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by lunchbox 17y ago
To solve your problem: in Google Reader, click the dropdown in the Subscriptions pane and click "Hide unread counts".
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by lunchbox 17y ago
It would be awesome if this were integrated into a LaTeX editor, so I could (e.g.) click a "draw" button in the toolbar. Then I'd get a little drop-down canvas, and when I get the suggestions back from the server, I could click on the right
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Announcement of Google Chrome OS: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-ch...
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by lunchbox 17y ago
> What Microsoft did with artificial memory limitation is ridiculous, unless someone comes up to offer a reasonable technical explanation. There is no technical explanation. It's purely for business reasons. This limitation seems artif
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Does anyone have access to the full text of the study? PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19469598 I'm interested in the numbers obtained in the study -- how much variance among men, how much among women, etc.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
The study wasn't about who cares more about looks. It was about whether women or men agree more about who is good looking. Caring about a trait and agreeing with others on how to measure it are not at all the same. For example, virtually
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Maybe the concavity reduces accidental keypresses when the phone's in one's pocket/bag.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Agreed. This is why I found it bizarre that the BlackBerry Storm's on-screen keboard mimics the 2-letters-per-button design of some of its hardware keyboards. Pic: http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/img/48TC-storm-portrait.g... The button
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by lunchbox 17y ago
The number of people answering "yes" to this post might be underrepresented by selection bias :)
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Video of keynote here: http://sites.google.com/a/pressatgoogle.com/googleio2009/key...
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Is this the main launch guide, or just a special edition targeted at selling to business users? The title is "Launch Guide -- Business/Executive BSP"; not sure what that means.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
It would be cool if Wolfram Alpha incorporated functionality from Princeton's Wordnet Database: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ Screenshot: http://minimalism.linguistics.arizona.edu/~sandiway/wnconnec... As you can see from the screenshot
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I don't know if I've seen any privacy exploit that (1) compromises this much personal data, and (2) is as easy to execute. Can anyone think of one?
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by lunchbox 17y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about this. Scientific/technological progress is one of the fastest things out there; evolution is one of the slowest. In other words, our ability to treat disease is greatly outstripping any theoretical effects of
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by lunchbox 17y ago
>"Dr Wolfram said he expected that about 1,000 people would be needed to keep its databases updated with the latest discoveries and information." I'm sure Wolfram could partner with Amazon to crowdsource some of this data gathering thro
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Also note the periodicity of the Firefox and IE curves -- looks like a lot of people use IE6 during the week and Firefox during the weekend.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
We'll have to disagree on this one. For instance: medicine? If you have a hard time tolerating the undersocialized folks in software, you probably won't enjoy being vomited on either. Or any of the other hundreds of perils of being in the m
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by lunchbox 17y ago
That is really a fantastic answer, Greg! Thanks for the valuable information.
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Thanks for the informative reply, gmazzola. Could someone who doesn't trust random.org verify that the numbers are indeed random and impossible to rig? What I have in mind is a number that (1) nobody has influence over, (2) can be measured
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by lunchbox 17y ago
As omegazero pointed out, there might be a selection bias if you don't do it right -- people will back out if they see they are in the unlucky group of folks who will get charged $2X. If you make people commit before revealing the amount, t
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by lunchbox 17y ago
Here's a good one: http://www.technologyreview.com/ For instance, they had a feature called "10 Emerging Technologies of 2009": http://www.technologyreview.com/specialreports/specialreport...
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Ask HN: What upcoming technological development interests you the most?
19 points by lunchbox 17y ago|41 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Python is older than Java as well.
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T-Mobile to sell Android tablet and home phone next year(nytimes.com)
1 points by lunchbox 18y ago|0 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Do you mean that smart people need less sleep to be able to perform a particular task, or that smart people need less sleep to perform at their own peak? The above analogy leads more naturally to the first conclusion. Give a smart person a
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by lunchbox 18y ago
>It's what you know, what you are willing/able to learn and how hard you're willing/able to work that matters. In turn, what causes people to be willing/able to learn and work on certain things? Our preferences and aptitudes are primari
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Palm granting some developers access to webOS SDK(pdnblog.palm.com)
11 points by lunchbox 18y ago|2 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
I'm nitpicking, but your range should be range(1,11).
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by lunchbox 18y ago
I don't know whom this is actually making fun of -- if I were hiring, I'd consider the presence of a cover letter with my name on it to be of far more informational value than a resume typeset in LaTeX. The cover letter would actually show
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Nice, but they should give the measurements in inches as well.

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