stoney

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by stoney 16y ago
I suggest you start with the "when" part of things - most places have a peak tourist season and a bad weather season. You will probably want to avoid both of those! That said, I'd give a big +1 to the Australia suggestion. I'm a Brit, but
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by stoney 16y ago
I guess this is to do with the sample of users, but I'm very surprised at how low PowerPoint comes out - more or less 0% of users use it? Given how often I have to suffer through one of those presentations I'd have expected more. I'd also
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by stoney 16y ago
100,000 euros would buy you a very large solar installation (in the UK at least). For a typical family sized home closer to 20,000 euros would be closer to the mark.
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by stoney 16y ago
Of course the electricity consumers also pay taxes, so it all works out the same in the end! They've just introduced a similar scheme in the UK, with the price guaranteed for 25 years. It looks like around a 10 year payback period on the i
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by stoney 16y ago
I was talking purely from personal preference, but would be interested to know if there were any studies done on this. Widescreen movies on a 4:3 aspect TV always use black edges, but maybe that's just tradition or to do with contrast or so
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by stoney 16y ago
Looks nice, the only bit I don't like is that if it is full screen you have a vast expanse of white on either side of content, which I find a bit distracting for some reason. I always think dark bars down sides help to focus your eyes into
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by stoney 16y ago
It's an interesting risk trade off. The central hub is complex but well resourced so able to solve problems quicky (hopefully), self hosting is perhaps a simpler overall solution as it is smaller scale (so less chance of a failure?) but yo
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by stoney 16y ago
You need to define what "smarter" means to you - and also recognise that no-one is a top performer in every field. So step one is to pick an area where you want to improve. If you don't know where to start then just start anywhere - come u
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by stoney 16y ago
Generally I think a complete life overhaul for a couple of months would be worth a go. It might turn out that the condition is environmental rather than medical. Or it might not. Either way, it's probably worth finding out. You could try
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by stoney 16y ago
Probably not a huge deal - he's finished his final exam so will presumably graduate in the next few weeks. And since the summer vacation (=fewer students on campus) is approaching I guess he'd see a drop in traffic anyway. In fact this cou
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by stoney 16y ago
You could fix it by changing the environment - limited food rations, enforced exercise, etc. But the cost to society would probably outweigh the benefits.
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by stoney 16y ago
It's a bit unfair to say obese people are "just not trying". They might be trying very hard, they're just not trying hard enough. Getting from being obese to an average weight is much harder than maintaining an average weight. Once you ge
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by stoney 16y ago
Without knowing the road it's difficult to say for sure, but the car driver might be significantly responsible here. If a pedestrian is keeping as close to the side of the road as reasonably possible and is reasonably visible (e.g. not wear
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by stoney 16y ago
I also notice that "low-fat" foods tend to make up for the low fat in other ways Yes, low fat!=low calorie (though in the case of milk, low fat milk does have a lot fewer calories).
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by stoney 16y ago
Access to the surf is definitely a big factor in Oz cities. Also many of the cities started as coastal settlements, so the older parts of the city tend to be closest to the coast (and they tend to be the richer bits??). In Brisbane much of
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by stoney 16y ago
A good way of enticing new users could be to build a bit more of a story/value proposition around your overall approach/system (versus the tool/app - I'm not looking for tools, I'm looking for solutions). Maybe you could write a couple of a
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by stoney 16y ago
You could make it much harder for bots by asking the user to click on two numbers (e.g. highest and lowest). I don't think that would be too much extra work for the user as most of the effort is in scanning through all of the numbers.
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by stoney 16y ago
Games definitely used to kill my productivity by keeping me up until the early hours of the morning, but then fairly suddenly I lost interest in them for no obvious reason. Maybe I just got too old or more likely maybe the new games don't
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by stoney 16y ago
I suppose that the right to copy, distribute or modify the Program is not the same as the ability to do so. Apple could grant everyone the right to redistribute any GPL'ed apps, but it wouldn't make any practical difference because who
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by stoney 16y ago
Yeah, mainly the pub, but also any situation where you want someone to do something that seems risky: "Trust me, I'm a doctor!" And dealing with unhelpful customer service: "We're sorry Mr Smith but we can't do that..." "Actually that's DOC
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by stoney 16y ago
As you said, there is not much in the way of direct financial compensation for having a PhD in industry, but it can act as a foot in the door and it can (depending on the company) mean you get treated a bit differently once you are hired.
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by stoney 16y ago
By far the best way of approaching this is to look for suitable ex-colleagues - either they've left the company or you have. Solves pretty much all of the nasty issues. Also make sure you think about the long term. Sure, you're not trying
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by stoney 16y ago
I agree - I'm not sold on web apps in general, but they do work very well for certain things (email is the classic example). Despite the hype, I'm not sure how many people are really sold on them. In practice I use native apps 99% of the t
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by stoney 16y ago
Just look at the second hand car market for a comparison - people are generally less willing to spend money on new cars that depreciate quickly, preferring vehicles that maintain their value. Particularly people who intend to sell their ca
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by stoney 16y ago
I have heard so many different explanations of why planes fly that I doubt that anyone really understands it. There was a memorable moment towards the end of my engineering degree, when after being given yet another explanation of why plan
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by stoney 16y ago
Exactly! And if I devise a complicated storage scheme of deeply nested tupperware boxes for my spices, then it will take me forever to find them. And if I pack my food into random cupboards when I get back from the supermarket, it will al
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by stoney 16y ago
But then what happens when I want to copy my presentation, some associated video clips, my notes, the directions to the venue and the meeting agenda onto my USB drive? Suddenly all of the information relating to my presentation is scattere
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by stoney 16y ago
Presumably your DRM system (or whatever other approach you use) will cost money to develop (or buy in). So you need to make enough extra sales from the converted pirates to cover that cost. And there will be extra support costs from legit
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by stoney 16y ago
Having moved to a new country myself recently, I would have loved the opportunity to talk to the locals about life in general - where to live, where to go out, etc (though in my case I moved between English speaking countries so the languag