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by tfinniga 12y ago
> If the government has the means to do that, why is it not providing seeds/saplings etc. of vitamin A containing crops right now? Why do people eat bananas as a staple food now? If you're poor, it's all about the efficie
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I think "distribution" in this context is just a nice way of saying that poor people can't afford better food from elsewhere, they have to rely on what is cheap and can be bought from the local market. If they're already
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by tfinniga 12y ago
> the gamer If they get Gabe happy with it, then they will get a ton of free PR in front of a lot of gamers. For example, see this post of his (especially the second half) about the original surface pro: http://www.penny-arca
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by tfinniga 12y ago
"Tell you what, we both go to the same summer camp, so we can be camp friends. But if I see you at school, I won't admit that we are friends. If you try to bring it up, I'll deny it." Facebook is always biased towards
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Right, and probably some money changing hands.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I think it's to make the conversion from cubic to quadratic more predictable. In my experience designing tools, artists often prefer predictable over optimal.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I always love reading artists rules of thumb for how to use curves and surfaces in design. I'm surprised how much performance is a consideration. In CAD the degree of the surfaces are not really a big deal any more, surface degrees of
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I agree, intranet addresses mostly work. For those that don't work, there are workarounds, like specifying the protocol or adding /. Personally, I'm happy with the current omnibox behavior. Getting back to the earlier quest
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I think we can probably agree that the text field on google.com is a search field. However, if I enter "face" into the text field on google.com, then facebook.com is the top result. If I enter a complete URL like " https:&#x
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I agree that it's absolutely awful. I hate how mobile safari has removed URLs, I find it very disorienting. I'm constantly looking at the URL bar to see if I've navigated to a new page or not, to see what the page I'm o
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by tfinniga 12y ago
So, here's how I imagine these rules were created. 1. Collect a large number of stories of harassment or toxic work environments that drive away women. 2. Look for common elements. 3. Make a list of rules to avoid those common elements
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by tfinniga 13y ago
That would stop apple from using it. Would probably stop most current users as well.
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by tfinniga 13y ago
A lot of what Linus says only really applies to linux kernel development. And some of that only applies when you're Linus.
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by tfinniga 13y ago
Neat. I remember it used to be cool when someone hooked up a fridge or fish tank up to the internet.
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by tfinniga 13y ago
Right, that's an app store rule. However, if you've got an HTML 5 app you don't need to install it through the app store. For example, forecast.io. I'm not sure what you're saying about games controlling their own
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by tfinniga 13y ago
The short answers are "yes, sometimes" and "hardly ever". Long answer is in the other message.
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by tfinniga 13y ago
To answer the questions, at least in our particular case: - Do paying customers ever install a hacked version? Yes, this happened fairly often.. less than 1% of the time, but still often enough for us to take it into consideration. There we
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by tfinniga 13y ago
Putting as much logic as possible into the server component is definitely the way to go. I did something similar, I would send the version as well as the md5sum of the executable. Aside from being able to tell the 32 and 64-bit versions apa
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by tfinniga 13y ago
I think we mostly agree. Bitcoin is not bullion. Bitcoin is not bank notes. Bitcoin is not fiat currency. Bitcoin is something new. In this case, when Buffett said that bitcoin is not currency, I think he specifically meant that bitcoin
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by tfinniga 13y ago
> the only advantage of building an app using web technologies, that it's cross platform There are other advantages of building an app using web technologies. Maybe you want to link to a store that doesn't pay Apple 30%. Mayb
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by tfinniga 13y ago
> Can we "downgrade" that app back to something that works, which we already had before, via the app store or otherwise? Yes, if you plan ahead. Keep the .ipa files, those can be loaded onto the phone via iTunes. If you'v
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by tfinniga 13y ago
I'm currently living in the UK, and some of my packages are delivered by 'amazon logistics'
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by tfinniga 13y ago
Whether it's a currency is a separate discussion from whether it has value. Currencies have value based on the stability of the government, how many goods are priced in that currency, the GDP and trade balance of the country, etc. I&#
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by tfinniga 13y ago
I think the main thing is that he's unsure what the value of bitcoin is. The value of a currency is pretty well understood at this point. There is still a lot of uncertainty in assessing the value of bitcoin. Is it more like bullion?
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by tfinniga 13y ago
Seems like a worm, not a virus. Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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by tfinniga 13y ago
There are a few things inherent in the design and policies of the app store that pushes prices to be low. One is that there are no demos possible. You can't make an app that works for 30 days and then stops working. You can sort of d
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by tfinniga 13y ago
I agree - the C++ compilers are pretty good, and if the OS is written in C and C++, working with the OS will be simpler if you use C++ than pascal. One thing I've noticed is that the dominant languages for resource-constrained programs
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by tfinniga 13y ago
> However, it might had not spread into the industry as it did. Worse is better. C++ is nothing if not pragmatic, and the core of C++ programmers are similarly pragmatic. If D or go or rust or whatever else ever become more practical to
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by tfinniga 13y ago
I don't think bitcoin is a good choice for anonymity when you're only paying $15. The anonymity comes from the in-person cash transaction, hoping that they don't remember you if pressed. You could just buy a prepaid visa in
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by tfinniga 13y ago
I agree. I'd imagine if a bunch of google employees did something similar at the house of the person who organized this protest, it wouldn't be seen as being fair.

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