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Re:MIT Unravels the Secrets Behind Collective Intelligence on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:29PM (#2929399)
1) I read the article 2) Did they try adding women to a women only group ? 3) Did they try adding men to a women only group ? 4) Did they try adding more women to a mixed group ? 5) Did they try adding more men to a mixed group ? 6) Did they try to remove all men from a group and replace them by women ? 6) Does this have to do with women being in a group, or does this just have to do with the group having elements from both genders collaborating ? The conclusions made in the article ,to me, seems more buzz-seeking than enriching.
Re:MIT Unravels the Secrets Behind Collective Intelligence on Friday August 26, 2011 @12:53PM (#2929024)
The study was done in only one perspective, wich is adding women to a group of men. In other words, men perform better in the presence of women. Next should be trying to add women to more women, or maybe adding men to a group of women, in order to have a bigger picture about how the collective intelligence works when mixing genders.
Can they analyse the bible ? (or any holy book for that matter)
Re:Dead Man's Switch on Thursday August 18, 2011 @01:28PM (#2900135)
Do you have a policy for how users can _prove_ that they are who they're claiming to be ? Can you handle having _too_many_ users under the terms of that policy ?
Re:Dead Man's Switch on Thursday August 18, 2011 @01:27PM (#2900132)
I'm worried with _all_ email providers
Re:IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain on Thursday August 18, 2011 @12:11PM (#2899758)
Why don't they try to make animals smarter instead of starting from scratch ?
Re:Dead Man's Switch on Thursday August 18, 2011 @11:22AM (#2899516)
What if my email provider, let's call it @MySuperAwesomeEmailProvider.com just goes out of business and decided to stop the service. Then I can't answer to the emails you will "life-ping" me with. And I won't even be able to change my email address on your system because I would have lost my account password. And then the next day, I don't think I would be able to go out.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg plays Angry Birds on Google+ on Sunday August 14, 2011 @08:41AM (#2883491)
I do care, this shows that Mark is following G+ moves, wich also can indicate that Mark is acknowledging the fact that G+ is a direct competitor to FB. and also, You can prove it yourself : 1) Add Mark to a circle. 2) You will see him popup in the list of people in your circles who have played the game
So you don't even have time to write your own launch page ?
Re:Please Google, make a Desktop OS on Friday August 12, 2011 @07:44PM (#2879721)
Start by building it around a rock solid, beautifull GUI toolkit. :) maybe the rest will come naturally.
Re:Why you don't steal from a hacker. on Friday August 12, 2011 @02:13PM (#2878461)
So now everyone who installs a "tracking software" on his laptop is a hacker. Really, the internet has changed.
Re:Please Google, make a Desktop OS on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @02:46PM (#2865147)
I'm talking about a beautifull user interface and user experience, that would make your life on Linux more enjoyable, be it using a text editor, browsing your file system, watching a movie or even clicking a button. I'm not talking about applications, nor about what you can run or what you can't run on it, and no, I don't use photoshop, nor play Portal. I have a mac, and I have a Gentoo too. Tried Ubuntu, and fell in love with fedora once. If you are happy with your GTK, I am not. I'm sad for the limited options I have. And don't tell me "build it yourself" this is the way open source works, because I've been there, I tried, and it didn't work so well. Projects like this need financial support. Long financial support. And no, Linux is NOT a desktop. And finally, please, stop being against the idea of a beautiful Linux desktop.
Re:Please Google, make a Desktop OS on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @02:23PM (#2865072)
A better desktop environment. People have said the same thing with the Chrome browser before. "What would Google do which makes their flavor of a browser better than others? Well I guess, a lot.
Re:Please Google, make a Desktop OS on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @11:06AM (#2864277)
Thanks for pointing that out but I think that unless you were hiding from the internet or something, everyone in HN knows about Chrome OS. I'm talking here about a desktop OS, not a browser-mode.

Please Google, make a Desktop OS

I just read the article about just saying what you have to say (http://raganwald.posterous.com/youre-probably-going-to-downvote-this-but). And here's what I have to say. Linux is awesome, and it's too sad that there's no good Desktop OS around it (and don't count Gnome, KDE, nor XFCE as desktop environment, they are not, they are a...

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Re:Google, Eric Berne circled friends first on Friday August 05, 2011 @11:03AM (#2850299)
This structure is old, and needs to be revised, since it was invented before the internet. Now, where do I put Linus torvalds on that list ? or even Larry Page, since they've got a G+ account and I have added them to the circle "modern age shakers".
Re:Apple now holding more cash than USA on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:49AM (#2822424)
What will happen to the American if the congress does not vote on the rise ?
Re:Ask HN: rate my idea - shared office finder on Friday July 29, 2011 @08:18AM (#2821364)
I think using it or not depends on people. If I am to become a freelancer, no, I won't use it, not when I'm just starting up. Maybe later, when am an experienced freelancer, It would make me feel like if I had a startup or something.
This one is more surprising : http://www.google.com/search?q=search+engine

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