m_eiman

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811.
by m_eiman 16y ago
GSM is designed to be usable when travelling in a car, but going much faster than that will likely cause problems. It's probably problematic that you're not staying long enough in a single cell tower's range, and doppler effects on the radi
812.
by m_eiman 16y ago
SIDS is rare and probably has nothing to do with a baby's position. There's a bunch of research on the subject, and the resulting recommendation is that sleeping on the back is preferred. I haven't read the actual studies, but a bunch are
813.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Even the high number is "only" 1.1 in 1000, so 0.11%. Still, 0.013% is quite a bit lower. My kids haven't had any trouble sleeping on their backs (yet - the young one is only four months), but if they had I think I'd let them sleep face dow
814.
by m_eiman 16y ago
You're constantly terrified that they're going to randomly die on you, but the rules for preventing that outcome are straightforward and hard to forget. Changing the recommendation from sleeping face-down to sleeping on the back has reduc
815.
by m_eiman 16y ago
The interesting thing is that the places where they got a lot of votes hardly have any immigrants at all - it's a splendid example of being afraid of the unknown and how that fear is used by extremists.
816.
by m_eiman 16y ago
You could, if the system is designed for it. Lots of little digital "coins" that are shuffled around between different accounts, with traceable history.
817.
by m_eiman 16y ago
It would be awesome to track every transaction in an economy, though. We'd finally be able to tell exactly what our taxes are used for, and who's paying the CEO's bonus. Not to mention the benefits when combating organized crime..! I can se
818.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Does this method rely on security holes, like the iPhone jailbreaks, or is it something explicitly allowed by handset makers (and operators)?
819.
by m_eiman 16y ago
The madness still exists today. I'm developing an app that runs on a 8-bit 8051 CPU with a 16 bit address bus and 1MB of code Flash... Let's just say that segmentation and function pointers isn't a perfect match. Luckily the next revision o
820.
by m_eiman 16y ago
The ceiling is about 58kUSD per year.
821.
by m_eiman 16y ago
I'm fully aware of the total amount my employer pays every month, and I don't mind it one bit because I know how much it helps others.
822.
by m_eiman 16y ago
2. not fully paid by the employer, but funded in no small part by taxes on the general population? Actually it's all paid by taxes.
823.
by m_eiman 16y ago
You've only compensated for the loss of income for a total of 480 days, though. That'll let one parent work 75% for about five years, while earning about 95% of their full time salary.
824.
by m_eiman 16y ago
We're free to not take paternity leave, if we choose. Maybe most people here enjoy spending time with their children more than they'd enjoy earning 100% instead of ~80% of their normal pay.
825.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Very impressive quality too. Better than TV.
826.
by m_eiman 16y ago
- Blog about it and get the community to be supportive and all jazzed up on how evil Apple is (IMHO: you did that too late) Before you do this, make sure that: 1) You've got a valid complaint. I've seen too many developers complain about
827.
by m_eiman 16y ago
If you sell the software digitally the size of the "serial number" isn't a problem. Just put it on a web page (and in an email, for later use) and have the user copy-paste it. Or even better, do what patio11 is doing: when the user clicks "
828.
by m_eiman 16y ago
> most rape accusations are false That does a disservice to the very large number of rape victims out there. Some rape accusations are false, but to claim the majority of them is false would require a citation I think. Indeed. I've of
829.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Scenario 1.1: Two women file false reports of one rape and one sexual harassment; possibly on behalf of the US government (or someone else who doesn't like Wikileaks) Scenario 1.2: Someone who knows his every move is being watched (by the m
830.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Depending on the climate, they don't have to look too futuristic. Here are a bunch of "passive houses" in Sweden (houses without a dedicated source of heat, instead surplus heat from cooking, showering, people etc provide enough heat due to
831.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Few programmers ever work on something that'll still be in use 15 years later. Just have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1995_software (which isn't complete, obviously) - I don't think that even MS Office still contains mu
832.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Tell me you got a new phone where you pay to get 1 Mbps and 100 ms rtt to major exchange points. When the market moves forward enough to make that a reality, that’ll be a generation worth celebrating. It's not quite 100 ms, but not too sh
833.
by m_eiman 16y ago
I could show you 100 popular non-keyboard-having pre-2007 devices, starting with the PalmPilot a decade before the iPhone. There's just the slight difference that the iPhone caught the attention of the general public and caused a major sh
834.
by m_eiman 16y ago
I'm going to use it for a little while, and if it seems like something I'm going to continue doing I'll set up a similar script to email me reminders every day and have the reply I send to myself auto-sorted into some mailbox where it can g
835.
by m_eiman 16y ago
It'd be hard to be more subtle when informing the readers that a) you've written the submitted article and b) you've got an upcoming event that might also be of interest to the readers.
836.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Roundabouts are the New Big Thing here in Sweden, they're building them everywhere. On average it seems to be an improvement, and I have a local anecdote where a very busy intersection was rebuilt and improved vastly (while "everyone" said
837.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Too bad they require you to put ads on your site. It'd be nice if they would make it possible to pay them a chunk of money that they'll distribute to places I visited in more or less the same way they do with ad money now, only I wouldn't h
838.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Does anyone really think that "prevent obscenity" is the real reason, and that it has got nothing to do with the fact that pirated copies will have a hard time connecting to Blizzard's servers? Seems pretty obvious to me.
839.
by m_eiman 16y ago
I'd guess that the higher population density in a farming civilization is more to blame for diseases than the food they're eating.
840.
by m_eiman 16y ago
That's what we're doing over here in Europe.

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