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by Flenser 15y ago
ferrets engage in comical antics [Citation Needed]
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by Flenser 15y ago
* The point is that any employee of Google can access such data.* It sounds like they were just visiting Mocality's website. Anyone could have done that.
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by Flenser 15y ago
PS. I'm forced to use IE so misspelling are not caught. Use this: http://www.afterthedeadline.com/download.slp?platform=Bookma...
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by Flenser 15y ago
Ctrl+clicking on a link to open in a new page removes the blackout.
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by Flenser 15y ago
Google + Bing + Yahoo turned off the switch for a couple of hours at the same time... that would be a statement. I think that would only annoy people. They should make everything above the fold go dark, and make people scroll down to get
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by Flenser 15y ago
and sends your full browsing history in real time to thriftdb.com! The extension in the first comment does not.
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by Flenser 15y ago
Though in many ways for them it's like taking money from their left pocket and putting it into their right pocket But that means they're not taking money from anyone else for that ad spot and putting it in their pocket.
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by Flenser 15y ago
The people in charge of the Demo Day invites work for PG. They're just running an event, they don't care if any specific organisations attend it apart from the criteria given to them by PG.
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by Flenser 15y ago
From the article: Graham told me in a followup email that he was indeed serious and had just given the list of SOPA supporters to the people in charge of the Demo Day invites It's not PG who needs to know, it's the people he's put in char
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by Flenser 15y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmk...
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by Flenser 15y ago
I hadn't considered that. Thanks for explaining.
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by Flenser 15y ago
Is there anyone here that would actually put up with this ridiculous public shaming One one is being publicly shamed. From the article: Names and details changed, for obvious reasons.
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by Flenser 15y ago
"To optimize the code for the most commonly used forms of selectors, we examined a cross-section of code from Google Codesearch." I assume they found those github projects using code search. Code search may not be used a lot, but the peop
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by Flenser 15y ago
as soon as you've exhausted this source you should start hiring recruiters. Presumably the quality of the first recruiter you hire will have a significant impact if they are going to be bringing in other recruiters as well. So how do you
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by Flenser 15y ago
You could have left authorized in. Walter Isaacson was his official biographer.
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by Flenser 15y ago
"why are you wasting your time doing that when you could write a program to do it instead?". That's exactly the feeling I had when I saw a computer play tetris.
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by Flenser 15y ago
As computer security expert Ben Laurie has stated, Sudoku is "a denial of service attack on human intellect". Several people I know (including my wife) were infected by the virus, and I thought maybe this would demonstrate that they didn't
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by Flenser 15y ago
Amazon only allows you to view it on the Kindle (and not the Kindle app either). $1.50 for a single issue, no subscription....it's a no brainer It doesn't include any of the photos though. There's a link to all the content including image
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by Flenser 15y ago
Call me cynical, but I think the only reason the more expensive option is available is so that most people will accept ads on the cheaper version. If they actually allowed me to put my own images onto the screensaver I might actually go for
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High Priority Free Software Projects(fsf.org)
67 points by Flenser 15y ago|51 comments
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by Flenser 15y ago
> I can read a full line in 3 focus movements I doubt it: The distance the eye moves in each saccade (or short rapid movement) is between 1 and 20 characters with the average being 7–9 characters. Thus, the most impressive fact about f
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by Flenser 15y ago
Chrome extension API is javascript. What did you think the listings in the article were written in?
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by Flenser 15y ago
In the same way google has their own internal version of gmail with features that aren't publicly they will have in internal version of G+. I expect they all use that internal G+ even if they don't use the public one.
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by Flenser 15y ago
because if your email account is hacked with a forgot password system you could discover it because your password would change, whereas with a login link someone could use it without you knowing.
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by Flenser 15y ago
she earns about 50% more than me per hour or per year?
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by Flenser 15y ago
not before they've installed them they don't.
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by Flenser 15y ago
"My son is going to have to bid to get the contract to build the new city building, just like anybody else. He will be on equal footing." I won't believe it until I see a regular pattern of Moto not getting picked. That goes against too mu
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by Flenser 15y ago
Were those observations mostly done while you were driving home hungry?
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by Flenser 15y ago
Or mobile phone http://m.ft.com/cms/s/2/8ead4e1a-b86b-11e0-b62b-00144feabdc0...
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by Flenser 15y ago
Surely it was Steve Yegge's blog post that caused the loss. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/ebay-patents-10-clic...

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