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by jcl 17y ago
Actually, I have heard it argued that burying plastic is the best thing we can do for the environment. Our current environmental problems are caused in part by us digging up carbon and releasing it into the air. Putting some of it back in
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by jcl 17y ago
it seems like smiling is one Smiling is perhaps a bad example, since it contracts a muscle near the sensors. When someone is smiling, it's probably hard to detect anything else.
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by jcl 17y ago
Please note that the developer headset and the EPOC consumer headsets are a separate line of hardware products and are not interchangeable. The developer headset supports development whereas the consumer headsets ($299) will only work wit
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by jcl 17y ago
That's a fair conclusion, although supporting evidence is hard to locate. My best effort: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=728044
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by jcl 17y ago
If I'm reading it correctly, he's not really pickling the generator itself. Instead, he's counting the number of times he called the generator and pickling that instead. Then, to "unpickle", he retrieves the count and calls the generato
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by jcl 17y ago
"We don't necessarily need to build it," Negroponte told Forbes. "We just need to threaten to build it." ...provided we don't reveal the emptiness of our threats in -- for example -- a Forbes interview.
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by jcl 17y ago
It's probably the reference to getting Plastic Logic to build the devices. They apparently specialize in flexible circuitry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_logic
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by jcl 17y ago
This is due in part to the popularity of the Sapir-Worf hypothesis: if you learn to speak Klingon, you'll learn to think like a Klingon. :)
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by jcl 17y ago
The same is true of Team Fortress 2, which took Valve ten years and multiple from-scratch rewrites but was eventually released to wild success. It's like the DNF story rewritten to have a happy ending.
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by jcl 17y ago
And IBM's technology (Eclipse). And Apple's technology (webkit). Heck, they'd be remiss not to use some Microsoft tech. :)
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by jcl 17y ago
AOSP = Android Open Source Project. He's suggesting that forceclose is more to help people modify the Android operating system than to help people write Android applications.
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by jcl 17y ago
A minor flaw in the metaphor: Middle Earth doesn't have to compete with whatever the elves create in Valinor. Talented employees leaving is both a loss for the company and a gain for competitors.
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by jcl 17y ago
It might be because it says the same thing as another comment, which was probably posted earlier. As such, it's noise in the conversation.
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by jcl 17y ago
It's not just the graph. The solution given in the third box -- "x > 1" -- doesn't mention the gap either.
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by jcl 17y ago
I don't understand your assumption that users are buying iPhones only to use this app and not, say, to also make phone calls and browse the web. In the past, people bought iPhones even when this app was not available, and they paid more. Y
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by jcl 17y ago
I have to wonder if part of the concern is because the pure red deer make better hunting trophies? The article specifically mentions that red deer antlers have more points, which I think is something only hunters worry about.
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by jcl 17y ago
I think his point is that when you "divide tasks in small chunks", you are no longer writing code in the way that is most convenient for you but in a way that gets better performance from a simple compiler. It means more code spread over
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by jcl 17y ago
...but only within two hours of initially posting the comment.
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by jcl 17y ago
I'm pretty sure you can jump over the mushroom if you either do so in the areas without the overhead blocks or if you time it right. They merely made it very difficult for a new player to avoid the mushroom.
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by jcl 17y ago
His point is that the company is misrepresenting money promised by the contract ; if the contract were actually enforced, the band might completely repay their advance in another five years and be owed money. It's like in The Producers ..
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by jcl 17y ago
It would surprise me if updates get rejected. I'd hate to be the reviewer who rejected the one app for which Steve Jobs personally said the API rules don't apply, forcing the developer to write a second e-mail.
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by jcl 17y ago
maybe the coffee's just bad That would be my guess, too, assuming that customers can't otherwise tell the difference between real non-Starbucks stores and the fake non-Starbucks stores. A Consumer Reports taste test in 2007 placed Starbu
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by jcl 17y ago
Within the context of this research, I guess "gifted" really means "selected to participate in special courses at school", which by itself introduces huge biases. The studies might be measuring the kinds of personalities people expect -- a
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by jcl 17y ago
In case you hadn't heard about Desert Bus before, here's what they're playing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_&_Teller%27s_Smoke_and...
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by jcl 17y ago
Much as I agree, I'd say widespread adoption is iffy at best. For one thing, Cyclone was last updated in 2006. For another, Cyclone imposes some performance degradation (about 50% slower, according to one paper). For many projects, perfo
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by jcl 17y ago
Both of them are actually animated in Korea, incidentally. It's funny... There was a minor controversy a few years ago when someone discovered that several Naruto fight sequences were actually traced off of other sources, including the Co
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by jcl 17y ago
It depends on how the drawings are used. You can easily squeeze ten seconds of footage out of three finished cels , if it's a wide pan over a couple characters talking in the distance -- which is both efficient and cinematic. And this ty
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by jcl 17y ago
I was fascinated to learn that Jordan was working in the same office as Robert Cook, the guy who was making D/Generation, a game I remember fondly. Like Prince of Persia, it also has an enemy who is a dark version of the player. (The linea
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by jcl 17y ago
"It also supports JavaScript geolocation, which is (I hope) only the first step towards true device APIs that will give JavaScript developers access to phone functionality such as the camera, text messaging, the address book, and more. I’m
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by jcl 17y ago
It's not a question of whether they should reject certain apps, but whether they can . Under the current system, Apple can reject applications that encourage you to throw your iPhone. And the ability to do this is definitely something

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