moconnor

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by moconnor 14y ago
I can't read past the first page on my mobile. If the author collected stats, this would be both interesting and obvious.
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by moconnor 14y ago
In what way does a co-founder intending to stay with the company put its long-term commitment to paying customers at risk?
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by moconnor 14y ago
Wealth correlates with a lot of things, such as health and buying power. It's too large a stretch to say being able to buy things increases happiness. Perhaps just being wealthy enough to have good healthcare does it. Could be many things.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Readability is your friend.
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by moconnor 14y ago
It's your life to lead in the way you choose. Are you happy living like this? It might not be as necessary as it feels. People rely on me; I work 36 hours a week. Amongst my friends and contacts most people do not work until they fall aslee
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by moconnor 14y ago
If it were real, names would have been changed to anonymize it. No search replace in those days, so it's an easy way for such a mistake to creep in. I still suspect it's a fictional or largely fictional piece though.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Lots of people use Dropbox just like this, without local backups. For many people I know, that's part of the point - versioning helps, too. It's certainly neither 'dumb' and nor is mentioning a friend who did this down-vote worthy.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Because when Ayn Rand was produced, Italy was not a democracy - it was under the fascist dictatorship of Mussolini.
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by moconnor 14y ago
I had the opposite experience yesterday. A colleague and I were tracking down a rare race condition that became more likely with more threads. A signal handler was being re-entered, which the man page suggested shouldn't happen because by d
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by moconnor 14y ago
I don't think Paul was postulating the existence of multiple (competing?) gods; Marcionism isn't especially relevant to his discussion.
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by moconnor 14y ago
The onscreen keyboard? Yes, if you want to create textual content on the iPad you really do need to use a bluetooth keyboard. Whether you prefer an iPad + keyboard to an all-in-one MacBook Air is a different matter, of course!
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by moconnor 14y ago
There's an important difference between being able to unobtrusively compromise a machine by appearing to use it normally and between opening up the case and removing the hard drive, something that attracts attention in almost any setting.
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by moconnor 14y ago
If you can, the very best way is simply immersion. Move to the country and live there. Live with people, make friends with them. Ask them to speak to you only in their native language. Listen to their music and watch their TV and films. Rea
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by moconnor 14y ago
I'm shocked and pleasantly surprised that js/canvas can putpixel fast enough for this. It must be around as fast as assembly on a 486! Part of me can't decide if that's awesome or tragic.
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by moconnor 14y ago
This is very impressive. I got further with this in fifteen minutes on my iPhone lying in bed than an hour last night with the Windows Phone 8 SDK. The APIs seem nicely designed and the interface works surprisingly well on a phone. I haven'
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by moconnor 14y ago
I don't think their target market for the Pro is the hobbyist, or Mom and Pa, it's the enterprise business market, where the iPad has seen little penetration. This market doesn't care if the kickstand works on your knee. Or about a few hund
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by moconnor 14y ago
This thought experiment is flawed. When you steal a car from the local dealer, he doesn't have the car any more. The correct thought experiment is: having bought a car from Ford, you examine it carefully then purchase all the raw materials
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by moconnor 14y ago
If you used the same encoder, sure. CDs contain digital audio; each copy is identical.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Tweaking the parameters gives (in my opinion) some more interesting behaviours: http://jsfiddle.net/9ww7P/
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by moconnor 14y ago
Not so much thinking inside or outside "the" box, but being able to think inside somebody else's.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Although it might not invalidate your argument, you have ignored the residual value of having a 5-year old Model S / Nissan Leaf. We don't know what that will be, yet, but it will probably be higher than the residual value of a 14 year old
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by moconnor 14y ago
If we accept that battery technology is rapidly improving and will be an order of magnitude better in the future, then those points of cletus' argument are indeed invalidated - the root comment is arguing that electric cars will not be the
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by moconnor 14y ago
Programming is sadly still pretty much text-based. How many characters do you display on your monitor? Could you display as many with a smaller font on a smaller display? I don't think screen resolution is the bottleneck in information tran
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by moconnor 14y ago
The place of residence is almost certainly a taxation issue. Within the EU, an EU citizen pays tax in whichever country he is "ordinarily resident" in, which is (broadly) defined as the address in which he spends over 6 months of the year.
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by moconnor 14y ago
For EU citizens this is probably the same as "ordinarily resident", which broadly means having a UK address and spending over 6 months of the year at it.
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by moconnor 14y ago
I thought the problem was stated as employee A complains that employee B is spending all his time writing personal blog posts instead of doing "his fair share" of the work.
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by moconnor 14y ago
I just checked the latest figures for the UK vs Germany. As a British citizen who spent the best part of a decade living in Germany I was surprised by how accurately they capture the cultural differences and similarities.
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by moconnor 14y ago
I've used Jump for the past year; it's an excellent remote desktop client.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Apply again. Google rejects a lot of good programmers on their first application. It's not a perfect process.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Quite! "Uses git bisect" would have been more appropriate.

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