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It's funny, the process this writer describes - you get frustrated with a company, go off and build your own, and then don't realise that what you've built is just as atrocious to work for.. I feel like many of the people tha
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Sam Crisp - How To Destroy Everything, Or, Why Video Games Do Not Exist(samcrisp.tumblr.com)
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'you raise a good point' .. 'I concede the discussion to you good sir'. Thank you for restoring my faith in internet based discussion. (With the exception of the gender assumption, which I'll overlook)
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This strikes me as unusual - the judge is clearly going to be biased by her husband's involvement, how is it that she gets to judge whether to recuse herself? Hopefully this means any the eventual verdict can be overturned by a future
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Facebook doesn't have, and won't ever add, an 'export my photo albums, messages and friends list as a series of easily parsable xml files' button, because that would be building redundancy into the product. One of the wa
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A case where security by obscurity ensures the future of the product, for now. I guess this is similar to Facebook / g+ / etc refusing to have easily imported / exported data - if you can export your data to a useful format,
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Also, don't respond to the job ad for that farm in Ohio.. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/04/justice/craiglist-killer-d...
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Better than that, projecting faked confidence results in you developing real confidence. Additionally, people tend to revert to doing what is expected of them if not consciously trying to change their behaviour - if people expect you to beh
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the site linked to ( http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/ ) is brilliant and I love it. I have no doubt that if web application design continues at this rate, all of those words will refer to a ( bleeding edge ) .js frame
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By that figure, if you slapped four of those on top of a 2013 nissan leaf, it'd generate enough power in one hour for a leaf to travel all of 8km at 100kmph#. So, say 6 hours of that good stuff, you've earned an extra half hour of
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" What better way to extend the range than to slap some high efficiency panels on the car's roof and drive all day long? I'm sure that solar panels will reach the point where it would be possible to have an EV with infinite r
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I just choked a bit on my coffee. But people do continue to use IE voluntarily, even if it tends not to be HN geeks..
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The article mentions some clear examples of people who have genetic advantages. Eero Mäntyrantas' advantage isn't difficult to quantify ( sixty-five per cent more red blood cells than the normal adult male ), so I'm not sur
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There was a case of the woman in the UK that used the parole DB as her personal dating site / stalking ground. The more data is held on you by the government (and more likely here, 3rd party contractors) the easier it is to stalk or bl
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Once the software's working, and has been for several years, and it has become unmaintainable because lax guidelines let this stuff through, this sort of thing becomes your real problem .
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I find these a lot with CSS - banishing them seem to be a major goal of LESS, SASS etc. They also seem to crop up too often in JS / JQuery, particularly the manipulation of CSS.. where do you folks tend to find them?
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The real test of this will be if software companies flood to New Zealand to tinker to their hearts content without fear of litigation... or if they flee NZ for fear of invalidating any patents they could have brought on their upcoming softw
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Controversial use of 'literally' :)
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Excellent presentation! Though I would definitely consider underlining 'web browsers', instead of italics. It took me a minute or two of clicking back and forth between the app store and the website to find where I could use the a
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You don't need to study CS to get good technical skills either. I didn't say a humanities degree is the only way to get good writing skills, only that a humanities degree develops your writing skills. I propose that gaining good r
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My friend has this exact same degree (spanish and french), she wandered off to get a masters in International Development and then went on to create various programs around north-east Africa and Central America. Who says it's a worthle
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The internet, one of the world's most powerful emerging resources, is largely routed through and controlled by US companies. It seems trivially obvious (in hindsight) that intelligence agencies would seek to leverage this to further U
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I suspect that many countries have 'us vs them' struggles in their past. Surely the US is not unique in this regard?
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There's also the problem that if an online conversation has nine "Hi, keep up the good work" responses for every "I'll rip off your head and shit down your neck" response, the ones that really stick in the mind
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If George Lucas had created Jar Jar Binks in 2010, would fans have done the same to him? Is this purely a gender thing?