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by wgren 15y ago
One word (or few word) posts like "Troll", "Fanboy", "This", or "LOL" are frowned on at Hacker News because they don't add anything to the discussion.
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by wgren 15y ago
NFC can be used for more things than just payments. You could get your monthly bus card sent to your phone instead of needing to carry a separate card. When entering the subway/bus/traingates, put your phone near the reader. Since it works
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by wgren 15y ago
>Human biology is not that quick to change. No, but a lot of things with regards to our current expected behaviour of genders is in fact social, not biological. A lot of 18th century male behaviour would today be regarded as effeminate.
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by wgren 15y ago
It's a blog post, not a research paper. If course it will use anecdotes. Do you have any counter examples to show an exceptional bias in their "hand-picking"?
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by wgren 15y ago
>But when you see someone for the first time appearances are the first thing you notice... unless you can read minds. Yet when talking to boys, people generally don't say - "Oh, what a handsome boy you are, and how nicely you dress!" as
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by wgren 15y ago
>"So, when Clojure calls a function, it either already has the instance in its entirety (a lambda) or it finds it by dereferencing a binding. Since all functions are instances that implement IFn, the implementation can then call invokei
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by wgren 15y ago
>if [a JVM thread] reads a field of an object, and another thread writes to the same field of the same object, then the program will see either the old value, or the new value, but not something else entirely Nitpick: unless the field i
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by wgren 15y ago
An interesting read is "Remembering Satan", about a small community torn apart by accusations of sexual abuse and satanic rituals. Many people confessed, some were convicted, no evidence was ever produced. http://www.amazon.com/Remembering
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by wgren 15y ago
On one hand, other Android based phone manufacturers are clearly going to face an uphill struggle if Google are going to release new versions of the OS on their own devices first. On the other hand, it will hopefully provide some protection
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by wgren 15y ago
It was in a rented apartment, so it could soon be someone else's kitchen. Currently he had small amounts of radioactive matter, but what what if had gotten hold of more? Radiation goes through walls, no matter who owns them.
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by wgren 15y ago
I think this happened sometimes during the last 15 years. I was surprised when I came to the US and was exposed to Fox news, I was surprised that they were using the word incorrectly all the time. "The forces were decimated in a surprise at
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by wgren 15y ago
From studying sediments and vegetation - quite a lot actually.
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by wgren 15y ago
That is a false dichotomy - lots of people suggest we rely on science and technology, that is not what many people dislike about Lomborg. Well, it is not what I dislike about him anyway, I can't speak for everyone. Arguing against him is
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by wgren 16y ago
>in fact some people claimed that the PS3 had nearly “unlimited power” These people are known as "marketers".
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by wgren 16y ago
Politicians taking on jobs in industries they regulated: amakudari, "descent from heaven".
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by wgren 16y ago
It is a powerful speech to be sure, but it also contains some of the things I didn't like about the book and her philosophy. For instance - cultist thinking: >Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentenc
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by wgren 16y ago
>It does actually have to be so, especially for developing nations like China and India No, it doesn't actually have to be so. Knowledge and technology transfer, more efficient markets, and alternative energy sources combined can ensure
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by wgren 16y ago
>claiming that the only possible solution is to pretty much destroy our way of life. That is what many climate warming deniers like to claim will happen. Doesn't have to be so, Sweden for instance has increased its wealth steadily whi
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by wgren 16y ago
It's part of HTCs Sense weather/clock widget. You can disable the snow/rain/sun lensflare effects in the settings for the widget.
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by wgren 16y ago
Agreed, but as Aaronontheweb said, take a look at Fallout New Vegas. Several of the people involved with the original Fallouts now work AT Obsidian, and it seems they want to bring a lot of the old feel back. Just to take a single example,
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by wgren 16y ago
This article reminded me of something I've thought about - does any game developer use high level languages for AI or core game engine? It seems they all use C/C++ for most everything. A few games have embedded Lua or Python for user script
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by wgren 16y ago
If you like choice & consequeces kind of RPGs, take a look at Vampire:Bloodlines (available on Steam, install the fan patches), the Witcher, and Obsidian's recently released Alpha Protocol. What all these games (old and new) have in com
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by wgren 16y ago
Right you are jbellis. Had forgotten that Dalvik isn't just a small JVM but a completely different architecture (register based, etc). But anyway, what nimrody suggested is what they are doing - using platform neutral Dalvik bytecode and th
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by wgren 16y ago
The handset maker verifies that the update works with their models and customizations, and they makes the new files available to the MNO (Mobile Network Operator). The MNO then decide if/when the OTA push happens.
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by wgren 16y ago
That is basically what JIT is. Why reinvent the wheel when they can use the resources that has been poured into JVM research?
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by wgren 16y ago
"Games are usually like movies: a lot of sales in the opening weeks followed by a quick convergence to zero as they fall off the radar." Is that still true though? I can see this being the case with physical copies having to fight for top s
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by wgren 16y ago
You are allowed pay just a penny, no one is stopping you, but don't you think it is a bit... not-nice? The payment services will take that penny in charges (maybe even more? Don't know who gets stuck with negative, but you are possibly caus
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by wgren 16y ago
Il faut cultiver notre jardin. I think gardening is pretty nice. Poking around in the garden feels meditative, and nothing is so relaxing to me as sitting in a garden and smelling the flowers. You get to be creative, and possibly make somet
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by wgren 16y ago
I guess you should try to see every time you fail to do a Pomodoro what it was that caused you to lose focus, and seek to eliminate that distraction. For me, losing flow due to long compile times, having to download libraries or something i
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by wgren 16y ago
I am trying to use the Pomodoro technique - focus hard for 25 minutes, then relax for 5. This of course requires closing down mail, Twitter etc apps while a Pomodor is running. Unfortunately I still have problems, it is far too easy to open

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