lyndonh

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by lyndonh 12y ago
I've never had my posts downvoted so much as on HN. I'm more or less on topic. I'm not engaging in a flame war. I'm not trolling. Is it the "kilopounds" thing? What can I say, I heard that this kind of Greek pr
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by lyndonh 12y ago
Interesting how the example image for a bad UI shows the good UI using "Metric" vs "English" buttons. In the England and the rest of the UK we use "Metric" vs "Imperial". And we use a half metric syst
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by lyndonh 12y ago
A "motion map" ? I think you'd better read the paper again. They compute a full 3D reconstruction. Much much more computationally expensive. You would not "be able to create a similar motion map using the gyroscope data&
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by lyndonh 12y ago
> You weren't previously asking me why I disagree with her. I think the onus was on you, the person posting a comment that you disagree with the author of the article, to make your argument/point. You can't join a discussi
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by lyndonh 12y ago
> The fact that it wasn't perceived by her as a big deal does not prove she knows better than I do. You've already said you don't agree with her on this point and yet again you don't say why. > Statistical outliers
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by lyndonh 12y ago
> it's difficult for a woman to step into any kind of leadership position and do the tough things without being perceived as a "bitch". I disagree that leadership is about being a bitch or an asshole. Yes, it's widely
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by lyndonh 12y ago
She didn't emphasise it very strongly, in fact it was a very weak emphasis but she was saying that everyone has a different set of strengths and weaknesses. She might find it easier to get press attention as a woman but a guy could eas
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by lyndonh 12y ago
I very nearly stopped at this point: "All Apple products are banned in my household to make a statement about programmer freedom." Sorry kids, to increase freedom I'm taking away your iPhones and you have to use Samsung. Ther
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by lyndonh 12y ago
It was a rhetorical question. But it's not necessarily true that Nokia X came "way after". Nokia could have put the project on hold when they started serious negotiations with Microsoft.
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by lyndonh 12y ago
The natural assumption is that the hacker has got your password, not hacked gmail or hotmail, etc.
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by lyndonh 12y ago
It was developed before or after Elop's burning platform speech ?
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by lyndonh 12y ago
> If someone were to hack into any mail account, all they need to do is search for ‘password’ and they have all of the user’s passwords. Only if you're dumb enough to not delete any password emails. Granted, preferable any site send
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by lyndonh 12y ago
I am not surprised. I tried to add some additional languages to Google (web) preferences to the "Skip translations for" but then the primary language for everything Google was changed to one of my additional languages. I had to go
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by lyndonh 12y ago
The information was on the web. Students didn't have to pay the $1 to get to the information; they would have paid it because he made a nice, convenient app. Or they could go in via the website and dig through it themselves. Did you re
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by lyndonh 12y ago
Profit = Sales - Apple's cut - Apple Developer Account annual fee - iTunes App Store annual fee. What makes you think he will be making a profit on a $0.99 app ? Likely he was not making any profit at all. Are you suggesting he shouldn
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by lyndonh 12y ago
People are using shorteners on shortened links, this is the problem. The most obvious one is Twitter, always using it's own service regardless.
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by lyndonh 12y ago
> I don't need to worry about some app stealing my private files or similar This is highly unlikely. But I estimate a probability of 0.7 that you don't have notable security protecting your computer and your top secret files, e
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by lyndonh 12y ago
I think we need to see this story in its proper perspective here. Yes, this woman received unacceptable messages via twitter. Yes, there need to be mechanisms to deal with it. However, from her Twitter history you can clearly see she was on
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by lyndonh 12y ago
> Adding memory is the cheap option Only in the sense of having a broken system, putting in place some procedural constraints and then praying that everyone follows the rules. As you say, it's a software bug. Until it's been 10
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by lyndonh 12y ago
But surely they don't use the mean to find the average score ? Even a basic trimmed statistic would find a much more accurate average. Lazy people leaving 10s and 1s would be removed or given a lower weighting.
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by lyndonh 12y ago
If RSS "died" (and I don't think it did), then it was when the main browsers stopped showing the RSS icon next to the URL and started hiding RSS feeds and links. From a user perspective, the thing about RSS is that most reade
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by lyndonh 12y ago
Me: I'm trying to do X, I know I need to do Y first but it doesn't work. Can someone please go through the basic principles I need to do this thing. Comment: Post some code Me: (posts summary code but it's a di
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by lyndonh 12y ago
Oh good, another blog post on text coding. We don't have enough of those.
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by lyndonh 12y ago
This. This is what causes at least 50% of queues. Everyone can take 1 small bag. Nothing on wheels. If you can't lift it above your head it's too heavy. No exceptions. Overhead bins will be sufficient, no hunting around for a spac
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by lyndonh 12y ago
a. They get money for each patent examined. If they spend more time scrutinizing it, their profit is reduced. At their annual review, one measure of how hard an examiner worked is probably based on how many patents they dealt with. b. As an
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by lyndonh 12y ago
> Almost every organization in the world, no matter if it is profit or non-profit, gets more rigorous the more applications come in. They get more money from processing more patents. They don't get more money by making sure the pate
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by lyndonh 12y ago
The author thinks he is "helping" the USPTO - to stop bad patents. But he is doing nothing of the sort. The USPTO are part of the problem. Do you really think that you can strike down a bad patent by simply sending some links for
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by lyndonh 12y ago
The author doesn't understand the patent system. The government, via the patent office, is selling a monopoly on technology. If someone writes a frivolous application the patent office usually takes the money and grants it. Does the au
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by lyndonh 12y ago
"Men's friendships aren't the same as women's friendships" or "People who you were once friends with aren't necessarily good friends for life"
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by lyndonh 12y ago
Skype as software has a lot of issues. Before they were bought by Microsoft the software worked quite well; on my Mac I'm still running an ancient version. Why ? - it got replaced by a version that takes up half your screen, I think th

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