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by lunchbox 17y ago
As shown on the scanned answer key, this was an anonymous quiz. College students have a tendency to put in pathetically minimal effort on things they're not being directly graded on. Also, the quiz's stated purpose was to help the teacher
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by lunchbox 17y ago
For those interested in long-range predictions, here's an amusing site that tracks predictions from the past: http://www.paleofuture.com/
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Anyway, the first major cloud dataloss will put an end to that one. I am willing to bet you on this. Big datalosses will happen, and people will for the most part continue doing what they did before, because they don't know better, becaus
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by lunchbox 17y ago
1. Predicting that it will happen isn't the same as saying that it's a good thing. 2. Even if it does happen, that doesn't mean everybody would be forced to use it. If you don't want to put your data on Dropbox you don't have to. 3. From a
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by lunchbox 17y ago
2. Android and iPhone kill off all the other mobile phone platforms. Android will be bigger (it will run on all of the "free" cell phones), but iPhone will still be "cooler", and will work more seamlessly with Apple's tablet computer. Thi
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by lunchbox 17y ago
That's exactly what I was looking for; thanks!
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by lunchbox 17y ago
This is a neat list but skewed towards fun facts rather than substantial research. I would love to see a list of the biggest findings of the year, ranked in importance by scientists.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Every business takes risks. If you build a business that relies on a single other player's API, you risk having them encroach on you when you become successful. If you insist on never putting yourself at anyone's mercy (either by writing yo
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Lisp is the Ron Paul of programming languages.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
The author's thesis statement is the following: "The new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic differences between classes, et
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Can someone in the know comment on the soundness of the scientific principles behind this product?
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Here's one problem with browser history: http://startpanic.com/
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I think you mean "gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew" :)
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by lunchbox 17y ago
This post was the precursor for http://www.tradetricks.org/ , which used to publish user-submitted tricks every day. Start here and click through: http://www.tradetricks.org/archives/001915.html (I can't find an index page.)
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by lunchbox 17y ago
"Published August 24, 2004"
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Good idea. For those of us who use an @gmail.com address, here's what you can use in lieu of plus signs, which as JimmyL said often don't work: Gmail lets you insert periods between the letters of your username. So if my email address is so
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by lunchbox 17y ago
But Google Maps can already provide directions from A to B, and these factor in one-way streets, etc., so Google should already have that data, right?
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by lunchbox 17y ago
The reason there is no stubble is that these photos are composites (averages) of multiple faces. Any small irregularities in the original photos (not just stubble, but also wrinkles, blemishes, and facial asymmetries) are smoothed out throu
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by lunchbox 17y ago
From a NYT article on Intel: The real inventors are not in the ads; they are played by actors. Mr. Bell said he wanted to ensure the commercials were humorous, and avoid arguments with Intel employees over which should be featured. "When
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Esimate distances with your arm and this rule of thumb(lifehacker.com)
22 points by lunchbox 17y ago|4 comments
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by lunchbox 17y ago
This looks like another case of correlation != causation. Physical health (e.g. absence of disease) of the male birds is one possible lurking variable: good health keeps one's brain performing better, and it also makes one more attractive t
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I'm trying to understand why this bothers you. Are they not supposed to talk about their features?
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Happens for me in Firefox too.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I hate the msdn documentation for C# Not sure if this is addresses your complaint, but MSDN's low-bandwidth formatted site makes it easier to work with. Example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlreader... Here's a l
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Vista/XP users in EU to get browser ballot via Windows Update(arstechnica.com)
2 points by lunchbox 17y ago|1 comments
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by lunchbox 17y ago
What's up with the style of the Google search button in the second mockup?
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I don't know what they mean that the US has the shortest population in the industrial world. Japan is industrialized, and the average Japanese is shorter than the average American.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
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by lunchbox 17y ago
What would be the intended target market/use case for such a device? Are people expected to carry around both this and a smartphone at the same time?
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by lunchbox 17y ago
By 1989, NASA estimated such a trip would come to half a trillion dollars I admit the idea of going to Mars is very exciting, but honestly, is this where we want to be spending our money?

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