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by sprout 16y ago
Wow, that site has the most obnoxious SEO bullshit. (Anyone with noscript will see a host of search keywords in place of an article, doubtless intended to hoodwink spiders.)
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by sprout 16y ago
Along with every other scripting language. Not news until someone has working apps running on most phones. Until then it's a toy. ASE isn't even available in the market yet. How is distribution going to work for that? I don't think .apks su
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by sprout 16y ago
There's definitely some variability based on location. I've used my phone in various places around the Midwest. Usually, it's pretty good. Last time I was on I-65 between Chicago and Indianapolis, it went haywire. Regularly claimed I was ou
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by sprout 16y ago
>The only thing that worries me is once control is conceded from Nasa to the private sector, the government will regulate the new industry harshly. Thinking like that is what led the EPA to allow BP to neglect to install an acoustic tri
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by sprout 16y ago
I downvoted both of you because you're off-topic.
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by sprout 16y ago
Someone should make a hacker's manual of style.
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by sprout 16y ago
What a Programmer Sees When Watching Inception is just as good, and makes no unwarranted assumptions.
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by sprout 16y ago
Take a group of 100 female engineers and contrast them with 100 male engineers, they will have very different attitudes towards engineering. I say this from experience.
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm definitely beginning to think the Droid will be my last Motorola phone. Even the fact that you can't uninstall Amazon and the core Google apps is a little grating.
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by sprout 16y ago
I think organizations to get men into teaching and nursing would be valuable. Teaching especially. When an industry is slanted towards a gender, it really exacerbates groupthink. I think you're mostly making a strawman argument. I don't kno
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by sprout 16y ago
Apple started the war by making their design decisions out to be things of monumental consequence. When you portray your each and every device as a mind-bending magical artifact that will change your life, I think it's fair to look at the s
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by sprout 16y ago
Don't conflate class divisions with racism. Whites did not flee the 'digital ghetto' of Myspace. College-educated young adults fled the 'digital ghetto' of Myspace.
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by sprout 16y ago
More a question of fewer people involved in software than software professionals making less. I've been paid a fair amount of money to write software that I could have created just as easily in a tenth of the time with off-the-shelf FOSS so
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by sprout 16y ago
As djacobs also pointed out, "Know thyself" is likely a more faithful translation than "Know yourself." Thy is the familiar form of "your." It passed out of favor after Cromwell's Commonwealth. Under the puritans, everyone was all thee and
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by sprout 16y ago
When he speaks of "the contrarians at the hedge funds" it sounds to me like that's a distinct group from "hedge fund loners." At least that's how I read it, not that hedge fund managers are a homogeneous group.
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by sprout 16y ago
I think you may need to re-read the article. There's one line in there where he almost says what you think he said: >The social butterflies at the banks got swept up in the popular enthusiasms. The contrarians at the hedge funds made mo
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by sprout 16y ago
http://cruztablet.com/specs2.php Looks pretty nice. I might have bought it, except I already decided I needed a good portable and bought a netbook. It's everything the Cruz is and more. I can even easily hold it in one hand. And it cost a
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by sprout 16y ago
Aside from Bing and Yahoo I suppose.
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by sprout 16y ago
So your dad never browses Wal-mart, Target, Best Buy, or anywhere else? This is in the netbook range Best buy will throw next to the check-out aisle.
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by sprout 16y ago
Meaningful names are fine if you have enough servers that every single server can do one thing. But in smaller circumstances the 'web' server may need to do decidedly non-web tasks. And it's difficult to know this in advance, so trying to n
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by sprout 16y ago
I know it's not justified, but I just kind of assume everyone on HN has read every XKCD.
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, seeing into the magnetic spectrum you would lose some ability to distinguish color in our visible spectrum, and our visible spectrum seems excellently adapted for distinguishing between various plant species, which is essential for th
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by sprout 16y ago
It's only unethical if you have hard data showing that one group would be poorly served by that division. You can't really get a read on that without doing these sorts of studies.
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by sprout 16y ago
You are bad at editing text in Emacs. I am bad at editing text in Vim. That really has nothing to do with their intrinsic value.
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by sprout 16y ago
The mouse has always been 10 times as hard on my wrists as the most intense emacs fiddlings. I'm actually happy to spend more time doing a task just to keep my hand off the mouse.
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by sprout 16y ago
It's effectively pure fascism. It works fine so long as you treat your workers decently and they don't revolt. I mean, say what you like about fascists, but their factories always run at high capacity.
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by sprout 16y ago
http://touch.facebook.com is a better app than the native client (on Android.) m.facebook.com is trash, and really so is the native client. Though I don't think a native app could do better than the touch site, except for the obvious ways
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by sprout 16y ago
The ill effects of burning fossil fuels are myriad and well-documented, from smog, to oil spills, to coal mine disasters, to smog, to ocean acidification. I'm generally fairly hostile towards the fundamentalists on the other side of the deb
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by sprout 16y ago
But they can easily be hacked to work, because they all run USB. And I don't own a dock anyway, because they don't have cross-device compatibility. In any case, I wasn't asserting the absolute superiority of Android. I only said that the Mo
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by sprout 16y ago
You never know. Smart people being smart for smart's sake often create unexpected benefits. Trying to direct them to things with 'demonstrable intrinsic value' mostly pisses them off and makes them less likely to come up with truly revoluti

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