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by jtheory 13y ago
No need for "I can't", even. They probably have solutions in mind (the target market may be bigger than you think, or has deeper pockets); you're asking to hear them. Put in a bit of thought before the interview, and c
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by jtheory 13y ago
Please put a warning if you link to a site that auto-plays audio. Gah, that made me jump.
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That caught my eye as well! No mention in the article, but on the scribbled out page of Emma Darwin's diary, she's describing how she's been ill, and what she's been eating (interestingly, I suspect she was trying to se
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by jtheory 13y ago
> Surely there are other reasons to use these tools than just "explicit memory management?" Sure, though he does mention he's biased by the projects he works on (generally web apps/services -- not device drivers, imag
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by jtheory 13y ago
Ah, no -- this is the same as a regular root canal (including drilling out the original inside of the tooth), except that instead of filling in the tooth with an inert cement, they've sorted out a way to have flesh regrown inside the t
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by jtheory 13y ago
Eh, I was surprised that the article didn't make any mention of this (any effort countering what seemed to me to be an obvious explanation), so I made a brief comment about it. I don't care enough to track down and comb through t
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by jtheory 13y ago
It seems to have balanced out. The first comment was better off downvoted -- it seemed like you expressly came into the discussion just to insult the artist, which is just irritating. The second comment doesn't seem to have negative ka
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by jtheory 13y ago
They're not typical in Rwanda, for that matter. I'm visiting friends there for the second half of March, and one of the first things you're told by online guides, etc. is "don't ask people to talk about the genocide
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by jtheory 13y ago
Sorry, I may be missing something; I don't understand how this addresses the correlation vs. causality problem. If they're tracking two measurements, and observing a correlation, "people who get obese stop eating full fat yog
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by jtheory 13y ago
Right, "associations" = correlation. Correlation doesn't imply anything about causation, though the article itself is all about how maybe full-fat dairy causes lower obesity. My point is that perhaps obesity causes less con
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by jtheory 13y ago
> My boss entered my name into the search field and says "Before I hit [Enter], is there anything you don't want me to know about? We don't have to do this." That's a bit weird, isn't it? Why did your boss
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by jtheory 13y ago
I hope they're correcting for the reversed causation -- i.e., if you notice you're getting pretty overweight, you're more likely to avoid full-fat yoghurt , whereas if you are staying lean (for completely unrelated reasons),
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by jtheory 13y ago
Ah! I found a bit more info on the github site: https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser#requirements > Games created with Phaser require a modern web browser that supports the canvas tag. This includes Internet Expl
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by jtheory 13y ago
What browsers/versions to they support? I'm looking for something that I can use to rebuild a bunch of Java applets, but I need good audio support, and good cross-browser support as well. Their mobile focus would be a nice bonus,
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Who the $#%^ wants to "retire" when they're not even 30 years old? What does that even mean? Never create anything again, just potter around and waste the rest of your life away until you die, because of a meaningless strok
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by jtheory 13y ago
This isn't wrong per se, but it doesn't feel like solid advice to me; I think it's just skipping past a lot of nuances that are really pretty important. Like: extracting the maximum possible money out of your customers is k
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Or maybe they could just, you know, try to post something more considered next time.
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> intelligent Solar energy hacks at least for lighting needs At least during the daytime, it's hard to beat intelligent (but low-tech) ways to direct the sunlight to where you want light -- light tubes, for example -- rather than lo
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by jtheory 13y ago
Eh, that depends. All it takes is a personal Gmail account plus working for a company that uses Google Apps.
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This worried me as well. I didn't read the whole letter, but there wasn't anything at the start or end about "feel free to tell the whole internet my full name and location, that I'm bisexual, and all of this other stuf
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by jtheory 13y ago
Shoes don't belong on heads; don't you walk on the streets with those things? But yeah, how about "write blahblah on a piece of paper, hold it up and take a pic, now" (no time for photoshopping...). BillG did it for Redd
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by jtheory 13y ago
Well, yeah -- I said "greatly mitigated". I can't think of the last time I was completely cut off from both phone and email for more than 3 days. Can you? I travel around the world regularly enough (I was in Malaysia in Nov
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by jtheory 13y ago
Right, pay-as-you-go phones are annoying that way, if you aren't actually using them. I've lost a few phone numbers because I didn't remember to top-up a phone I wanted for rare uses and/or only incoming calls.
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It could be greatly mitigated by automating that power more. E.g., "No problem, I can reset your password! The system will automatically contact your registered phone number and email address -- if you confirm both, it resets now, and
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This is great in theory, but in practice your regular customers are going to lose/mix up their usernames and passwords all the time. They need some kind of back door to recover their access (because honestly, even for the responsible
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It could be ironic that I was critiquing readers with poor reading comprehension (who were missing that that comment was not equating the two terms), and in response you seem to have confused me for the person who wrote that comment. I&#x27
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#2 - I say things because I think they will be useful, entertaining, or persuasive to the person I'm talking with. So even when I'm right, and a person is going to far, someone should talk it over with them, but that's not
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...you're jumping into a big argument that's not actually based on what I wrote. I'm making two main points: #1 - When I sit down and really take the time to weigh everything, I consistently find that my first reasonable-fee
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It's not neccessarily $300/year. I got a code-signing cert (for the applets at eMusicTheory.com) for $75 plus the annoyance of proving my company was legitimate. Here's the guide I used as a starting point: http:/&#x2F
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Yeah, that's wrong. UNsigned applets by default run in the sandbox; signed applets (including self-signed) run with full permissions unless you specify otherwise in the HTML and in the JAR manifest (where you can explicitly request san

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