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by starwed 15y ago
Even just separate buttons for "funny" and "informative/insightful" would be pretty nice on reddit or HN. Slashdot's comment moderation system always seemed to work pretty well to me. The general editorial quality is what made me give up o
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by starwed 15y ago
It's phrased that way because of the Star Trek IV reference. I think it comes up in the same scene where Scotty is flustered because the 1980's computer doesn't respond to voice commands...
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by starwed 15y ago
I guess this technically was a security update -- that version of Java had known vulnerabilities that they could not distribute fixes for. (Because of Oracle's license changes.)
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by starwed 15y ago
What? An accelerometer does measure acceleration, but relative to the free-fall acceleration. That's different than measuring the change in acceleration. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerometer )
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by starwed 15y ago
I only have a galaxy nexus, so no idea! :) Repurposing the search key would probably make the most sense to me, but I can see that would be confusing. Has ICS rolled out to any older phones yet?
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by starwed 15y ago
Since no one else has mentioned it, ICS has improved how you navigate among apps. The three omnipresent buttons are now back, home, and recent apps. Recent apps pulls up a visual stack of everything you've used recently, so the ICS expecta
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by starwed 15y ago
Hmm, Super Meat Boy seems to be totally fine on my mac. (2010 Air 11"). However, Binding of Isaac is pretty lagtastic. (But, quite possibly the most fun I've had with a game this year.)
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by starwed 15y ago
I don't think its that simple. Wikipedia says > A trademark is typically a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, or a combination of these elements. There is also a range of non-conventional trademarks comprising marks which
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by starwed 15y ago
Ah, you're right, it's so simple! If changing the JS engine breaks a web site, the sites authors will either customize the JS engine, or choose not to switch after all! No, wait a minute...
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by starwed 15y ago
A version of jemalloc specifically written for mozilla's codebase. If it were a 100% compatible drop in replacement for malloc, why hasn't every other project switched to jemalloc yet? (Searching for switching to jemalloc , seems like ever
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by starwed 15y ago
Viral has a meaning distinct from extremely popular.
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by starwed 15y ago
My city had a decent sized independent bookstore open just two years ago. And since they just moved into a better location, I'd assume they're doing ok. ( http://www.morrisbookshop.com/ )
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by starwed 15y ago
Because of this: http://xkcd.com/882/
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by starwed 15y ago
Most people reading the headline would interpret it that way.
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by starwed 15y ago
Seemed like they fixed :visited as best they could. What would you have done?
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by starwed 15y ago
Reminds me of the following Terry Pratchett quote: >A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?" >I make no suggestion that one side or oth
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by starwed 15y ago
Unsurprisingly, google has a slightly higher marketing budget than mozilla... :P
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by starwed 15y ago
I've seen this subject come up before, and someone said that Medical Justice sells themselves pretty hard to medical professionals -- sometime places will sign on without really understanding all the details.
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by starwed 15y ago
It was the bit about ARM processors that made no sense -- the author since edited it out, since that wasn't the point he was trying to make! :)
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by starwed 15y ago
I think adding details like that makes your point more strongly -- too many folk on the internet shoot their mouth off with vague claims, which when poked at completely fall apart. But in this case it only took clicking on your user profil
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by starwed 15y ago
> whether ARM processors will ever be able to execute JavaScript at native-like speeds is still unknown. Does this have a secret meaning I can't discern, or is it just nonsense?
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by starwed 15y ago
Idly curious: is there a reason you don't just mention the name of the project? (I'm assuming Pidgin.)
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by starwed 15y ago
The DMCA was a whole bundle of legislation, and some of its effects were highly desirable -- in particular the safe harbor provisions. Without those[1] sites like youtube could never have existed. You can read about the various portions
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by starwed 15y ago
>you can still see how aalib approximates the edges of the drawing with all sort of characters. Wonder if that makes any sense for video, though?
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by starwed 15y ago
Nope. I suspect the site is fundamentally broken in my browser[1], given that I see two video elements, and the textbox is overlaid on top of several other elements, and there are some control elements floating seemingly randomly on the pa
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by starwed 15y ago
Or: if I compare three different distributions, it's possible for A&C to be distinct, but for A&B and B&C to overlap. As the linked article says, the idea of statistical significance being a binary state is to blame here.
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by starwed 15y ago
I left your comment unmolested, but I'd guess because of the aphorism? There's something fundamentally lazy about appealing to them... :P I didn't bother to cite it before, but there's a pretty well known study in this area: http://en.wik
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by starwed 15y ago
The article spells out the opposite: >"In July, Zynga lost a bid for PopCap, a mobile game company. Zynga offered $950 million in cash." >"PopCap agreed to a rival offer from Electronic Arts, worth $750 million in cash and stock and
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by starwed 15y ago
Well, the more knowledge an individual has in an area, the more likely they are to realise their shortcomings.
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by starwed 15y ago
I always launched the terminal using the keyboard, and I think they improved that with Unity -- so it was a speed-up for me. [And if you're opening a terminal, we can be pretty sure that your hands are heading for the keyboard anyway! :) ]

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