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by tmsh 16y ago
The issue may be, however, that the standards committees for HTML5 haven't defined how different implementations of these standards are supposed to play together. And the question is: does Apple have the right to define how HTML5 should b
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by tmsh 16y ago
Yeah, most work in Chrome (on Linux). Edit: that said, imho, the original link is somewhat misguided. It brings up an interesting question: is Apple responsible for targeting all platforms, or at least all major platforms that conform to a
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by tmsh 16y ago
I see now, thanks. So: For medium/high caffeine consumers: placebo -> decrease (and headache) caffeine -> 'level 1' Non/low caffeine consumers: placebo-> 'level 1' caffeine -> 'level 2' (where level 2
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by tmsh 16y ago
I am no coffee drinker, but I'm surprised that they think their results are conclusive based on a single instance of a placebo administered. Especially when the results are so neurological, that surely the brain compensates the first time a
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by tmsh 16y ago
If there is an severe underlying cause, I have no idea. But you might try getting as much sunlight during the day as possible (during lunch, right after work, etc.). I don't have anything scientific to back me up -- but I think sunlight doe
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by tmsh 16y ago
Additional DCI links: http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data,_Context,_and_Interaction
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New Reddit: Potential Solutions for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill(reddit.com)
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Ask HN: Why isn't there an HN/SO for the oil spill?
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by tmsh 16y ago
So I looked at this link (via the above) from the WSJ: http://bit.ly/cqsUZV Anybody know why digging a hole say 500 feet deep, 50 feet side by side with the gushing well and putting some c4 in there wouldn't work? At any rate, I read this
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by tmsh 16y ago
He says, 'When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.' As an engineer, that's not quite how I think (maybe everyone's different though). What I th
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by tmsh 16y ago
In some ways, his thoughts are some of the most profound things I've read. A very clear articulation of the place of creativity: Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little
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by tmsh 16y ago
Makes me think that increasingly the problems in this world aren't information investigation problems, but information management/digest/presentation problems. Obama, for instance, said today that we'd never had an oil spill of this kind in
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by tmsh 16y ago
i suggest people in a similar circumstance watch LE NOTTI DI CABIRIA. it doesn't seem like it's on topic, but it may be (incidentally, i just saw the film and thought it was pretty good). anyway, money is such a hard thing for so many peopl
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by tmsh 16y ago
It sounds like the guy who compiled the data is thinking of doing that too: http://www.bluemoon.ee/~ahti/touristiness-map/
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by tmsh 16y ago
Yeah, it's hard to deduce what the resolution of this heatmap is. I imagine the Alps are popular. But every square km like that? Seems rather unlikely... (very cool idea as mentioned though) ETA. Based on http://www.panoramio.com/ -- I th
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by tmsh 16y ago
I usually work in phases. -explore possibilities that challenge my sense of the problem space (closely allied with reading stuff on the internet, that leads to HN, etc.) -try out various different ideas -come up with a pretty cool idea (usi
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by tmsh 16y ago
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (ed. Kevlin Henney) is sort of nice reading. All pretty smart ideas so far, imho. Though I haven't finished reading it. (Like a lot of O'Reilly books these days, it's available in a free (legal) form o
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by tmsh 16y ago
This is a little off topic. But I was browsing this thread (and enjoying it per usual), and then I realized that the voting system doesn't have to be one-dimensional. Imagine voting on a 2- or 3-dimensional axis. In this case, one might wan
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by tmsh 16y ago
Eugene Volokh's take (on it being a criminal investigation instead of a civil investigation): http://volokh.com/2010/05/19/pennsylvania-attorney-general-t... The idea that Corbett, as AG, would subpoena to investigate the criminal charges
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by tmsh 16y ago
Some more I didn't see mentioned: [videos (interviews/lectures)] http://mixergy.com/ http://videolectures.net/Top/Computer_Science/ http://video.ias.edu/all [photos] http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ http://www.petapixel.co
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by tmsh 16y ago
Not to be repetitive, but you make good points too, thanks. (And thx for the info.)
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by tmsh 16y ago
I didn't notice it until reading your response, but I suppose there's a pun on 'pure'. Pure environment, pure performance ('not wanting garbage clunking up their beautiful and "magical" device' as you mention), and also pure as in honest. B
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by tmsh 16y ago
If you look at his entire comment, he's asking questions. What I don't like is that Hacker News sometimes discourages people from asking questions, and promotes a culture of one-upmanship, of putting people in their place (or a 'slap on the
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by tmsh 16y ago
You can disagree with us, but our motives are pure. I think that's the main problem. It's not enough to simply have pure motives. Nobody actually understands the complete extent or realization of their motives, and whether or not they're
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by tmsh 16y ago
I would think that, for example, pumping gravel over that leaking area would be all the more effective. You basically just need a lot of volume of some material, and the extreme pressures from above (and gravity) will work in your favor. At
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by tmsh 16y ago
I agree with you. Any solution they do come up with will probably only have an impact until the relief wells are completed (knock on wood) in two months. Dumping/packing in gravel (not from the surface, but via underwater delivery) does see
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by tmsh 16y ago
Also, was just reading up on this more. But look at Salazar's history ('In 2006, Salazar voted to end protections that limit offshore oil drilling in Florida's Gulf Coast.') http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Salazar Clearly, he is not qual
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by tmsh 16y ago
That's a good point. Clearly, he shouldn't be there for press conferences. Perhaps I misspoke by implying his 'presence' would be helpful. I was thinking more along the lines of organizing the cleanup. If we have a national catastrophe that
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by tmsh 16y ago
I guess it's been a long time since anyone remembers what executive leadership looks like. Or can look like. Oh well.
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by tmsh 16y ago
Surely, setting up booms to contain the oil (which is still flowing, and apparently will be for another couple of months until this relief well is done) would do much to limit the expanse of the spill. This is not a completed oil spill. It

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