robertpateii

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by robertpateii 14y ago
I'm curious, in what way is a famous person (made famous by their own creative works) using their existing fame to raise money for a good cause an "attention getting scheme"? Seems pretty common place.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
The photographer wasn't without recognition. He is now a published co-author in a scientific journal. That's something.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
White on black can create a very difficulty reading experience. It may increase the contrast, but that's not the only factor in readability. I personally prefer light text on dark background, but never white on black. Silver an a dark blue
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by robertpateii 14y ago
"Understand the differences between these things, and don't mash them all together. They each have unique requirements."
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by robertpateii 14y ago
PSR-2 isn't trying to say that there is one correct answer. Instead they're trying to provide a single answer from the many valid possibilities. "When various authors collaborate across multiple projects, it helps to have one set of guideli
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by robertpateii 14y ago
I would too. they were memorable for me. Different strokes for different folks.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
I just star anything that needs response and leave everything in the inbox. If you need it, you can add different color stars to represent whatever you want. I don't understand why people feel the need to archive. Seems like procrastination
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by robertpateii 14y ago
If he still plays diablo 2, he's used to games being obscenely cheap per hour of play. As is, 1000 hours for 50 dollars. Also, he said exactly how much he thinks his $60 is worth in very specific terms: all the Indian food he can buy for $4
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by robertpateii 14y ago
You should have calculated for inflation. Without it, your numbers appear misleading. 7.5 billion in 1987 is the equivalent of 15.1 billion today. So they've had no effective increase in budget. Which helps us to choose the right question:
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by robertpateii 14y ago
you make it sound like it has to be one or the other.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
I'm curious why this was down voted into being grayed out, within 20 minutes of being posted and with no replies to it. edit: seems it got better.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
Ah, great. That's a good update. Go does end up responding well at 1000 concurrent requests for real memory. But a spike in virtual memory means it's paging all that extra data, right? Doesn't that normally slow things down? what's interest
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by robertpateii 14y ago
This test shows Node handling 100 requests simultaneously just as easily as handling them separately. However Go's memory usage increases by about 5X. So what happens when you reach 1000 simultaneous requests? Which will perform better then
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by robertpateii 14y ago
So you're saying that it's not about punishing the criminals, that it's about deterring people from becoming criminals. It's arguable if that kind of policy is effective. Also, it comes across like folks actually are still mad about it.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
No easy answer to this. All the tech companies do it, and if you start legislating the loopholes closed, they'll go to another state and maybe even another country. And you can't expect the companies to change on their own. They'd be sued i
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by robertpateii 14y ago
Regardless, if it wasn't for facebook it would be happening on flickr or instagram or any other sharing site. The problem is a legal one, not something that facebook can simply add as a feature. (Though they do have a way to report a photo
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by robertpateii 14y ago
I wasn't making any sort of proclamation like that. I'm asking why the authors think that nature and nurture is not a sufficient explanation for the preferences of college age adults. I brought up cultural bias specifically because it's som
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by robertpateii 14y ago
Let me rephrase. Using 75% implies a certain level of authority I don't have. "I think it will take a bigger imbalance before people start worrying about a gender imbalance in favor of men."
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by robertpateii 14y ago
Do bias, discrimination, and biological differences not drive preferences? Kids internalize the bias of the culture around them at an early age. Why is this a mystery to the authors? Referenced Quote from Article: "While bias, discriminatio
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by robertpateii 14y ago
"Significantly" is an exaggeration. The numbers i found ( http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=News_Room&... ) said that women earn 57% of all BS degrees. I imagine it'd have to get closer to 75% before people actually started
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by robertpateii 15y ago
What you say is true, but it would still be true if Facebook didn't exist. It will always be true because Internet.
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by robertpateii 15y ago
This site is named Hacker News. The word Hacker is used in the hacking things together, apart, and back again sense. Like a hobbyist. What else were you expecting from this crowd?
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by robertpateii 15y ago
Personally, I usually avoid listening to anecdotal evidence on something that has a huge body of scientific research behind it. http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
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by robertpateii 15y ago
This law is broader than I'd prefer but I don't see how it's clearly unjust. Do you feel the same way about perjury? If not, what's the dividing line between the two?
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by robertpateii 15y ago
At my office, we'd probably never replace our big CMS for managing the marketing website, but I could definitely see using node for microsites or apps. There's lots of possibilities.
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by robertpateii 15y ago
nonsense. on both Google+ and Facebook you can quite easily lump everyone into one group/circle and leave your default posting level set Public. just because a service provides more options doesn't mean you have to use them if you don't wan
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by robertpateii 15y ago
i've never seen that before, but it's an interesting concept. Maybe the idea is to not distract the reader from reading the primary content, but offering an easy way to get more data on the writer should the reader choose. It worked great f
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by robertpateii 15y ago
lately there's been a big push in the US government for an increase in teleworking. if you need specific examples, a 2010 telework report is available on this page: http://www.telework.gov/ . There may be other public studies too with some
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by robertpateii 15y ago
I develop frequently without internet access because it removes a huge distraction. But my first step was to download to my local drive all the the documentation for the language and tools I'm using. But tough questions? Yea, use the intern
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by robertpateii 15y ago
In theory, all those jobless people would now also not need to buy cars and could spend the savings on learning a how to do the new jobs created by all that extra money that's being spent on stuff besides cars. In reality, changing careers

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