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by simonsquiff 16y ago
A number of people here pointed out that the writer's original claim to be false positive proof simply because he'd used the tool for a long time was ridiculous. Unfortunately for him he's learning this the hard way. "The findings are fals
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
I submitted an article yesterday about how it's peers that influence children not parents, and there was a very relevant quote: "Developed societies have a special age group for people who are no longer children but are not yet adults, and
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Judith Rich Harris's research started with a seemingly preposterous null hypothesis: "How the parents rear the child has no long-term effects on the child's personality, intelligence, or mental health." But the evidence does not refute it.
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How parents rear has no longterm effect on child's personality or mental health(edge.org)
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The fugue set is great. I paid not so I didn't have to attribute but because the creator so clearly deserves it.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Exactly, it's as much about communication and presentation as it is about your actual business model
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
It seems like part of the problem with procurement was not clearly illustrating that a discount had been applied after all. PM: Well I’m going to need some kind of discount. How about 30%? Me: As it says on our website, we don’t discount. P
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
>Other video services begrudgingly make the leap and start encoding their video in WebM format to support a growing number of users. Or they just support those users instead by serving them Flash - which they have to do anyhow to suppor
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Apple didn't previously have Flash support in iOS and then remove it... taking something working out for ideological reasons is much worse than never adding something in for ideological reasons in my book.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
It's all well and good to focus future effort on alternative technologies that you have a preference for. But to remove a feature you currently support that works well...that's a poor decision that doesn't help your users or the web in gene
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
More like "Scroomz is ignoring twinkies like Yooka ignored the tree."
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
See Barrkel's post below http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022642 - it's not something you can always negotiate. I don't care if others choose money over time - I'm saying many just don't have that choice.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Coming from the uk, whilst I'd love to work for a US based tech company something that would strongly make me reconsider is the terrible lack of paid vacation. 20 days is the minimum here - many (including me) get 25 and that allows for som
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
The opposite would be really good for designers - augmented reality of what a colour blind person would see. Would be good to check if your design is going to make life difficult for the colour blind.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Their old names were great. Word, Office, Windows, Outlook - all great names.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
I don't think the argument is that they are not faultless. It's that they see the Western faults (treating their elderly relatives so poorly) as so much worse than their faults in a related area (treating animals poorly). It's a valid obs
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
It's interesting how cultures differ on some of these. I was speaking to a friend who works in China. He says he often discusses with the locals their appalling treatment of animals, which can be genuinely shocking to Westerners. He says
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
The UI looks very impressive from the video. Very slick and fluid, the multitasking animation in particular is lovely. Will be interesting if this is the real UI or not - it might just be a mockup like that infamous Nokia N97 promotional v
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Why would he do that? This makes no sense to me. Why not take the options and just give to money to charity rather than let it lapse? I don't believe taking the options would impact Apple much, just add a (minor) dilution to existing shar
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
"I doubt Facebook has a lot more growth ahead of it" Don't confusing lack of user growth with lack of company & profit growth. But I don't think even user growth is anywhere near static.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable." Eisenhower - one of my favourite quotes that sums this up well.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Surely it is the malaria parasite that is the killer, rather than the mosquito?
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Here are some examples with hardware acceleration on (left) and off (right) http://a.imageshack.us/img231/5900/firefox42.png Obviously the header text here is completely messed up. But the normal text is horrible too. Look at the N and th
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Poor font rendering the downside of Firefox 4 beta's hardware acceleration(input.mozilla.com)
1 points by simonsquiff 16y ago|1 comments
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Ok, better example: http://a.imageshack.us/img231/5900/firefox42.png Obviously the header text here is completely messed up. But the normal text is horrible too. Look at the N and the D at the beginning of the first posts - previously n
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
It's a pretty poor example. I'll try and put some others up. But look at 'sebastianmarshall.com' on line 4 - it's so much more compressed. In fact, before it is 139px wide, with acceleration it is only 132px wide: it's not just the look,
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Unfortunately, the hardware acceleration makes the text rendering horrid. Text is less sharp, black text looks dark grey, the spacing of small fonts is compressed...I really found it unpleasant. Fortunately turning off the acceleration ma
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
In the US maybe - the UK has neither Netflix nor Hulu and that goes for the rest of Europe too. Apple has global reach and will be getting in early in a lot of countries.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
It's interesting that this is only for music. You can see this being just as applicable for movies and tv shows - and of course apps. Presumably this is a toe in the water and they'll extend it if it works. But this certainly has lots of p
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
Those trying to hunt down the section, it says this: "3 This camera module is known to be mounted upside-down in some notebooks. Applications that use the libv4l library should display the video correctly, as libv4l detects upside-down came

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