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And once again, John Gruber has his lips firmly wedged into Apple's asscrack.
Re:DIY Pixel Qi screens - available now on Thursday July 01, 2010 @10:38AM (#1478072)
So the ACTUAL color resolution is what, about 340x200 or something? Or is it just a vertical/horizontal thing, or?
Re:Persistence pays off in 'real-time' for Windy Citizen on Friday June 18, 2010 @04:36PM (#1443491)
I believe so, yes.
Re:Persistence pays off in 'real-time' for Windy Citizen on Friday June 18, 2010 @02:12PM (#1443123)
I'm quite sad that they passed over such great things as WikiLeaks for Yet Another Ad Company.
Re:Thoughts on the Posterous hack on Friday June 18, 2010 @12:42PM (#1442784)
I see this argument all the time. "Oh, Joe Schmo won't know how to do this! It'll frighten them!".

And this happens absolutely everywhere. And it's true. But this problem won't go away until we start FORCING people to adapt, by adopting stricter measures everywhere.

Ask HN: Backup Services & Data Retention

After reading about a service called RestBackup, which will continue to keep your data for a length of time, even if you cease to be customers, in case you 'need it later', I am wondering what peoples opinions are on such matters?Do you think it's good for a backup service to continue to hold your data, even after the provision of the actual backup service has ceased?Or do you think that once...

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Re:Introduction to my Business Card on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @07:36PM (#1379020)
I get redirected to mybookface.net, what the hell?
Yeah, this is such bullshit, frankly. Most people use Ask.com, not Askjeeves.com which was retired years ago.
Having read the article and the abstract of the paper in question, it seems a little.. off. For a start, it's a meta-analysis pulling from a simply massive pool. And it asks people about areas of their life from a few years upto two and a half decades.

Do YOU know how often you slept under six hours a night in the last year? 2 years? 5? 10?

Did all these people keep detailed sleep diaries every single night?

This just raises too many questions. Meta-analysis is most useful when restricted to much smaller sample sizes where a greater amount of data can be obtained and analyzed.

-- Edit for More Info:

It seems that this paper is a meta-study of OTHER papers. And that 80% of the data used came from a single study by Daniel F. Kripke of UCSD.

The conclusions of Kripke study, which were meta-analysed, were notably different than Cappuccio's, namely:

"The best survival rates were found among those who slept 7 hours per night. The study showed that a group sleeping 8 hours were 12 percent more likely to die within the six-year period than those sleeping 7 hours, other factors being equal. Even those with as little as 5 hours sleep lived longer than participants with 8 hours or more per night."

Re:Apple IIe Twitter machine on Sunday April 25, 2010 @03:34AM (#1292352)
Yeah. This title made it seem far more cooler than it actually is.

Because all it is, is a dumb terminal, really.

Yes. I do.
Re:Food Safety Modernization Act - Hurting Local Farmers? on Thursday April 15, 2010 @12:16PM (#1268164)
Sterilized, not sterile. Some bacteria and fungi thrive in seed collections if they get moist. Sterilization ensures you aren't then planting these seeds and allowing the bacteria/fungi to grow over and throughout the crop.
Re:Food Safety Modernization Act - Hurting Local Farmers? on Thursday April 15, 2010 @12:11PM (#1268155)
I'm sorry, all I see in this is that it will make food a lot safer for everyone as well as doing benefit to the environment. If small farmers can't cope with this, that's not my fault.

I WANT my food to be safer. If that means only large companies can compete, so be it.

I don't want my font size jacked up to incredible levels, thanks.
I have to say, I don't like this site. I run at 1680x1050 and when the actual meat of the site only takes up a fraction of my screen width..

:/

Re:Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @04:34AM (#1264479)
Don't do this Scott. Don't :(
Re:Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @04:28AM (#1264471)
What's all this sudden love for the cluster-fsck that is Cuil? It and anything it touches is just horrific, Cpedia included.

Sorry to say it, but it's true. It will be a huge waste of money and engineer manhours that would likely be better spent if they were working on web-based clones of minesweeper, with server clusters dedicated to 2-play minesweeper MADNESS.

This, THIS is how idiotic Cuil is.

Re:Issue 3422 - android - Animated GIF not working in browser on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @05:23AM (#1246835)
I'm GLAD of this, frankly. 99%+ of animated gifs are simply annoying and unnecessary
100 billion instructions per second is what.. fast than the current Intel i7s? Am I reading this right?
Re:Ask HN: Would you go to Iraq for a year and be paid $200k? on Thursday February 04, 2010 @12:20AM (#1099868)
Where can I find a job like that?
Re:A Massive $75 Million Round Streams Into Ustream. on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @06:25AM (#1094702)
I really don't care about Ustream anymore. Not since, like so many places, they went 'super kid friendly'.

I used to love the service as I could watch artist friends create works in real time and watching an artist draw/paint is just.. wonderful. Except, occasionally, they'd draw or paint tits.

And get banned extremely fast.

So, fuck ustream.

Re:Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? on Monday February 01, 2010 @02:20AM (#1091968)
I don't make a living programming in Flash. :)
Re:Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? on Sunday January 31, 2010 @04:20AM (#1090306)
I have never, never, EVER had flash crash. Nor has anyone else I know. But then, they all use PCs..
Re:Let Haitians Vote with their Feet on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @12:33PM (#1062616)
Cite this, because it sounds like BS.
Re:Sub-pixel re-workings of YouTube and BBC favicons on Saturday September 19, 2009 @01:37PM (#832161)
My eyes are very good. Infact, even sitting at a distance of a few meet I can see individual pixels and sometimes even the subpixels.
Re:Sub-pixel re-workings of YouTube and BBC favicons on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @04:15PM (#824642)
Yes, I am.
Re:Sub-pixel re-workings of YouTube and BBC favicons on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @02:48PM (#824477)
I actually hate the one on the right. I don't want my favicons to be necessarily readable, or a blur of colors like that.. they're ICONS. Visual REPRESENTATIONS. Infact, most of the 'better' versions on that page sucked a lot more to my eyes.
Re:GitHub is moving to Rackspace on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @02:45PM (#824463)
It will ALWAYS be better to do it yourself.
Re:How Google Taught Me to Cache and Cash-In on Sunday September 13, 2009 @05:03AM (#819965)
Loading data from the db can be cheaper than actually RENDERING said data, so if you can push that clientside, you can save cycles.
Re:Competition Offers $250,000 to Design Pedal-Powered Helicopter on Monday September 07, 2009 @06:46AM (#808942)
Might as well make it a billion. They'll never have to pay.

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