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by wmil 15y ago
That's a bad comparison, people can predict timing much more accurately than they can react. A better example is mixing and recording music. Performers are recorded individually playing along to music they hear in their headphones. Acceptab
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by wmil 15y ago
The CDDB/FreeDB format requires you to parse comments... http://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html And people do all kinds of nonsense with HTML comments. A very bad idea is often the fastest to implement.
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by wmil 15y ago
That's absolutely not true. Antibiotics require a prescription and aren't addictive. OTC medications are only approved if the drug and condition are mild enough that a doctor doesn't need to be involved. And it gets a little bit silly -- 2
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by wmil 15y ago
The iPhone UI looks a lot like an updated Palm Tungsten T3, I'm not sure how innovative it actually was.
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by wmil 15y ago
It's not really a bubble. It's more of a gold rush. A new way to get rich has opened up, and it's not clear who will succeed and who will fail. So people rush in and stake claims. The other factor is that there has been a huge loss of fa
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by wmil 15y ago
I think it goes back to a cultural problem with government. They don't acknowledge hobby research as legitimate or useful. So they release data to universities and charge everyone else an obscene amount. This kills a lot of start up ideas.
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by wmil 15y ago
You can make big reductions in crimes of opportunity by making them just a little more difficult. For instance, laws requiring bike helmets have big impacts on bike theft.
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by wmil 15y ago
Since SOX successful tech companies have been avoiding going public for as long as possible (ie Google, Facebook). I wonder if there was some pressure from investment bankers who want to encourage more IPOs as well as government types who w
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by wmil 15y ago
I think there's also a secondary explanation. There is a huge potential for security exploits in 3d code. Drivers are optimized for performance and glitches will likely allow malicious code. Forcing developers who use these features to sig
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by wmil 15y ago
I'm suspicious that these stories are an attempt to drive down RIM's share price for a takeover. 12-15 months just doesn't seem realistic. RIM is profitable with cash reserves plus strong corporate and Asian markets. They can transition i
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by wmil 15y ago
You're being a troll. Right now you're just randomly sniping at people who comment. Write up something explaining your views, the post it as a comment/Ask HN/blog post and submit. Also you seem to be saying this sucks in comparison to some
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by wmil 15y ago
State by state stats are available here... http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_statera... Table 4. Minnesota has the 6th lowest white incarceration rate, 0.212%
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by wmil 15y ago
Adobe has been laying people off, he could be trying to draw attention to himself in order to find a new job. Anyways he's solving the wrong problem. What he really wants is to have the OS log him in, lock the screen, and load his common a
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by wmil 15y ago
I mostly work in Python/PHP/SQL. I also know Java and C++. Learning Ruby on Rails. Currently in Ottawa but looking to move to Toronto. Would be open to other cities in Canada if there was a good offer. waltermil@gmail.com
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by wmil 15y ago
The problem is that isn't not just 10,000 hours. It's 10,000 hours of "mindful practice". That amounts to a huge, ill defined, fudge factor that allows you to discount any counter examples. So it's not clear that 10,000 hours is a falsifia
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by wmil 15y ago
It was in '02. Id gave alpha code to ATI so they could tune their drivers. One of their employees leaked it. http://forums.gamershell.com/showthread.php?407-About-Doom-3...
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by wmil 15y ago
> For some reason jury verdicts there seem to be biased towards the patent holder. The jury is instructed to assume the patent is valid until they are convinced it is not. If the patent holder's lawyer can confuse the jury, the patent w
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by wmil 15y ago
You should try again. You see, it can be very difficult to fire high level bureaucrats. If you don't have faith in them it can be more dangerous to leave them in place. Transferring them to South America is a popular solution. It's nice e
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by wmil 15y ago
I think the developer was saying that there's no function or option to do that. The commenter suggested editting the js file. The developer wouldn't recommend that.
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by wmil 15y ago
To be fair, every mobile device that Microsoft released was supposed to destroy RIM. I'm still not convinced that Microsoft can pull of a decent phone with full Exchange integration.
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by wmil 15y ago
Valve licensed Quake code from id, and GoldSrc/Source are descended from that. There is no Quake2 or Quake3 code, the improvements over Quake are pure Valve.
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by wmil 15y ago
More like a starlet who got the casting couch.
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by wmil 15y ago
Actually BSD style causes problems in Javascript due to semicolon insertion. http://robertnyman.com/2008/10/16/beware-of-javascript-semic...
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by wmil 16y ago
Then they would have had at least one asset that could have been sold.
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by wmil 16y ago
>How is the internet going to revolutionize construction work or trucking? If you include the smartphone technology than there are big changes coming to construction and trucking. For instance, organizing fleets of trucks using real ti
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by wmil 16y ago
It's largely true, but depressing and unfix-able. It's really bad with jobs that expect you to "pay your dues" at the beginning, yet still socialize with co-workers at restaurants after work. People from a more modest background are seen a
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by wmil 16y ago
> I think "human nature" is a bit of a red herring. We don't currently have any scientific way to separate how much of how people behave is social/environment programming and how much is "human nature". That's not really true. The prob
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by wmil 16y ago
Between 1985 and 1997 Kansas City was ordered by a judge to vastly increase spending. There was no educational improvement. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298.html
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by wmil 16y ago
£1 for the new favicon, £584 for sitting through multiple approval meetings.
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by wmil 16y ago
Does it have a window facing the sidewalk? Put pastries in the window. Angle some bright lights so they shine on the pastries. And make sure they're bright. Pastries are often an impulse buy. Most shops look quite dark on a sunny day. Yo

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