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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
I would agree, but do note that one iPhone was dropped in a cup of tea, which I can't really blame on Apple, and the other on cement, which I likewise can't really blame on Apple. The macbooks both had bad video cards, which I do blame Appl
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Just to add to the anecdotal evidence bandwagon, I'm another very happy long term customer, with almost a decade of happy purchases. I've never had a problem nor experienced anything but excellent service. I've had iPhones replaced for free
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Teaching music theory can be hard, but it doesn't have to be. I know, because I do it almost every day (its my day job). To make it relatable, you have to tie it into the elements of music-- for this, I use Copland's "What to Listen for i
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
If you read the article, there are several instances of the same problems causing very large errors in elections prior to 2000, for example, several miscalled states for Clinton in previous elections. To claim that these polls "suddenly" st
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
If you knew you'd get a downvoting-kicking, what exactly motivated you to engage in a behavior that so clearly violates the culture here? I'm not accusing, I'm genuinely curious.
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Nate Silver wrote a great article in 2010 about why the notion of exit polling itself has a lot of fundamental problems[1]-- among them, the fact that it is extraordinarily difficult to get an truly random sample. [1] http://www.fivethirtye
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
This is a great idea. Obviously it would have to be implemented properly and would be subject to the some of the same problems exit polls already have (i.e., voters not wanting to participate), but it solves a lot of the other problems neat
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
That assumption is political, and if you don't understand that then you're not a good match for this community.
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Look, we get it that you have strong political opinions. That's great. Have fun expressing them as well or as poorly as you like. But for many, many reasons-- for example, that this is a technology site, or that this is a site that tries to
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
I agree with Jason Brown, who, the article states, noted that the piano chord in the background is critical to capturing the overall sound. Listening to this, I hear everything but the touch of dissonance added by the piano, which completel
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
I barely notice it, especially since, reading books, I rarely visit the home screen.
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Not related to the content of the post (which, it seems, is mostly a rehash of already-available data), but I must say, the comments over at zdnet must really be going downhill-- there are some truly horrific examples at the end of the arti
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
I'm especially confused as I've lived my whole life in Colorado Springs, and already visited a Tesla museum here several times. After looking up their website ( http://teslamuseum.us/ ), it seems like they are in dire financial straights, a
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New Indie Film featuring uber-hacker Nikola Tesla(teslaarchive.com)
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
I learn by watching and following along with examples, so the following YouTube videos are the ones that I've found the most useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71YTkxUNwmg <--Covers the basics and helpful commands. I had never us
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
In an attempt (presumably, I can't really know) to distract from a truly historic scientific achievement. Don't forget that part.
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Really, I think this might take the cake as the worst comment I've ever read on Hacker News.
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
The "slick interface" is, I think, the entire genius of the iPhone (especially when compared to its competition). Sure the functions of the iPhone were all (mostly) present in competing devices when it launched, but it was hard(er) to lever
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
2. Do you use 2-factor authentication? I do, and so I'm used to seeing this on applications that don't fully support the 2-factor authentication, which is, I assume why it was asking.
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Well, first of all, I'm not berating him, which is why I made an effort to note that I largely agree with his point here-- in fact, it is because I agree with him that I thought it was worth pointing out that "raising awareness" through a b
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Your assertion is that the press is missing the story. Which seems accurate. But wouldn't it be better to file an objection rather than just writing a blog post about it? Isn't that more useful and practical?
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
I live in an older home (1955), but when we bought it in 2010 we had the original owner do electric work that had failed inspection-- as a result (and due to the local laws here), this is the only kind of socket we have.
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
In a way it did, since the OP mentions that Dell turns over its inventory every 10 days.
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
A friend of my summed this up in a twitter posting the other day: "Those who can, teach. Those who can't pass laws about teaching."
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
This is a good idea, but it can also lead to burnout. Our kids take a lot of assessments (too many, IMHO), and they start to get cynical really fast. Our school does a comprehensive assessment at the beginning and end of the year to track
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Its just so wonderful to see what could otherwise be a frustrating, debilitating experience become something incredibly empowering .
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
I teach 6-8th grade music at a local charter school, and while my performance isn't tested through standardized exams, I can attest to my colleagues' enormous frustration with this very issue. For example: during our standardized testing th
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
Isn't Grocklaw's track record on this case already strong as well? I can't say that I've paid a great deal of attention to it, but as a casual observer, it seems to me that Grocklaw has all along predicted that most of Oracle's arguments
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by icarus_drowning 14y ago
I googled native 48fps footage and found a couple of tests uploaded to viemo from the Scarlet-X, and didn't notice much, however, I'm wondering if any experts on HN could weigh in on whether flash video does any frame dropping or other degr
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Love the minimalist phasing at the end.

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