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by sthlm 15y ago
The problem with this experiment is that you assume many people would click on the link even it it was malicious. Hacker News is essentially peer reviewed, and I would imagine bad links would have been flagged quickly, preventing many users
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2011 OECD Report on Education Includes Data on Equality, Costs(oecd.org)
1 points by sthlm 15y ago|0 comments
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by sthlm 15y ago
What they are offering with this solution is a service much more than a product. Some comments are projecting the potential success of this idea based on their recent handling of hardware and software products. Services however are an entir
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by sthlm 15y ago
I always find there to be a very poor correlation between complexity, quality or efficiency and lines of code written. Therefore, I find the conclusion that they over-do development or approach more complex problems highly questionable. It
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by sthlm 15y ago
Based on the title, for a second there, I got my hopes up that this was an easy-to-deploy cloud solution to build up a small scale cloud on-premise for testing / fun / etc. But from what I understood, it's just a VM instance, meaning it's t
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by sthlm 15y ago
Anecdotal evidence against anecdotal evidence against more anecdotal evidence. There is extensive market research on the distribution of brands. People estimate proliferation by analyzing user agents of web site visitors, surveys, sales num
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by sthlm 15y ago
The concept is good although it needs more perfection. Right now it appears to be a subset of what several reminder apps (e.g. my Outlook) can already do. Actually what I do in these scenarios is stick a post-it note on my screen. The compe
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by sthlm 15y ago
Maybe she honestly did underestimate the effort of porting software -- especially something that someone else has written -- to another platform. Or she just misspoke. It's hard to draw any firm conclusions from the little bit of informatio
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by sthlm 15y ago
Something has to come in contact with the water and will inevitable be exposed to the oxygen. The choice of materials appears to be one for performance reasons: The authors pointed out that their approach is general enough to work on other
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by sthlm 15y ago
This reminds me of S1m0ne ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/ ), in which a CG actress is developed and the producer (unlike this case) attempts to keep it a secret.
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by sthlm 15y ago
Firefox has incremented the main version number rarely up till Firefox 4, but planned to change this for 2011. An explanation of some of the benefits and drawbacks are outlined here: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/02/is-mozil
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by sthlm 15y ago
I apologize, I probably should have been more clear about this point. I do not at all believe that I am in any way entitled to things for free. I myself am in computer science and contributed to OSS and get annoyed by people frequently thin
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Why are there no good online voting/election tools that are also free?
5 points by sthlm 15y ago|8 comments