stephengillie

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   by stephengillie 14y ago

   What kind of periodic wobble would our Sol produce from our very-many body solar system? Would it be easy to decipher, or easier to catalog as background noise? Maybe we'll start seeing advances in telescopic technologies and analyses in th
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   by stephengillie 14y ago

   Is it supposed to be a parody, or is that an actual photo? http://ycombinator.arelikefacebook.com/ Echo chamber? http://silicon.valley.arelikefacebook.com/ Giraffe wtf? http://airbnb.arelikefacebook.com/
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   by stephengillie 14y ago

   Now all I want is this: http://news.ycombinator.com/under?points=55
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   by stephengillie 14y ago

   Finding Earth-sized planets is still quite exciting, especially so near to us. Too bad this one is so close to Alpha Centauri B, it's probably too hot for electromechanical life (like us) to exist.
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   by stephengillie 14y ago

   Here is a killer feature on Surface: Host Mode aka USB-OTG But it also has a USB port and a cover that doubles as a keyboard; it works with a wide range of other devices, like printers and external hard drives; and it will even charge up y
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   by stephengillie 14y ago

   This is the opposite of the selling the first laptop problem - some people won't take a device seriously unless it has a physical keyboard. It isn't about the quality of on-screen keyboards, it's about the perception of the accessory. The
7. 3997.▲
   by stephengillie 14y ago

   It's still less destructive than an equal-sized equal-energy wave of sulphuric acid.
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   by stephengillie 14y ago

   See: How DRM infested the recorded media revolution.
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   by stephengillie 14y ago

   Spies, double-agents, mercenaries, and turn-coats have been stealing and smuggling information for years.
10. 4000.▲
    by stephengillie 14y ago

    I don't think either is a suitable 'trophy woman' of science.
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    Marie Curie was a groundbreaking scientist and an admirable figure. The need to celebrate the one symbolic "woman of science" is sexist and crude. The idea of one "woman of science" makes the work of other female scientists seem less import
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    From the article: The Guardian...reports that George's team dumped about 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the ocean from a fishing boat 370 kilometres west of Haida Gwaii in July. From Wiki: Iron(II) sulfate (Br.E. iron(II) sulphate) o
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    I believe willpower is tied to blood sugar. I have a more difficult time focusing on difficult problems and getting started on projects when my blood sugar is low. I think many people incorrectly believe the concept of "blood sugar levels"
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    This ruling essentially says "People can send to you whatever they want". I don't see the difference between this and postal spam - the result for both is (1) cutting of trees to (2) print and distribute unsolicited material which (3) peopl
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    When you're over limit, sync stops until you remove some items. How much cheaper will that space be in 2 years, due to the advancement of storage technologies and proliferation of storage devices?
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    Most of my friends don't understand what Dropbox is nor why they'd need it. They would rather transfer files by USB drive and email. And these are people that live off Netflix and Pandora and Facebook, so it's not like they're Luddites...
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    What happens when a HDD starts to go out? Do you have to pay & trust colo personnel to replace it, or do you have to pay to have your server shipped back to you? I could see putting my own server into a colo if it were like a storage lo
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    The injuries sound very severe for a 59-year old man falling from a bicycle. Was he not wearing a helmet? Was he traveling excessively fast?
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    Let's look at it from the other angle: Why/when would you not use a no-reply@example.com? When you want to receive communications from a customer? What about other examples?
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    This article wants to be objecting to the mass-posting of Halo 4 spoilers, but for some reason it's written with an almost anti-piracy angle. This confuses me.
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    That ranking would be highly subjective. For some people, it's the #1 issue. For others, it ranks behind their children, family, property, status, and comfort.
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    drama++
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    I'd use honeypots. Or maybe write viruses designed to infect and nullify IRC sessions. Or write viruses which install software updates and patches. Wait, no. I'd call tptacek.
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    Should a person seek to get an MBA from a more highly-ranked school than where that person completed undergraduate studies? A lot my undergrad classmates (top-25 university) are getting MBAs from a less-well rated private university.
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    So far, we have received reports from Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. The reports look localized to Europe and parts of northwestern Middle East, but d
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    Do products like AdFree come up in discussions? Or is their installed base too small (relative to mobile FB) that it's not worth worrying about?
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    Their generation got lost in space, and left behind the rest of us in the ashes of their world. We have to deal with the aging infrastructure, horrid basic education system, a re-broken economy, and now sky-high debt. And that generation is
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    A big point seems to be that people buy neither an iPhone nor a Galaxy Nexus specifically for their search abilities, regardless of how much Apple wanted to advertise Siri in court.
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    We hold that the district court abused its discretion in determining that Apple established a sufficient causal nexus. In that light, we do not address Samsung’s argument with respect to the sufficiency of Apple’s allegations of harm. B
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    by stephengillie 14y ago

    Based on this prognostication, what do you expect to happen next? Have you shorted appropriately?