minor_nitwit

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by minor_nitwit 10y ago
The Athenians would say that we do not have a democracy but an oligarchy. The only way that they saw to actually make the government the will of the people was to select representation by sortition, i.e. drawing by lot, like jury selections
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
Just really fresh I think. Backyard chicken eggs from my coworker are like this. I don't know what the big deal about the firmness of the yolk is, but I'm not a pro chef. Tastes like an egg to me. When she gives me eggs, they l
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
Ok, these guys claim to have invented a great engine, really just the pre-cooler. Why are they trying to build a plane instead of licensing it to others? That seems to be several orders of magnitude more difficult and increases the likeli
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
Firefox OS on the otherhand is HTML.
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
I use antennaepod, but I think it's far from perfect.
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
New Zealand, Australia, and to a lesser extent Sweden all have vast areas with very low, near zero population densities. Could that be impacting the deliverability?
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
Google is both dominating smart phones and search at the moment. The examples given were of particular products that superseded other products. Is there a product that going to supersede Google Search or Android? If not, I don't see
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
that's awesome. It's a one line REPL.
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
that seems overly complicated for ruby if a is a file. c = []; a.lines{c << a.pos} As far as $, you may know it from Regex as the new line indicator.
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by minor_nitwit 12y ago
The article also says that just 17% of walks are made for the pleasure of walking. That sounds like a good number to me, should I expect a third of the people I see to be going nowhere?
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
you still end up loading the gigantic image to go on a tiny screen, so you consume a lot of memory on a mobile device for no-gain.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I agree. I would actually prefer if the test subjects were considered new to all students, and they were expected to become experts in those subjects before taking the test. What you need to score for is the ability to learn and apply the
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
why not both?
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I can't believe that they would pay $400M for a company without getting something more than just talent. They must have created something very impressive that will be able to plug into the Borg.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
To me, simulations always seemed to fall into a nice place for concurrent programming with messaging. In that case, the abstractions are not as numerous as when forcing things into a single threaded world.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I think the popularity of url shorteners shows that people are willing to click on links where they have no idea what is lurking behind an unintelligible string. As for the apple site, there are other (better) systems in place for supplying
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Any idea why it would be $20?
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
In the future, psychologists will ask, "Why don't you point to the meme that matches your feelings about that?" Seriously, in some of the most-heavily travelled corners of the internet, its endless image-macros filled with ra
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
What makes you think that your brain may not be 'poorly written' for supporting 24 hr+ uptime? Think of the brain has having bad garbage collection or a memory leak, so at some point in time you have too much built up memory that
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
The article acts like there's a chance that Boeing is in serious trouble, but the US government has programs to prevent the loss of defense manufacturing capabilities. The status quo is, if a product is not needed in the US, but the ma
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
It's about Ruby conditionals, but they didn't talk about my favorite part. eat_gruel unless has_parents? puts "Please sir, I want some more" if shortest_straw?
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
The rule for me is to give the least information required for the interaction to take place. If someon is considering me for a job, it's reasonable to give my full name. If someone just wants to chat with my on reddit, they don't
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I'm not sure that people will go through this app and pay another $6 on top of the original shipping fee, and enter an oddball shipping address. They may pay it if it's an option at checkout, as at that point they are weighing the
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
The N9 and WebOS were the first that I remember with the swipe gesture based interface, but BB10 is a much better OS than people give it credit for.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I think the watching TV thing has to do with a TV connected to your WIFI network. I've experienced what you're talking about though with the flight cards. I'm anxious so I want to know that my flight information is there and
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I'm surprised there's no shortcut for this.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I prefer the paradigm where you edit in something like markdown but the live preview is available on the right hand side or down below the text. All it needs is a catchy acronym. The controls for the text should be immediate in the text, th
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
It's times like these that I wish Valve wasn't private.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Yes, context-switching is normal. People often take on different personalities that are dependent upon the person that they are dealing with. I'll let George handle the rest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPG3YMcSvzo
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Formula.js has most of the excel formulas in a library. http://stoic.com/formula/index.html

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