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Robert Bowling, Creative Strategist on Call of Duty MW3, is doing AMA after E3(reddit.com)
1 points by Mafana0 15y ago|0 comments
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Swiss, U.S. in talks on tax probe settlement(reuters.com)
1 points by Mafana0 15y ago|0 comments
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by Mafana0 15y ago
Although I'm not a regular contributor, I'm pleased to see that Marc Gravell is here. Welcome aboard.
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by Mafana0 15y ago
Thank you.
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by Mafana0 15y ago
Would you post a link to the referred post?
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The blue and the green: How our brain judges the color of an object(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
6 points by Mafana0 15y ago|0 comments
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Scott Adams: Hello from Heaven (dilbert.com)
1 points by Mafana0 15y ago|0 comments
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by Mafana0 15y ago
>but the Khan Academy could change the face of education in this country. It's not just one country. I sincerely can't express my gratitude enough for Khan Academy guys, their very rich educational materials have and are helping me trem
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by Mafana0 15y ago
The title alone says much about the simplicity of the product. "Dropbox" is more friendly and much easier to remember than the name of "DVCS-Autosync".
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Philosophy of artificial intelligence: The Turing test(secure.wikimedia.org)
1 points by Mafana0 16y ago|0 comments
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by Mafana0 16y ago
Related: Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument http://www.pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.htm... There are some interesting points in that list, some can be used against theorists, others can be used against
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by Mafana0 16y ago
Second that. Video lessons are great, I'm a happy customer of both Lynda and Total Training. What really helped me to start learning web development is their ASP.NET lessons.
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by Mafana0 16y ago
More discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354776
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by Mafana0 16y ago
Count me impressed. I use netbooks a lot and FF4 gave me the best browsing experience I've ever tried on a 10"-screen, Atom-CPU powered PC. Performance improvements and the amount of space it saves on a small screen for my usage are pretty
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by Mafana0 16y ago
True. However, HN isn't just about hacking, it's about anything "good hackers would find interesting"[1]. [1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by Mafana0 16y ago
It's the sort of story I'd love to see more of on HN. Quite amusing and an insightful idea about PR for tech-companies.
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by Mafana0 16y ago
The guys who did that are VPs, according to the article: "It was escalated as something funny, and two of the VPs got wind of it."
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by Mafana0 16y ago
There are over 32 accepted ways of spelling Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi. Here's a dance song to help you remember just a few of them: http://www.buzzfeed.com/danilic/gaddafi-the-duck-sauce-remix...
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by Mafana0 16y ago
>I'm assuming here that Iraqi and Moroccan Arabic are not entirely mutually understandable -- is this correct? Moroccan Arabic is very hard to understand for Iraqi people. In fact, if you're an Arab from the Asian part of the Middle e
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by Mafana0 16y ago
I totally agree. I'm a native speaker and my Arabic name (ضياء) has no definite, accurate transcription in English for another reason. Arabic language has many letters and sounds western languages don't have equivalents of and therefore for
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by Mafana0 16y ago
Thanks for the explanation. After taking a look at the certificates that come with Windows, I can see that there are dozens of trusted root certificates, issued by some organizations that I've never heard of. Can I really trust those "root
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by Mafana0 16y ago
>In a similar vein, I've deleted all the trusted root CA certs from my computer, and am now marking individual certs trusted as I hit them. Not fail-safe, but safer, I think. Excuse my ignorance, could you tell why it's useful to remove
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by Mafana0 16y ago
Discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218382
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by Mafana0 16y ago
The article was posted after the hack was fixed, obviously.
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Al Jazeera.net has been hacked(aljazeera.net)
3 points by Mafana0 16y ago|5 comments
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by Mafana0 16y ago
You are a gentleman and a scholar... The name of the lady is Mona Saif, who sent another tweet in Arabic (native speaker here): http://bit.ly/dTj11s
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PDFZilla Time-limited Giveaway (PDF documents to editable formats converter)(pdfzilla.com)
1 points by Mafana0 16y ago|0 comments
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Tunisia: President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali forced out(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by Mafana0 16y ago|1 comments
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Facebook Shutting Down Rumor Goes Viral: Site Said To Be Ending March 15, 2011(huffingtonpost.com)
12 points by Mafana0 16y ago|3 comments
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by Mafana0 16y ago
No info about the current number of employees, but the article states that "in 1996, IMDb was managed by a group of 20 volunteers. IMDb became a company in 1996 and was sold to Amazon in 1998 He's now the Chief Executive of IMDb and his rol

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