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by sprout 16y ago
We're conflating a lot of different professions here. Phlebotomists only have trade school, but they're still going to be exposed to some pure science - at the least biology but likely chemistry as well - in high school. Nurses and especial
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by sprout 16y ago
Of course, look at any modern Cray ads and Cray is using the same 1024 chickens everyone else in the livestock industry is using. Sparc isn't failing because it's inferior to x86. Sparc is failing because Solaris is failing, and no other OS
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by sprout 16y ago
It's very much a mistake to say that given words should universally be saved for emphasis or used liberally. In most social contexts, there are a variety of words that can and should be used liberally. In the contexts where profanity is to
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by sprout 16y ago
>- startups & investors bitch & moan about price (aka valuation) all day long, but i don't really give a damn what other people think most of the time. buy or don't buy. negotiate or don't. This is America, This is Capitalism, a
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by sprout 16y ago
I made a similar comment in the thread on the TC article, but Facebook did that last year. My Motorola Droid didn't have Facebook branding, but it was fully integrated with Facebook (even if it lacked a decent way to browse Facebook.)
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by sprout 16y ago
Again, it is not a programming language. The shell is designed to do things you think about for less than 10 seconds. If you're trying to reference a variable you used earlier, that's not what it's for. You don't store things in the shell.
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't understand where they're coming from. Android's Facebook integration is a little rough, but all the problems are with the Facebook application. When it comes to the article's touted benefits of deep integration in the OS - calling a
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by sprout 16y ago
You're presuming a specific text-to-screen width ratio. I tend to favor reading at very high font size on the 7" netbook I'm presently using. Also, my finger/hand/arm never gets in the way while scrolling.
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by sprout 16y ago
Media, be they iPads or Kindles or paper, are not nearly so important as content. For the average student, I doubt that either the Kindle or the iPad can add any content that will offset the cost of the device. The cash-strapped college stu
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by sprout 16y ago
I was being honest about my prejudices and examining them. I think yes, from the finish of my comment, I should assume either the best or the worst of both of them.
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by sprout 16y ago
The thing about Firefox is I can just pick up my profile and take it anywhere; Mac, Windows, Linux, pretty soon even Android tablets (though the utility of that has yet to be seen.) Chrome will get there eventually. IE? I'm not interested i
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by sprout 16y ago
Please finish reading my comment.
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by sprout 16y ago
I find the bit about Iraqis vs. Americans a bit superficial. As a liberal, I would consider collateral damage less of a problem when Americans die because all Americans are responsible for the present situation in Iraq, while most Iraqis ar
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by sprout 16y ago
My Motorola Droid doesn't stack up against Apple, but I've played with both Apple store and current-gen Verizon phones, and the current-gen Verizon Droids are just as responsive as Apple hardware. I'm not sure this GPU thing is much of an i
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by sprout 16y ago
A mobile is a tool. It accomplishes a set of tasks for me. I don't want to be bothered with constantly worrying about my power supply in search of hypothetical benefits. I want a music player / messenger / Internet browser that I can plug i
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by sprout 16y ago
Honestly, I don't need a computer more powerful than my Motorola Droid. If someone could make one of those that had the battery life of a feature phone, I'd take my Moto Droid any day of the week. (Actually, I don't see why you think that t
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by sprout 16y ago
"Every revolutionary is a closet aristocrat." - Frank Herbert
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by sprout 16y ago
>You are telling me that (roughly) doubling the amount of money devoted to research will harm research? I really don't understand the mechanism by which that would happen. Again, because you are taking that money away from education. Go
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by sprout 16y ago
Stick with Acer because a bunch of mediocre people cooperating will always win out over one extraordinary man.
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by sprout 16y ago
>A public good is a good which is non-rivalrous and non-excludible. Published research fits this criteria. Teaching does not. As I said, the merger of the two is a public good. It makes research a fundamental part of our notion of learn
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by sprout 16y ago
>That's a very valid complaint imo, except for the 'sucky', was that present in the original? While 'sucky' isn't up to HN's style standards, and a more reasoned response is always preferable, I personally don't think the prohibition Ap
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by sprout 16y ago
The merger of research and teaching is a public good, for multiple reasons. One, it makes it easier for teachers to spend some time doing. (naturally apprenticeship programs could serve the same goal) Two, it makes the public bankroll resea
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, as Cray mentioned, there are a variety of places where someone might be tempted to make a json or xml based API, and we can start implementing that as plain HTML5, and writing Python and Ruby libraries to make it as easy to work with
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by sprout 16y ago
If I have to mail it back, I've already wasted more time than I would have just going to a specialty store within 45 minutes of me. Soon I'll be more like 4 hours from the nearest retailer of any sort, so that may change. But I'm somewhat u
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by sprout 16y ago
It was great to hear a story about responsible disclosure working perfectly. Usually all you hear about is when the shit hits the fan and the guilty company is left with their pants down after having months to pull them up.
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by sprout 16y ago
>I'm not clear on what what ironic Brilliant. (The irony is that you're missing a word in the sentence blurry quoted. And you did it again.)
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by sprout 16y ago
The task is no more complicated than it was before. I've seen no evidence that conclusively shows Craigslist had a positive or negative effect here (most seem to take it for granted that Craigslist is a positive or negative force.) Generall
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by sprout 16y ago
It's hard enough to find well-fitting clothing when you can try it on. I'm not going to be ordering over the net anytime soon.
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by sprout 16y ago
You have very selective hearing.
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by sprout 16y ago
No it's not. This is only really useful if you want to use a computer's built-in speakers to play music that's located on your iPod.

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