thalur

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by thalur 16y ago
I was wondering if there might be a way around that rule by claiming that what you sold in-app was a different product from what you sold out-of-app (e.g. on your website), but I'm not sure it would really work. E.g. you sell the in-app "i
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by thalur 16y ago
Given that they mostly appear to grow up in racially homogeneous surroundings, can you really tell which attributes are genetic and which are environmental?
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by thalur 16y ago
8) Expansion (possibly covered by 5) 9) to preserve the Earth: if we can move the bulk of the human population off planet before we totaly destroy it, we could turn the Earth into a planet-sized nature reserve.
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by thalur 16y ago
Ah, I miss-wrote. I meant "arranged" by the author when I said "done" by the author. As you and the other commenters say I meant an author can go out and find an editor/proof-reader/cover-artist etc. and pay them directly for their work.
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by thalur 16y ago
"Their other services (editing and packaging) do have value, but not nearly enough to account for their customary share of the gross." And, as I understand it, these things can be done directly by the author. So a lot of what is left is th
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by thalur 16y ago
This topic comes up in a lot of his other blog posts. He cites both never-published-before authors, and already published authors using pen names being successful. However, I don't really see how an unknown name can become successful witho
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by thalur 16y ago
Have you considered selling it on the Kindle/iBooks/B&N etc?
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by thalur 16y ago
The graph is titled (roughly) "500% rises follow inflation". It could just as easily be titled "500% rises are followed by inflation" from the same data.
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by thalur 16y ago
How did you get the figures for the number of pirates? Is it the anti-piracy code you added reporting back to you?
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by thalur 16y ago
Depending on which waveband you use, different vision tasks become a lot easier. It looks to me like all the sensing is done by the room, not the quadrotors, hence why its all room-mounted.
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by thalur 16y ago
How would you take screen-shots? Or more importantly, do a hard reset when it crashes. I find the home button is also easier to use to wake my iphone than the power button is.
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by thalur 16y ago
...among 21 companies selected from the top 100...
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by thalur 16y ago
I've been looking at switching to a password manager like that, but I've been having trouble knowing how to pick one that a) I can trust and b) is good. I was thinking of giving up and just using a plain text file inside a truecrypt file.
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by thalur 16y ago
blocking connections to gmail works ok. Of course, that doesn't prevent you printing stuff out...
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by thalur 16y ago
You have to be careful that what follows the "but" is not a personal criticisim. For example: "I don't mean to be rude, but you're an idiot" is no less rude as a result of claiming not to be rude (though they /may/ not notice this a
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by thalur 16y ago
How does this work out if you believe you are significantly under-compensated at your current job (assuming it's the peak for the last five years)?
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by thalur 16y ago
It's a shame number 17 is four words, not one. Otherwise, some interesting words.
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by thalur 16y ago
That sounds far too good to be true. I guess if you don't care about the fine details then its a decent technique, but to take the MRI example, what if the thing that was wrong was only visible in those small details?
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by thalur 16y ago
You could try putting it on a tablet PC (one with a stylus). I do most of my software design stuff (UML etc.) on paper first before transfering into a software tool. I find it much easier to do that way.
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by thalur 16y ago
What if the analysis were to be done based on where the people came from rather than modern geographical borders? I felt it a bit odd that the analysis was done by overlaying modern geographic boundaries on historical technology, consideri
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by thalur 16y ago
I guessed 300.
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by thalur 16y ago
I'm guessing from the text that they have ignored time spent sleeping (i.e considered it to be 0 MET-hours)
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by thalur 16y ago
Why is everyone bashing the AI? Its clearly a joke from the first two sentences of the post: "John Davison recently claimed that games are "Too Big and Too Hard". I have addressed this issue by reducing StarCraft to 8 buttons." Or is it to
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by thalur 16y ago
It was a good story, but I stopped when it got to: "Speed through the loop beats quality and this is something we can apply to all aspects of the software development process." The jump from piloting a plane to "its therefore obviously tru
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by thalur 16y ago
Is that "fair"?, or is that what those who worked all their lives want everyone to believe in order to justify themselves having worked all their lives? Just a thought, not an opinion.
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by thalur 16y ago
I hope someone like aquapac who make them for iphone will make an ipad cover too.
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by thalur 16y ago
Out of curiosity, what games would you put in which category? I would class something like WoW as negative and games like Civilisation as positive, which makes me think it has something to do with where you do the "work". In WoW, the "work
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by thalur 16y ago
If healthcare is all paid for by the individual, what happens when people can't afford the treatments they need? That path seems equaly dystiopian to me.
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by thalur 16y ago
Presumably "graphical" programming tools like labview and gedae. But I'm not a fan of them as they are very mouse-dominated which doesn't do my RSI any good.
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by thalur 16y ago
I find it somewhat ironic that Robert Peston is criticising the ratings agencies for playing a very similar role to the one he played in the Northern Rock fiasco.

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