tobico

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by tobico 11y ago
Good. Building up is the way to go. Here in Melbourne, >30-story apartment towers have become the norm, and it's succeeded in slowing the rise of housing prices in the inner city quite a bit. I also think it's helping to delay
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by tobico 11y ago
Shorter ceilings are better for climate control, though. No need to heat up a bunch of air that just floats around over your head.
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by tobico 11y ago
How do I make the dots on my "i"s into little love hearts to show how much I love the reader?
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by tobico 11y ago
This is ridiculous, air travel is expensive because planes are giant expensive machines, consume a significant amount of rare fossil fuel to fly, and can only be safely flown by highly trained experts. No kind of app is going to solve any o
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by tobico 11y ago
I use ad blockers for distracting image and popup ads, but I fairly frequently click on Google text ads in search results. When there's a product category that's very crowded, if a company is willing to pony up some money to get m
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by tobico 11y ago
Seems like this article makes quite a leap from the study results to their suggestion that everyone reads paper books. Study results: 1. People reading on a screen are more likely to skim 2. Skimming reduces comprehension of the material 3.
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by tobico 11y ago
The funny thing about talking of tabs for piano, is that sheet music is already that. By representing music on a diatonic staff, with a key signature, it's shown in a perfect format to translate it to keys on the piano, at the expense
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by tobico 11y ago
"Fly is a build system for Node based in ES6 generators and promises that aims to be simple and elegant to write and extend" If an objective is for it to be simple to write and extend, why use two shiny new features that most prog
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by tobico 11y ago
This method doesn't work well for hiring people that already have a full-time job elsewhere.
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by tobico 11y ago
Now if only Australia could get same-month delivery.
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by tobico 12y ago
Mozilla are clearly becoming desperate to find any distinguishing factors to market Firefox. Sadly, this feels like the beginning of the end for this browser.
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by tobico 12y ago
I like the way they've written this article as if it's an extended tweet. Short and to the point.
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by tobico 12y ago
Another good argument for focusing on harm minimization over prohibition.
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by tobico 12y ago
What a scam. The airports should be providing car access as a service to their customers, not double dipping and charging drivers for the privilege of driving over their land.
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by tobico 12y ago
Seems like a pretty good idea. It's kinda weird that no such technology exists for cars actually.
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by tobico 12y ago
I don't really know enough about the maths here to interpret the background to this project, but going on the way it's written, I'm concerned the author may be suffering from schizophrenia. I'd recommend seeking advice f
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by tobico 13y ago
"The company generates revenue by selling virtual items to a small fraction of its players who wish to enhance their playing experience" should read "The company generates revenue by psychologically manipulating players into
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by tobico 13y ago
I think this is often a problem of dividing responsibilities. In order to turn a design into correct CSS, the size and position of each element needs to be measured precisely. If the Photoshop-using designer can't or won't do this
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by tobico 13y ago
- My boss decided to add a new syntactic feature to PHP
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by tobico 13y ago
The problem with studying metaphysics is that it's quite hard to do experiments.
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by tobico 13y ago
If you have that much money, why not just get your butler to do it for you.
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by tobico 13y ago
So now Facebook chat, which partially supports XMPP, is the most open of the widely used IM networks. There's a thing.