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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Most people are surprised to learn that they're drinking glorified tap water, but bottlers aren't required to list the source on the label. Coca-Cola trid launching Dasani in the UK but it failed mostly because newspapers
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: The population of the United States is almost entirely car-dependent, and relies on markets that control oil import, refining, and distribution. They also rely on continuous public investment in road construction and repai
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by xirium 19y ago
From the comments: I guess he failed his saving throw.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: In 2005, Reps. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Fred Upton of Michigan drafted legislation that would extend daylight-saving time nationwide. Congress approved the amendment, which called for clocks to be sprung forwa
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: 13. Cut out cable TV. There's always something passable on cable TV. It could help your productivity if you don't have cable TV.
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by xirium 19y ago
I hope that he sticks around too. He could easily get frustrated with us but he may learn less elsewhere. However, I don't see him as a contrarian; just lacking some old hacker lore. I'm sorry to learn of your temporary lack of moderation w
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by xirium 19y ago
The foo is strong in user NSX2 but that grasshopper has a long path to travel.
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by xirium 19y ago
I see four cases where you'd be eager to deal with Sun. The first case is an integrated, one-stop-shop for SAMP [Solaris, Apache, MySQL and Python running in a JVM]. The second case is where you're in a corner and need to scale up. I wouldn
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by xirium 19y ago
The responsiveness of contemporary applications has vastly improved. Two examples would be Photoshop and Firefox. Photoshop3 didn't have many features but it was the best application in its field. However, after using Photoshop4 for short p
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by xirium 19y ago
I advise people to get the oldest books possible. The reason for this is that the books don't get thicker but they have more topics to cover and tend to concentrate on the most whizzy features. If you get an old book then it'll cover the ba
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by xirium 19y ago
I'm quite impressed with the quantity of tips. Many articles in this format struggle to present five factoids. From the article: 32. Do nothing. Sometimes, this leads to disconnection. Re-connect and try 0 or "agent". For smaller companies,
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by xirium 19y ago
Ray Kurzweil notes that brain scan resolution and scan duration are both following Moore's law. So, within 50 years, it may be possible to take a full-resolution, real-time snapshot of a brain. Ray Kurzweil doesn't explore the possibility o
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Log analysers are not accurate. They over-report visits and over-count some browsers while under-counting other browsers. They cannot accurately distinguish spiders and robots from human visitors and they do not use fool-p
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by xirium 19y ago
Ahem ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128158 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
Ray Kurzweil argues that we can eventually brute force the solution. However, we can do it more efficiently if we do it at a functional level. Basic acoustic function given as an example ( http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?pr
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by xirium 19y ago
The central argument from the book The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil is on his website ( http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 ). It was almost completely ignored when it was posted to this forum a few days ago
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by xirium 19y ago
Robert X. Cringely has been harsh to Sun over the years: Sun did not invent the engineering workstation, but they certainly perfected it. But where are workstations today? Gone, for the most part. Sun's workstation business is about the sam
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by xirium 19y ago
I saw a proposal for spam whitelisting which involved users publishing a hashed list of email addresses. This allows people to receive messages from friends of friends but without revealing your address book. To prevent the data being aggre
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by xirium 19y ago
The difference between subjective time and objective time is widely known: The engineers had concentrated on reducing objective time; the designer concentrated on reducing subjective time. Reducing subjective time works. -- http://www.askt
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IHateCamelCase(yosefk.com)
7 points by xirium 19y ago|2 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
What Every Leader Needs To Know About Followers: http://www.bravacorp.com/leadershiphbr17followers.pdf
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: the company will surprise many with its plans to embrace open source. Microsoft's market capitalisation is 253.15 billion dollars. Redhat's market capitalisation is 3.47 billion dollars. MySQL's market capitalisation is 1
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by xirium 19y ago
About 10 years ago, I considered the possibility of a gadget that connected to a home computer and allowed you to perform genetic testing at home - without revealing information to third parties. They'd be a large market for such a device.
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by xirium 19y ago
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- Mark Twain Writing, when done well, takes time. Some journalists write to a certain length and then shorten to improve quality. A similar process occurs when prog
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by xirium 19y ago
If I had an empty schedule then I'd do two hours per day of yoga. Unfortunately, it is much more sporadic because I get really absorbed in coding. The trick is to exercise before the last meal of the day.
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by xirium 19y ago
Does anyone remember the Sparkle MPEG player for MacOS that was popular in 1995? The author of that software was programming smoother playback than the QuickTime team, despite the QuickTime team pressing for kernel tweaks and undocumented h
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by xirium 19y ago
Be more concerned about the shutdown ( http://www.gandalf.user.xirium.com/tech/computer/network/hum... ).
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by xirium 19y ago
I believe that YCombinator also declined to fund this idea ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95931 ), which demonstrates how hard it is to have a good idea.
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by xirium 19y ago
This text previously appeared on The KLF website and offers advice useful to muscially inclined start-ups. This includes getting the zeitgeist and inspiration; the importance of quitting your day job; being underfunded and simple workaround
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The Manual by The KLF(kamita.com)
20 points by xirium 19y ago|6 comments

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