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by pkteison 14y ago
People have had large families without much space for centuries. It clearly isn't a necessity.
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by pkteison 14y ago
I sent my family some photos from Picplum recently. I was very satisfied with the quality of the photos, but the experience wasn't as nice as this article, and it cost about five times more than their competition. At a 5x price premium fo
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by pkteison 14y ago
As a new user, how do you know that it's good enough to be worth logging in and investing the effort? The default front page is your initial impression, and it does not appear like it is likely to attract interesting people to talk to in i
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by pkteison 14y ago
Patent was http://www.google.com/patents/US6970917 What I find most concerning about this is that the -idea- of responding to control messages sent via special e-mails was deemed worthy of $8 per unit. The end company doesn't get enough
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by pkteison 14y ago
Opening with "Rocketr is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management" - this is an entirely useless fluff sentence, tells nobody anything, doesn't provide a useful frame of reference for what's coming next... I feel like the story here is
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by pkteison 14y ago
It is referred to as botched because it actually was - NASDAQ actually broke during the initial day of trading. Initial start of trading was delayed, then trades went through didn't get confirmed for -hours-, which is something of a disast
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by pkteison 14y ago
I don't think it's psychological. I think both Android and iOS have better hardware that you can do more with. Beyond just apps - I can actually usefully browse websites on Android or IOS; when I tried on a Blackberry a few years ago, it
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by pkteison 14y ago
They already excluded overclocked and white box systems from the laptop comparison. Edit: From laptop comparison section of original paper: "To avoid conﬂation with other factors, we remove overclocked and white box machines from our analys
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by pkteison 14y ago
Can somebody explain to me the part of the article where it says you have to convert AC to DC to travel long distances (for far offshore wind power)? I understood it to be the exact opposite, that AC could go long distances without major l
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by pkteison 14y ago
No company scores any points with me by starting out by greeting me as a "pseudo-criminal".
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by pkteison 14y ago
I really like the 'I tried this, I tried that, here's why and what I was thinking and what I concluded and also this went wrong' approach. Just wish it also discussed the marketing side of things, but maybe that's another post.
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by pkteison 14y ago
I went to big public schools. I was valedictorian, a big geek, complete social misfit, bullied mocked and occasionally beaten, and I'm still a fan of public schools. Those social challenges were the most important lessons. Sometimes I hav
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by pkteison 14y ago
I live in Atlanta, GA, USA. I had my car stolen. Police didn't investigate. It was found abandoned 2 weeks later. Police didn't do anything beyond return it. I figured you had to be shot to get some attention. Three friends have had thei
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by pkteison 15y ago
Retail computers are a tough business because of the need to stock rapidly depreciating inventory. There was a big market for doing it better and cheaper (chiefly through having less retail inventory, forgoing some of the instant gratifica
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by pkteison 15y ago
No friends. You had 2 'specials' and a tip. I'm sure a lot of people check in there just due to volume, but volume strikes me as a questionable signal for an 'explore' feature - if everyone already knows it, I probably already know it too
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by pkteison 15y ago
Atlanta, GA, looking for 'dinner' near Buckhead.
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by pkteison 15y ago
I just tried it. Top recommendation was Chili's. I can't imagine anybody needs help discovering the clone chain suburban restaurant strip in their home city. It had 2 specials, and was nothing like anything else on my list or anywhere I h
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by pkteison 15y ago
Trying to prevent an -extremely- unlikely event via a lousy ineffective attempt at prior restraint is worth treating everyone as a criminal, ignoring the 4th amendment, and curtailing freedom? In America? Why? Prior restraint is a great e
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by pkteison 15y ago
The reason kickstarter projects are interesting and worth the several-months wait for the rewards is that it's enabling unique projects which you wouldn't get any other way. If it got overrun by businesses using it as a pre-order catalog,
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by pkteison 15y ago
I'm disappointed with the hand-waving dismissal of "why should we pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to do it?" The list immediately after that of some of the headaches that getting e-mail delivered entails (monitoring and responding
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by pkteison 15y ago
A farmer has successfully been prosecuted under the -Interstate Commerce Clause- for growing his own wheat on his own land for his own use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn It never left a state, it never left his farm, it
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by pkteison 15y ago
Probably coincidence. Companies that expect a lot of Christmas traffic minimize changes from Thanksgiving to Christmas, and web retail gets more traffic during business hours in America, so I expect that this weekend and last weekend saw a
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by pkteison 15y ago
The reasons these are not the least bit comparable are a) Economies of scale - breaking into houses happens one at a time. Breaking into unsecured computer systems often lets you affect millions of people at once. b) Jurisdiction - if a th
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by pkteison 15y ago
I'm late to the party, but I found the details interesting so thought I'd do the best technical summary I could: An attacker precomputes a lot of different values that hash to the same value, then posts them in a web request and it eats CP
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by pkteison 15y ago
Meeting notes, shopping lists, todo lists, whiteboard photographs, names of people I've met at parties so I can remember who they are later, cigars and whiskey I've enjoyed. Every other list maker I've ever tried has suffered from either lo
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by pkteison 15y ago
I agree, I see nothing gender based here. I'm a guy, and I've had a similar interaction with another guy on a team. He was pretty terrible, and I eventually decided the only way I could deal with him was to limit my interaction to bare min
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by pkteison 15y ago
What does "you are all easily replaceable" have to do with gender? It sounds like the president is just a bean counting jerk, no gender involved.
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by pkteison 15y ago
If you have a Sprint Android phone, google up a ROM with NOCIQ and install it. Run something like "SMS backup and restore" and "Titanium backup" first to save sms and app data before wiping the phone for the new ROM. For the new ROM, eas
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by pkteison 15y ago
The Tuesday Birthday problem is related to you not having info about the order leading to extra possibilities that you don't intuitively consider. Like in the simple example, if one son is a boy, probability of other being a boy is 1/3rd b
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by pkteison 15y ago
It's a -facebook- game. See: Myspace, Friendster, Six Degrees. I'm familiar with the fact that Zygna's web based farm simulator plays like somebody else's web based farm simulator. But that's a very similar argument to "bing is just like

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