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by motters 16y ago
An easy way to deal with this would be to say, preferably in the promotion video, something like "if we receive the desired $10000 amount then no further donations will be accepted", or to nominate a charity which any surplus donations woul
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Ubuntu 10.04 usability study(youtube.com)
14 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
I have written a fair amount of C# code, although not so much recently. I think Microsoft are in danger of crowbarring too much into this language. Ideally I think they ought to start looking at rationalising and simplifying the syntax ra
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by motters 16y ago
I Duck Duck Went a couple of months ago, and have been going ever since.
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by motters 16y ago
There has been talk of lowering the voting age to 16, but not as low as 14. Years ago I would have been against the idea of younger voters, but now I think it's not such a bad idea. Lowering the voting age to 16 might encourage politician
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by motters 16y ago
The whole idea of someone's fan page being "unauthorized" seems creepy to me. People should not require authorization in order to be fans, or club together as a group of fans.
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by motters 17y ago
I agree with much of the criticism of Facebook in this article, and that it's certainly not going to be the last word in social networking.
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by motters 17y ago
Finally! I've been waiting for someone to do something like this, and was even thinking about trying to make something similar myself recently. How hard can it be? Probably not very, compared to other projects I'm working on. I'm sure th
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by motters 17y ago
If people want to work long hours then fine, I've no objections to them doing that. But in my experience most people - outside of a very small number of vocational jobs such as farming or being a doctor - don't want to work long hours and
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by motters 17y ago
Like some others I assume that anything I put online is public information, but not everyone has this view. For the naive user a site like Facebook appears to be just about you and your small circle of friends. Especially for people who a
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Origin of Life Lecture by John Maynard Smith(youtube.com)
2 points by motters 17y ago|0 comments
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by motters 17y ago
Unless its directly in your own interests, it's actually irrational to be working out of hours. If you're being paid for the extra work or you're the company owner or a major shareholder then it does make sense, but otherwise there's littl
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by motters 17y ago
I agree. I would not encourage people to be automatically loyal to any company which they might happen to work for, unless that company has shown loyalty to the individual in return. If the only consideration is profit, then just think of
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by motters 17y ago
The idea that capitalism is either a natural or optimal system doesn't stand up to much serious scrutiny. If you're referring to "cost" in terms of energy cost then yes there is always some amount of energy which needs to be put in to get
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by motters 17y ago
The price of electrons is not necessarily linked to oil production, since electrons can be produced in ways which don't require much or any oil. There are other eminently practical energy sources available. The main issue is that these hav
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by motters 17y ago
Hey Mark, it would have been a good idea if you'd mentioned this in the context of the whole "buttons on the left" debacle. At least then there would have been some justification for the UI change other than the nebulous "frees up space ni
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by motters 17y ago
I wouldn't be so confident about naming a particular ceiling price, but as oil becomes more expensive demand will fall and individuals and industries will move to other sources of energy. In particular within the next 5-10 years it looks a
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by motters 17y ago
So the question remains as to how to get that last 10-15% of transcription accuracy. It sounds as if existing methodology has run out of steam and that a paradigm shift is required to get to human-like speech recognition.
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by motters 17y ago
Looks nice, but I'm not sure how open source this is. It appears to have an SDK under Apache, but the rest is vague. This also raises alarm bells: http://www.tonido.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=548 If there's a version of this whic
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by motters 17y ago
My current desktop http://lh3.ggpht.com/_cGREIsCvj4M/S96ioKOMsnI/AAAAAAAAAkc/tQ...
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by motters 17y ago
Having worked in various factories, mainly in Europe, I completely disagree that these kind of hellish working conditions are just "the nature of the beast". Many factories have good working conditions and high safety standards, thanks in
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by motters 17y ago
The main issue from this and other similar articles about facebook which I've read seems to be the lack of control that users have over how their information is used and who it's given to. I still believe that the solution to all of these
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by motters 17y ago
Even if this is legally correct, I expect that they will close down this loophole within a few years. The effects of the Digital Economy Bill have yet to be felt, but one thing that seems certain is that potentially a lot of erroneous alle
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by motters 17y ago
In principle this sounds like a good idea if preservation of vertical screen realestate is a priority.
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by motters 17y ago
To me this seems like unethical behavior of a very profound nature when you consider the human consequences.
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by motters 17y ago
Until reading this I had no idea about the background story to this classic test image. It's faintly amusing, given the contemporary hysteria surrounding copyright, that the cropped face of Lenna was actually a flagrant copyright violation
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The Lenna story(cs.cmu.edu)
41 points by motters 17y ago|12 comments
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by motters 17y ago
Regrettably, this probably means the end of Ning. It's the classic dot com business model. Once you engage in "community breaking" activities, like kicking off your users or trying to force them into paying subscriptions, the amount of an
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by motters 17y ago
Shocking. This is what used to be called "the unacceptable face of capitalism". It is this sort of unregulated industrial production which in western countries led to the labour movements and improvements in working conditions and health
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Pamphleteers and Web Sites(bricklin.com)
1 points by motters 17y ago|0 comments

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