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by mryall 16y ago
> [solar panels] are quite a bit more efficient than natural leaves ... Got a citation for that? I'd be interested to learn more.
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by mryall 16y ago
If you're working on a project with multiple people, having the CSS properties one-per-line helps a lot with determining who changed what in your version control system. Most of the command-line diff tools don't highlight changes within a s
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by mryall 16y ago
You have made a really insightful comment, but I struggle to read it without wincing because of the misspellings. lose , v. to part with something loose , adj. not tight. So yeah, Amazon might lose a large contract and might lose trust wi
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah. Lots of them have twelve floors or fewer.
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by mryall 16y ago
That is a great article, even aside from the anecdote about the bingo cards. Analysing what makes a good teacher is so important yet so difficult in reality because of the influence of teachers’ unions. There’s also is a huge reluctance to
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by mryall 16y ago
Site doesn't seem to be responding. Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t0H7qG2...
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by mryall 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/832/
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by mryall 16y ago
It's interesting that they don't have their company name anywhere on the page except in small text in the footer. Also, even on colour.com the page title is still 'Color'. If it were my site, I'd be redirecting colour.com to color.com. (And
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by mryall 16y ago
Tim has it exactly right. Searching some of the mainstream media sites in my area of the world -- Fairfax (smh.com.au) and Fox (news.com.au) -- shows up no results for 'tsunami' in their front page and world news section aside from badly in
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by mryall 16y ago
> The second irony is that the Nash equilibrium for rational-actor based models of deterrence is not peace, but random violence. Do you have a citation for that? I'd be interested to read further about it.
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The Lesson from Libya: Get Nuclear Weapons(tinyrevolution.com)
63 points by mryall 16y ago|23 comments
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by mryall 16y ago
That's interesting. The initial feedback I read on iBooks vs Kindle back when both apps were first available was very heavily skewed the other way: people seemed to prefer the Kindle app. Perhaps it was just a case of familiarity and the ma
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by mryall 16y ago
It's pretty clear that he was talking about physical books. E-books that have no limits on distribution are affected by different economic forces. In this situation, what rights the purchaser has or should have are far less clear.
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by mryall 16y ago
It's a shame but they kind of had this coming. Amazon's book-lending feature only really works with their business model as long it is just small groups of people lending to each other. They were never going to stand for people circumventin
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by mryall 16y ago
Yes, all these new form features are a massive boost for consistency and usability of forms on the web. Opera is often ahead when it comes to web usability issues like this. Great work, guys.
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by mryall 16y ago
I'm somewhat disappointed when charts like this use pre-release browser versions like Firefox 4 beta. If you're going to compare apples with apples, you have to use released, production versions of each browser for comparison charts. Otherw
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by mryall 16y ago
The <output> element doesn't have many additional semantics on top of a non-semantic element like <div>. All it supports is a special "for" attribute that doesn't require any additional behaviour [1]. IE9 is the first versio
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by mryall 16y ago
Most companies that are based on intellectual property, like software companies, need to maintain ownership of the copyright so that they can continue to sell the IP (software) for money. If someone else owns the copyright, the company has
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by mryall 16y ago
Playing multi-player games on multiple iPads (or iPhones or iPod Touches) isn't at all bad. I've had quite a few fun times with friends playing games this way. Looking at the same screen works well for some games, but not so well for others
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, folks at my company follow discussions about our products on Twitter and it doesn't matter whether the person uses a hashtag or not. What you need is a distinct product name though, to only discover relevant tweets.
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by mryall 16y ago
It would be more annoying if it actually displaying trending Twitter topics instead of "#everyone #loves #the #dickbar".
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, in particular it would be great to see how the load time compares. John found that even loading literal JSON in a JavaScript interpreter is much slower than loading a comparable length string. Presumably the latter is just a buffer
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Two-billion year old nuclear reactor found in Africa (2009)(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by mryall 16y ago|0 comments
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by mryall 16y ago
I'm pretty sure it's to work around a difference in SVG and VML. In SVG, a one-pixel line rendered at an integral coordinate (like x=1) will render half-half on either side of that value, resulting in a blurry two-pixel-wide line. VML rende
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Understanding Japan's Nuclear Crisis(arstechnica.com)
8 points by mryall 16y ago|1 comments
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Shots of the Aftermath of the Japan Tsunami and Earthquake(nytimes.com)
2 points by mryall 16y ago|0 comments
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by mryall 16y ago
Maybe they just cut off access to Google.
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by mryall 16y ago
What does "true decentralized internet" mean to you? Surely if you want to communicate with people around the world, you need to rely on someone to transport the data for you across the country and the oceans. If not government, then who?
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by mryall 16y ago
> Rather, I've accumulated lots more domain knowledge. ... And if you have that domain knowledge, ... it seems like you're massively smarter than everyone else. It's interesting many traditional software companies seem to promote the i
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by mryall 16y ago
Not only do you know it, you get it tattooed on your body. If there's no need to change IP addresses, you might as well make it permanent.

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