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by what 17y ago
There are better articles to complain about. Like the one about a recall on children's Tylenol or how many iPads have been sold.
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by what 17y ago
> My biggest fear was of people reading the blog and yawn moving on yawn Edit: Aren't posts like these a dime a dozen? I mean, writing about something controversial and submitting posts to social networking sites isn't exactly groun
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by what 17y ago
slides here: http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr/slides/eurosys2010_sessi...
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''Otherworld'' - giving applications a chance to survive OS kernel crashes(portal.acm.org)
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by what 17y ago
Just google the fizzbuzz problem, people struggle to solve even simple problems. Here's a link: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...
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by what 17y ago
I'm reminded of the quote: "for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." Everything eventually comes to an end; Google, Facebook, etc will be no different. It's just a matter of time.
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by what 17y ago
Telling users what they want often doesn't give the best user experience.
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by what 17y ago
Except you can opt out when google does it: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
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by what 17y ago
Ok, you seem to be more knowledgeable on the subject than I am and I probably misinterpreted the chart as well. I was just trying to say turbines aren't the end all solution since most places don't seem to have enough wind. But there should
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by what 17y ago
I use the comments section to watch for new comments on article that is generating an interesting discussion. It's useful if you already know which article you want to follow (you can scan for the title). I find it easier than revisiting th
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by what 17y ago
Wikipedia claims an average power consumption of ~12kW per person in the US (but it's marked as needing a citation). Assuming a wind power density rating of good (500W/sq m), you would need to harness all of the energy in a 24sq m area per
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by what 17y ago
Fair enough. If you've taken the time to organize the icons, you probably know where everything is. But when I think of some one with a zillion files on their desktop, I picture a disorganized jumble of icons. Plus the second monitor probab
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by what 17y ago
Are there actually ecological impacts from offshore wind turbines? From what I've read, they rarely hit birds. Bats are another story, but I don't think there are too many bats flying around offshore. On a side note, there's not much potent
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by what 17y ago
> Or, you could just drag the image file from the desktop to the imageshack page and it would Just Work. What makes drag and drop more usable than the browser's file selector dialog? Using your example: For drag and drop you would have
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by what 17y ago
Some browsers will only respect the :hover pseudo-class on anchors.
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by what 17y ago
"People use web search today because they don't know how else to find high quality information. The web is a mess of content with no organization. On an iPhone, I launch the appropriate app." How is launching the appropriate app a way to fi
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by what 17y ago
You should use FF if you want to use FF, it's personal preference. This video, shown on chrome shorts, explains it better than I can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5535Ts-iOP0#t=58s
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by what 17y ago
Doesn't flash have a same origin policy that would prevent you from streaming mp3s from random URLS. I thought you have to host both the player and mp3 at the same domain? Or at least have a policy file on both domains that says you can acc
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by what 17y ago
re: doing something less "useless" Interesting idea. Each lesson you could learn something and apply it to incrementally build an "interesting" program. In the end you have learned the language and have actually created something.
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by what 17y ago
UToronto switched from Java to Python a couple years ago. I wonder what my high school is using, they started us with BASIC, then Java and finally a little C... I was pretty well prepared for first year.
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by what 17y ago
I've rarely seen anyone ask for recommendations/questions on facebook. The few times that I have no one answers. Seems to me facebook is just a bunch of people screaming for attention and collecting "friends" like baseball cards. Useless.
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by what 17y ago
Clicking "like" is like saying I have nothing to actually contribute but I want to feel like I'm participating. Also, I guess it stops the thousands of comments that would just say "I agree," "Yeah" or whatever? But what good is a "like" bu
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by what 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YcZ3Zqk0a8