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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Doesn't it seem possible that Myth Busters find Myths that are possible (if not easy) to bust because it makes better TV? I'd be surprised if they thought this was really a challenge unless maybe their researchers had never heard of Google.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I don't see any evidence being provided for the Facebook platform being used to help spammers, other than anecdotal evidence of people changing their login credentials and still being seen to send spam. I think it would be interesting if it
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'm slightly scared that the solution to "wastefulness" is to link all the camera networks together and to use face recognition software. As the system becomes more automated it becomes much more Orwellean. I don't mind have static footage
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
It was funny I was at the UK Hadoop User Group a couple of days before this feature was announced. As Tom says in the article this was a feature that people wanted for Hadoop and then as if by magic it appears. Tom has done a really great b
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This actually correlates a lot to the Paleo diet that was on the Hacker News frontpage a few weeks back. The modern diet is a lot different to the traditional hunter gather diet of people with which we share a almost all of our genetics. Th
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
From Google or from anyone?
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
John does a really job of discussion what implications this had as well as how it does it. Great article.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'd like to point out no-one is cheating them out of their business models, they aren't updating their business models to the market. Printers are getting cheaper to make. They keep lowering their prices to stay competitive. In order to kee
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is why it's important to have good UED (user experience design) people. It can be very frustrating for a programmers to work with them because they just don't seem to care how hard it is to create some design they've come up with. They
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I couldn't agree more. I'd be interested in seeing an indepth examination of why Britain is failing so badly, particularly with their relative GDP. This story isn't that. It's a diatribe about anecdotes combed from the media.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think it's good that JustHackIt made Techcrunch. That's cool, I just don't see the value to Hacker news readers to have the TC story submitted when it has very little commentary and generally leads to having 2 stories on the same thing on
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Can you explain why?
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
These are pretty damn funny. No intellectuality required.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'd still prefer to have a link to the site than to the TC story. I don't see the value in 2 posts on the Hacker news homepage of the same thing. While I don't mind posts from TC being on the Hacker news homepage I'd rather they be posts wi
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I wasn't impressed by this list. There were no hidden gems. Most of this stuff is extremely basic for any Mac developer, there were also glaring holes in the list. Examples about how to get things like Bazaar VCS installed from Macports wou
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'm curious how journalist measure happiness over time. Especially how they assess the happiness of people who lived in a time before social anthropologists to study the well-being of a society.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I read Should the US drinking age be lowered to 18? (cnn.com) 18 pints by thedob Lol.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
It's an interesting point about the changing role of media as it becomes digital. A friend of mine was complaining that he couldn't share his Kindle ebooks with friends which was something he did a lot when he had actual books. Now he can o
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'm surprised (and pleased) that the author doesn't try to rail at the DRM in the kindle, but does praise the benefits the kindle brings to the market as a whole. He happily accepts that DRM will inevitably fail in books, as it has in music
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Do people think that a decent OpenID provider would sort this out? I quite like the idea of using an OpenID provider for everything which had very strong authentication (e.g RSA fob). You'd only need to log in a couple of times a day with a
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I love that phrase "Pulling a Cuil". Lol.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This helpfully validates some valid emails you might not want, e.g. root@localhost hardly helpful for a web site.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Well there could be more refunds than legitimate purchases if you sold 3, refunded 2 and got to keep the money for 1.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Makes sense, thanks!
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I was interested in the comment on the blog post, that you should be able to validate any proofs you use or at least have a good excuse. I think this is a general good practice for life. Extolling the work of others that you don't understan
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I agree. I'm not sure what his point is given that the request/response format of the data normally provides the serialisation. RESTful services in that respect are no different to RPC ones.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I would add a forth choice personally: mostly cs/hacker stuff, with some intellectually stimulating stuff That's actually the balance I feel we have right now. I voted for "no, anything intellectually stimulating" because that seems to be w
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Maybe I'm being slow, but I didn't get how they were explicitly declaring it except in the test, and I don't see how one test in a whole suite would help a newbie discover this problem. Are they actually implying the constructor should thro
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think this is really interesting. The core point seems to be because Apple force app distribution through the App Store they decide what's appropriate rather than a free-market economy. While the "I Am Rich" app is stupid, I agree with St
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Some stuff is just flash in the pan. Not especially interesting things sometimes make it to the frontpage for a little while because a couple of people voted for a new item together, but they quickly drop again if more people don't vote or

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