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by jobu 12y ago
Yeah that post has one of the best quotes ever: "those silver bullets that you and Mike are looking for are fine and good, but our web server is five times slower. There is no silver bullet that’s going to fix that. No, we are going t
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by jobu 12y ago
Unfortunately I don't have a PS4 to play it on, but from what I've seen and heard, it's meant to be more than just a hack-and-slash. Many of the encounters are almost like puzzles where you need a strategy to get through. Her
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by jobu 12y ago
Poor people get kicked out of their homes in China too - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/06/sport.china
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by jobu 12y ago
This model is changing due to disruption from T-Mobile. With AT&T you either buy a phone up front or pay for it in full over 18-24 months. Not sure why, but they do still have a subsidized 2-year plan, but the monthly rate is higher and
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by jobu 12y ago
Even worse is what De Beers has done to try making synthetic diamonds inferior to "natural diamonds" - https://news.internetstones.com/de-beers-iidgr-holds-synthet... (They designed a special machine to make the s
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by jobu 12y ago
Anything is possible, but I couldn't find anything with a quick google, and I'm assuming Bill Gates has more time and resources than myself to verify that statement before making it.
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by jobu 12y ago
> I'm actually astonished given Germany's strength in Europe that they didn't just say GFY! We're not going to be seen to be bullied by you in front of all of Europe. Even more astonishing is they're openly admit
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by jobu 12y ago
"Nato plays war games to check that people are well-trained and prepared. Now we need germ games," he said. It's actually a bit surprising that NATO or the UN don't have practice runs for disease outbreaks or natural d
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by jobu 12y ago
Thanks! Great poem, and in many ways I see it in my kids. On the flip side I sometimes feel like this as a parent: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3659 (minus the last two panels)
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by jobu 12y ago
"Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10" That's some impressive marketing spin there. To me this reads "Microsoft admits defeat to software pirates and gives Windows away for free." They m
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by jobu 12y ago
The hamburger substitute sounds promising, but if the point of this is to create protein efficiently then this doesn't make any sense to me: "Mayonnaise made without eggs that is creamy and smooth." Eggs are one of the most
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by jobu 12y ago
"As a company grows, the cost of restructuring an office to accommodate more people in different layouts is time consuming and expensive. By having desks in an open plan and telephone rooms for quiet time, the idea is that you can sol
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by jobu 12y ago
What I'm curious about is the mechanisms that might counteract global warming. The earth has cycled in the past between hot and cold periods, so there are obviously natural mechanisms that cause it to reverse as well. Could we harness
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by jobu 12y ago
That's a difficult question to answer. In the long term it's in the country's best interest for the government to subsidize college education, but perhaps not all degrees should be eligible. The basketweaving degree mentioned
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by jobu 12y ago
This appears to be the relevant paper: http://sustainablepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Glyph... Unfortunately I don't read enough scientific journals to vouch for the veracity of it.
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by jobu 12y ago
It's definitely a thing. I know one person that is seriously allergic to corn. She carries several EpiPens because corn is in almost everything and the reaction is pretty severe. She can't even consume meat from animals that were
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by jobu 12y ago
> "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection." First time I've heard that quote, but I love it. Reminds me of this one: &quo
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by jobu 12y ago
Wow! They're using escolar (the ex-lax fish) in place of albacore (white) tuna! http://www.thekitchn.com/use-caution-when-eating-escola-6660... It really seems like the FDA or FTC should be able to regulate that a litt
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by jobu 12y ago
It's odd that they don't mention the reason Corinthian is shutting down so many colleges - http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/07/08/329550897/the-collaps... A relative of mine works the
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by jobu 12y ago
Are dishwashers less common in the EU than the US? NPR had a piece on washing dishes by hand vs. using a dishwasher: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/02/23/387553285/kids-al... According to
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by jobu 12y ago
Kudos to you, that's a great way of doing it. I've worked with a few women in technical roles that decided to take more masculine versions of their names (Jackie -> Jack, Ashley -> Ash, Jessica to Jesse). For two of them it
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by jobu 12y ago
Here's the discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9064196 Personally, I love to see this back-and-forth poaching. Cross-pollination of ideas can be a big boost to innovation, and if it fuels some wage growth
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by jobu 12y ago
Years ago I worked on a few projects that used complicated structure ordering, but even then it was my understanding that (with the right options) compilers could optimize these things better than most people could by hand.
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by jobu 12y ago
Not only did they find a molecule that binds to the HIV virus like an antibody, they manipulated another virus to produce that molecule. Very impressive. "Farzan’s team stitched the gene for eCD4-Ig into an adeno-associated virus (AAV
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by jobu 12y ago
"Better to have a bad question closed quickly than have it accumulate bad answers and rude comments and downvotes." Unless it's offensive in some way, this seems like a terribly short-sighted way of handling bad questions.
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by jobu 12y ago
Wasn't there a similar debate over Quality vs Quantity with the Wikipedia community a few years back? It's been a while, but I remember seeing complaints about thousands of articles getting culled for being trivial (comic books, m
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by jobu 12y ago
Several people I know call it Cock Sauce because of the rooster as a double entendre.
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by jobu 12y ago
> many have remarked that they haven't install iOS 8 (Apple's latest and greatest) because they cannot. This is the key bit, and it already has caused some changes from Apple - 8.1.3 requires less free space to update. The 8gb
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by jobu 12y ago
It recently occurred to me that humans probably have a baseline level of anxiety, and this causes us to find things to worry about (no matter how trivial). Over the past several years I've had growing issues with anxiety, and I had fou
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by jobu 12y ago
It is creepy as hell to watch them walk, and that makes me wonder what groups like ISIL would think about being hunted by a small pack of them. Right now dropping bombs on houses kills some terrorists, but the collateral damage has a side-e

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