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by wmil 11y ago
> They've already developed at an astonishing rate, perhaps quicker than any other large nation in world history. Although I think that says more about the incompetence of the Mao government. China had a long history of education,
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by wmil 11y ago
The hipster conundrum. He wants effective handwriting recognition for notes, but doesn't want to buy a Surface Pro.
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by wmil 11y ago
For the first article the "a sink of emotional energy" needs some proof that it's harmful. Without that it's just the author's opinion. It's very easy to argue that the fantasy helps people de-stress and ends u
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by wmil 11y ago
What's really interesting is that studios may be able to make the first round of oculus games very cheaply. The resolution is lower than typical on PC games, framerate is important, and the experience is very different. So I bet they c
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by wmil 11y ago
The real solution to this is to open up some kind of bond market for majors. Bundle up a bunch of student loans by major and create a partly public partly private debt obligations. Schools have far too much incentive to lie about the value
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by wmil 11y ago
Besides that most of the top papers only hire from the top ivies. Which generally don't even have journalism programs.
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by wmil 11y ago
There's so much misplaced anger in this articles... The problem is easy to explain. Look at the school. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/south-caro... It's 62% Black / Hispanic and
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by wmil 11y ago
The Venezuelan education system produces many advanced degrees, but it's students rank terribly on international competitions. Those law degrees aren't worth what you think.
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by wmil 11y ago
They're probably trying to track teens who are involved politically. They want to know when they turn 18. Asking for a Zodiac Sign is less creepy than asking for a birthday.
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by wmil 11y ago
The Quebec government passed laws enabling it in 1990. It was modelled after the Canadian Wheat Board. The relevant legislation is called "Loi sur la mise en marché des produits agricoles, alimentaires et de la pêche" but it&#x27
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by wmil 11y ago
At the same time I understand why it would be more confusing for newbies. In a language that already has string interpolation you're telling them to use a crappier custom version of string interpolation that's safe for databases.
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by wmil 11y ago
Polar bears and grizzlies are probably a better example. They produce fertile offspring but no one thinks of them as the same species.
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by wmil 11y ago
He married Mileva Marić in 1903, who was also a physicist. At a minimum, she would have been reading his work and giving him feedback. That really takes away from his "lone genius" status.
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by wmil 11y ago
Static languages haven't "won". There's just not much point in creating a new dynamic language. Ruby is flexible enough to turn into a DSL for whatever. Python does it's job very well. Lua has it's niche. Java
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by wmil 11y ago
Could you be more specific? The only issue I've heard about was that in an old format you could see which sites had saved passwords. That's more of a privacy issue than a security leak.
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by wmil 11y ago
3D GUIs are a lot like graphical programming. Just a giant black hole that has been sucking up research and investment money for 30 years without much to show. You do get some neat demos, but not a lot else.
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by wmil 11y ago
You should write a paper explaining your views. And title it "'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful".
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by wmil 11y ago
I think that's probably the right move. Often the people using a product don't have any authority to make a purchase. In those cases management won't spend a dime until the employees can show the product is critical.
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by wmil 11y ago
Adobe Type Manager on the Mac created raster system fonts from postscript fonts. So you could sort of argue that case.
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by wmil 11y ago
You need to spend a lot of time tweaking font hinting to make a font that looks good at low res without smoothing. Designers don't bother anymore.
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by wmil 11y ago
TTF / OTF fonts have quite a bit of meta data in them. I don't know the details but there are some flags regarding font family.
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by wmil 11y ago
I'm curious what HN thinks of that last line in the article, about solar. "More likely, cheap photovoltaic and energy-storage technology will mean that much of humanity’s energy comes from a different fusion reactor—one 150m kilom
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by wmil 11y ago
The article is missing the most obvious way. Lobby for tighter health and safety inspections and documentation. Compliance costs usually scale in a way that's favorable for large manufacturers.
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by wmil 11y ago
The writers can't keep up the quality as they write the season. They're rushed for the later episodes. So characters start out as nuanced and then become more one dimensional towards the end of the season. Also they need to deliv
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by wmil 11y ago
Oh and before anyone comments on it, I should point out that "Peru" is a reference to a pottery color. Some people assume it's racist.
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by wmil 11y ago
The "otherwise excellent design of CSS"? That's something I've never heard anyone say... The IE5.5 border-box box model issues happened because the CSS box model was so strange they assumed it was a mistake in the spec.
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by wmil 11y ago
All of the major bottled water brands are owned by companies that also make sugar beverages, so there's no reason for them to sell it for less. Also there's probably not a big price difference on their end. Bottled water is usual
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by wmil 11y ago
The real issue is that Hasbro and Mattel used to have a complete lock on board game sales in major stores. The first wave of new board games (eg Settlers of Catan) came out of Germany and were sold in the US by specialty stores. That is hob
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by wmil 11y ago
Interestingly Google ngrams has 'poop' as more popular, even in British English. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=poo%2Cpoop&yea...
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by wmil 11y ago
I've never heard it in Canada. So it seems to be US only... Actually most of the comments about it say that their children picked it up in elementary school. Given the wide and sudden spread I suspect that this can be traced back to

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