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by jordan0day 16y ago
Actually the test scored the "slightly" answers as well. "How to score: "Definitely agree" or "Slightly agree" responses to questions 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 33, 35, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46 score 1 point. "D
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Does everyone else take these tests and find themselves unable to resist thinking about "right" and "wrong" answers for each question? I presume that subconscious dialogue colors how you answer, even if you're not necessarily cognizant of i
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by jordan0day 16y ago
While I very much agree with your sentiment (email marketing is usually a bad thing ), this article seems like a small example of "psychological hacking" and I hate to admit how interesting this sort of thing really is. It frightens me to
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by jordan0day 16y ago
That's a pretty interesting finding, I wonder if anyone else has done similar testing and would care to share their results? Also, I can't help but grin about "conversion" and the religiously-tinged "Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" de
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Count me in.
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As long as it's the rich who have the money to pay for increasingly expensive resources like gas, what's their motivation for moving away from the suburbs?
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Mobius strips? In my breakfast? It's more likely than you think!
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Yeah, the whole time I was being annoyed with stuff changing even though I didn't ask it to (by clicking, of course!), I was telling myself "They're trying to show me how clicking has ruined my brain! They're going to show me how this is be
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by jordan0day 16y ago
According to the wikipedia entry: "Although neutron bombs are commonly believed to "leave the infrastructure intact", current designs have explosive yields in the kiloton range,[13] the detonation of which would cause heavy destruction thro
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Well, people can (and certainly will) debate about the purposes of the Iraq war until they're blue in the face, but I don't think anyone would argue that the USA invaded Iraq because Americans want to move there. Perhaps I didn't state my p
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by jordan0day 16y ago
I think this is a misconception. AFAIK, the neutron bombs that were built (by the USA, at least), still had yields similar to that of the Hiroshima bomb, or 10-20 kilotons. As the article points out, Cohen's idea was to have a smaller explo
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by jordan0day 16y ago
This is a silly argument. Comcast is charging its customers for access to a nebulous (but commonly-understood) entity called "The Internet". If their pricing model doesn't anticipate that users would want to access bits that exist outside o
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Well yes, of course a business is going to use any tricks, dirty or otherwise, to get as much money as possible. The fact that Comcast is charging their subscribers for access to "the internet" means they ought to be obligated to take bits
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by jordan0day 16y ago
But that is a model in which the advertises is "subsidizing" the effective cost to the end user. (Whether or not it's an actual subsidy or just a nice bit of profit for the cable network/provider is anyone's guess.) Obviously, without legis
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by jordan0day 16y ago
I'm not sure that's at all the argument jws was making. From the customer's point of view, why should they be able to download 100 gigabytes (through Comcast's infrastructure) from an endpoint also within Comcast's network with no problem,
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by jordan0day 16y ago
"It makes perfect sense that Comcast should be paid for access to their customers." I disagree, heartily. Comcast's customers are paying Comcast for access to the entire internet, not just to the little segment of the network that Comcast o
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by jordan0day 16y ago
As someone who does the majority of their reading in bed, GEB took a long time to get through, and I definitely didn't pick up nearly as much of it as I should have. That's not to say it's necessarily dry or boring, it's just, I imagine y
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by jordan0day 16y ago
To be honest, I'm not especially bothered by this. You could (and many cable news and talk radio hosts have) make the case that this is just plain wrong , but isn't there worse things than having the children of affluent foreigners be Amer
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by jordan0day 16y ago
"I totally agree - let them think for themselves and let them read and research what they want. Forcing them to do so on the other hand helps no one." I have to disagree here. Certainly, you can make the "at least they're reading somethin
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Does anyone else think the recent release (and positive reviews) of Kinect might indicate that the Sony and Logitech solutions will quite soon be anachronisms? People seem to say the Kinect's voice recognition is still a bit dodgy, but for
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by jordan0day 16y ago
There's more factors at play than just money here, though. You point out yourself that "a big part of her motivation is wanting to help people in need." Your boss is not "in need". Certainly there's something to be said for pitching in in a
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by jordan0day 16y ago
While I'm seeing better perf on the flash side (XP, FF 3.6.12), Pong isn't exactly an ideal test bed. Interesting that on the page they say "We believe the two technologies are not in competition" but that is exactly what this type of demo
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Warning: Post is 100% anecdote; Cite at your own risk! My wife had a similar experience. We both grew up in a small city, and throughout her life she never had a single cavity. She prides herself on the health of her teeth. In college we bo
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by jordan0day 16y ago
My experience with MonoDevelop 2.4 (the latest release, I believe) on OS X has been pretty good. I use VS daily and dabble in XCode, and MonoDevelop is definitely more VS-like than XCode-like, so it may be a bit unfamiliar for you. Certainl
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Depends on your architecture and your definition of "easy". To put it another way, I imagine porting a MonoMac app to Windows would involve a similar level of effort to porting a Windows Forms app to WPF, or vice versa. The more code that l
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by jordan0day 16y ago
Ah yes, I had forgotten about Netflix, very good point!
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by jordan0day 16y ago
What follows is entirely opinion and based on little-to-no research, so if I'm way off I apologize: I'm not sure I would classify Silverlight as "successful", just yet. Certainly it's getting buy-in in corporate environments, intranet apps,
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by jordan0day 16y ago
I'm reminded of something I once saw written (tweeted?) by the astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson (although I doubt he is the originator): "Any good remedy will cure the common cold in about a week. But left to itself, it will linger for se
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by jordan0day 16y ago
No. You would have to know all the other frameworks in order to know that yours is simplest . You only need a few points of reference to be able to say it is simpler . FTA: "To me, writing apps with Django or Tornado has always been much
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by jordan0day 16y ago
tl;dr: Internet tough guy turns out to not be so tough in real life. I'm sorry, I know this is HN and not reddit but my lack of self-control has prevented me from keeping this one to myself. To respond in seriousness, I'm the same way. Ther

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