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by rollypolly 14y ago
Great story. Gives me a renewed appreciation for the privileges I was born with.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
A recent study of the brains of elderly mice, for instance, found 117 genes that were expressed differently in the brains of animals that began a program of running, compared with those that remained sedentary That's really
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Jebus that was simple! I wish I'd thought of it.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Very good TAL show on this subject: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...
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by rollypolly 14y ago
"Our ability to acquire and integrate larger or more complex companies, products, or technologies in a successful manner is unproven" That's very candid.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
yup, or as much as G+ is a threat to Facebook. It's all about the network effect. In my professional circle, everyone is using Dropbox. Dropbox is doing a great job. There's little incentive to move.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3879473
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by rollypolly 14y ago
well documented AND maintained examples of code that satisfies some need. You're asking for the Holy Grail of open source. When I google for something really obscure, I'm always glad to find something old, ugly, and broken, over n
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Sometimes I can't help but feel that most lawyers do not much more than present an obfuscation layer around standard forms. I bet non-technical people also have that feeling about engineers. "It took you a second to change the b
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by rollypolly 14y ago
It may not be computer-related but I enjoyed reading the article. For one thing, I learned that Quito is at an elevation of 9,500 feet. Being at the same latitude as the Galapagos Islands, I pictured Ecuador to be more like a Caribbean nati
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by rollypolly 14y ago
I've always wondering how large companies buy and sell patents in bulk like that. Do they just point at a filing cabinet and say, there's 650 patents in there, it's yours for 550M$, take it or leave it. Or do they have an army of lawyers po
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by rollypolly 14y ago
implements support for DirectX 11, OpenCL 1.1, and OpenGL 3.1. This should be a boon for game developers.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Am I the only one who purposefully design my tests to fail on the first run to verify that they're doing what they're suppose to?
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by rollypolly 14y ago
according to an analysis of nearly 2 billion cellphone calls and almost half a billion text messages. It's a really interesting study, but I question their method. Why didn't they interview people directly? Maybe mothers value a
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by rollypolly 14y ago
If someone has a native-level of fluency in more than one language, would the decision-making bias remain?
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Water samples taken from within the plume were crystal clear. Is that the effect of Corexit?
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by rollypolly 14y ago
It's a chicken-or-the-egg problem. Microsoft should be contacting developers like you and offering cold hard cash for writing apps for their ecosystem. Sony did that for certain Vita developers. Vita is still a disappointment in sales, but
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by rollypolly 14y ago
You can put any sort of artificial limit on CEO salaries. The only thing you'll never be able to touch is their true source of wealth, which is stock.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
You're right. I've found a number of people in the Montreal area. Especially since salaries are comparatively low up there.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
It's always good to be reminded how amazing it was to put someone on the moon with 1960s technology.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
In that matter, as with this current one, eBay/PayPal spokespeople said that preventing fraud — not enhancing profits, by accumulating bank interest — was the point of hanging on to the money. Good'ol "plausible deniability".
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by rollypolly 14y ago
There were many codes and characters. But we deciphered them by the grace of God Excuse me if I doubt any of the claims in this article.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
The astroturfing in this thread is amazing.
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by rollypolly 14y ago
When the technology does start to work, could this have civilian applications one day?
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by rollypolly 14y ago
I've come across "wysija.com" while looking at wordpress plugins recently. I immediately thought that was the worse name anyone could pick. It literally looks like random letters. It's unpronounceable and hard to memorize. They have a pseud
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Is this the solution..? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_desk
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Great article. A team composed entirely of production people, with no “business guys,” may not fully comprehend the total costs involved in creating a game. Has any startup succeeded with nothing but engineers as founders?
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by rollypolly 14y ago
Notice the publishing date: Monday, 14 January 2008 Getting rid of designers sounds great from the point of view of the guy footing the development cost of a game. But it doesn't work. It makes for a very generic gaming experience. The focu
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by rollypolly 14y ago
With the recent developments in new storage mechanisms like Local Storage, cookies are no longer needed anymore. ... If you don’t update your browser, some of your favorite sites aren’t going to work. Second problem her
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by rollypolly 14y ago
The attackers need to read up on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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