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by rm445 13y ago
To be precise, the PS3 and 360 each sold around 80 million and the Wii around 100 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_...
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by rm445 13y ago
Interesting (and slightly terrifying) short story that was posted here a while back, positing that computer vision and speech would make middle management obsolete first. It makes for quite different consequences to the usual vision, that t
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by rm445 13y ago
Is it scraping, or just presenting the data from a feed?
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by rm445 13y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say the author or his 'friends' are misusing Facebook - they can use it however they please. But people with massive numbers of friends are going to break whatever expectation there was of nearby me
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by rm445 13y ago
All opinions are political in some sense. However the author is a very well-known writer in the field of computer programming - as opposed to a political figure or someone of an unknown provenance. If you wish to dismiss his writing as fa
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by rm445 13y ago
Should that matter for Moore's Law as it was defined, for number of transistors on a die? I thought that smaller transistors required less current to operate, so the incentives for lowering power consumption and upping transistor count
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by rm445 13y ago
I'm no Vim wizard, but don't most of the commands work like that? You could type e.g. 6~ to change the case of 6 letters at once.
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by rm445 13y ago
Sometimes the natural-seeming title of a document includes a date, but it isn't the creation date (simple example, scanning a letter or invoice). Would you suggest frobbing the metadata?
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by rm445 13y ago
The line of thought is, that there's always someone willing to contemplate an unpleasant act for shaky reasons, in decreasing numbers, down to a minuscule number of people who would commit the worst atrocity for no reason at all. The r
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by rm445 13y ago
That's definitely the wooliest part of the article. The claim is that the better employers value MBAs most, which pushes PhDs down the hierarchy. Whether this would actually push them far enough to be effectively unemployable (for inst
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by rm445 13y ago
GNU Hello exists for this purpose.
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by rm445 13y ago
You don't have any equity when your house is repossessed, never mind if you have remortgaged it umpteen times. Based on the article, it looks like he made good money 1997-2002 or so, then took a couple of years off, tried to go back in
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by rm445 13y ago
That sounds entirely reasonable for the 99% use case - you have one convenient login, pseudonymous accounts on different services, and the only problem is that Google knows your accounts are the same person. Which they could almost certainl
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by rm445 13y ago
It bothers me how little people care about responsive UI. I haven't used a PS4 yet, so this is more just a general comment than a criticism of the decision - but the PS3 is a bit of a clunker in its cross-media bar. There are spinning
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by rm445 13y ago
Eh? Do you really think their pool of applicants is worsening quickly enough that a bottom-10% performer is better than the median new applicant? They still have bags of money to pay people, you know.
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by rm445 13y ago
Incorporating mass makes sense in considering whether the intelligence type would be useful for an organism. For example, a little sea creature with the capability of an Apple II (not the programs, but the capacity to process data and respo
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by rm445 13y ago
OT: You are the second poster in this discussion to use 'grinded', instead of 'ground', as the participle of grind. I'm just curious whether that's telescope lingo or just your word choice? I don't want to
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by rm445 13y ago
This article has a lot of fluff and before getting to the point. It just seems unlikely that the success of these shops that provide expensive financial services to poor people is all down to the human touch. I see friendliness in the repor
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by rm445 13y ago
A picture paints a thousand words, so those 34 gigabytes consist of 100.5 pictures, each 346 MB in size :-)
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by rm445 13y ago
It's a US thing. They change their oil every 3,000 miles whether it needs it or not (it doesn't).
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by rm445 13y ago
Nope, because even if you do all those things, at some point your body will start to slow down, you'll get aches and pains you didn't used to have, and some time you will suffer illness. At that point many people are keen to see g
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by rm445 13y ago
I have always liked ~ for string concatenation. Looks like a little string tying the strings together, and hardly likely to be confused with the bitwise not operator.
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by rm445 13y ago
Are you kidding? X is an letter that, even after many decades of over-use, denotes mystery and excitement. It is surprisingly powerful for something so simple and widespread. My baseless speculation is that they will dial iOS up to version
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by rm445 13y ago
The £15k is worth £8700, I believe, or £725 per month. The 40% higher rate tax takes £6000, but the extra National Insurance contribution is just £300 (it is only 2% on earnings above £797 per week).
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by rm445 13y ago
I could nitpick a couple of grammatical points, but your English is better than that of many native speakers I have worked with. Unless you sweated over a dictionary for an hour to write the above comment, or your speaking is much worse, pl
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by rm445 13y ago
What an unutterably bizarre article. "By cajoling more children to enter science and engineering [...] the state increases STEM student numbers, floods the market with STEM graduates, reduces competition for their services and cuts their wa
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by rm445 13y ago
As usual when someone posts an Economist leader article, someone is indignant that it is a little thin. The actual briefing article, at a couple of thousand words longer, is still journalism rather than a scholarly paper, i.e. it doesn't ci
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by rm445 14y ago
Nothing you can do? You could always write a letter.
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by rm445 14y ago
I think the hubbub will die down. It takes about ten minutes to make a Windows 8 machine usable - putting the things you want on the start screen and setting the program defaults so nothing runs with the slow pastel apps. Sure, doing so is
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by rm445 14y ago
Well it suggests you are dedicated and a strategic thinker, but not very subordinate. Presumably in owning your company you have to forgo a certain amount of buddy-ness with your workers for the benefit of the company; that's what's being a

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