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by tesseractive 15y ago
Doesn't iCloud do this now? (Not an iPhone user, so I can't confirm or deny.) Personally I get my music onto my Android phone with a MOG subscription, and I sync a number of other things with Dropbox.
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by tesseractive 15y ago
I know people who email from iPads. It's really pretty common. And I think the "expensive toy" trope is pretty passe at this point. I have an IDE (AIDE) running on my phone , and since it's a Droid 4 with a keyboard, it's really pretty usa
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by tesseractive 15y ago
> I would say get ready for the Post Hardware Era. That's what they said in the mid-90s as the web was catching on (remember the "network computer"?). And then came Flash and Java applets and Javascript and various other things and it t
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by tesseractive 15y ago
To be more precise, F# is based on the non-OO parts of Caml, with a completely different object system so it would be be compatible with .Net objects from other languages such as C#. IIRC, the original research was going to be into making H
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by tesseractive 15y ago
Quick thought experiment: right now, you can go out and buy a portable charger with a battery inside. For $40 or so, you can get one roughly the size of carrying a second smartphone with 5000mAh, which is several full charges for your avera
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by tesseractive 15y ago
I have a pseudonymous Facebook account with no one friended and no personally identifying information that I keep around basically just for using services that expect me to have a Facebook account.
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On the other hand, it bears mentioning that you can be racist in your choice of selection criteria , if you choose criteria based on their ability to produce a certain racial outcome. The use of a poll tax people have to pay in order to vo
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by tesseractive 15y ago
I don't think anyone's assuming anything of the kind -- or if they are, they're both wrong and offensive. Go up a couple of posts, and the question was whether a gap in average test scores is sufficient to determine that there is bias. If t
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Plus, standardized test scores have a significant income bias. Affluent kids get SAT prep and can take the SAT multiple times if they're unsatisfied in their scores. And I don't have any data, but my guess is that there's a negative correla