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by pietro 12y ago
So it depends on which stores you submit the app to? Makes sense – and should be relatively easy to figure out.
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by pietro 12y ago
There are probably hundreds of reasons why archive.org would be illegal in Europe. It's wonderful that they are based in a country that respects freedom of speech.
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by pietro 12y ago
I've enabled it to try it out. First impression: It doesn't make any sense to hide the protocol when you reveal the URL, and I found myself looking for a "Copy URL" button. Since copying the URL is what I most often try
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James Lovelock reflects on Gaia's legacy(nature.com)
1 points by pietro 12y ago|0 comments
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by pietro 12y ago
Indians have families, too.
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by pietro 12y ago
The core research looks very interesting, but Nature should probably hire a few economists to read through all the crap that scientists believe they know about economics, and maybe a few psychologists, too.
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by pietro 13y ago
That’s enough.
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by pietro 13y ago
You can easily live off 1400 USD per month. In India, they manage to get by for about 3000 USD (PPP) per year. Americans could, too. They’d hate it, but they could.
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Big data: are we making a big mistake?(ft.com)
199 points by pietro 13y ago|83 comments
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by pietro 13y ago
Personally, I love learning from books like this one and consider tutorial-style books a complete waste of my time. It's a matter of learning style, and the differences are fairly well understood. Look up deductive vs inductive teachin
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by pietro 13y ago
There are a few other languages with dental fricatives, including Arabic, Danish and Greek.
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Could This 20-Year-Old Kid Make Bitcoin Obsolete?(fastcolabs.com)
1 points by pietro 13y ago|0 comments
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by pietro 13y ago
Stop feeling guilty! It's stupid and wrong.
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Decimal time(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pietro 13y ago|0 comments
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by pietro 13y ago
Non-retina iPads use retina assets for iPhone apps.
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Europe reaches deal on common mobile phone battery charge(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by pietro 13y ago|0 comments
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by pietro 13y ago
Why don't you just use iCloud? No account creation needed, super user experience.
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by pietro 13y ago
For the same reason that cars are separate from trains. They enable completely different usages.
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by pietro 13y ago
What's the WBC?
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by pietro 13y ago
Artist equipment is very expensive, and $50 is less than you'll pay for a decent water color brush. The last one I got was about twice that expensive, and I don't even use it anymore. I use Paper. If it works as advertised, Pencil
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by pietro 13y ago
I believe Microsoft learned that lesson a decade ago. Since then, they've pushed Silverlight as an open, standardized, cross-platform programming environment for the web with virtually no success. This is the relevant comparison.
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by pietro 13y ago
It's super easy to block tagging of any kind. You can't block untagged photos, obviously, but the same is true for every image hosting site out there.
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by pietro 13y ago
> Or do you just hate all tools that enable creativity beyond a plain text website equally? That would be my stance. "Creativity" mostly translates to flashy adds, and while there are numerous examples of fun, engaging and usef
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by pietro 13y ago
See Netflix.
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by pietro 13y ago
Why do you even try? It doesn't make any sense to me. Moving to the UK or Scandinavia would be trivially easy, and you'd instantly find yourself in a super business friendly environment compared to France. Is it the food?
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by pietro 13y ago
You can, others can't.
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by pietro 13y ago
That's the only reason I've ever used headphones.
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by pietro 13y ago
They would have had time to improve existing apps and work out existing inconsistencies. iOS 6 was far from perfect, and there was plenty of room for improvement without a complete redesign.
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by pietro 13y ago
The Mac doesn't use smooth scrooling, but naturalistic scrolling: It scrolls exactly as you move your fingers. Smooth scrolling is more of a scroll wheel feature.
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by pietro 13y ago
I'm not sure I'm following you. How is a democratic police state not de facto authoritarian?

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