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by peoplerock 17y ago
"For the world's economy, of course, trillions of dollars are now at stake in pursuit of emissions reductions based on the flawed science that these leaked emails have helped lay bare." From what I've read about them the emails lay little
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by peoplerock 17y ago
You mean the 'business model' of "annoy the piss out of site visitors for sake of more ad views"? Well, it's one approach to trying to rescue the Boston Globe from death. ...one destined to lead to online (as well as on-paper) death - in
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by peoplerock 17y ago
"The team says that an exposure to the plasma of only about 12 seconds reduces the incidence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on hands by a factor of a million - a number that stands in sharp contrast to the several minutes hospital staff ca
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by peoplerock 17y ago
FWIW: Googling 'sparklines' right now gives me a first Sponsored Link of: Microsoft.com/Office2010 Microsoft Excel 2010 Beta: Explore the New Features. Get it for Free! ¿Apparently it's going to be a highly touted feature... so they fi
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by peoplerock 17y ago
What do you mean by "simple math captchas"... where the distorted characters display something like "2 + 3 =" - and I'm supposed to type 5 or five? Or are you simply using a simple math question (un-captcha'd)? I've been experimenting with
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by peoplerock 17y ago
Yes, data are helpful. Regularly updated data: more so - because they would enable us to see whether/when spammers are adjusting their methods to accommodate our latest obfuscations.
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by peoplerock 17y ago
You could add to your (self-answering) question "...would cannibalize their laptop sales..." the phrase: "...and that has perhaps 1/3 the profit margin?" Apple's decision making looks to me more like (as with the MB Air), "can we develop a
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by peoplerock 17y ago
As has been argued around the business web, Jobs' absence/incapacity for better part of a year - while Apple continued to develop dramatically better than the rest of the industry - may have been helpful as a demonstration of what the org
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by peoplerock 17y ago
JSON highlighting... at last. It's like someone finally cares about providing an inspector for daily use!
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by peoplerock 17y ago
It might be awesome... at whatever it does. But I have a real UX concern when I land at a site and... WTF: I can't even tell what it is about, what services it offers, is there any possibility that I might be a target audience? Attractiv
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Ask HN: Which of you are incorporating oauth.net? why(not)?
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by peoplerock 17y ago
So would the point then be that we need to belittle (or abuse or revolt against) IT departments that rest on 20th Century laurels. Or perhaps... embark on educational campaigns aimed at companies that are not mandating/funding their IT depa
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by peoplerock 17y ago
"once you've got cancer 'thinking positive' will probably do very little as you're too far gone" ? I'll try to speak in an even-toned way (as spouse of a nine-year breast cancer survivor): The survival rate is well over 50% (at five years)
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by peoplerock 17y ago
Weak, obvious presentation. Six minutes long, first 45 seconds of which wastes you time with saying how great their "speedy presentations are. (what's wrong with this picture?)
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by peoplerock 17y ago
Only one email acct? They're free at so many places. I have several (to go with different identities) that all fwd to one location. So for this app I would use * mysite1.com@mymaindomain.com -> to mymaindomain@gmail.com * mysite2.com@
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by peoplerock 17y ago
Reality: Marketing has a huge place in headline-writing. Headline-writing is a "science" in itself (funded). What HN can do to serve its members: Omit the marketing/hype when posting a title at HN.
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by peoplerock 17y ago
You mean: "thanks", Rupert. But a sincere thanks to you for explaining to get there via a google search. Which raises questions (besides the 'why am i out of loop'?): • How did you know about the "via google" phenomenon for this article
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by peoplerock 17y ago
?Transported only over land? Apparently Seimans plans to overcome the wetness of the Mediterranean: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091015-714009.html
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by peoplerock 17y ago
And except that even after logging in... i see only a blank page :(
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by peoplerock 17y ago
It's not IE that needs to be disparaged. [By the standards of ~2000 it was pretty good, no?] It's those who declined upgrade it year after year.
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by peoplerock 17y ago
I think some balanced discussion about Kohana v. CodeIgniter would be helpful on HN. I haven't followed the debate, but I do find it interesting that the Kohana article on Wikipedia is being evaluated for possible deletion because all (ne
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by peoplerock 17y ago
I'm no one to assess Jason's gifts of prophecy, so he may be right on target as to what now "looms" as potential disruptor: > Applications will be much less visible. > Service applications will grow like wildfire. > Applications
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by peoplerock 17y ago
"Trying" adderal doesn't have to mean illicit adderal. Used under physician supervision he (w/doc) may find a dosage and plan that works for him. YMMV.
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by peoplerock 17y ago
Former biofeedback therapist here. The effect of caffeine on muscle tension is measurable: it is impossible for nearly everyone to achieve as deep a muscular relaxation (measured by EMG) after just 100mg caffeine. I haven't looked at eviden
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by peoplerock 17y ago
Yes it's interesting. Yes it compares Oracle and MySQL. For balance it would be helpful to have an analysis from a more independent source than Oracle.
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by peoplerock 17y ago
I think it would be very informative to collect data on whether or not that sort of mob effect gets diminished by removing display of the comment-votes: will it keep "cute" one-line jabs from soaring to top of page? PS: please don't ask
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by peoplerock 17y ago
IANAL, but I'd wager that proof of taxes withheld would be the key issues (pay check stubs, etc.)
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by peoplerock 17y ago
Isn't a valid part of "supporting standards" declining to support what ignores standards?
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by peoplerock 17y ago
It sounds like W3C has been listening to usability critics about as sympathetically as MS did with IE6. [pops antidepressants]
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by peoplerock 17y ago
I just hope that when PPK unwinds a bit that he presents the issues he experienced to appropriate W3C feedback channel... written in a more factual style. We really need them to hear this.

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