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by zarify 13y ago
As far as debunks go the Business Insider article wasn't much of one sadly. Also calling this a diet doesn't seem that accurate to me in the way that most people think of diets (something transitory); it feels like they're using the term as
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by zarify 13y ago
Thank you so much for pointing this out. Multi column mode is actually usable for me now. Before I just couldn't make up my mind what to read next and it kinda screwed up my concentration, and single column had so much white space it was of
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by zarify 13y ago
Related: An Aussie journo who goes by one name, and the problems he has with that. http://stilgherrian.com/category/only-one-name/
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by zarify 13y ago
Agreed. I'm coming up to a decade of teaching CS in high school as well. The best times are when I don't know the answer to something I've been asked (and considering my classes go down the rabbit hole with topics pretty frequently this hap
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by zarify 13y ago
Interesting, as it accepts that we're likely to buy stuff from companies we don't like regardless (very difficult to avoid in some spaces). Mixed feeling about the offset idea in general however.
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by zarify 13y ago
"imagine if corporations really felt pressure to be better, because if not a news story would be aggregated into a evilness database that might convince many many consumers to choose their competitor over them as a result." I'm curious as
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by zarify 13y ago
Considering we've been trending toward the megacorp world for quite some time now you're probably better off growing/farming your own food and not worrying about the rest. That or starting your own pharma company for ulcer medication and an
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by zarify 13y ago
Well you never know what you'll be into when you're old and senile... (obviously referring to the stripping part, not the stripper murdering ;P)
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by zarify 13y ago
You're quite right. That is ridiculous. It's ridiculous because when you install it and start it up it tells you about the hot corners and then lo and behold: there's the power button. It actually physically pains me to be a Windows apologi
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by zarify 13y ago
"Without better technology, prosecuting illegal BitTorrent activity requires substantial effort in order to make a case. It is simply not economically viable to properly prosecute the illegal download of a single copyrighted video." Is this
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by zarify 13y ago
For some students it also can serve to mitigate exam shock (speaking to high school level anyway, which is my area). Finding a familiar, or even roughly familiar question can mean a nervous student has an entry point into the exam. I quite
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by zarify 13y ago
I just want to thank you for doing these. We teach the basics of stuff like password security (and while I find security fascinating it's really not my area of expertise) and this will be great for our kids to help them understand (the bit
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by zarify 13y ago
Seems an odd thing for someone who was involved with RSS to write, considering that it lets you keep up with (selected) 'news' more effectively (sure, it might be the longer form stuff he says is more useful, but ultimately it lets you skim
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by zarify 14y ago
As always, the really good stuff is in the comments. I'd like to think they're playing along, but...
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by zarify 14y ago
Only highschoolers would consider 315 words to be an 'essay' ;P
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by zarify 14y ago
I've seen a lot of suggestions for replacements (either already out there or just an idea) since yesterday which want to blend social networks with RSS and personally it seems like a terrible idea[1]. I can't be alone in just wanting a news
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by zarify 14y ago
I agree about the keyboard with a caveat (and this is based on my experience with the Nexus 7, I'm still hemming and basic about replacing my phone with an Android device) - the touch recognition relative to where you actually touch seems (
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by zarify 14y ago
I wish I could upvote this more. Look at the terrible touch-driven applications and you'll probably find that a goodly number of them assume the same sort of interaction paradigm that you'd find with a keyboard and mouse. The excellent touc
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by zarify 14y ago
Possibly. But look at the prevalence of voice-driven command support in mobile devices. Once machines get better at determining context and things like proper nouns we'll see where that goes. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the
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by zarify 14y ago
I don't think this is necessarily about replacing stuff like the keyboard and mouse though. If you look at where touch and gesture-based interfaces have really made inroads it isn't the traditional computer power-user, it's been casual use
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by zarify 14y ago
"And say we don't have a replacement. Say we just have Altavista-level search technology. How much of your daily internet usage is still possible?" Possible? Sure. But I have pretty clear memories of searching through _many_ pages of result
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by zarify 14y ago
Well it was horrifying enough. I guess it's a small step to be terrified of another Transformers movie ;P
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by zarify 14y ago
Speaking as a willy-enabled educator, getting male viewpoints on getting more girls into tech would actually be pretty valuable. I just spent a couple of weeks in another state talking to women who were involved with evangelising tech to gi
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by zarify 14y ago
For what it is it seems pretty reasonably priced as it is. I wouldn't drop the price too much. Also you mention formats in another comment. It'd be nice to have a choice. ePub is easier to read on some devices, but then PDF is easier to mar
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by zarify 14y ago
I guess it's a matter of what you consider a classic and whether you want the same open-world game type. Fallout 1 & 2? Baldur's Gate? Shadowrun from the Sega Genesis (my memory's a little hazy on that one, I just remember it being pret
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by zarify 14y ago
Agreed. There are so many bits of 'cross platform' software where the OSX build requires X11. Considering X11 doesn't come with the newer installs of OSX (and there's no media with extra bits), and stuff like Airs have space at a premium, t
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by zarify 14y ago
This isn't a comment on the Surface since I don't have one and aren't likely to get one, but more on the Windows 8 store, which on my desktop has been TERRIBLE. since launch I've managed to get two apps and I've had 15 or so updating at a g
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by zarify 14y ago
I understand your point that it's silent. I just don't see how comparing the another laptop to the Chromebook by talking about something that the Chromebook won't run (eg WoW). Personally, apart from 3D gaming I haven't noticed any noise at
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by zarify 14y ago
I don't think this is a fair comparison. You might as well compare a tablet running a web browser to a laptop running a 3D game. For anything other than gaming, I don't even notice my Air has a fan (I agree it's -very- noisy when it's runni
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by zarify 14y ago
A kind thing for her :P Her sessions were excellent.

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