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by sprout 16y ago
Glad to hear Zuckerberg has made good on his previously stated commitment to openness.
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by sprout 16y ago
Being polite takes very little time. Knowing what constitutes politeness takes a lifetime of study for some people, and when you travel as much as RMS does, that's a lifetime of study for anyone, autistic or no. Can you navigate social norm
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by sprout 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppal Hypocrisy isn't a crime, but it can invalidate a claim if you publicly state one interpretation of law and later state another.
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by sprout 16y ago
It also looked suspiciously like he had some sockpuppet upvoters that the spam control missed. When I was there it was at 29 votes after 46 minutes. But I don't know, maybe HN really is that gullible when it comes to governmental malfeasanc
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, it's a simplification of a very complex system. I can think of at least one intersection where even going 40mph in a 35 zone will at least double your risk of a crash. I can think of other situations, for example highway driving, wher
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm just sort of pining for a far flung day after programming becomes established as an ordinary middle-school and high-school class, and those students grow up and become MBAs and CEOs. For now we have Excel. :)
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by sprout 16y ago
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=calories+in++1+pound+of+whole+wheat... Gives 1538 Calories per pound of whole wheat flour. According to these folks an acre of wheat yields 42 bushels: http://www.wheatfoods.org/AboutWheat-wheat-facts/Index.htm
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by sprout 16y ago
I just came into a position where I inherited a site running on 1and1. Yesterday their DNS went down for a half an hour, that was a fun half hour. I've never really had problems with HostGator or asmallorange. HostGator can be slow, but it'
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by sprout 16y ago
Where did you go to school? It's not on the Ohio standard curriculum. Or any pushed through with NCLB, to my knowledge.
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by sprout 16y ago
>We should teach programming because... We you know? It really isn't quite as urgent. 90% of office workers would benefit from the ability to write an Excel Macro. I don't even think that's a hard sell. Any businessman who understands w
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by sprout 16y ago
I feel like this is clearly targeted at English speakers. Implementing alternative languages would be trivial anyway.
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by sprout 16y ago
Constituent is much better than redbare. There's nothing wrong with being long. Homophones on the other hand defeat the purpose of the service.
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Sir, can you help me with this?(goodmenproject.com)
98 points by sprout 16y ago|55 comments
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by sprout 16y ago
Google almost always rolls back anti-patterns once it's clear people aren't fond of them. Facebook unveils roughly 8 anti-patterns with every re-do and rolls back the most egregious 4. The result is Facebook get significantly worse with eve
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by sprout 16y ago
On this Dell Mini 10, X will eventually crash following a resume from hibernate, then I drop to low-graphics mode and avoid doing an actual reboot for as long as possible, just hibernating my low-graphics state.
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't think it takes that much effort to have trouble with suspend/hibernate. I've found it to be the rule rather than the exception.
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by sprout 16y ago
It seems like since 8.04 they've changed the package naming conventions for LaTeX twice. That's been the biggest pain about upgrading for me, everything else has been a breeze.
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by sprout 16y ago
Because condoms have a measurable failure rate. Really, there's nothing wrong with them having sex - just so their partners are aware of the risk.
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by sprout 16y ago
Better than that would be for our society to get over the stigma around STDs and STD testing. As unromantic as it is, it should be uncontroversial to ask someone for a copy of a recent STD test. Even having cards would be nice, on a purely
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by sprout 16y ago
Facebook users, myself included, care a good deal. Facebook's introduction of 2000px wide images (close to the output of most consumer cameras) makes this all the more important. If Facebook's letting people upload directly from their camer
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by sprout 16y ago
If you read the article, they were interested in whether or not Syphilis could be prevented using penicillin. Nowadays we take it for granted that antibiotics are not ever to be used for prevention, but they were very much in a formative er
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by sprout 16y ago
Oh, I love Ubuntu and am never happy with anything but, but Windows Vista/7 have parity with Macs on resume, and way outpace Linux (if only because the hardware is built for Windows.) My boss' Vostro was inexplicably hanging on logout/login
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by sprout 16y ago
You can suggest someone take anything they want if it's available without a prescription. You just can't say on the label that it's effective. What exactly is being argued for if not that prescriptions should be allowed even when efficacy i
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by sprout 16y ago
I've got a Dell Vostro 1510 w/ Vista sitting in front of me, and coming out of sleep is "almost instant."
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by sprout 16y ago
I really don't believe that Facebook's developers are incompetent. And it's quite easy to neglect work when there's a business case for leaving that work undone.
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by sprout 16y ago
Where are most pictures on the Internet? I would guess Facebook and Flickr, uploaded by users who haven't the skill or the time to bother touching up the pictures they took today.
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by sprout 16y ago
Well obviously not because they would prefer they be proprietary. But if you put them right next to each other, you can have your magically minimal design and still let your users get by when they're short a cord.
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by sprout 16y ago
Even if all the vendors in a position to do so put in support for WebP today, it would be pretty much a decade before it got any serious use. Most Cameras take pictures as jpegs, and re-encoding jpegs in another lossy format is a losing pro
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by sprout 16y ago
Why is a separate port a big deal? You could easily put a micro-USB port right next to an HDMI port, take up roughly the same amount of space, and still have a quasi-proprietary but just as easy to use cable that is just an HDMI cable and a
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by sprout 16y ago
On the contrary. I think Facebook cares very much about developers. They do not want to give developers enough tools to create enduring products, because this would kill their walled garden, in a variety of ways. The biggest way is they don

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