nickolai

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   by nickolai 16y ago

   Interesting read. In this context, it may have also been nice to mention the common gaming industry practice of using cheating as a compensation for poor AI.
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   Nasa gives $260 million for commercial spaceship development(reuters.com)

   1 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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   by nickolai 16y ago

   I cant wait to see that 'feature' on WP7 too. Just imagine good old paperclip poping up on your phone: "It looks like you are arguing with your spouse. Would you like me to put you in relation with a counselor?"
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   by nickolai 16y ago

   Marching isn't democracy - it is an attempt to overrule the current regime(be it a democracy or a dictatorship) through mob rule. Democracy is about voting the right people into the right positions.
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   by nickolai 16y ago

   Good thing. Looks like we aren't quite there yet.
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   by nickolai 16y ago

   I'd argue it is also because school tasks tend to get more and more challenging. It is not necessarily the case in a work environment. And I find it harder to get into the zone on trivial/repetitive problems.
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   Apple hit with class-action suit over iPhone in-app game currency purchases(appleinsider.com)

   2 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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   by nickolai 16y ago

   I agree. Showing the vote level allowed us to get a better evaluation of comment value. Considerations like "this comment is 'worth' n votes bot not 2n votes, so I will not upvote it" are no longer possible now. Come on : comments are not
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   by nickolai 16y ago

   But doing that makes sure they can't hurt themselves with a hammer while working!!!
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    The Future of Human Spaceflight(foxnews.com)

    1 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Quoting your [1] (end of power tower desing paragraph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#Power_towe... ): >The capacity factor for power towers was estimated to be 72.9% and 56.2% for parabolic troughs. so the 20% figur
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Also compare it to the existing 10-20MW "solar tower"-type plants. It is a serious step forward!
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Some sort of water-repellent glass? Or maybe simply a plain old lid. It would be possible to keep the lens closed for most of the time, except for the short period when it is actually active.
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    I'm not sure I get it : is this last thursday's one ( http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us... ) or did they have yeat another? According to USGS there was nothing above 7 since thrusday. Only a 6.6 today : http://e
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Agreed. Though i'd like to have someone name me a language, adding which to one's skillset would make one a worse programmer.
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Page has been updated to 7.1 (EDIT : I see you updated the title. Also always good to see an earthquake magnitude overestimated)
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Interesting. I suspect that your targets will just be more careful with their copy pasting instead of falling back on actual content production. It still easier to check a page for image links than actually write something. However, this do
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    Tevatron data suggests new, unknown particle—but not the Higgs(arstechnica.com)

    4 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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    Online Security: Very Bad and Getting Worse(technewsworld.com)

    2 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Well they review it as 1-star saying in essence that it is poor in terms of value for money, while throwing some flak at the publisher for not selling it cheaper. Im not sure what you could hate there - or why you would want to remove it. I
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    I disagree. For what I understood, downvoting should correspond to irrelevancy, not disagreement. So I would interpret this disclaimer as "I know that what I say is irrelevant , but..." - wait, why are you saying it then? Nothing wrong with
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    > Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you. I'd say there is usually at least one post per comment page starting with "I know this will be downvoted, but ...". usually with 15+ points...
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    I'm not getting it - why is addon loading a blocking action in the browser startup process in the first place?? I'm only using Adblock out of those, and i wouldnt mind if adblock was not loaded until a few seconds after I got control. This
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    > shield the developers from the politics of getting projects approved and other institutional overhead so that we could focus on delivering product. This. This is very true from my perspective. I got a few glimpses of the amount of bul
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    At least it will not tell you that you have a virus because of a windows\SL folder...
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    How about having an additional metric in terms of responses to a post? If it doesnt deserve a response, it probably doesnt add much to the discussion.
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Im a bit weary of the "the problem with microsoft is ..." articles. Micorsoft is in an almost monopoly situation. And they don’t have to even try selling their stuff. It's pretty much an opt out model when you buy a computer. They got thems
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    If I read this correctly, the "business model" is largely based on nobody wanting to go public about downloading that kind of movies.
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    I disagree with the "no health risk" part. There are serious and proven health consequences for chronic anxiety, which this kind of news is obviously stirring up. Outside Japan(in the SF area for example), the news coverage of this "fallou
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    by nickolai 16y ago

    Sounds cool. Makes my hands feel uneasy just reading it.