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by tezza 12y ago
95% of people make any decision based on what their peer group does. Only 5% make up their own mind on any given issue. This changes issue by issue and people who make up their own mind on some issues, follow the 95% peer group on others. T
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If you look at hiring forms in Big Companies... There are checkboxes for Degree as well as PhD. It is common for managers to simply tick a box and send to HR / Recruiting firm. So people without those get filtered out before anyone eve
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by tezza 12y ago
Others have mentioned U6 etc. The issue of the headline figure not capturing certain key features is mentioned as nauseum on CNBC a or any decent financial news source. Gallup and the person who posted this is trying to make it sound like a
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I think some in depth academic research would be required to determine the optimal strategy. Intuitive strategies may not be as good as some counter-intuitive options. I'm not qualified to answer either way, I imagine several people co
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I'm sorry, but I do exactly what you say is impossible. > Putting backups into the cloud is a terrible idea > and transferring large data collection over a > residential Internet connection makes little sense. I wor
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Okay... sniffed accidentally then ( putting them in the wrong directory, not using fs permissions properly etc ) I would say that you should consider malicious sniffing too
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Cloud servers ============= Xen supports virtual TPM. I'm no Amazon EC2 expert, but a quick google exposed a few keen souls who tried to use vTPM and failed. This would suggest that Amazon does not yet support vTPM. Re-en
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Isn't this what TPM was designed to avoid ? Neither files nor env variables. Most chipsets have a rather unused TPM function, and it should be possible to have developers and processes hook into that. Perhaps using tmptool ? On master
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Change freezes have more uses than the OP has highlighted. We've just had Christmas and Boxing Day. There may be less support staff available on those days, and the devs may be on holiday. By having a change freeze beforehand, the set
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What PG is stating is broadly true. It may be possible to eke out a few more % of programmers by teaching computing more widely. At the moment the bunch of programmers is fairly self-selecting, and there may be many more people who may be g
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Most journalists are barely informed cut'n'paste merchants. Journalists value the sensational over the factual, and work hard (true) to tight deadlines. So they already do not care about the tech features promised, namely indica
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The Naked Eye - Charles Saatchi Outsider - Brian Sewell Autobiography
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I think you may have the memory issue the wrong way round. Human memory is built precisely around remembering geographic locations, human faces and images[1]. The 'have I seen this before feeling' you get is your brain trying to m
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by tezza 12y ago
No dice on my system, in-page search does not work. Mac or Windows Firefox. Also some of the menu of glyphs are only visual analogues, not 1-1 replacements. Plenty of systems and indexers will not be sophisticated enough to cope. This may b
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> What are Wallabies doing in Ireland? Why warming up for their test match of course: http://www.rugby.com.au/wallabies/GameDay/2014Fixtures.aspx
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Ability to set the task switcher icon of the Firefox instance. If I'm alt-tabbing it helps identify which FF instance I am switching to
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by tezza 12y ago
It'd be nice to have the URL bar entries as combobox dropdowns Hand editing by moving the cursor is so fiddly and error prone. Take: http://my.app/path/to/node?a=123&b=A34 it would be nice to be able
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This is a misleading project name :( It sounds like a statement or headline : "read all about it: Cosmic Rays Found in Smartphones" Rather it could be better to say: "help scientists detect cosmic rays with a crowd sourcing s
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Um, it's not just the USA: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327766/Mid-Stafford... 1200 dead because of avoidable cleanliness problems
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Hey, you can always meet up immediately afterwards by walking around to the other side and say Hi. There's no enforced separation beyond that. Venice has masked balls where you interact behind the mask, and that makes it novel and exci
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You would still have your sent emails, and could simply filter by recipient and date to get them back. Which raises the question... why would people not simply email a /dev/null email address to achieve precisely the same effect ?
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I went for a BeagleBone Black because I could communicate with the device over the same USB that powered it. It doesn't look as though they have made the RPI B+ communicate over the power line, are there plans for future versions to do
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In case you're revisiting this post later ( 17 hours elapsed when I got to your article ) . 1. Recording the missteps to Perfection . In future could you record the number of edits required to come up with your finished essays ? I&#x
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I agree, out and out Contempt of Court. Further, the Judge themselves is in charge of deciding whether Contempt of Court has occurred. No possible jury to convince or appeal to, just the judge. They can have you imprisoned in under a day. C
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TTF to Bitmap software BMFont is now open source(angelcode.com)
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Thomas Edison didn't invent the Light Bulb Marconi didn't invent wireless telegram Watt did not invent the steam engine ---- Also you now buy versions of the device: https://www.durovis.com/dive.html and a review
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I wouldn't say no use. Instead I'd say no current use. Some power uses cannot be electrified ( nuclear powered airplanes ? ) David Mackay estimated[1] that if there was no fossil fuel left / consumed we'd need to use
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Zero Technical Angle, yet still amazing: FailArmy https://www.youtube.com/user/failarmy
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Although I'm an Australian, I was born in South Africa, and so was rather surprised to find that there is a standing joke in Oz: How does a Kiwi get a small business?, you give them a large business. That's just a cruel joke an

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