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by zarify 14y ago
Obvious really. Kids aren't coming to school? Chip them and punish them if they don't carry their card or aren't where they're supposed to be. Much better than thinking about the long term and figuring out, oh I don't know, why they're not
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by zarify 14y ago
Kids should be introduced to a variety of systems and platforms and given enough information to make up their own minds. I love the open source ideology and the tools which have grown out of it, but I can also appreciate that closed systems
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by zarify 14y ago
I've heard it from one of the karate instructors I've corresponded with (although in that context it was less of a dismissive phrase and more a cautionary one for our own training). Regardless of the origin, it's a good one.
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by zarify 14y ago
I'm curious as to what the upgrade situation is with Android devices and apps. Do developers just keep support for legacy versions in their apps? If so, do all the people sporting the new hotness have to put up with that. On the Mac side of
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by zarify 14y ago
That's just awesome. My vim just got a hell of a lot better just from reading that (which probably tells you something about the level I've been operating at for the last 15 years or so).
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by zarify 14y ago
No, but I'm sure we _can_ all agree that map quality and POI quantity/accuracy will vary significantly by area. Let's not detract from the real problem here: the lack of sea monsters and other mythical beasts in all smartphone mapping offer
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by zarify 14y ago
Fairly sure one of my old dumbphones had canned texts for phone calls. One of the good things about Apple is precisely what lot of people here are complaining about: they tell you what you can do with your phone and why it's neat. Samsung h
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by zarify 14y ago
See? Apple does have NFC after all. Just the 'F' isn't quite the type of field that most people think it is :)
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by zarify 14y ago
Considering the blog post's title, it sure does make some sweeping generalisations. Why on earth is this on the front page?
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by zarify 14y ago
Well, given Google's past history with iOS apps, they might just release a shit app. Your data is only as good as your interface to it.
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by zarify 14y ago
The bits that have been 'wildly wrong' so far seems to be the business integration (which is probably also the most easily corrected). I wonder if the people who went to the effort of posting screenshots with "lolz, this business should be
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by zarify 14y ago
From an efficiency point of view, what about all of these bulbs which will now be drawing power 24/7 for the wifi components, along with everything else in the house that has a standby function? Just get LED bulbs and use the off switch.
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by zarify 14y ago
I was all ready to say "What the hell are people still talking about 3D web browsers for?", but that's actually kind of neat.
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by zarify 14y ago
From the article, I particularly liked the bit about math being useful to doctors so that they can learn to succeed in the face of a challenging subject... as if medicine isn't enough of a challenge in itself. I would certainly like to see
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by zarify 14y ago
Does Messages work through a proxy yet? That was driving me nuts when I was playing with it in beta.
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by zarify 14y ago
Not to pick on spelling in a spelling thread, but quite frankly "security breeches" sound awesome :) Unless of course they're adult diapers for the discerning (and ageing) security professional.
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by zarify 14y ago
I think the OP in that thread is a mix of rose coloured glasses and sour grapes (sour grape coloured glasses?). The rebuffs are mostly of the "D3 does just what D2 did despite what you said!" variety. About the only thing that I felt was pr
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by zarify 14y ago
Just like, say, Dan keeps a tight rein on the first half hour or so of Back to Work right? (I kid, I love the first half hour, just like the rest of it). I agree with the first bit though, while he talked 'about' the move, he didn't really
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by zarify 14y ago
I remember getting an angry email from someone because of this when I was back at uni, had just finishing installing a linux box at home, but hadn't finished configuring everything. I went to bed while it was busily running cron jobs throug
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by zarify 14y ago
Where do you draw the line about where you believe people shouldn't raise funds? Are they allowed to use a toolkit like RPG Maker or GameMaker? Are they allowed to use game engines? The point of making successful games isn't about doing eve
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by zarify 14y ago
If a latency-sensitive service decides to host closer to part of its customer base, does that mean they're not respecting net neutrality too? At what point does something stop becoming more convenient for customers and the company (like loc
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by zarify 14y ago
This sort of thing has certainly been the case with the quota-free peering agreements here in Australia in the past. Do Comcast provide for unmetered traffic in their accounting tools? If so it should be relatively easy to test. The OP real
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by zarify 15y ago
I think the Fallout 1/2/Tactics system would be great. It gives enough complexity to make the combat truly tactical (position, range, cover, aimed shots etc), with the added advantage that these days you can have a nice 3D engine experience
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by zarify 15y ago
The trouble with the Toshiba video is a) you'd really have to check the date; and b) it'd probably sell more than most of the other tablets out there. (That said, I looked at the Rhombus and thought to myself "hey, that corner makes it look
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by zarify 15y ago
As far as the vast array of software goes, isn't it all going to have to be rebuilt for the new platforms (ARM etc) anyway? And if you want people to develop for Metro they're going to have to develop for that rather than just offering the
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by zarify 15y ago
One of the things I'd really like to see out of Kickstarter is some solid information (ie more than a couple of blog posts) on failed projects, to make room for some good analysis of why projects fail to gain funding.
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by zarify 15y ago
So it's a free app... Can I assume they're angling for money from businesses the app recommends then? Or just looking to get bought? (or is there some subscription which isn't immediately apparent from the Android Market page?)
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by zarify 15y ago
Considering the 50% discount, I don't think it's particularly surprising. You give out that kind of discount on 1000 of any of the top end phones I'm sure you'd see the same thing.
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by zarify 15y ago
While I like the idea of making it easier to keep parents up to date on their child's behaviour in class, I see tools like this as just another thing that detracts from actual teaching. Is there a real benefit to real-time communication fro
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by zarify 15y ago
Well at some point you are always teaching to a test of some sort. If I teach my students about X I will test them on X (either through extended pieces of work or through tests and exams) and not Y. The trouble with many texts is that they

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