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by qxcv 14y ago
> I am being downvoted, because my assertions (admittedly in unpolished form) You're being downvoted because you keep reposting (word-for-word) the same nonsensical rant on HN[0] and various other places around the web. Perhaps you coul
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by qxcv 14y ago
> license[sic] That's the American English spelling of the British English noun "licence", not a typo.
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by qxcv 14y ago
Ah, I had assumed you were making an argument against all approaches to data management which do not use a directory-based approach rather than just online ones.
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by qxcv 14y ago
> DRM corporations? Certainly... How so?
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by qxcv 14y ago
This looks suspiciously like logarithmic scaling which, as XKCD readers will attest, is a pretty typical technique for representing statistics which have differences measured in orders-of-magnitude. I'm not sure what all the panic on here i
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by qxcv 14y ago
Yes and no. To be honest the article strikes me as a fluff piece attempting to meaning into something what is really a pair of fairly trivial problems - those being deletionism and and the fact that the majority of editors are American male
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by qxcv 14y ago
Hell, you could say the key is head -c `wc -c secret_file` /dev/urandom and they wouldn't be able to argue. It's turtles all the way down if they ask you to decrypt the result.
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by qxcv 14y ago
Buy fewer than four pairs of $15 headphones in two years and you're still ahead. At least, you're still ahead financially; value is virtually impossible to quantify when you take into account subjective qualities like sound, appearance and
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by qxcv 14y ago
You can't control altitude or velocity, either (unless the system uses a GPS altimeter instead of a barometric one), so "potential missile" is indeed a massive exaggeration. To be honest, it would be cheaper, easier and more dangerous for a
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by qxcv 14y ago
> With Javascript you can declare functions as variables, pass functions as arguments to other functions, return functions as the result of other functions, and use them as part of a data structure. I'm pretty sure you can do all of t
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by qxcv 14y ago
Looks great! I've got a friend who has a set of speakers which come with a separate "control module" which is touch sensitive. It doesn't pause music, but it does a good job of muting it when you need to cut sound quickly - this seems like
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by qxcv 14y ago
The silent video without annotations thing is a bit strange, as somebody who has never used fitfrnd I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at. Perhaps a simple Javascript slideshow widget with labels might work better? The pictures on
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by qxcv 14y ago
Because they're used to using Ruby. The efficiency difference is negligible. $ time sh -c exit real 0m0.002s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.000s $ time ruby -e exit real 0m0.009s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.000s OTOH I do agree that it is a bit silly to s
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by qxcv 14y ago
Beauty != profit. If it makes people productive enough to offset the additional purchase cost (and then some), then I'm sure businesses would consider purchasing prettier devices.
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by qxcv 14y ago
This is something I find absolutely bizarre: for every person who is willing to make ridiculously exaggerated claims about something, there are thousands willing to believe them. One example which springs to mind is the "spam free wordpre
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by qxcv 14y ago
That's because only the Good Guys(tm) have Hellfires, Apaches and Tomahawks to fire at will. The Good Guys also have restraint - the US won't send a cruise missile into an apartment complex in Islamabad, for instance - and only attack peopl
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by qxcv 14y ago
As pointed out above, most of the jobs advertised by Thiel's startup require a college education: http://palantir.com/careers/positions Edit: their about page says "We were founded in 2004 by a handful of PayPal alumni and Stanford comput
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by qxcv 14y ago
It looks like it pulls data from the "backdrops" section on TMDb. See the movies.io page[0] for a movie and its corresponding[1] TMDB page. There's also a TMDb API method to get a list of all the relevant images in XML[2]. [0]: http://movi
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by qxcv 14y ago
This piece sums up one of the problems perfectly - the teachers simply can't keep up with the technology involved. As far as I can tell, our high-school CS curriculum in Queensland hasn't changed much since the early 90s. It consists of: -
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by qxcv 14y ago
The imagemap to the right of the specs is horrible as well, you have to hover over their tiny "+" icons to see the quick selling points which are actually of interest to consumers. Saying "boots in 7 seconds" is great, but only if the user
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by qxcv 14y ago
In my experience, if there's a kid sitting in high school who's not interested in the lesson then they'll either stare at the front of the room with their eyes glazed over or start fidget with something (usually phones or pencils), the form
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by qxcv 14y ago
It doesn't help that the Axis review page on the app store is the only Google hit for "Garrettt92"[0], especially considering that was one of the first reviews of the app. I'm not sure why an "early adopter" would have such a scant web pres
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by qxcv 14y ago
1) It requires implementation. Implementation is often costly and sometimes infeasible (e.g. Vimeo having to build feature which lets you download all XXXgb of your videos at once). 2) It opens the door to litigation. "I told gave <web
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by qxcv 14y ago
> However, I strongly support shutting Pirate sites and illegal file downloads. Except this isn't shutting down pirate sites, this is making sure that 90% of people can't access them by ordering major ISPs to interfere with communicatio
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by qxcv 14y ago
Hmm, just looking at your homepage there I can't say I'm entirely sure what you do . What do I gain by buying a Thinkpad from you instead of buying it from Lenovo and installing my own distro? Do I save money by not having to pay for a Win
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by qxcv 14y ago
I remember a Coca-Cola & 7/11 promo about a year back, where if you "Liked" the 7/11 page on Facebook they would give you a printable coupon for a free Coke. The first problem was that the barcodes on the coupons didn't scan so well aft
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by qxcv 14y ago
Looks like this is going to be reality, Phoronix just published the promised article[0] which basically claims that Valve have ported L4D/Source over to Linux already! Exciting news indeed, AAA-titles for Linux could turn the desktop OS mar
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by qxcv 14y ago
They did not "lose" on Flash. 99% market penetration[0] is not losing. I doubt they'll "lose" on HTML and CSS any more than they lost on Dreamweaver, they'll simply pull an Autodesk[1] and target the education and training market. It's hard
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by qxcv 14y ago
GP has a valid point, Windows usership is less prevalent amongst those with the technical know-how to install and use Windows alternatives than in the general public. Google don't have a vested interest in operating system compatibility out
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by qxcv 14y ago
Sorry, I should have been more specific. When I say "explain operators", I mean something along the lines of "To add numbers, you can write '2+5 <enter>' and it will give you 7". In two to five minutes you can probably explain addit

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