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by simonsarris 16y ago
I didn't even think of that. To be honest I would much rather have it be a sincere (but perhaps incorrect) observation than a sarcastic remark. I would never down-vote someone's sincere gander, no matter how misguided. Sarcasm on the other
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by simonsarris 16y ago
I imagine it is because, of all the contributing factors to iOS being popular and a "hit" when it came out, this reason seems like one that is so minor that suggesting it as the cause is dangerously misleading.
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by simonsarris 16y ago
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default I like how they have embraced that saying.
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Zwolnij just means "slow" in Polish. The second frame is telling a particular (valid) polish license plate number to slow down.
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Is California the most miserable US state to live in?(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by simonsarris 16y ago|21 comments
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Since the Meiji era, Japanese schoolchildren have been given the duty of cleaning the school (think treating it like a dojo). I always liked the idea of having kids help run the school. I think this particular practice is starting to fall o
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Restricting power is a very good idea and I find it pretty agreeable (See: Group B). This is what they've been doing with the diesel cars in Lemans. But restricting entire technologies is something else entirely and kind of frustrates me.
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by simonsarris 16y ago
(Yeah the new Audi's are incredible!) And they were trying everything to cut the balls of them, weren't they? The Diesels aren't banned but they restricted their fuel-tank size. They also have to refuel slower than non-diesels (not by desig
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by simonsarris 16y ago
> Turbochargers have come and gone and there hasn't been a switch to two-stroke or rotary, scotch yoke engines This is tangential to the article but these things are not in F1 because they are bad but because several of the configuratio
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by simonsarris 16y ago
People wiped themselves with writing paper, wool, hemp, seashells, corn cobs, sponges, stones, small wooden planks, moss, snow, and their own hands. Pretty much anything. Of course some of these methods are still in use today, depending on
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by simonsarris 16y ago
> Show me another widespread technology that exists since the late 1800s and that has not been completely replaced by another technology. There have got to be hundreds. Traffic lights and air brakes, 1868 Four-stroke internal combustion
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by simonsarris 16y ago
TechCrunch, Bebo, and MapQuest are all owned by AOL. And MapQuest still has the greatest market share somehow... edit: AOL sold Bebo in June
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Immediately an article I saw in December comes to mind: AOL Investigation: No Proof TSA Scanners Are Safe http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/20/aol-investigation-no-proof... Back then my first thought was: Wait, AOL does investigations? I t
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by simonsarris 16y ago
I see you there, little smile in the bottom left. What theme are you using? Do you plan on having an About page?
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Oh how I wish I could participate. Sadly I'm from NH.
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by simonsarris 16y ago
There are tons. Think of all the things that humankind used to assume worked and now consider completely silly, like divining rods, or some tools related to alchemy such as the aludel. Several awful medical devices from ancient times up to
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Think of it with pizza and sandwiches. As in: Bake bead, fry eggs with mushrooms/whatever. Place fried egg atop bread. Eat over phone book instead of eating over plate. Terrible mess from egg drippings? Rip out pages and throw away! You don
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Yellowpages were great in college for eating off of. Its basically a giant set of paper plates and/or placemats. Use, rip off the top page or two, throw away!
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by simonsarris 16y ago
P versus NP for dummies: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605415
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by simonsarris 16y ago
My college (RPI) had been pushing something very similar for a while now, which is why I have a degree in Computer Science and Philosophy. They strongly encouraged CS majors to dual-major in CS/Philosophy or CS/Psychology. It was called the
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What Makes Us Happy?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by simonsarris 16y ago|0 comments
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Wonderful news! I may be pointing out the obvious here, but judging by this move and the turning of the options page into a browser page[1], it seems that they want as much similarity between Chrome-OS and Chrome-the-Browser as possible. Wh
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by simonsarris 16y ago
You have reminded me of that old line: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." (Referring to Andy Grove of Intel CEO fame 87-98, still there in some capacity, and Bill Gates.)
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by simonsarris 16y ago
There was an article on this I read a year ago called Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicte...
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by simonsarris 16y ago
It seems that the author is attempting to make a case against ads themselves. I'm not convinced there is anything in the post that is Facebook-specific, or couldn't be swapped out with 'Adwords' or 'radio ads' or even 'billboards.' He makes
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Well, I sincerely hope no "hello world!" ever needs to pull libraries.
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Afraid of whom? I've never heard of someone afraid to be pro-Israel/Mossad, only the opposite.
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by simonsarris 16y ago
European Sudoku. ...And where did this 98% figure come from? Additionally, 98% of people in 1940? What % might it be today?
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by simonsarris 16y ago
On any? My WRT610N ($160 on amazon) seems to work fine for ipv6.google.com and I have not configured anything. I would hope all new linksys are similar, but a quick search makes it look like the WRT300N does not support v6.
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by simonsarris 16y ago
Just a thought, thinking very far ahead, but if you are in a position to employ others, would you want them to have a CS degree? How you answer that may help you.

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