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by mirkules 9y ago
That's the secret sauce that makes professional photographers professionals. 90% of the work is setting the lighting and composing the scene, and I know at least one pro photographer who doesn't let his clients snap photos with th
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by mirkules 9y ago
You joke, but I am really confused what is the "official" Google phone and what is not. First, there was the Nexus One by HTC, then Nexus S by Samsung, then Galaxy Nexus by Samsung (how is that different than Galaxy S* series?), a
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by mirkules 10y ago
Looking up PSO, I came across Russell Eberhart's name as the co-author of the algorithm. He is also the author of the excellent book called Swarm Intelligence where I first encountered the Simulated Annealing algorithm (and many other
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by mirkules 10y ago
> He has decided he hates Wall Street and wants to work at a tech startup (good!). > How can smart, ambitious people stay working in an area where they have no long term ambitions? I think a good analogy for the mistake they are maki
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by mirkules 10y ago
Less space than a nomad. Lame.
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by mirkules 10y ago
Is the back seat the de facto protocol? I always sat in the front. It somehow feels more friendly and personal. But in a taxi, I'll usually sit in the back.
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by mirkules 10y ago
Then it would just be called "safety".
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Behavioral Problems in Early Human Spaceflight(spacesafetymagazine.com)
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by mirkules 10y ago
I'm considering buying an XPS 15. Can you give more details on driver problems? Which OS are you using?
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by mirkules 10y ago
Interesting. Now that I think of it, for the last few months FB has been relentlessly trying to get me to associate my phone number with my account - and they even display it in Firefox (which was surprising that a browser could pull a phon
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by mirkules 10y ago
Thanks for that link. It says Amazon has my contact info, but I'm not sure what they could have that ties my Amazon identity to my Facebook identity. I use a different email, different name, no phone number, no address on FB... I don&#
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by mirkules 10y ago
Actually,the really creepy thing about Amazon is that if I use their iPhone app to browse for stuff I get ads on my Facebook account for the stuff I searched. Mind you, I am near tinfoil-level conscious of "cross contamination". I
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by mirkules 10y ago
By that logic, we shouldn't buy or use Vizio TVs either. But the issue here with the FTC complaint is that there was not a prominent warning that the data was being collected or used in such a way. I certainly never read or even saw
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by mirkules 10y ago
Is it possible to bring about a similar complaint against Facebook with the FTC? Or, if the FTC is the wrong agency, what would be the right one? Of particular concern are "shadow profiles" - dossiers on people who have never even
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by mirkules 10y ago
I couldn't disagree more. The fact that our laws are subjectively interpreted is a blessing. There are so many laws that the Congressional Research Service can't even count them all. In other words, we are all breaking laws every
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by mirkules 10y ago
Thank you! I did the exact same thing on one of my Samsung monitors with the tape. Except if I missed the power button, I'd hit the auto-adjust button by accident, which would cost me another 15-30 minutes. It's irritating. And ca
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by mirkules 10y ago
We went from Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost to something that sounds like lyrics from a '90s grunge band. I don't quite think OP's criticism is unwarranted.
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by mirkules 10y ago
According to some posts in that sub, touchscreen support is very unreliable. If you're in a VM instead, I assume you would still get touchscreen support of the native OS (win10), right? I just bought a Dell XPS 13 switching from Mac, a
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by mirkules 10y ago
I don't see the big deal here, not from your comment or about the article. Every agency has to operate from someplace. It makes sense that spy agencies operate from non-descript locations. Unless your argument is that NSA should not ex
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by mirkules 10y ago
Totally agree. I frequently find myself googling things like "postgres equivalent of describe table" and the like. I didn't know you could get operation reference in MySQL. Thanks for the tip!
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by mirkules 10y ago
I agree with you in general, but the first two examples you cited are all more comfortable on the GUI for me. TortoiseSVN was a breakthrough for me. After switching to git, it was painful to try to remember all the different commands, wade
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by mirkules 10y ago
Can you point to some supreme court cases? One that comes to mind is Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down the "sodomy law" by a largely republican court (I think only one or two justices were democratic at the time) https:/&
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by mirkules 10y ago
Smartphones and tablets undid years of training on my coworkers to stop touching my screen. I just gave up and now always keep a microfiber wipe or rag next to my screen.
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by mirkules 10y ago
You make a good point. Sounds like we are at a crossroads: do we cater to what's familiar or are we trying to attract new users (like this post aims to do)? In my opinion, there is no reason the design can't be made to look better
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by mirkules 10y ago
I don't have a problem with middle click being a backwards-compatible convention. It's that the option to change it is non-obvious, and therefore excludes laptop users. As a counter-example: Much earlier versions of Windows had a
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by mirkules 10y ago
And this is the problem. There is zero thought being given to different usage scenarios, and when it is, it's a chaotic solution that works some of the time. How do you middle-click-paste if you are on a trackpad with only two buttons,
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by mirkules 10y ago
Exactly. In addition to the functional problems you outlined, every Linux GUI I've tried feels fake and plasticky, like it was designed for kids. Gnome is miles ahead of where it used to be, but design-wise it is now at about Windows 9
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by mirkules 10y ago
I always said that politics should be left to politicians. Nobody is fooled that by thinly-veiled "philantropic efforts" what is really meant is "using Facebook's huge platform to further some political agenda" If w
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by mirkules 10y ago
Yeah me too. I had to look up PEP8 to finally get it.
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by mirkules 10y ago
I doubt the veracity of this list. As an example, a flat in Belgrade, Serbia would run you 400 euros a month if you're lucky. That's almost 14 eur/day. Food alone can be over the $12 daily limit. I'd caution anyone from

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