is plain simple reality. We sometimes think of them as binaries but they aren't
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by huxley 13y ago
Not sure I understand your #2 point, Google basically gives most of its share of app sales to carriers (70% developers/25% carriers/5% Google) and also an undisclosed share of all mobile ad revenue. Edit: as to your point about Go
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by huxley 13y ago
The phrases have different connotations, so they aren't actually true opposites. Take a different example, say you described Git as: * a man's version control system or let's say you described it as: * a woman's version
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by huxley 13y ago
sigh ... sometimes I wish it was common knowledge that computer science != software development. It feels like I'm reading a sentence that said "How a 38 year-old without a biology degree made a large family."
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by huxley 13y ago
$300 for a smartwatch might sound steep but this is actually just a $300 accessory for a recent Galaxy phone or phablet (so no good if you own a Nexus 5).

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