semipermeable

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by semipermeable 16y ago
You discuss how WoW either hold back life progress or doesn't. Have you (or anyone you know) encountered a case where WoW has helped someone?
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by semipermeable 16y ago
I get the same sinking feeling every time I check for an OS update on my Samsung Fascinate and it's not there. No update means: - ZERO GPS functionality (Verizon reps acknowledge this) - crippled performance on what's supposed to be top-of-
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Grandma's superhero story(mymodernmet.com)
2 points by semipermeable 16y ago|0 comments
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by semipermeable 16y ago
The author needs to get past the fantasy that the US government is the big bad guy in a room full of innocent school children. Russia, while weakened over the past few years, is a global military power. China (and India) are starting to f
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by semipermeable 16y ago
People who appear to be coddled through their education may just have taken the easy way out and cheated: http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/
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Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding and Supporting Games Education(ludoliteracy.com)
1 points by semipermeable 16y ago|0 comments
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by semipermeable 16y ago
Another Heinlein quote (from Starship Troopers): "Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that. Nothing More."
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by semipermeable 16y ago
Who says its source code that was stolen? "Intellectual Property" covers a very wide range. It's easy for Oracle to stand up, roll out the long list of their patents, call "They're infringing!", and then the burden is on SAP to show they w
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by semipermeable 16y ago
I agree fully that everyone knows how email works, and I'm not debating the point that email-capable devices outnumber javascript-web-capable devices. I'm questioning the point that because there are more email-capable devices, email is a
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by semipermeable 16y ago
Considering that 37signals products are web-based, they also work natively on a pretty large percentage of available hardware and software platforms (at least the ones you're likely to be using).
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by semipermeable 16y ago
Reminds me of adhoc wifi gaming with Nintendo DS Lites in 2005.
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by semipermeable 16y ago
There's an interesting TED Talk about sleep cycles, and the impact of sleep on waking alertness. http://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_how_to_sleep.html
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by semipermeable 16y ago
I hardly think it's worse than antennagate. The iPhone's antenna issues caused so much of a stir because they impact the basic usage of the device. Is iPhoto such a core piece of MacOS functionality that this bug will make people stop buy
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by semipermeable 16y ago
Has anyone had experience comparing MongoDB and HiveDB from apache? I briefly considered both of them over a year ago before realizing that they weren't quite yet prime time for my application, and I've not had time to look at them since.
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by semipermeable 16y ago
Maybe the SEC should counter by saying that they will take his money to make their entire operation faster -- his case will be processed faster, along with everyone elses!
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by semipermeable 16y ago
If you're forced to use a platform that requires manual memory management, I'm all for this approach -- either explicitly, or implicitly on a fixed-size stack. Or, use a platform that handles dynamic allocation for you, or that lets you per
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by semipermeable 16y ago
History has shown that intel is very good at getting out of potential death spirals...
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by semipermeable 16y ago
A good approach I've used before is: - no Friday deployments - deployments run primarily by a single person should be done early in their work day - avoid Monday deployments ... people are usually fuzzier on Monday than they are on Tuesday,
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by semipermeable 16y ago
Note the coincident announcement about the Mac App Store... I bet the software you can get there will run snappily enough.
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by semipermeable 16y ago
I don't think the credit card is meant to reduce spam. It's meant to let them seamlessly charge you for overage.