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by Perceval 16y ago
> Or they've ad-blocked the ga.js. That's what I've been doing. I've simply been using AdBlock Plus to prevent anything from Google Analytics from loading. I found that Google Analytics would often take the longest of any element to
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Maybe this has something to do with their big new data center being built in North Carolina: http://www.cultofmac.com/interview-apples-gigantic-new-data-...
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That's a relief. Hopefully his removal will not undermine a solution to the oil geyser. Nevertheless, he was not removed because of his lack of area knowledge. (One wonders why he was selected in the first place, if his work wasn't releva
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It's unclear to me why the professor's opinions on homosexuality or multiculturalism would impede his ability to find a solution to our current predicament in the gulf, which requires a rapid and expert insight. If his other four colleagues
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Microsoft (and Apple) did a similar thing back in 1996–7 with "core fonts for the web" in which they tried to push a standard pack of fonts out to everyone so that web designers could assume that end users would have certain key fonts. htt
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Chrome OS isn't a full Linux distribution, but it does use the Linux kernel with a new windowing system on top. This is bringing Linux to the masses in the same way that Mac OS X brought Unix to the masses—by hiding it under a pretty UI.
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They are moving to a more 'agile' style development. The Lorentz release (originally 3.6.2 now 3.6.4) is supposed to be the first release in which new features are just shipped without waiting for a major point release. http://www.develop
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This is pretty close to the reasoning. You can broadly categorize sources into three tiers: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary sources are the actual documents or individual recollections involved in an event—a treaty, a memoir, a t
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> a better idea to fork Chrome. ...an independent version that's regularily checked (and fixed) by persons outside of Google. We already have this. It's called SRWare Iron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron
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Mozilla is also aware of all the standard criticism of the Firefox experience and more, and they have a number of projects working simultaneously to improve the browser, make it faster, and de-clutter the interface: https://wiki.mozilla.or
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As someone who has been a TA for the past three years at a top-tier university, I have had the same experience as the author. It's shocking how many students are admitted that do not know how to write an essay. I find that I spend at lea
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Webkit briefly was KHTML, but the past 7-8 years of development clearly distinguished one from the other. Apple sends the changes they've made back to the KHTML folks, but as I understand it, KHTML hasn't simply adopted all of Apple's ch
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I've been biking recently, but I used to take the subway. That's socialist. Taking a cab would be capitalist. None of those activities are inherently socialist or capitalist. Individual actions, responding to one's own preferences, taste
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I think this is the story you're referring to: http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story...
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You're more likely to get downvoted for predicting that you'll get downvoted than for disclosing in good faith that you work at Microsoft. People at HN have strong opinions about tech companies, but they're usually not uncivil.
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Okay, but if Apple is competing with other mobile platforms, how does reducing the number of developers able to write for the Apple platform (by cutting out Flash-only developers) make Apple relatively stronger? Seems to me that 3.3.1 make
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>Adobe says Apple is stifling competition by barring developers from using Adobe’s products to create applications for iPhones and iPads What exactly are Apple and Adobe competing over in this particular case? Language? Is code langua
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My intuition is that Apple is beginning to follow a 90-9-1 rule with its offerings, probably not by design but just because that's how the market is actually structured. http://www.90-9-1.com/ The 90-9-1 rule says that 90% of people are g
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Think about it in terms of concert/sporting event ticket sales. Everyone hates scalpers. They aren't real fans, they're not going to go see the act/game. They know when all the ticket sales are going to be, since their entire life revolv
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Reminds me a bit of Ok Go's latest video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w Seems like something Michel Gondry or Spike Jonze ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdRaf3-OEh4 ) would do. I think it is abstract, but I like it a who
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Right, they were pretty effective at ending ThinkSecret. No reason to believe that they wouldn't be just as happy to end Gizmodo too.
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Microsoft already bought a chunk of Facebook—$240 million worth back in 2007. That purchase gave Facebook an implied valuation of $15 billion. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/technology/24cnd-facebook....
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It's not clear whether this book really grapples with the problem of pseudonymity on the web. What happens when a single user can start multiple accounts--one for good behavior and the other for trolling? When the trolling account gets ba
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He should upgrade: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
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Adam Smith wrote an interesting section of The Wealth of Nations on the issue of education. It appears in Book V of the volume, which is the book where he begins to qualify his otherwise laissez faire position. The section "Education
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For anyone who's interested, one of the canonical statements of the free rider problem and exclusive/inclusive goods is Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action . A short book and well worth the read.
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Churchill is probably getting at the distinction between Germanic and Latinate root words in English. Hemingway used to write with a obvious preference for Germanic root words, which were short and tough and had a pleasing sound. Latinate
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Apple has been working on resolution independence in its OS for several versions now. Didn't make it into Tiger, Leopard, or Snow Leopard. Maybe we're finally going to see the fruits of resolution independence in iPhone OS first?
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The Taiwan Relations Act is not really binding on the U.S. since we shifted recognition. Not that there won't be strong Congressional pressure on the president to act on behalf of Taiwan. But there is no official military alliance between
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I find it pretty funny that you 'countered' Chang's opinion with the official state-run propaganda rags of Beijing. Those sources will never admit anything negative about China.

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