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by ronaldx 13y ago
Same type of data all over English wikipedia, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeve,_Wisconsin The existence of those pages has no disadvantage and does not detract from the quality of the encyclopedia (if correct)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Looking at how they calculate "depth", I would say it's just as likely measuring edit-wars. It's not evident that it's measuring quality and I don't think it should be used as a target or marker for quality. I
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yep, I have had several mini USB ports quickly destroy themselves, to the point that it affected my buying decisions. The accepted answer in the link perfectly explains why.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> lacked the communication skills necessarily to make a useful bug report If anything, he had great communication skills. He overcame a non-native language barrier, while being conversationally blocked, and still made his point clearly.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
An earlier version of Safari mobile showed a loading wheel whenever it was loading AJAX/COMET. I found it infuriatingly annoying: it displayed at inappropriate times, when something was happening in the background but the user was not
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by ronaldx 13y ago
nothing special: it went from 3 mentions to 1 mention over the recording period (a "66.67%" decrease), all the while bouncing off the x-axis but possibly evidencing an upward trend: http://www.ryan-williams.net/hac
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> have more than one peer reviewer and an editor who makes the final decision and assigns further peer reviewers if necessary. QED.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I assume you are an academic - therefore, I imagine you have heard of cases where a peer reviewer killed an article just because it contradicted the reviewer's own work? Even if an academic is not explicitly sabotaging work, it's
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Very nice - despite playing a fair amount of chess, I never understood the openings in such a clear way as they are explained here. One comment: the lone King in the King+Rook endgame wasn't as defensive as it could have been - and the
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I don't think this explains why the pumping lemma works for all strings (above a required length)?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It was the previous Labour government (now in opposition) that introduced all the anti-terror acts that have made this possible - this particular one in 2000 - and continually pushed for them to be made more illiberal. Lib Dems can't a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
On point 2: if you get jammed in a tube you're going to stop in a much shorter distance than if you're freewheeling on a road.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I agree with your point but I disagree with your method. I agree that they should also offer a means to communicate in other languages, if they have that capacity. But, your choice of sentence structure - with clauses and formal social grac
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Deliberately misleading. Is the implication that Craigslist cats end up in laboratories? The article avoids stating this directly, and I find it doubtful. Are experiments being conducted generally inhumane and unethical? The single sleep de
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I always thought I wanted a portable 'magic wand' printer that was the width of A4 paper, but now I realise I was wrong. This printer appears to sense where it is on the page and dumps ink in the correct locations as you slide it
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Printbrush: pocket-sized printer(printdreams.com)
1 points by ronaldx 13y ago|1 comments
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The UK is a country: it's just that it's a country composed of 4 countries. Technically, you should vote both 'yes' and 'no'.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Here's some violent agreement... I think this is a great product - if I am building a site, I want to concentrate on building features for that without first building technical bleeding-edge interaction from the ground up. Sooner or la
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You seem to be mistaken. There is one combination with 6 Heads. There are twenty combinations with 3 Heads and 3 Tails - therefore 3 Heads and 3 Tails is twenty times more likely to come up, true. However, the specific sequence HTHTTH itsel
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by ronaldx 13y ago
McDonald's Iceland franchisee pulled out because it was too expensive. (they renamed the restaurants "Metro", I believe) cite: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8327185.stm http://metroborgari.i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This illustrates a case where coupon codes are working as they are supposed to - if it's too much of a pain in the ass for you to Google, the retailer will be happy for you to pay the higher price. Price Discrimination 101.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Why is creation conflated with omnipotence?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's notable that Musk uses supersonic air travel as a comparison point. Talking about LA to NY: "...I believe the economics would probably favor a supersonic plane" With reasonable timing: it's just coming up to a decad
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Update for anyone following this: https://twitter.com/Guitaraholic/status/366945419751718913
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by ronaldx 13y ago
How would that help with illegal immigration? Illegal immigrants typically arrive legally and are said to contribute a great deal to the economy (perhaps since they can't depend on support).
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Problem seems to be fixed here as well; thanks for the update :)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is the first time in my life where I have been genuinely disturbed by the location of an apostrophe.
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Tell HN: DuckDuckGo (ddg.gg) blocked in the UK by High Court(?)
21 points by ronaldx 13y ago|15 comments
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Gmail doesn't, in fact, require javascript.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I was going to say I've never seen him identified as "co-founder" in a headline rather than just "founder".

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