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by michh 13y ago
Google has been killing most of its RSS-related products (most notably Reader). People are concerned FeedBurner might be next.
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by michh 13y ago
Preventive medicine like this saves lives and money. But try convincing the pencil pushers. Looks like in both privatized and nationalized healthcare, they are often only willing to pay when there's a disease to diagnose. Not when there's a
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by michh 13y ago
"Something awful happened to someone, they must have done something to deserve it" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis It's such a common bias. And we all suffer from it.
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by michh 13y ago
It's not as commonly used to demean men, so that's not an excuse. Besides, you're not a Ferengi. Stop talking like you are.
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by michh 14y ago
Or, you know, be nice, constructive and positive and encourage people to open up their code. Maybe someone's poorly written tool might save you a days work in the future. Also, there's a difference between peer review and making fun of them
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by michh 14y ago
Some good reading on the subject of a possible Helium shortage: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13757/is-there-a...
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by michh 14y ago
A random person with access to your computer could easily install a keylogger in those 3 minutes.
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by michh 14y ago
Can we please stop using the term phablet before it catches on and actually becomes a thing? It hurts my eyes just to read it. There must be better words for this form factor.
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by michh 14y ago
It does. In fact, she deleted the entire event. But by that time it had gained enough momentum for somebody to just make a new event and it was then totally out of her hands.
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Teenager’s birthday party turns into a riot after leaving Facebook invite open(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by michh 14y ago|0 comments
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by michh 14y ago
"Normal" is indeed a perfectly good word, but not when you're talking about human beings. The fact that a majority of people is in a certain way does not make those that aren't that way abnormal. Just different in that particular aspect. Wo
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by michh 14y ago
The fact that nobody has set foot on another world since my grand parents generation is pretty sobering no matter how cool things like the Mars Curiosity rover are.
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Neil Armstrong's death should be a wake-up call(guardian.co.uk)
8 points by michh 14y ago|1 comments
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by michh 14y ago
I did not read in the article that she was not registered?
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by michh 14y ago
> Evidence against that thesis is that password of one person that I've asked is not in the list. Mine isn't in it.
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by michh 14y ago
How is PHP's garbage collection for these kinds of things? Usually, it doesn't need to be that good as you can just release all the memory after a request is processed in the typical way PHP is used. Anyone have experience running PHP-based
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by michh 14y ago
It's WEP. You wouldn't have needed Howie Mandel to get on it :P
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by michh 14y ago
Jokes have been historically used by oppressed people to express their frustrations. Not saying it's the same thing here, but trying to ban humor, even if it is politically incorrect, is really not OK. Nobody is trying to ban edgy/d
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by michh 14y ago
> If he called all the men <insert stereotype> would Dell have to apologize? No, because men aren't oppressed in our society and especially our industry. Saying stuff that contributes to an oppressive environment isn't okay, eve
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by michh 14y ago
Quick OMG-google-translate-sucks-translation: A judge has ruled downloading site The Pirate Bay will have to be blocked by providers KPN, UPC, Tele2, T-Mobile and Telfort. The providers don't want to block the website, according to Tele2 it
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Dutch judge rules all ISPs have to block TPB, same week netneutrality law passes(translate.google.com)
3 points by michh 14y ago|1 comments
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by michh 14y ago
> There are a few places in the US where going up to someone on the street and saying "not your mother's version control" will get you stabbed. The alternative isn't "Not your mother's version control" but rather "Not your parents' ver
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by michh 14y ago
Look what the demoscene can do in 64k. I'd call that art. This? Not so much.
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by michh 14y ago
Initially the no. 1 reason for me was peer pressure. It was simply unacceptable to use something other than Google in tech circles at some point. It was like having an @aol.com email address. If your users are that passionate, you're doing
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by michh 14y ago
You'd lose a lot of energy in the cables in the walls of your house that way. The same reason they use very high voltages to transport the electricity and only step it down to 240 as close to the end-user as feasible. I won't bore you with
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by michh 15y ago
I'm rather skeptical of this. Perhaps because I live somewhere where there's only 3 different carriers and they all started capping mobile internet in the same month. And they all dramatically raised prices in the same month. Etc. For now,
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by michh 15y ago
Until your carrier decides you don't need the ability to install non-market apps and disables the option. Oh, and the phone in question is not yet rooted. This is a matter of time if it isn't already happening. Google can do the open and fr
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by michh 15y ago
There are paid services that relatively cheaply fix this by being your MX-record and forwarding mail to your own local SMTP server at a configurable port.
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by michh 15y ago
That's no excuse, it just means their pricing model is too complex. Why not offer default packages with a fixed price for small and medium sized businesses and encourage those that have specific needs/concerns to leave their details to disc
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by michh 15y ago
Over the years I've had a lot of spam mails from services that claimed to be doing this (but obviously weren't). If I'd gotten a message from this one, I'd probably discard it as spam (or a friend trolling).

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