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by smokinn 16y ago
I recommend that you sit behind a non-technical relative or friend, and watch them use a Mac without offering them any help. There are quite a number of things that they'd like to do that isn't clearly expressed - or even easily findable!
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by smokinn 16y ago
They used a lot of dispersant to sink the oil on the surface into the water. So now it's pretty much impossible to clean up ourselves. Interestingly though some bacteria have cropped up to help out clean up what's in the water: http://www.
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by smokinn 16y ago
You're not going to see a startup get accepted that is essentially a competitor to Facebook -- it's too late for that. Really? In the recent video of Scoble interviewing pg pg mentioned that yc funded a privacy-oriented social network com
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by smokinn 16y ago
My router and desktop are both black with blue leds. Best solution? Electrical tape. You can't even see it unless you look close and I really couldn't care less about the led. If the router isn't working I'll know.
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The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay(io9.com)
127 points by smokinn 16y ago|52 comments
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by smokinn 16y ago
Is that in Safari? I'm running it in chrome (on windows) on a not-great machine and it's taking 23-25% of one of the two cores.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I'm in Montreal, definitely not nearby. I'm not looking for a job either I'm just a nosy person. =) I'll take a rain-check though in case I do someday end up in Newton.
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by smokinn 16y ago
When I saw the "we're hiring" comment I went to check out your site. I'm sorry to say but your careers section is pretty horrible. Your About Us page is blank: http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/chronicle There's Learn about us in 30 seco
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by smokinn 16y ago
For twitter there's already awesomeupdater that will do it for free: http://www.awesomeupdater.com/content/index
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by smokinn 16y ago
If your goal is to get rid of a bit of the stigma maybe you should start by not calling it "filthy" rich.
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by smokinn 16y ago
There has to be more behind this. They can't be suing Google just because they wrote their own embedded Java VM because if they were they'd be suing RIM too. And they certainly know RIM develops its own since they say so right on their own
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by smokinn 16y ago
Facebook's stuff was slowing the page down? I didn't notice much of a difference on my site. Were you using the async javascript version?
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Don’t Be Ugly By Accident(blog.okcupid.com)
4 points by smokinn 16y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 16y ago
Probably on Zed's end too. He doesn't drink.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Rather than just believe in an unproven hypothesis why don't you test it out? Find the interesting-code projects you actually use or have heard about (maybe Apache, Cassandra, Google's Bigtable, etc), find out who did the majority of the co
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by smokinn 16y ago
If you believe Dr. Colin Campbell you might want to take a look at these articles: http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/16/the-china-study-my-response... http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/cancer/the-china-study-vs... They're both very well wr
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by smokinn 16y ago
And from a business perspective: 3) It's easy to hire for
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by smokinn 16y ago
I saw him give the talk at the Confoo conference (formerly PHP Quebec that got renamed when Ruby + Python tracks were added) and I was bored as well. You can pretty much boil his talk down to use a profiler and make sure you run as little l
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by smokinn 16y ago
Right. Because Apple never capriciously brings down the hammer on the small guy.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I'm with Desjardins. I may have been mislead into believing all banks do this but it may be a Desjardins-only thing: http://www.desjardins.com/en/particuliers/produits_services/... Q. Why are fees at the ATM lower than those at the telle
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by smokinn 16y ago
You could use the code-formatting feature to write a list that would be reproduced verbatim: Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)
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by smokinn 16y ago
This article didn't even touch on the most obvious reasons people prefer the self-serve. First, the ATM example. If banks in the US are anything like the banks in Canada you can use the ATM for free but pay substantial service fees if you g
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by smokinn 16y ago
Apple has maintained for quite a while that jailbreaking your iPhone is a criminal offence. So no, the fear was not only of a voided warranty.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I'm not sure, I've mostly only stayed in hostels in Canada. The last one I stayed at in Ottawa had rooms for 25$/night in the dorm or 60$/night for a private single bed room. http://www.ottawahostel.com/
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by smokinn 16y ago
Most hostels have dorm and private room options. I just get the private room. It's more expensive than the dorm but way less expensive than a hotel. I've never slept in a hostel that only offered dorm rooms. I'm just as paranoid about the d
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by smokinn 16y ago
I would think the same. There's obviously a market for people who don't mind sleeping with strangers but I'm definitely not in it. I'm way too paranoid that I would get robbed. The credit card cloning example from the original article would
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by smokinn 16y ago
That's completely untrue. I'm the same as the gp. When I don't have a rigid schedule I absolutely have to follow (whenever I'm unemployed or when I was in school) I drift around the clock. It's much more natural for me and I feel much more
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by smokinn 16y ago
That could actually be reasonably fun to play. When Apple rejects your app you return a random reason and the more inane it is the more likely it is that one of your developers' head explodes. You have to get your apps out and make enough m
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by smokinn 16y ago
No accounting for taste I guess. Maybe it's just because I'm such a fan of the original but I find this cover awful.
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by smokinn 16y ago
If it got to court. They usually never do. MPAA/RIAA don't want a court case, they just extort money from people. They know they can because it's completely irrational to pay more to defend yourself in court with a chance of losing than to

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