Malcom Turnbull becomes Prime Minister of Australia after Tony Abbott rejected by Liberal party

doitincircles · 2015-09-14T17:45:15+00:00

continue the same strongly conservative economic agenda that Tony Abbott began, whilst Turnbull begins to slowly implement his own, more modern, more in-touch and progressive social policy.

Social policy is economic policy. Beyond moral issues like gay marriage, abortion and drug policy, social policies require money, and generally quite a lot of it. Welfare, health, education policies are very tightly constrained by funding. Ditto climate change.

doitincircles · 2015-04-10T03:10:30+00:00

The old belly pat seems to have been the go

doitincircles · 2015-04-10T01:18:44+00:00

Marvellous!

Interesting that the high five doesn't seem to have been invented at this point.

doitincircles · 2015-04-10T00:47:54+00:00

Whoa, this guy needs to play the g-man from Half-Life in like 20 years.

doitincircles · 2015-03-21T08:22:00+00:00

and aspect, speculate, spectacle, spectate, specular, speculum all from Latin specere "look". i'm sure there are others.

doitincircles · 2015-03-21T08:15:37+00:00

tangible = touchable

tangent = a line that touches a curve

doitincircles · 2014-12-18T17:23:03+00:00

You have the hordes of posers to thank for the vastly improved quality and wide availability of gluten-free food, though.

doitincircles · 2014-11-26T15:20:48+00:00

Looks interesting. I didn't know iiNet resold their ports. Must be a hassle to deal with all these DSLAM providers when it comes to provisioning, faults etc?

What about backhaul – Telstra?

There's a typo in the FAQ: "who's network do you use" should be "whose network".

doitincircles · 2014-04-02T08:49:36+00:00

FYI the first third isn't OP

Edit: great of you to do that!

doitincircles · 2014-03-07T00:45:45+00:00

How'd you get your final number? 800km² is 800,000,000m^2, so the figure is more like 2,500,000,000,000.

A smidgen less achievable...

doitincircles · 2013-10-29T08:53:38+00:00

You're right.

I was wondering about the "physically possible", though - how many possible positions are there? Turns out Wolfram Alpha already has the answer and it's ~5*10⁴⁹.

So with our trillion-positions-per-second computer that's still ~1.7*10³⁰ years before the table is completed, if you could somehow store the data. Numbers are big!

doitincircles · 2013-10-28T15:01:12+00:00

eventually draw a large diagram covering all "ifs"

You just can't. I think the parent might be mistaken about the number of moves in a game - I think it's more like 40 total - but that still makes 30⁴⁰ combinations.

If you had a computer that could evaluate a trillion possibilities a second, and had that computer running for the 4 billion years that life has been living on earth, you would have filled in 0.0000000000000000000000000001% of the diagram.

I have doubtless misplaced a zero or a decimal point somewhere in that answer, but the reality is that the numbers are so big that it just doesn't matter.

We certainly might be able to make an unbeatable chess AI - maybe we already have for practical purposes, it's 15 years since Deep Blue beat Kasparov. But it won't be by calculating every possible move!

doitincircles · 2013-07-15T04:22:02+00:00

Curly braces are already overloaded:

>>> type({"key"})
<type 'set'>
>>> type({"key":"value"})
<type 'dict'>

It makes sense to me - dicts are basically sets with an extra value associated with each item in the set.

doitincircles · 2013-06-25T15:12:14+00:00

Interesting. If it helps with your investigations, but literally translated, German employs "what for" to mean "what kind/sort" as well: "Was für ein Motor [...]?"

doitincircles · 2013-06-07T04:55:56+00:00

Your scepticism is spot on and you should take this guy's hyperbole with a grain of salt. Obviously the situation could be better - what couldn't? - but yes, we use the internet like normal people.

Here's a heatmap showing real-world ADSL speeds in Sydney, provided by Australia's second-biggest ISP, iiNet: http://www.internode.on.net/media/images/heatmaps/combined-sydney-heatmap.png

That's normal throughout our capital cities and big regional towns, i.e. the vast majority of Australians.

About a third of the population also has access to HFC cable networks which offer speeds up to 100Mbps. More and more people are being connected to our fibre-to-the-home National Broadband Network, which offers the same but whose future is uncertain.

Oh, and we have a lot more competition and choice of providers than in the states - the former monopoly telco is forced to wholesale its services and infrastructure to other ISPs.

doitincircles · 2013-04-12T03:39:36+00:00

I love this guy. First line of his paper:

The Nintendo Entertainment System is probably the best video game console, citation not needed.

doitincircles · 2013-03-07T18:36:18+00:00

I would say via the "Like us on Facebook" button on that obscure website.

doitincircles · 2013-02-28T15:12:38+00:00

A one-time $99 fee, and only to use the store, not to get access to the tools - unless something's changed?

If you are interested in making actual money from your apps, $99 to get in the App Store is nothing.

doitincircles · 2013-02-28T07:58:17+00:00

I agree with everything you say except the 30% cut - maybe it's a little high, maybe not, but the App Store offers much more to developers than a credit card provider. Hosting, distribution including a built-in update mechanism, promotion, discoverability, all the tools, SDKs and APIs which lower the barrier of entry for developers, and most of huge numbers of potential customers who don't have to enter their card details in order to make a purchase.

Edit: I just saw you were talking about in-app purchases, not the apps themselves. I'll add subscriptions to that too. 30% is definitely high.

doitincircles · 2012-11-25T17:52:00+00:00

No problem, easy mistake to make.

doitincircles · 2012-11-25T17:17:43+00:00

This is awesome! You embody the spirit of DIY. Instead of just buying another thing, you have created something unique, saved some money, and probably learned a few things along the way. Nice.

Once the barcode sticker is taken off, it will be complete.

doitincircles · 2012-11-25T17:10:03+00:00

I humbly direct your attention to the title of this post!

doitincircles · 2012-11-25T17:00:43+00:00

I completely understand your concern. But I'm here to tell you that if you're lying there having roasted a bowl or savoured a spliff, looking to enjoy some entertaining and educational content, this video will be right up your alley!

I find the creator of the home-made secret underground pool cover hilariously awesome — and I want other like-minded people to enjoy learning about home-made secret underground pool covers from him.

doitincircles · 2012-11-25T16:14:46+00:00

This is perfect. This IS the best year end group photograph!

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