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by powrtoch 16y ago
I find it pretty hard to believe that this is really the most typical response. Most Mac software downloaded goes like this: Double-click to mount, drag Application into Applications folder. Two steps, usually with big arrows to make it as
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Scala, my pet python, bit the rails of his cage's framework wide open-sources say the process takes stacks of CS (chewing sounds).
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Hopefully no one will take this as a challenge...
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Thanks, this is what I assumed I'd be getting from the original link.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
If you would read a bit closer, my suggestion was simply that users be allowed to delete those apps if they so desire.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
iOS could be accused of bloatware as well. The fact that you're not allowed to remove the built-in apps is mystifying to me. I don't use Stocks because I don't own any stocks. The Contacts app is mostly redundant with that section of the Ph
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by powrtoch 16y ago
No first hand experience with Android, so I can't confirm any of its claims, but I think you're misreading the article. The problem isn't the different hardware, the problem is that the open OS allows the carriers to modify the OS (not the
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The only issue I can imagine is that your mistakes might be more likely to form real words. The way dvorak is set up so that the vowels are concentrated means accidentally going one character to the left will probably result in something in
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by powrtoch 16y ago
People can say things like "lots of research, smart planning and thoughtful execution with a great commitment", and believe in it as a general principle, without applying it or even knowing how to apply it to themselves. A lot of these do t
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The amount of oil in the world is speculated on. The number of IPv4 addresses is numerically fixed and known. As other commenters have noted, it's not that one day your computer will just inexplicably fail to pull an IP address. But they ar
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by powrtoch 16y ago
For the record, the article's comments are full of people saying that their experiences have been very different.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
You should read the articles. The behavior they're describing really doesn't fit with your assumptions. I'd be willing to admit that there is more to meditation than placebo, but meditation is not what's being referenced on these articles (
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by powrtoch 16y ago
AKA "Reverse Verdanagate".
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Back when Cha-Cha (one of those SMS-based question answering services) was newish, I texted them asking how I could go about taking down the entire Internet (you know, just to see what they'd say). They told me twice that it was impossible,
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Which is especially dumb because footers are the one thing I have to exert mental effort remembering how to code up each time I do a layout.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I think this just means our Nash Equilibrium has shifted a bit. If the opponent knows you know this, he'll guess 'z' and 'x' more often, so you would use words that included those probabilistically so as to foil this as often as possible. H
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Right, this is what I was acknowledging. The question was whether Helvetica Neue might render better than ordinary Helvetica.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I have a question on this Helvetica issue actually. It's common knowledge that Helvetica is a better font than Arial, plain and simple. The issue is just that Arial is somehow optimized for screen display (hinting or whatever), whereas most
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by powrtoch 16y ago
More explicitly: most professional print documents are done at 300 dpi. Since retina is 326 ppi, it's safe to assume that if it looks alright on paper, it will look fine on retina. It's worth noting that it doesn't really matter though. Mos
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Personally I try to avoid putting Verdana or Georgia as backup fonts (In practice, the stacks you've listed are fine because almost no one will not have Arial installed, but by that logic you could leave out Verdana altogether). In principl
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by powrtoch 16y ago
She mainly mentions Ruby. Which, more so than other languages, actually does seem to be much more than just a language to the developers who use it. Knowing her husband loves Ruby to her also speaks to his programming philosophy, community
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I certainly thought it was a stretch to call it "backstabbing", but of course that's not Apple's choice of language. Really though, if you get rejected specifically for a certain feature, then secretly enable it anyway and try to slip it pa
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by powrtoch 16y ago
This was exactly my point. I think there really is value in learning the arts, and in learning other unrelated fields. I'm a big music enthusiast, and sociology was one of the best classes I took. But that doesn't change the fact that they
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I graduated from a major US university, and was going to reply to the 2-year idea anyway. I think, while many students do take jobs, most of them are happy (for now) just to amass loans and bank on (increasingly difficult to secure) future
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Great introduction for anyone (such as myself) who found themselves quickly lost in most of the other posted discussions. Not only do you get a general idea of the proof, you feel better equipped to look back over those higher-level discuss
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'm usually irked by socially-automatic remarks in general. I can't tell you how sick I am of someone at work answering "How are you?" with "Well, I'm here (frown/shrug)", or "It's Monday (frown/shrug)".
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Agreed. I think part of the venomous nature of the remark that the author is getting at is that it automatically assumes you've understood him completely: "I have looked on your works, and the only worthwhile conclusion is that your passion
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I wouldn't be too surprised. I spent one summer working in a warehouse. Suffice to say the cars (and their respective rims, sound systems, etc) were not within reasonable spending habits for my fellow $8/hr workers. And their families :( Bu
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It's true. Every time I read one of these OK Cupid analyses, I hear alarm after alarm in my head about bad statistics analysis. But I always read them anyway, because as long as you step back and think about it carefully, the data really is
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It sort of depends how you look at it. From Google's point of view, good (white hat) SEO is more of an "everyone wins" game, because the more sites that do it, the better the search results get. Your site is returned only when it is relevan

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