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by tobtoh 15y ago
That's an interesting point - it's obviously not 'choices' per se that causes 'fanboyism' ... so what is it? Emotional attachment? I could understand that with say religious choices, but why do people get so attached to their phones then?
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by tobtoh 15y ago
It's a bit like discussing choices in religious ... if you say your beliefs are the correct ones, what does that say about my differing beliefs ...
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I agree with your 'no politics' stance (although does SOPA opposition fall under that?), however, I read the article more as a 'tactics developed by accident' than a Occupy advocacy thread. I guess we have slightly different thresholds on t
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by tobtoh 15y ago
From your comment, I'm still not clear what your exact objection is to the article. You appear to be complaining that an 'Occupy' thread is rated higher than a 'hiring' thread, yet don't explain why you feel that the Occupy thread doesn't '
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by tobtoh 15y ago
If you do a video, make sure it's relevant to your content. If all your video is of you talking - then imho it's a fail. As a visitor, the last thing I want to do is have to sit through a video stream which imparts no additional value beyon
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I also prefer HN because I can comment without having to use FB.
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by tobtoh 15y ago
A random thought popped into my head around defacing sites. Rather than defacing the front pages of every website they can, they should change the 404 pages to say something like 'Content censored by SOPA legislation'. Every time someone co
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Yes they did: "Replace the front page of every website we can with a simple, clear protest page."
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by tobtoh 15y ago
In Chrome (Win 16.0.912.63), the checkbox and description are there for a split second as the page loads and then disappears. I turned off Adblock in case that was the cause, but the checkbox is still invisible even when I do that. Adblock
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> The goal of good handling code isn’t to maintain a “correct” simulation, it’s to provide a fun game. It sucks to miss a jump by three centimeters. That statement really resonated with me. I'm currently playing Battlefield 3 on the Xb
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Agree with all the points - especially #3. The speaker made a case that recording with sound was a lot easier and that's why it's better. Whilst it's an advantage, I don't see it as a compelling reason. Frontpage made 'web design' easy - bu
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by tobtoh 15y ago
If it's so easy to abuse the DCMA, I'm curious why the 'unwashed masses' haven't been issuing DCMA takedown requests for all the official music industry music videos on YouTube. Wouldn't that quickly highlight how broken the model is?
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The 2011 list of (over)used buzzwords in LinkedIn profiles(blog.linkedin.com)
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by tobtoh 15y ago
There has been studies done which show that the 'keeping up with the Jones' aspect of facebook can increase depressive tendencies. So the improvement of your depressions could be as a result of this. The study was mentioned in this article
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by tobtoh 15y ago
”I knew all these things about her, but I’d never even talked to her, I don't think it necessarily unhealthy, but I guess it depends how you interpret 'talk'. I actually read that line as that Blacomb hadn't communicated with her at all -
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by tobtoh 15y ago
My previous company tried to encourage more support teams (sysadmins, dbas, storage etc) to work from home and a lot of people embraced it. However the company discovered an unfortunate side effect - teaming broke down. When our customers h
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> If you're not good at being put on the spot -- or you forget an important point you wanted to make at precisely that moment, you loose. I think the point you are trying to make actually reinforces the need for face to face meetings. E
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by tobtoh 15y ago
This old chestnut of an argument gets rolled out every time a situation like this occurs - "Well they are the rules, you should have read them, it's your fault. Suck it up". In most situations I've read, the people don't so much object the
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by tobtoh 15y ago
As the article stated, the automated feature reduces the need for multiple cars, it enables better car pooling options - so yes, if you want to look at it by narrowly isolating one aspect of the scenario, sure, it uses more fuel to drive a
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by tobtoh 15y ago
The movie iRobot was an interesting take on such a future. In a few scenes in the movie, the female lead (the robot psychologist?) reacts in horror to Will Smith manually driving his petrol driven motobike because it has not auto-pilot and
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Well by the time we get driveless cars, we'll probably be on the tenth generation of 'Prius' technology and the wasted fuel cost will be marginal compared to the cost of a car.
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Carrier IQ Video Shows Alarming Capabilities Of Mobile Tracking Software(techcrunch.com)
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by tobtoh 15y ago
No not quite - they didn't make any bet or guesses on who will quit - the policy was a blanket policy across the entire organisation - it applied to everyone. I don't know if it's studied at uni - I assume they maintain this policy based on
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by tobtoh 15y ago
There are lots of very good reasons to stay in a job even if you are being underpaid - it very much depends on your individual circumstances - in your case, I would probably stay too. Just make sure you periodically evaluate your reasons an
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by tobtoh 15y ago
As a manager, I thought this initially too. But here's the kicker - the employees sit there and take it. Sure they may complain about being underpaid, but few will move to another job. I remember in my previous job, I had a senior sysadmin
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by tobtoh 15y ago
This particular guy was in the middle of a conversation on the phone :)
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by tobtoh 15y ago
If you are getting ready for take-off, the plane returns to the gate and you are escorted off the flight and charged with compromising airline safety and ignoring a steward's order. This happened to a guy two rows in front of me on an Ameri
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Helpful Mouse Fetuses Naturally Send Stem Cells to Mom to Fix Her Damaged Heart(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Whilst I can see why a Facebook Phone looks really promising from FB's perspective, to me, buying a Facebook phone because I like using FB is akin to buying a Coca Cola branded and manufactured car because I like drinking soda/soft drink.
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I may be wrong, but my understanding is that custom control systems are used generally when you have physical restraints of some sort (limited memory, computational power) or require the speed. I'd imagine for the purposes of SpaceX though,

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