schtinky

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by schtinky 12y ago
I've been an Eclipse guy since college (12 years ago) and haven't seen any need to change. I used vim once for a small Ruby project (couple of days) and came away thinking "I don't see how, even with years of practice of
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by schtinky 12y ago
Pew just released a study that showed people are starting to feel that they've lost control of their private data (which they have): http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/11/12/public-privacy-percept... Your v
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by schtinky 12y ago
To rule out root causes. If the data showed increases and serotonin, decreases in stress hormones and improved sleep quality and the patient still replies "bad" to the question "How do you feel?" Then obviously a seroton
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by schtinky 12y ago
> Conspicuous consumption isn’t that cool; not too many people drive Ferraris 99.9% sure I saw Sam pulling out of De Anza College at SUS 2014 in a Lotus Elise.
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by schtinky 12y ago
Hmmm... at what point do we start questioning the veracity of those moon landing photos and videos? :)
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by schtinky 12y ago
It is absolutely crazy to think about how NASA got to the moon in freakin' 1969. Ten years ago, we didn't have FB, YouTube, widespread WiFi, flatscreen TVs, smartphones, LTE... That we landed a spaceship on the moon 4.5 times long
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by schtinky 12y ago
Or is it that Apple markets products so well that by the time whateveritis hits the shelves, it doesn't seem "weird" anymore?
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by schtinky 12y ago
> I find Evans' analysis of mobile a bit hyperbolic. Spot on. I've been a follower of his for some time now and while he's obviously smart an insightful, he does sometimes veer into hyperbole bordering on know-it-all snark
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by schtinky 12y ago
I wonder to what degree public perception of a company's brand (think HP, Microsoft, Ebay vs Google, Apple) helps or hinders their ability to get a product off the ground. It reminds me of the old Shakespearean "What's in a n
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'Gameover Zeus' extortion botnet disrupted (m.fbi.gov)
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by schtinky 13y ago
One reason AIDS has been so successful as a pathogen is that it takes a long time to kill the host. The infection has plenty of time to spread. Ebola, on the other hand, never spreads very far because it kills so quickly, as described above
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by schtinky 13y ago
When we all first joined Facebook, we were hit with an exciting torrent of old friends we'd lost touch with, especially old hookups/romances that suddenly became possible again. This was like a pathogen entering a fresh population
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by schtinky 13y ago
I was wondering about this myself. I've been developing a Chrome extension off/on for the past year and did moderate reading into Chrome, Chromium and how user data is handled. Seemed ok to me. Wireshark doesn't show anything