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by shabble 15y ago
For all the potential parallels with the music industry, I think there are quite a few significant differences. Firstly, what are the current equivalents of a mobile App Store for (pirated) music? There are definitely a bunch of places you
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by shabble 15y ago
I'd have thought that it wouldn't be significantly different to crack the in-app content and provide that for free as well, or even repackaged into the original app. About the only thing that I can think that will defend against this is a s
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by shabble 15y ago
I suspect one of the main features of an avowed unsocial site is that you can be certain you're not going to accidentally fatfinger/misclick and share something you really didn't want to with (some of) your social network. The consequences
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by shabble 15y ago
That should be fairly achievable with either-macs. I started out with Aquamacs, but ended up getting annoyed with enough of the differences that I finally switched back to the (then Carbon, now Cocoa) emacs. Most of the useful settings live
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by shabble 15y ago
For Emacs users, Plain ol' GNU Emacs[1] is almost as tickbox compliant as Aquamacs, and has the benefits of not breaking a whole lot of existing stuff by trying to retrofit it with a 'Mac OSX User Experience'. If you're familiar with standa
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by shabble 15y ago
efficient energy and transportation systems aren't part of sustainable living? How quite sure how that fits. The crackpots tend to be the "Everyone, back to nature! Let's all dress in mouldy sheep, mine mud, and eat fallen apples" variety.
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by shabble 15y ago
...except that one guy doing the screenplay for I, Robot . :(
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by shabble 15y ago
Mass residential here tends to spawn more and more speed-bumps over time as community action groups and similar demand "safer roads". Even considering that, they're very common routes for taxis and private vehicles that want to avoid block
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by shabble 15y ago
Might be interesting to run another quick campaign without that, and see what kind of A/B results you get. Requires quite a lot more effort than the web to actually do, though.
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by shabble 15y ago
There's a really good article about this from Alex Papadimoulis, the founder of thedailywtf - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Tur... which pulls in a lot of the ideas from the "Cravath System"[1], a hiring and "em
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by shabble 15y ago
Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful hack. The keyboard-interface as I/O reminds me a lot of the similarly awesome ipod firmware dump via piezo speaker: http://web.archive.org/web/20070613032334/http://ipodlinux.o...
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by shabble 15y ago
I'd assume that's what they're talking about with the 'use blacklist'. It'd be easy enough to occasionally repopulate it with "obvious" or known-compromised passwords that turn up. Likewise, I assume they're keeping that list semi-secure to
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by shabble 15y ago
Yeah. Actually, it looks like there is mention in the literature (Simon Wills Drugs of abuse , 2nd Ed, 2005)[1] of vitamin C in fruit juice, or Ammonium Chloride to acidify urine to promote sequestration and removal of amphetamine metabol
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by shabble 15y ago
You might be confusing the OJ/vitamin C with the properties of grapefruit juice, which is well-established to alter the properties of various liver enzymes, particularly those which typically metabolise psychedelic / hallucinogenic drugs. W
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by shabble 15y ago
Various harm-reduction organisations like DanceSafe[1] offer testing kits that can be used to determine the primary agent and any significant adulterants[2]. There are also testing labs which process anonymous samples sent by post and deter
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by shabble 15y ago
If I were to categorise in broad strokes, I'd probably distinguish between recreational (euphorics, narcotics), self-medication of psychological issues (anxiolytics, mood stabilisers) or physical issues (stimulants, nootropics), and self-di
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by shabble 15y ago
Adding some kind of confidence bound or estimated probability distribution might make more sense of the huge ranges. You're already computing the 'height' of partners, so you could potentially incorporate that into the model. Something lik
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by shabble 15y ago
A (garishly coloured) reference: http://www.lococarriage.org.uk/66minute.htm I've actually had quite good experiences claiming ticket credits or total refunds for some long-distance UK train journeys. I can't find the exact terms, and th
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by shabble 15y ago
I tend to grab the paper title and search for it as a literal string, and in the majority of cases, the only full version available is behind a journal paywall. Sometimes, especially in CS, you get lucky and find a citeseer or personal-page
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by shabble 15y ago
Make the application procedure time and effort consuming (Although I can't imagine how university policies could be anything but) and hope to induce researchers to submit to publications that don't require the waiver. It's a bit unfair to t
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by shabble 15y ago
I've only ever heard it referred to in the plural sense as 'elder scrolls' series, across quite a wide variety of people. This is from casual players, console version players, d&d geeks, as well as the hardcore modding communities. In a
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by shabble 15y ago
If you quote a number and people are happy to pay it straight up, there's a reasonable chance you're pricing too low. You might not want to scrape out the absolute maximum each client will pay for each job (at the least, it's a very difficu
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by shabble 15y ago
Divide and conquer: Assign all applicants randomly to teams. Run competitive coding competition. Reject all but the winning team. Split the winning team into smaller ones, and repeat.
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by shabble 15y ago
As a complete aside, the Piecework article by Atul Gawande linked from the story has now been archived, and they broke the original URL. Working version at http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/04/050404fa_fact
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by shabble 15y ago
You mentioned in an earlier comment about a CT scan being 6k+ images. I'm assuming these are cross-sectional slices or something similar? I know a guy who's working for one of the big CT manufacturers (Toshiba, I think) working on 3D image-
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by shabble 15y ago
Or doctors see their profit-margins / wages declining, and lower the threshold level for various kinds of specialised testing. So, you complain about a mole or a lump, and instead of a quick diagnostic poke and an "It's probably fine", it's
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by shabble 15y ago
I use noscript, ghostery and requestpolicy, but so far, I haven't managed to integrate requestpolicy into my daily browsing (I have it set to 'allow all' with a few blacklisted sites) because it's too much effort to figure out exactly what
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by shabble 15y ago
Part of the problem is that academic progression is based so heavily on churning out papers that there's a race to the bottom for 'minimum publishable units'. A single codebase might provide the analysis framework for tens of individual pap
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by shabble 15y ago
I wonder how long it will be until Facebook itself can be called as your character witness? Not as mere physical evidence of things you've said or done, but an analysis of all of those events over time and the phychological profile that th
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by shabble 15y ago
Much as I sympathise with this view, communication isn't about what you say, it's about what the other person hears.

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