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by huxley 15y ago
"People who received two Cs from their parents, about a quarter of the population, scored on average 1.3 points higher than the next group - half of the population with only one C in this section of the gene. The last quarter of people, wit
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by huxley 15y ago
Encarta came out around 1993 so it was a latecomer. You can find much earlier examples, like the New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia which was one of the earliest CD-ROMs and came out in 1985.
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by huxley 15y ago
Any sufficiently radically disorganized editorial system is indistinguishable from user-editable.
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by huxley 15y ago
Worth reading a bit about France's Minitel, it was an amazing electronic network introduced in 1982. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel "Millions of terminals were handed out free to telephone subscribers, resulting in a high penetratio
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by huxley 15y ago
Geez, I'd be more charitable. Back in 1982, storage and bandwidth were so limited that even online encyclopedias were pie-in-the-sky so even thinking it was possible put you in pretty visionary company. As for user-editable I can find two p
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by huxley 15y ago
Apparently the milling and polishing process is getting regular external inspections: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223435/Apple_confirm...
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by huxley 15y ago
I got a completely different impression, it seems to me that Peter Kafka was ridiculing the conspiracy allegations in the DoJ complaint.
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by huxley 15y ago
Good job on Dr. Web on finding this and trying to do the right thing but these quotes give a different context than you'd get from the article title and lede: "Sharov believes that Apple’s attempt to shut down its monitoring server was an h
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by huxley 15y ago
I wish the link title specified that it is the Apache 2 license that they are going with, not the Apache HTTP Server 2.0
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by huxley 15y ago
In terms of the error page, you can modify the CSRF error page by setting CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:sett... Update: I noticed that later in the thread you mention that you already provide a
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by huxley 15y ago
When I first saw it I though it was fake. But seriously, PANACEA and DRACO? Is Dr. Todd Rider trolling the crazies? For example: http://youtu.be/EneiDKw_zXg tl;dr: DRACO is attempt by Reptilians to corrupt human DNA, underwater cages, etc
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by huxley 15y ago
Let's see how things go, thus far SpaceX has proved they can get stuff into orbit but they aren't super-cheap yet. Private industry can do a lot of things but a Cassini probe mission for $71 million all in seems unlikely in the near future.
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by huxley 15y ago
Not sure that they'll help much since most of the costs aren't launch related: "The total cost of [the Cassini-Hughes] scientific exploration mission is about US$3.26 billion, including $1.4 billion for pre-launch development, $704 million
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by huxley 15y ago
I'm not sure that it's established that people will actually buy smartphones for that reason. Take webOS which you could put into dev mode (essentially rooting) by entering the Konami code (upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart ). Didn't se
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by huxley 15y ago
Only for some definitions of crazy. Bill Gates isn't using pyramid power to cure malaria, is he?
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by huxley 15y ago
In most pistons, the chamber is completely contained until the release cycle so I think you'd still need to deal with the heat. I don't know what the Mach stem effect of a contained cylinder would be, but the materials might also need to de
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by huxley 15y ago
Are there actually any materials which could withstand repeated contained hydrogen bomb explosions in the same manner as a piston? No point having a 1000x sized piston you only use 2 or 3 times.
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by huxley 15y ago
When it comes to accounting for it, subsidies like all other expenses by definition come out of revenue, not earnings. According to JL Gassee, the ARPU for most cellphones is $46.09, for iPhones it is approaching $120 (inclusive of the subs
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by huxley 15y ago
Not at all. A country can be simultaneously enriched and exploited if the people in the country are not equally enriched and exploited, which is usually the case. It doesn't have to sum out. Also you need to consider that you can be enriche
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by huxley 15y ago
Not so: http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/03/11/carriers-whine-we-wuz-r... "The average ARPU for smartphones on AT&T's network is 1.9 times that of the company’s non-smartphone devices." For an iPhone, the subsidy comes to less than $20/
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by huxley 15y ago
"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again." - Oscar Wilde
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by huxley 15y ago
Mike Tigas made a PyPy buildpack for Heroku: http://github.com/mtigas/heroku-buildpack-pypy/ Here's his blog post about it: http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/02/13/pypy-on-heroku/ I haven't used it on a serious project yet, but it was pre
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by huxley 15y ago
Was it established that Quora stopped using PyPy? My impression was that more parts of the stack are now being written in Scala: http://www.quora.com/Is-the-Quora-team-considering-adopting-... "Yes, we're using Scala for some projects at
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by huxley 15y ago
Don't be afraid to discount some of those stories as bravado and self-aggrandizing reports. (see: the Four Yorkshiremen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo )
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by huxley 15y ago
I think one would most reasonably hold that it is both a form of exploitation and a form of enrichment. The interesting part of the article is that the biggest benefit has been to those in abject poverty: "Most of the progress has been conc
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by huxley 15y ago
Pip is a replacement for easy_install http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip Pip compared to easy_install: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/other-tools.html
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by huxley 15y ago
Is it equally cynical when municipalities put safety nets on bridges? http://www.aolnews.com/2010/07/29/iconic-golden-gate-bridge-... That people might have been driven to choose suicide due to overwork or abuse is the problem, not the sa
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by huxley 15y ago
Not sure if it exists in other platforms but with Django, some people have experimented with two-phased template rendering as described here: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/django-two-phased-rendering/ and there's a permissive license (B
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by huxley 15y ago
Sigh. A subset of human retinas can discern a higher pixel density, in the same way that a subset of the human population is capable of running the 4 minute mile. It doesn't make us all professional middle-distance runners. The majority of
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by huxley 15y ago
That's a great rule for general purposes, but it's intended for situations where you have lots of small assets that you are asking the client to download. In this instance we're talking about 2 megapixel images, so the extra HTTP requests a

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