motters

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841.
by motters 16y ago
I think software of this kind is the future of collective decision making (government), but as you say this sort of thing is very much in its infancy and it will probably be many years before really compelling systems emerge.
842.
by motters 16y ago
The main problem, just like on HN and other forums, is finding good technical rating mechanisms which allow the good stuff to rise to the top and the noise to be ignored.
843.
by motters 16y ago
It makes sense if you took out an overblown mortgage and are in a big negative equity situation. If that's the case then getting rid of the property as soon as possible is really just about cutting your losses to the minimum.
844.
by motters 16y ago
Online dating is difficult if, like me, you generally dislike superficiality and find the prospect of turning yourself into a sales & marketing guy or a snake oil salesman terrifying.
845.
by motters 16y ago
What the coalition government is trying to do in terms of soliciting ideas and having more engagement with the public via the internet is very welcome. There is a signal/noise issue though and a lot of silly suggestions are made, so I thin
846.
by motters 16y ago
Not really. Because of the high variance it's difficult to make claims of that sort. You have to bear in mind that prior to the late 19th century Stevenson screens were not in use, and thermometers themselves were less accurate. Also it'
847.
by motters 16y ago
Indeed. And I did exactly as this report suggests and carried out my own independent analysis, regardless of whether CRU did or didn't make their data/software available. http://sluggish.homelinux.net/index.php?title=Tempgraph The statio
848.
by motters 16y ago
On the internet at least the solution is simple. It's called Ad-art ( http://add-art.org/ ). Advertisement elsewhere, such as on billboards is more problematic to deal with, but if you are at the cutting edge of augmented reality this is
849.
by motters 16y ago
Concurrency should really be the number one issue for any new programming language. To my knowledge, none of the popular languages out there today are really able to handle concurrency in a seamless way which doesn't generate headaches for
850.
by motters 16y ago
I knew a few people who thought that the internet was merely a fad, right up until around 2001. After that time it was clear even to the most hardened sceptic that the internet was here to stay.
851.
by motters 16y ago
Heh, welcome to the world of government spending. What you can see on this list is really just corruption as usual - i.e. quangos assigning large amounts of public money to their friends and relations. In return certain recipient organisa
852.
by motters 16y ago
It's an amusing thought that a couple of centuries ago we were all talking like Americans. It just goes to show that accents, like everything else, are subject to fashion.
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Firefox tab conundrum(youtube.com)
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854.
by motters 16y ago
This just sounds like the usual protectionism. Despite the rhetoric about free trade, the US has historically been highly protectionist. The situation is of course going to become much more complicated, as telerobotics is going to make it
855.
by motters 16y ago
I also remember similar predictions from the late 1980s. I think the bottom line is that prognostications of doom sell much better than more conservative predictions with caveats and margins of error added. Scaremongering is more likely t
856.
by motters 16y ago
Some advice I'd give to people in their 20s entering the technology business is: Don't accept "I give you my word" as part of any business negotiation or contract. This probably applies more in the UK, where there is a tradition/myth of ge
857.
by motters 16y ago
Most people's questions about programming problems are going to be somewhere in the middle of the distribution. As time goes on and all the most common questions have been asked, the site is going become increasingly long tail - the domini
858.
by motters 16y ago
Dead so soon? The article concurs quite well with my own attempt to use Chatroulette. Some of it was quite funny - people staring with bemused expressions - but at least half of it was porn, and it was the porn element which put me off. Ho
859.
by motters 16y ago
I'd agree. If you've already built up a high reputation in some area and are a well recognised person in that particular field then possibly the pestering strategy might work - especially if you can provide genuinely relevant hints and tip
860.
by motters 16y ago
I'm not so certain that this is really good advice in the modern job market. Pestering people continually may not be a great strategy. If I was the company guy at the end of the phone taking very similar "I want a job" calls from the same
861.
by motters 16y ago
Yes, I am also another C++ coder coming out of the closet! I first learned C programming on a technology course in around 1992/3, and then also learned C++ using the Borland compiler running on DOS. I've used C++ on and off ever since, bot
862.
by motters 16y ago
I hope this isn't the case, but you may be right. Too much money/fame at too early a stage in the project might not be such a good thing.
863.
by motters 16y ago
In this case BP is at best being disingenuous, since the health hazards from crude oil emissions are fairly well understood. People engaged in the operation without proper equipment are risking potentially serious and long term damage to t
864.
by motters 16y ago
Many smart people have tried to "beat the markets" and failed. From what I've seen of it, this sort of activity is at best a form of numerology. Also, in trying to move money around slightly more efficiently than the next market analyst y
865.
by motters 16y ago
Unless there is any further evidence to back up this claim, I'd treat it as spurious. Is there a list of Exxon Valdez cleanup workers? The effects of oil pollution on health are fairly well established from previous spills. Cleanup worker
866.
by motters 16y ago
This year by year increase in features - what I refer to as the "TV remote effect" - is of concern. Really they ought to concentrate upon consolidating and removing unnecessary features from the language.
867.
by motters 16y ago
As a language C# is ok, and there's not all that much difference to Java. If you use the Mono compiler and MonoDevelop IDE, which has integration with version control and NUnit, then things aren't too bad and you don't need to deal with a
868.
by motters 16y ago
Not terribly informative. Most of these things are just common sense in any social situation, not only job interviews.
869.
by motters 16y ago
My guess is that BP now already have such large liabilities that they no longer care whether they will suffer additional fines for destroying endangered species. To them it's probably just another straw on a haystack.
870.
by motters 16y ago
Facebook shouldn't be attempting to go after anybody, with any kind of law, if all they are doing is downloading their own data from the site.

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