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by morley 11y ago
You can always lower a price, but you can rarely raise it. And a high original MSRP lets them advertise a steep discount when the price does get lowered.
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by morley 11y ago
> historic preservation of places eventually pays off. Historic preservation is no more than collecting, done by the government. There's no guarantee that what they collect will appreciate in value. For example, maybe they're p
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by morley 11y ago
The problem isn't Google or DoubleClick; it's a structural problem with the ad industry. Most sites that serve ads can't sell all their inventory directly, so they fill their remaining impressions with ad networks, who sell b
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by morley 11y ago
This new app got released minutes ago. It's not going to be perfect out of the gate. Give it some time.
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by morley 11y ago
I think that's basically what their algorithm does: > We use an evolutionary algorithm to evolve sequences of actions that could make up a single turn. The fitness function is the quality of the board state of the end of the turn, a
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by morley 11y ago
Why does Google have to be the one to provide secure paid email to you? Gmail obviously operates at a vastly different scale than their similar paid software products. If you really want secure paid email, I'm sure there are plenty of
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by morley 11y ago
GlassDoor compiles that information. That site seems better for more complex analysis. I think the point of this spreadsheet is for simple analysis.
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by morley 11y ago
Touch ID data is stored in Secure Enclave; it doesn't leave your device. And it doesn't store an image of your fingerprint.
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by morley 11y ago
It's strange to see The Register posted here so frequently, since I imagine a link from the NY Post or Daily News would be removed immediately out of concerns for bias.
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by morley 11y ago
Maybe it's too early on a Monday and my reading comprehension is off, but I'm not sure I get the point of this. Is this just a fancy blog for engineering stories as a means of hiring more engineers? If so, I'm not sure the ma
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by morley 11y ago
Harper Lee (played by the great Catherine Keener) is a major supporting character in the film Capote.
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by morley 11y ago
Or Confederacy of Dunces.
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by morley 11y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the type of level design you're talking about, but the Souls games follow a similar pattern, where areas branch off from a "main path" (such as it is), and different branches connect with each o
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by morley 11y ago
Sometimes Ticketmaster takes a long while to print the tickets. So even if the seller has to send in the tickets as soon as possible (which is in fact the case), there's going to be some period where the transaction has occurred and th
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by morley 11y ago
Here's a video of the man himself explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
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by morley 11y ago
This is fascinating! I wanted to know more about the history of that function at id, which lead me to this beyond3d post (which was the topic of the reddit post that BetterExplained listed as a source): https://web.archive.org&#x
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by morley 11y ago
I'm curious what Angular 2 is like for developers who normally write React? I hear 2 is a lot better than 1, but I'm still turned off by the amount of Angular-specific terminology, whereas most of React terminology is not necessar
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by morley 11y ago
"Marketing" includes all aspects of the price, promotion, product, and placement of a company's offerings. PR is the "promotion" slice of that mix. They aren't two independent. In fact, picking stories without
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by morley 11y ago
This is complete speculation, but I'm guessing that the Starbucks deal happened late (as does any deal between higher executives that don't have to implement it), and the dealmakers wanted it running as soon as possible.
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by morley 11y ago
It's easy to fall in love with a political system that's never been tested at the United State's scale. My guess is, if we implemented sortition, a few unsavory things would happen: (1) The Republican and Democrat parties wou
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by morley 11y ago
Every other publication's college rankings prioritize "everything else" over money. The Economist just came up with a different ranking based on expected value.
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by morley 11y ago
I'm sure there are plenty of people scared of terrorists for the same statistically unlikely reasons. It doesn't make that fear necessarily a net positive on society.
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by morley 11y ago
That has little to do with the linked article, which is only rejecting the bombastic headlines comparing the two.
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by morley 11y ago
Excuse my ignorance in this -- is there any verifiable evidence that such a fundamental cascading vulnerability exists, and was the result of an NSA action, or are you speaking in hypotheticals?
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by morley 11y ago
People tend to complain about the obvious effects of free trade (i.e., businesses folding to competition), but they overlook the less obvious, more spread out effects (i.e., people being able to afford more goods, and other businesses being
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by morley 11y ago
I think she was responding to this line: > You may need to learn to shout at people. That is, after all, the last line before her reply, according to this view of the thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23
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by morley 11y ago
As dumb as that sounds, it's not entirely without merit. React Native's direct goal isn't write-once-run-anywhere, it's write-once-write-anywhere. That's a good goal for a place with as many engineers as Facebook do
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by morley 11y ago
I'd say one talk at an erlang conference three years ago falls into the umbrella of not talking much. The article doesn't say "they never talk about engineering."
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by morley 11y ago
Not only is it incredibly well known, but the first half of the article is about why it's well-known and how well-known it is.
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by morley 11y ago
I don't really understand; the images in the article show a chicken with its entire head and neck removed, which doesn't jibe with that description. Am I just mistaken about chicken anatomy, or is there something missing?

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