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by mtts 15y ago
I hated application centric alt+tab when I first started using OSX but after a few days I got used to it. Now I prefer it.
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by mtts 15y ago
I'm guessing that if it turns out that most people really don't like it, as opposed to merely most of the people that complain about it on the internet, it will in fact matter.
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by mtts 15y ago
He may have some points, but none of them are relevant for me, personally. I don't use the dock (IMHO it's a monstrosity even in OSX), I don't care about desktop wallpapers and I also don't belong in the camp of users that think focus follo
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by mtts 15y ago
Frankly I don't understand why people are complaining so loudly about Unity. I've been using it for a few months and have zero problems with it. If you want to start an application, hit the windows key, type a few characters, hit enter, don
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by mtts 15y ago
The article makes it quite clear why it isn't possible to relate weight to fundamental physical constants yet: the constants that can be used for this haven't been measured precisely enough yet. Until they are, using a block of metal in a v
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by mtts 15y ago
The total exposure of French banks to Greek debt is larger than the total exposure of German banks to Greek debt, true, but the problem for Germany as a whole is that a specific group of German banks, namely the Landesbanken that fund a lar
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by mtts 15y ago
Markets are indeed composed of many agents, people and institutions squandering your pension money, all of whom hide behind the faceless market, arguing that if "the market" is doing it, it has to be right. Which is exactly what got us into
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by mtts 15y ago
With this caveat that financial markets fund a lot of the real economy as well. So you really don't want banks going bust left and right, as morally righteuous as that would be.
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by mtts 15y ago
While morally entirely correct (IMHO, I'm Dutch, we also use the same word for guilt as we do for debt) I doubt the Germans can hold on to this position for very long. Apparently the German "Landesbanken" are heavily invested in Greek and o
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by mtts 15y ago
Funny thing is it gets quite better towards the end :-)
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by mtts 15y ago
Actually, you know, in a lot of these places "enterpreneurs" do, in fact, exploit other people's work. After the fall of communism, formerly state owned enterprises, most of them nowhere near as worthless as they were made out to be, were s
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by mtts 15y ago
Yeah, I meant accidents involving derailment. Sorry if I was unclear. These happen quite frequently with ICE trains.
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by mtts 15y ago
Dunno about the UK, but in the Netherlands we get news about major train accidents in surrounding countries and I don't think I've ever (well, maybe once or twice) read about a TGV accident. ICE (German high speed rail) accidents, on the ot
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by mtts 15y ago
The traditional, Marxist, explanation does not contradict this paper's model. If the traditional explanation is true, and I don't see why it couldn't be, this paper merely adds to it "and that gave the society as a whole a survival advantag
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by mtts 15y ago
The "idea" (actually this is the output of a mathematical model, but ok) that stratified societies are both more stable and have a greater tendency to spread out than non-stratified societies has been around for centuries? I guess I missed
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by mtts 15y ago
Croatian is still fairly closely related to English, however, so that gives you an advantage over someone who speaks Chinese natively, which isn't related at all. But you are right that within the Indo-European language family English does
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by mtts 15y ago
But I'm guessing you are a native speaker of a language closely related to English. I'm willing to bet your attitude would be a lot less cavalier if the lingua franca of our profession was Japanese (or Turkish or Chinese or whatever).
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by mtts 15y ago
Van Gogh also admitted, in a letter to his brother Theo, to using deliberately exaggerated colors because he suspected the pigments he used were of such poor quality that they'd quickly fade to something more sensible. Which turned out to n
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by mtts 15y ago
Yup, they do. 24500 of them, according to the press release they sent out when they split off from the rest of Motorola.
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by mtts 15y ago
I'd love to hear some figures on that, because the ones I've seen from various (large) online retailers were abysmal. Setting up adwords campaigns for these retailers was a fun diversion, in some cases also a good excuse to huff and puff ab
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by mtts 15y ago
What I meant was Coca Cola probably sells more soda in places like fast food restaurants, gas stations and pubs than in supermarkets. And probably at higher margins, too.
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by mtts 15y ago
Ok. I guess I was confused because the grand parent talked about advertising (Google's targeted ads). Marketing in general, I agree, has some non-bullshit aspects to it. Not many, though. But certainly the marketing that causes Coca Cola to
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by mtts 15y ago
I'm guessing here, but I don't think the bulk of cola purchases are made in convenience stores and supermarkets.
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by mtts 15y ago
As much as I'd like to think you're right, you're probably wrong. The advertising industry is making very real money, which gives people an incentive to keep it going even though it delivers close to nothing. Why do people buy Coca Cola? Is
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by mtts 15y ago
No, Dutchies don't like it either. I don't think it's language specific. It probably has something to do with how much machismo or political correctness there is in a culture :-) By that logic, Americans are probably more upset about this t
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by mtts 15y ago
Interestingly enough, it's not the people with low skill levels that have trouble finding a job, but people with intermediary skill levels - office clerks and such. Collecting garbage is a job that cannot be outsourced, but doing mundane pa
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by mtts 16y ago
The tragedy of the commons is a myth. It doesn't exist. If it's truly "common" the companies that have an interest in it contribute and, guess what, that's exactly what they're doing: IBM, Oracle, Redhat: everyone pays to have Linux develop
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by mtts 16y ago
I'm stupid, I guess. I saw the last slide ("there is no problem as the system is still running" (and chmod can therefore still be executed)) and thought that was the solution. Once again I've learned that for every problem there is a soluti
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by mtts 16y ago
"Sure Zynga makes somewhat whimsical addictive games, but if you stop and crunch the numbers, Farmville's digital economy is probably mlarger than the real world economies of many developing nations." Which is probably what the author of th
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by mtts 16y ago
Anecdotal : move to a really far away country (the remote outskirts of Indonesia, in my case, but I imagine the highlands of Cameroon or tea plantations in Eastern Bhutan would work just as well), bring nothing but your father's (!) old chi

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