_debug_

5 ms·

31.
by _debug_ 14y ago
Thank you. I've been quite sceptical of 10000 hours of Deliberate Practice, etc; esp. after seeing Tiger Woods play golf at the age of two : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxPmzIKBris It's been a long standing tradition to oversell the po
32.
by _debug_ 14y ago
"vassal state" Ha, been some time since I heard that phrase, thanks for that!
33.
by _debug_ 14y ago
Got that from someone whose family works in the CIA, no link. Edit : Assuming you were not asking for proof, only information, see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehicl... . Note that "After a 10 month search, NASA
34.
by _debug_ 14y ago
Japan does whatever the U.S. tells them to. Or else. In general, considering the 8 U.S. military bases in Tokyo (not Japan, just Tokyo), and in particular, the 31000 sq metre military base in the centre of the city, in Roppongi (prime real
35.
by _debug_ 15y ago
> you're just saying "this person's opinion is bullshit because of the apparent side they have chosen" Firstly, that is not what I tried to say. I tried to say, "There's a whole bunch of Apple-apologist-upvoters", and for this... >
36.
by _debug_ 15y ago
I'm not being rigorous here, but it seems to me that the top comment on every HN article that points out anything wrong with an Apple product is by an Apple apologist? It's a bit...fawning.
37.
by _debug_ 15y ago
Well, exercise injury is an entire field of study, and hence the existence of the profession of physiotherapy. Yoga is just one more way you can hurt yourself and need a physiotherapist. There was a great comment on the NYTimes article by s
38.
by _debug_ 15y ago
The parent did not say that the jokes about men were at technical conferences. I believe he was referring to all domains, not just programming / technical conferences.
39.
by _debug_ 15y ago
People jumped off the factory building and committed suicide at Foxconn. And the sensitive folks at Foxconn, with the blessing of Steve "Foxconn is not a sweatshop" Jobs, put up nets to prevent them from jumping instead of improving working
40.
by _debug_ 15y ago
> And that start screen looks like it was written for 5 year olds. That's how the average user IS. That's what Apple has shown us with the phenomenal success of their iPhone, iPad products. It's the "Don't make me think" philosophy take
41.
by _debug_ 15y ago
Her web site features her looks more than her books. (In case it changes : 80% of the space is occupied by a photo of hers, and 20% by textual content). Do as I say, not as I do.
42.
by _debug_ 15y ago
"According to Dangerfield, the officers "did not go inside the house," but stood outside while the Apple employees scoured Calderón's home, car, and computer files" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_impersonation
43.
by _debug_ 15y ago
Apple has not brought us anywhere in particular : people have always been that passive. The iPad's popularity is because of the lack of a keyboard for these 95% of the population. For folks like you and me, it is despite the lack of a
44.
by _debug_ 15y ago
IMO, women who use their sexuality as a playing card are the first in line to complain that they are not being treated like a "lady".
45.
by _debug_ 15y ago
Leaving my way of communication ("whoring") aside, would you agree that she is playing the gender card?
46.
by _debug_ 15y ago
You are right that I went overboard. I could potentially point out politely that she is playing the gender card.
47.
by _debug_ 15y ago
> I’m going to tell you a story and it’s very, very important. Please read it, all the way through. Women’s lives are at stake. So it's very, very, important to read this because a particular gender's lives are at stake, and this gender
48.
by _debug_ 15y ago
I love the fact that he has his own mailing list instead of a blog. The internet continues to surprise me every day.
49.
by _debug_ 15y ago
Oh please, Microsoft Surface...how many years ago was that before your precious iPad? There is probably not a single thing that Apple designed that is not without precedent. It just looks that way to your infatuated eyes.
50.
by _debug_ 15y ago
You just increased average developer productivity tens of times. I can already see the haters hate this new easy way to "code by copy paste", but for people who just want to use code to get things done, i.e., all 100% of coders, including t
51.
by _debug_ 15y ago
I bet that this is just lip service, and that the on-the-ground reality will be that, paradoxically, Muslims in Norway will be under more pressure to prove that they are not terrorists. This is how psychological sublimation works : as long
52.
by _debug_ 15y ago
> There are alternative frontends to the Google market, such as AppBrain, of which I'm one of the co-founders. FYI, I have a new Android phone (Galaxy S2) and I would have never realized this had I not been on HN! I wonder how you can g
53.
by _debug_ 15y ago
OK, Aaron.
54.
by _debug_ 15y ago
Personal anecdote : I've had to take Ibuprofen once. I then understood why the Hollywood-types get addicted to pain-killers : it takes away not merely the pain, but the fear of it that has been bothering you, and even psychological pains in
55.
by _debug_ 15y ago
Let me guess : by taking up 100% CPU? Irritated me the whole day.
56.
by _debug_ 15y ago
Desktop OS : Windows XP. Casper to clone the C drive (OS). xxcopy to make a backup of D drive (data). svn repository on the desktop PC. Some apps such as OneNote sync themselves between my laptop (Windows 7) and desktop PC (XP). For others,
57.
by _debug_ 15y ago
To me, it's interesting that almost no discussion of the H-1B touches on another topic that is widely discussed, too, but in it's own mindspace : the U.S. is now a scary place. The eager use of tasers by the police and the presence of the T
58.
by _debug_ 15y ago
I take a bus to the library and spend some time there, interspersed with many breaks which involve walking to a nearby tea house. Taking a bus outsources the attention-drain of driving while still being conducive to the trance-like free-flo
59.
by _debug_ 15y ago
I do not even see the need for justification : After LINQ and Rx and the maturing of Mono, .NET is now far ahead of the Java ecosystem, even including Scala 2.9, in terms of developer productivity. The only reason I am having to learn Scala
60.
by _debug_ 16y ago
I suppose it's issues like this that make tablet PC creators choose a single-tasking (or rather, single-app-controls-the-screen) model?

More ›