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by paublyrne 12y ago
I don't use Facetime, but I believe that the image quality is much higher than with Skype, because it's not using the relay node system. Probably more people use Skype because 'everyone' they talk to has it than because
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by paublyrne 12y ago
The metaphor you used appears to objectify immigrants.
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by paublyrne 12y ago
That's interesting. I always felt that repeating that field was a sort of faux validation, but maybe not! Well, a lot of people do not know their own phone number.
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by paublyrne 12y ago
More likely, people won't forget how to spell their email address, or make a mistake in typing it that isn't immediately obvious; they might not remember which of their emails they used to sign up, though, even if they only have a
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by paublyrne 12y ago
Well, broken anyway.
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by paublyrne 12y ago
Trip Advisor is a tech startup. The situation couldn't have occurred without a service like them. The ways businesses try to deal with the ramifications of online reviewing is probably interesting to anyone thinking about innovating in
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by paublyrne 12y ago
You're saying that people's lives may not actually improved in any meaningful way by the Tinder for flatmates mobile app I'm building? Seriously, the science fiction world of William Gibson and so on where normal people hack
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by paublyrne 12y ago
Not nearly enough programming articles use Zelda games as analogies for the concepts they discuss. This one does.
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by paublyrne 12y ago
I read something over breakfast that affects my emotions for the rest of the day. I am also a recidivistic emulator. Sometimes a Super Nintendo. Others an Amiga 600, like the one I got for my 10th birthday. I do it because I miss the games,
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by paublyrne 12y ago
I'm not sure that's really fair. - Nintendo experimented with a CD add on (with Sony) for the SNES. It eventually became the Playstation. - They released the Double Density Drive addon for N64 (probably a failure). - Mario 64 was
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by paublyrne 12y ago
How long should the mountain wait for Muhammad, though? In the UK, analogue terrestrial television was eventually turned off, and replaced by digital, following a lengthy publicity campaign. I would guess there are very few people staring a
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by paublyrne 12y ago
It's just not common in an idiomatic way, really. Technically, it is 'incorrect' because 'few' is the object of the sentence, not 'words'. But there are plenty of examples of phrases in English which are a
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by paublyrne 12y ago
That's a pretty big difference. Using referral fees to bring in new business for a product with a different revenue stream is sustainable, provided the core product is a sustainable business. There is no way for a pyramid scheme to not
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by paublyrne 12y ago
It is not immediately clear to me how to run the programme, unfortunately. I'm not experience with Visual Studio, so perhaps I am missing something obvious.
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by paublyrne 12y ago
Venezuela is socialist democracy, as there are democratic elections and multiple political parties. Policies of nationalisation under Chavez, though, probably did contribute to the current problems, as they caused a flight of capital. http
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by paublyrne 12y ago
I would imagine the newspaper you refer to is not regarded as a serious newspaper, but I am not too familiar with the French publications. Surely there are other ones you could trust them to browse. Which one were you referring to again?
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by paublyrne 12y ago
The first thing I used to do with a new book was smell the paper. I find having that constant smell near me as I read a book makes the experience somehow more visceral. To be honest, I still remember how the paper in my primary school maths
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Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?(nytimes.com)
90 points by paublyrne 12y ago|75 comments
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by paublyrne 12y ago
Brasyl by Ian McDonald. Quantum physics, lots of colour, and a Cloud Atlas-like mixing of time threads.
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by paublyrne 13y ago
From my experiences in India, you might not find it clears your mind. India can seem like complete chaos to people from the West, and it kind of is. You don't have to go somewhere to find peace of mind, though. Have a look at Mindfulne