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That's incredible, is that really what the revenue split with Amazon looks like? I'm familiar with Lulu.com, and their standard ebook split gives 80% after the first $0.99 to the author. They even have a special going on right now giving 9
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Agreed - if testling/browserling are not positioned for functional testing, I'm sorry for not catching on to that. In my defense, you could easily market it as a functional testing tool (sort of how Selenium could support unit testing in t
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The more the merrier, but this puts you about 2 years behind Sauce Labs and even further behind Selenium as a whole. Also, since the whole app seems to be based on stackVM, a better explanation of what that is would be helpful. EDIT: fair
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Sorry, I don't want to defend what they did with breaking compatibility with any product other than their own (IE, AD, Office, IIS killed Corel, Netscape... and so many other companies). I just don't see AD as a terrible standalone product
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I didn't see it mentioned, but I give a ton of credit to Bill Gates for convincing Warren Buffett (who he plays bridge with) to give his money to charity in his lifetime. AD isn't as bad as IE6, either. And I no longer blame MSFT for IE6 n
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I didn't see an mean intent in it. Personally, I thought the parrot thing in the rider was noteworthy, amusing, and didn't reflect at all poorly on rms. To the contrary I found it personable and charming. I was still sore from his commen
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It's not fair to tie all criticism of rms to bullying. This whole dust-up appears to have been started by a reaction to a post by kottke in which it's not at all clear to me that rms is even being mocked. I'm not denying rms gets unfairly
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The pharmacology of zombies(harpers.org)
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Anonymous takes on Mexican drug cartel, Los Zetas(idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)
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The 2T bboe is likely talking about in place reserves, not recoverable reserves. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#Proven_reserves for a discussion of the definitions 'in place', 'proven', and 'probable'. Fracking is still a
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I have no incentive for further discussion with you, so I'm not sure why I'm bothering to respond. I'll just say that I'm well aware of the politics and technical issues in the E&P sector as well as domestic and international energy con
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How much oil is in off the East Coast passive margin? 20 bboe (which is twice the best estimates of MMS)? That would make it on par with the North Slope in Alaska, an elephant field. That's 3 years or less of US consumption, or about 7 m
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by 3am 15y ago
The BBC is an enormous and success means for the UK to exert soft power globally via their native language affiliates around the world. edit: It seems gaius is correct below - the World Service funding doesn't come from the BBC TV surcharge
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It would be more accurate to say that OpenStack is powering HP's new cloud service. OpenStack has been adopted as the new UEC, and from my experience the development, documentation, and testing is almost completely geared towards Ubuntu ho
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"The point that they're missing is that Stallman is effective at what he does precisely because he violates social norms — much like Steve Jobs." The big different being that Steve Jobs would have made a comment like this. I'm not canonizi
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I upvoted you on purely on the basis of human decency. Edit: I'll leave this up, downvote away. I made my comment on the basis of the first part - "If they've got anything to say to Steve they should've said it to HIS FACE when he was aliv
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It's slow to load, here's the text of their (extremely eloquent) statement: Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance
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by 3am 15y ago
Meh, they're in great company today.
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That's fair, but you can see why everyone is skeptical that is the reason behind this patent filing? Shame on me, but I don't follow Facebook's announcements about privacy enough - it never even occurred to me they'd deny something like thi
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The literary editor on page 2 had the author completely pegged: "Mr. Ellsberg’s writing is not strong enough to overcome the simple fact that he is not a very likable person. Sorry, but there it is." It's true of this article, too. I don't
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The abuse of Occam's razor in this discussion warrants that level of sarcasm. And speaking of obscured points, what are you trying to say? Are you saying Facebook is _not_ working on an ad network that does cross domain tracking of users a
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I did google it already (and found some of those links, though I appreciate you passing them along). I know a fair amount about the subject matter, I was just looking for a real expert (maybe an electric/chemical/industrial engineer that w
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Hey, I've heard that claim that hybrids are worse for the environment than pure internal combustion engines. Honestly I don't see how that's possible and I've never seen read anything that supports it. But I'm not an expert - do you have
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http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Steve_McIntyre
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My experience is that when something is filesystem based, you eventually have someone write a not-robust-enough bash script to do some maintenance operation (find|xargs|rm cleanup script, a sed based update script, etc) and it blows stuff u
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It's just that she mentioned that his contact was just below her best friend. From there it's just one click to have access to years of correspondence. And it's particularly difficult to consider deleting contacts or calendar reminders fo
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I feel badly for the author, not just for her loss. It seems a little cruel to be denied the therapeutic fading of memories over time (just as a natural part of the grieving process and recovery). I hope that we develop some cultural norm
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This intuitively makes sense. A lot of you are noting that a sedentary office environment is foreign to a species that has spent most of it time - prior to the last several thousand years - moving in search of food, and use that to critiqu
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I just want to add a small personal anecdote. I eat yogurt regularly, and I've been a convert to Chobani lately. I started eating greek-style yogurts with Fage, and have had several other brands but Chobani flavors and texture are superior
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I eat it regularly because I like yogurt and it tastes better than any other yogurts I know of. And it's healthy.

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