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by watmough 15y ago
I can think of a few reasons. One is that Apple want to minimize cruft and crap bloating the install. I think my fresh install weighed in about 6 GB or so. Very nice, just 20% of a 30 GB drive. Another is that software still built with old
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by watmough 15y ago
Totally agree with your last sentence. This is an EPIC review, and drove me to clear some diskspace and buy and install Lion. I like it so far, some nice touches, but there really are some serious usability issues, including discoverability
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by watmough 15y ago
Gosh that's really neat. This is another arrow in the quiver for Javascript as the assembly language of the web. The bonus is that it's a very nice little language, becoming highly performant, and universally available.
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, and maybe with the side-effect of getting a truer read on reaction versus the reaction to experiments under a google banner. Nonetheless it may make google a less fun place to be if they do drop a bunch of people, and they surely will
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by watmough 15y ago
Aren't there already cheap composting toilets that safely and relatively odorlessly compost human waste, without he assistance of a bunch of grant-hungry, plasma torch-wielding scientists. If I recall, you can't pee in them due to ammonia,
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by watmough 15y ago
Kinda sad, but for my book-buying habits, used books on Amazon have killed my fiction buying, and NoStarch, Manning etc., have killed my bricks&mortar tech-book binges.
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by watmough 15y ago
Google+ rocks. I've defected.
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by watmough 15y ago
Why is Twitter wounded? Twitter is essentially friction free in use, and has a lot of momentum as a single-purpose destination. On the other hand, Facebook has felt increasingly intrusive, facial recognition etc., and I already gave up on i
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by watmough 15y ago
Old iMac, which is going to need to be replaced for post-iOS 4 development. I think it will have been my longest serving box ever, going on 4 years now, though the Mac Mini hooked to the TV is just a tad older. Still using my day 1 MacBook,
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by watmough 15y ago
Damn, I was thinking the same thing too! TweetMachine does look like a pretty neat webapp. I'm not a big enough Twitter user, but if I was promoting an app through Twitter, I'd certainly regard $20/month as likely a solid investment. You mi
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by watmough 15y ago
His feedback is great. The new design, even the so-called 'dense' one, is bland, spread-out and hard to read.
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, both redesigns appear to take massive steps backwards in terms of contrast and information density, and to add insult to injury, promote one random design element, Compose in the case of Gmail, to a giant non-standard ugly colored 'but
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by watmough 15y ago
It always seemed self-evident to me that to attain something like human intelligence, machines would have to share human human visual and auditory senses and be bootstrapped to a point where some great influx of knowledge could take place.
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by watmough 15y ago
Any reason why this, very clean-looking site, won't run without javascript enabled? A form with a button really should fallback to simple HTML if javascript is not available, though obviously this doesn't preclude you from tweaking the site
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by watmough 15y ago
If Google+ fills a need for people, especially allowing people fine-grained, easy-to-use control of what is shared to who, then it should succeed. Facebook is the big target that most people perceive, but surely LinkedIn is a huge target al
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by watmough 15y ago
http://semiconductormuseum.com/Transistors/LectureHall/Camen... Some interesting 555 background info.
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by watmough 15y ago
Clarke and Baxter also take this on in a great book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
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by watmough 15y ago
As the article says, that was just a hypothesis. There's no mention of tracking insulin levels, only blood sugar. And what's more, type diabetes is described in the article as resistance to insulin. I can think of at least one further hypot
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by watmough 15y ago
Wait until you deactivate your facebook account. Then you get some real guilting. Your friends will miss you. Why don't you send some messages now to let them know you're leaving. Awful.
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by watmough 15y ago
This is an amazing photo-essay on some of the legacy of Chernobyl. http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl If you can point me at a similar legacy of birth defects suffering and eviction from the land, tied to the BP spill, pleas
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by watmough 15y ago
On the other hand, the commercial pressures of operating complex metal and concrete structures way beyond their design-life may lead to pressure to relax standards, that when combined with aging materials, lead to a chain of events that cre
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by watmough 15y ago
This is a wild idea, but there is precedent in the example of the dual-graphics systems. That said, I'd be very surprised if Apple implemented this initially in the MBA first. Maybe the MBA will move to A5, then down the road, the high-end
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by watmough 15y ago
I support keeping the scores hidden, but using the scores to hide inappropriate, or spammy comments. Of course, what seem to be missing is a way to highlight comments that have been consistently voted up within the thread.
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by watmough 15y ago
scribd surely has prior art on this, in relation to their platform independent rendering of an intermediate representation of textural and graphical documents.
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by watmough 15y ago
My scariest experience of American food was on my first night in the country. I was in the lobby of the hotel and kinda peckish, so I ordered the nearest thing I could find to a ham sandwich, a montecristo. Despite it being actually fairly
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by watmough 15y ago
It's also more expensive to provide quality fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Compare the cost of a big mac to a free-range organic chicken breast and some fresh vegetables.
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by watmough 15y ago
Thanks for giving such a great summation. This was the key point for me from Lustig's presentation. Essentially, if you treat sucrose and fructose as a condiment, rather than as a key source of kCal, you will be consuming simple sugars, pro
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by watmough 15y ago
For myself and my wife, typical US serving sizes constitute 3 meals, though nowadays, we generally only eat out occasionally, and at local non-chain restaurants that serve decent quality food.
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by watmough 15y ago
Heh, I just got an email that did a remarkable job of appearing exactly like a typical Apple Store email. Be careful out there folks. You don't know what's on the other end of that link.
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by watmough 15y ago
http://nightly.webkit.org/ I downloaded a webkit nightly from here, and it works now. Also, of note, the nightly picks up all my Safari settings, so it's not too much of a pain.

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