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by warpspeed 14y ago
From the article: "When your resolution is too low to fully resolve an object, it tends to look rectangular because the pixels in the image are squares. Any curve will look like a series of straight lines if you reduce your resolution enoug
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by warpspeed 14y ago
Admitting something in a support document and naming the update as such are two very different gestures. I guarantee that less than 1% of their user base will ever see that support doc- really most users don't even look at the names of the
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by warpspeed 14y ago
Because creating an update named "Flashback Malware Removal Update" would admit that Macs can be infected with malware- something Apple has taken great lengths to gloss over.
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by warpspeed 14y ago
Hoboken, NJ is an oft-overlooked area. I live there and am a 10 minute PATH ride (or ferry) from WTC. It's a town completely full of yuppies so there are plenty of eager roommates. You alternatively might be able to find a studio under 1k.
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by warpspeed 14y ago
It would be reasonable to someone reading HN, since we probably are not scared off by technical jargon. Even if the instructions were spelled out completely, the plain-text formatting and numbers (IP addresses) immediately tell the average
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by warpspeed 14y ago
In absolute terms, I agree. However, in the real world there are limits on resources. Imagine there was a serial killer loose in your town, and instead of seeing headlines about the police's progress in catching him, the headline reads "pol
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by warpspeed 14y ago
Maybe they just need a better PR department. From my point of view, I'd like to hear a few more headlines about how they're working to avoid the next economic meltdown before I care about being charged an extra 50 cents for an ebook. To use
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by warpspeed 14y ago
It's a little hard to be up in arms about this alleged price fixing. Yes, it's anti-consumer and might end up costing us a few dollars, but if the DOJ is looking to make some real change, I'd argue that this isn't the best use of their time
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by warpspeed 14y ago
I worked at a tech shop for a little while where we would routinely have to dispose of customer's hard drives. Our solution was writing zeros to the disk, then driving a big metal pin through the drive. It seemed like an effective system.
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by warpspeed 14y ago
I haven't yet seen an article that I feel really shows how much is riding on these missions. This first interaction between private and public space agencies represents passing the torch to the next chapter of space exploration. If either o
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I think it's interesting how old ideas can become new again. Graham's ideology (as portrayed in the article at least) seems to be along the lines of Edison's. Edison Quotes: "I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in ter
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I agree with you that it's silly to think of special laws being created specifically for facebook and the like. The problem with laws in all areas right now is that the internet and everything that came with it is so far "out there" that th
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I suppose that's a matter of anecdotal evidence on both of our ends. I have friends who have applied for jobs and had more than once been asked for this information- either to login to facebook in front of them, or provide login info. While
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems that this practice is so wide-spread that there's enough grey area for hiring managers to get away with it, so the current laws aren't enough. Internet social networking is such a new and world-changing concep
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by warpspeed 15y ago
Should it be illegal to ask interviewees to sleep with you in order to be considered for the job? After all you're not forcing them, and some people might be desperate enough for a job to consent.
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I'd imagine it's probably not illegal, since that's not the only information on your profile. Just like they can't ask you your race or marital status, but when you come in for the interview they can certainly see the color of your skin and
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by warpspeed 15y ago
Very cool idea! I'm wondering if it solves this problem that a lot of clients face- the client knows what they'd like, but have no clue as to what kind of coding is required to accomplish it. So when they look for freelancers, they don't kn
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by warpspeed 15y ago
From my experience too many people are using Photoshop for areas where they should be using Illustrator. In collateral such as logos or signage, vector-based files are infinitely easier to work with, yet I can't tell you how many times I've
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by warpspeed 15y ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation and link.
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I'm new to this site, but how does someone ranting about a problem that doesn't exist end up on the front page? It's not a problem with procedure, the guy just doesn't know how to use his phone. Maybe he'd be better off reading a manual ins
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by warpspeed 15y ago
Make it extremely easy for the customer to give you their money. I've never made a paid site, but as a customer I know that the more steps that are involved in taking my money, the more likely I'll be to change my mind. Oh, and give an alte
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I don't see the big deal with asking your customer-facing employees to not buy products from the competition with company money. It's only "news" because people love watching the drama between these two companies.
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by warpspeed 15y ago
Agreed 100%. You can tell Elon meant it when he said that they are some of his heros, and that he's truly hurt by them lambasting a mission that he felt would make them proud. It goes to show you that even our heros don't know everything, a
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by warpspeed 15y ago
According to the 1967 U.N. Outer Space Treaty, "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means. However, the
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by warpspeed 15y ago
Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o edit- Parachutes are probably more practical. They work if you make them big enough.
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by warpspeed 15y ago
52,000 millirem is 520 mSv, not 520Sv. This number is taken from the Brookhaven National Lab tests. The paper may be talking there about accumulated absorbed radiation, not total exposure.
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by warpspeed 15y ago
Practically it really hasn't. Polyethylene is being tested in NASA's Radiation Shielding Program but I don't believe it's been put into service for a manned mission. There are also tests being conducted with adjustable "magnetic bubbles" th
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I occasionally get to work with the Astronomical Society and have gotten into a few conversations about manned Mars missions with people from NASA, JPL and various educational institutions. The numbers are from a study NASA conducted at Bro
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by warpspeed 15y ago
While I'm sure it's a technical hurdle in itself, I didn't think that fuel or weight were the big problems with a manned mission to Mars. I'm curious as to what Mr. Musk's plan is for shielding passengers from intersteller radiation that on
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by warpspeed 15y ago
I'd pay to watch a debate between him and Rick Santorum.

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