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by Donald 17y ago
Another consequence of the current economic situation is a redistribution of business/entrepreneurial talent from the finance sector. This will naturally create more jobs in other sections of the economy, including technology. The pressure
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by Donald 17y ago
Search is a particularly disruptive technology. Traditional search engines, e.g. Google, have made searching for certain types of information phenomenally effective. This has resulted in interesting privacy ramifications ("Google-stalking")
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by Donald 17y ago
http://obsd.cec.mtu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/i386/
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by Donald 17y ago
Out of curiosity, here's Opera's homepage from 10 Jan 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19980110221024/http://operasoftwa... (via the Wayback Machine) Edit: Hacker News in Opera 3.0: http://imgur.com/FPYc.png
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by Donald 17y ago
Edwards hasn't seemed to have solved the core issue with so-called graphical (Edwards is calling it "non-textual") programming languages: they're clumsy to the point of being unusable. The table visualization might seem useful for some, and
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by Donald 17y ago
> "I’ve been in this business for a long while, and life span is probably one of the most weakly heritable traits I’ve ever studied," Dr. McGue said. Evidently "extreme longevity" is more heavily dependent on genetics than non-exception
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by Donald 17y ago
Levi-Montalcini is arguably genetically predisposed for longevity. Her twin sister, artist Paola Levi-Montalcini, died at the age of 91 [1] and was still actively creating works into the 1990s. [2] _ 1. http://quotidianonet.ilsole24ore.co
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by Donald 18y ago
The scroll for Hacker News is a bit ugly. For a cleaner effect that doesn't strip page style, change the "Content XPath" to: /html/body/center/table/tbody/tr[3]
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by Donald 18y ago
http://www.nplusonemag.com/ Hipster's New Yorker. Less prolific, but makes up with more pretension. American politics: http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/obama Global politics: http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/?q=de
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by Donald 18y ago
Here is the original article: (PDF) From Science 324, 85-89. http://www.pi.edu.pk/donald/automation.of.science.pdf
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by Donald 18y ago
"Though Berkshire’s credit is pristine – we are one of only seven AAA corporations in the country – our cost of borrowing is now far higher than competitors with shaky balance sheets but government backing. At the moment, it is much bette
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by Donald 18y ago
Headline is extremely misleading. From the study: ( http://people.hbs.edu/bedelman/papers/redlightstates.pdf ) "Furthermore, I found no significant relationship between subscriptions to this adult entertainment service and presidential vo
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by Donald 18y ago
The victims of both "soft" and "hard" censorship suffer a similar loss of voice and power. One of the author's implied points is that "Censorship by Glut" has the same societal effect as "Censorship by Edict."
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by Donald 18y ago
So what's everyone doing for Christmas? I've Sinatra on loop on the living room speakers and I'll be waltzing with my lady for a few hours before we depart for a Christmas ski trip.
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by Donald 18y ago
Or, when using communication mediums where length isn't an issue, you could courteously give your readers a decent url: http://decenturl.com/ e.g., http://news.ycombinator.decenturl.com/long-urls-please And a tidbit for the sadistic:
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by Donald 18y ago
$ whois 65.55.165.94|grep NetName NetName: MICROSOFT-1BLK $ host 65.55.165.94 94.165.55.65.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer msnbot-65-55-165-94.search.msn.com. $ host msnbot-65-55-165-94.search.msn.com. msnbot-65-55-165-94.search.msn.com
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by Donald 18y ago
Item #7 is mildly incomprehensible and possibly irrelevant. Expand on your topic or just delete it.
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by Donald 18y ago
"(Linux grew even faster, up nearly 16.9% for the month, following a 22% drop the month before.)" This casts serious doubt on the accuracy of this survey. The article is scant on details about methodology, but the anomaly is probably indica