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by xefer 14y ago
Oddly (to me anyway) my youngest kids love Windows 8. I'm not sure if it's because they didn't have as much "invested" in the old desktop experience, they just like the dancing colors, or if there is some generational thing I don't quite
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by xefer 14y ago
"ap"; noun: An illegal two-letter word in Scrabble. E.g., "Hey, you can't play 'qk'; that's an ap!"
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by xefer 14y ago
How does it determine the price? By the pound? Amazon should clearly mark these as computer generated. I'll bet most of the purchases are from people who didn't know what they were even getting.
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by xefer 14y ago
Someone should mske an ad blocker that downloads the ads but doesn't actually display them. Everybody wins!
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by xefer 14y ago
I've always had a soft spot for mazes. Seeing how a recursive function could solve a maze was what got me hooked on programmng to begin with. At the time it was mind-blowing. It was the first time that software seemed like magic.
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by xefer 14y ago
Porter Square Books has a good model. The owner sublets a part of the store to a coffee shop business, so they have guaranteed income and a steady supply of casual browsers. Harvard Square Books can't be making money with rhat custom printe
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by xefer 14y ago
It is very interesting, but it comes up every election cycle now: http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/Research/Elec2000/GeolElec2000.HT...
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by xefer 14y ago
1. This is a funny one, and is the main reason why I'm getting my wife the new one. My wife loves her Kindle but when we're reading in bed together the sound of her clicking the button drives me up the wall. She likes that she can use a la
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by xefer 14y ago
But it's taking carbon out of the ocean and releasing it into the atmosphere. The issue becomes, how long does it take for the released atmospheric CO2 to be reabeorbed back into he ocean? Does it do more harm in the atmosphere or in the o
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by xefer 14y ago
I'm not sure it's fraud per se. Kickstarter seems like a way of monetizing up-votes. They have various sized up-arrows that are tied to a bucket of electronic chits over a PayPal. I sometimes wonder if people back projects with the same f
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by xefer 14y ago
It still requires scrapping to discover the thread ids though does it not?
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by xefer 14y ago
Every single picture we've ever seen from the Hubble has been intensely manipulated, but that is rarely even mentioned. The manipulation in that one picture of Aldrin is irrelevant in my opinion.
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by xefer 14y ago
I love this video. Aldrin was a test pilot for crying out loud. They could have used his brass balls in that scene from Glengarry Glen Ross. Did that dope really think he was going to intimidate him?
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by xefer 14y ago
Make sure to read the original poem: http://allpoetry.com/poem/8508991-All_Watched_Over_By_Machin...
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by xefer 14y ago
Max Tegmark had an interesting article in Scientific American a while back discussing the implications of an infinite universe: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/PDF/multiverse_sciam.pdf Perhaps the most disturbing of which would be the f
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by xefer 14y ago
Heck, we're still finding strange things on the Moon: http://www.lroc.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/277-Natural...
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by xefer 14y ago
We have a pretty creepy looking one here on Earth too: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=61.279143,-73.66333&spn=...
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by xefer 14y ago
Even Hickey states in this article that the term comes from James Coplien. His C++ book from 1992 was what first introduced me to the concept.
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by xefer 14y ago
Larry Summers was recently quoted as saying that the best indicator of future success is not the school you graduated from but the best school you were accepted by.
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by xefer 14y ago
There was a very good general overview of this in Scientific American in Feb. 2003 by Koza, Keane and Streeter: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/courses/cs266/papers/koza-s... The table listing patented inventions that had been recreated
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by xefer 14y ago
Having the company name start with a lowercase letter always seems "weak" to me.
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by xefer 14y ago
I don't think there's any desperation in her voice at all. She sounds genuinely bored with something she has plenty of - and no trouble getting - other people. To be honest she comes across as a rich person complaining about the shallownes
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by xefer 14y ago
I have a feeling he'll be "couch surfing" from embassy to embassy to delay the extradition as long as possible.
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Moral Dilemma for Google's Driverless Vehicle Control Software(marginalrevolution.com)
14 points by xefer 14y ago|1 comments
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by xefer 14y ago
I only wish it were color corrected. It's hard to appreciate it when it looks so unnatural.
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by xefer 14y ago
VCs have effectively the same business model as Record Companies; i.e., cast a wide net and hope that at least one big fish is landed.
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by xefer 14y ago
Anything worthy of a document should have its own URL. OPTIONS could potentially be used to provide that URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0138.htm...
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by xefer 15y ago
It will be interesting to know how much the dividend is. Owners of Apple shares can of course take the money and use it to buy Apple products. It's as if one benefit of being an owner is, you get company a discount.
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by xefer 15y ago
The thing about Microsoft tools in general is that their default UI is too busy, but they can easily be customized to make them nearly as clean as you want. My setup for Word 2007 is every bit as clean as the Office 15 example shown. Just
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by xefer 15y ago
They're a scourge. In Terms of overall annoyance, it's ironic that Apps are quietly ecoming the new Flash.

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