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by teacup50 9y ago
Indeed; look how well that's worked for Manhattan. /s Realistically, density doesn't seem to ever drive down housing prices in the long term. All it does is increase the value of land tremendously, and thus push local home
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by teacup50 10y ago
Sit-down restaurants won't go out of business just because a McDonalds opens across the street.
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by teacup50 10y ago
> Is an artist useful? Are they a respected contributor in their field? Can they afford to support themselves here?
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by teacup50 10y ago
In theory you can supply your own firmware.
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by teacup50 10y ago
At least for Broadcom (nee Cypress) WiFi chipsets used in a lot of these devices, the canonical MAC used by hardware is encoded in one of three places: - Onboard SPROM: easily modified by a driver, but shouldn't be rewritten to achieve
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by teacup50 10y ago
"Our findings simply demonstrate that the pursuit of meritocracy at the workplace may be more difficult than it first appears" That's not an indictment of pursuing a meritocracy.
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by teacup50 10y ago
> If there are disparities, what, if anything, do you think should be done to lessen the disparity in demographics? Target inequality of opportunity , and do not assume that differences in outcome are prima facie evidence of differe
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by teacup50 10y ago
It's not a positive indicator of the health of Apple's engineering and business/engineering management that they couldn't keep someone in an extremely key technology position. I'm reminded of their loss of both Avie
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by teacup50 10y ago
What manufacturers require internet activation? That's a non-starter for any product I purchase.
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by teacup50 10y ago
> The fact that's completely impossible to buy a dumb TV anymore There's still a commercial/industrial market segment that manufacturers target (digital signage, hospitality/hospital TV systems, etc). The TVs produc
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by teacup50 10y ago
Which has succeeded in spite of being a hot, churning mess.
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by teacup50 10y ago
Yes. Privacy should be the default.
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by teacup50 10y ago
They phone home (to Google Analytics) by default: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... It's pretty ridiculous. They're giving Google a map of everything individu
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by teacup50 10y ago
In a world where 1) traditional gender roles and family units are the norm, 2) jobs are known to be a finite commodity, and 3) employers are expected to provide adequate wages and benefits such that employees can support their entire family
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by teacup50 10y ago
Well, sure, but isn't it rather obvious that using resources to engage in distracting non-work activities is detrimental to work efficiency? I've got 6880x1440 worth of curved display on my desk, and obviously, watching Netflix, b
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by teacup50 10y ago
There's something to be said for not trying to put everything into a single expensive physical connection standard that requires complex active cabling. USB was already a lot of software (and hardware) complexity just to attach a l
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by teacup50 10y ago
Doesn't sound like much of a controlled study. Selection bias may have played a part :P Even just having a physically larger display that fills your FOV appears to improve spatial task and memory performance: http://resear
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by teacup50 10y ago
Which doesn't support the above description of firing women for the purpose of hiring a new younger crop at lower wages.
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by teacup50 10y ago
> That people get anything done at all on these little midget laptops is, quite frankly, amazing to me. Simply lacking screen real estate reduces available working memory that would be used to focus on a coding task. Given how this emp
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by teacup50 10y ago
Studies show that it's true for the broad population, too. More screen real estate and faster processing directly and significantly impacts focus and working memory. Perhaps your employees aren't perfectly rational actors whose in
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by teacup50 10y ago
So they're still selling plenty? That's not exactly "nobody" then, is it? Most people don't buy pickup trucks, but 1) people who buy them need them, and 2) it's a profitable market segment.
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by teacup50 10y ago
You're literally wasting money and your brain by forcing yourself to work on downsized hardware. Studies are consistent here. Time you spend waiting? Distracts you from your tasks, overall focus drops -- you're dumber. Less screen
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by teacup50 10y ago
That fun "fact" claims a degree of nefarious plotting that requires at least a smidgen of evidence.
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by teacup50 10y ago
Unless you have lead walls, a ~1000 sq ft apartment should be fully covered by a single access point. The problem in NYC is that there's just too much band crowding; adding more access points is only going to provide an improvement (if
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by teacup50 10y ago
> ... evolved with a 4100K light source at night As others have noted, we sleep poorly under strong moonlight . I live in a very rural wooded area, and I can leave my blinds open except when the moon is at its brightest -- I sleep v
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by teacup50 10y ago
Seamless "filesystem integration" -- which includes the Finder badging -- was central to what made Dropbox a novel product. It's also a very useful feature that served people well.
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by teacup50 10y ago
That last comment is ironic, given that Dropbox would literally not exist today without the runtime patching of the Finder. There was no other way to do what they did. The only reason Apple added API was because Dropbox came up with an idea
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by teacup50 10y ago
Well, it is. They're the ones that push them through. It's classic bureaucratic maneuvering: it gives you a political hammer from which you can then further cement a position of authority by leveraging the threat of official censu
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by teacup50 10y ago
C++ isn't substantially different from C when it comes to systems programming concerns regarding stability. The biggest issue is that it's a bit harder to maintain ABI compatibility. You have to carve out reserved vtable space, av
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by teacup50 10y ago
javac, gcc, and clang all support some form of -std=<lang_level>, and ABI/source interop between code that uses different language versions. The post-gcc 2.95 C++ ABI breakage was pretty suck, though. [edit] And please don't

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