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by RK 18y ago
Direct comment link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328819
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by RK 18y ago
One of the big frustrations for Linux users is that Netflix supports Linux based appliances, like Roku, but won't support streaming to Linux desktops. I'm out of luck because I have a couple of Linux machines and a PPC Mac at home...
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by RK 18y ago
Imagine if they would have had the internet with Google, Internet Archive, etc., during the McCarthyism era in the US. That's the type of thing I am most concerned about.
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by RK 18y ago
Like ibsulon said it's all a matter of taste. When I was very young, we lived on a farm and had well water. I would go to school in the city and I hated the taste of the water there. Later we moved to the city and I remember how I then h
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by RK 18y ago
I've also seen a brand in the US from New Zealand...
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Amazon Backs Off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by RK 18y ago|0 comments
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by RK 18y ago
Is it true that Korean brands like Samsung don't sell at all?
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by RK 18y ago
I like to listen AM talk radio to keep me awake on long road trips for the exact same reason.
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by RK 18y ago
Would you buy a song on the recommendation of someone who you knew was getting a commission for recommending that song? Yet advertising still works... I think their scheme is actually pretty clever. First off, you assume that if people o
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by RK 18y ago
For the record: no, the Authors Guild does not expect royalties from anybody doing non-commercial performances of "Goodnight Moon." If parents want to send their children off to bed with the voice of Kindle 2, however, it’s another matter.
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The Linux Netbook Nightmare:$435 million in vaporized MSFT 2008 profits(netbookdigest.com)
2 points by RK 18y ago|0 comments
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by RK 18y ago
It's like the server equivalent of the netbook.
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by RK 18y ago
It would be nice to have a back button for navigation.
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by RK 18y ago
Very little to the article, but an interesting idea.
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ASUS is considering Android-based Eee PCs(eeepc.itrunsonlinux.com)
22 points by RK 18y ago|11 comments
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by RK 18y ago
I'm currently using T-mobile and was able to disable SMS from my account settings on the T-mobile website (My account -> Change services). I'd bet there's a similar feature from other carriers, mostly for parents to limit their kids' ph
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by RK 18y ago
I just started a related experiment: I disabled SMS on my phone. We'll see what happens.
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by RK 18y ago
I have to assume that someone with 3500+ karma submitting this means there is something to it, but I don't see it. Please, if you you submit something that appears totally generic, but has something of interest, at least point it out. Alth
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by RK 18y ago
Here's the equivalent with Python and matplotlib. The plots are arguably prettier too. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html
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by RK 18y ago
Is that why they can make dubious security/privacy claims like: Mint uses only your account login credentials for access to your account information and Mint does not store these credentials. Clearly that information needs to be stored so
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by RK 18y ago
Dear unalone , It's nice on a social networking site to use your real name, but do people really want to use them on random blogs and news sites (like this), etc.?
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by RK 18y ago
They sure are good at violating their own rule #4, having way too much crap on the top of the page.
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by RK 18y ago
The site brings my browser (Firefox 3 on Linux) nearly to a halt.
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by RK 18y ago
My understanding is that Fermilab may not have high enough baseline statistics right now to be "convincing", even if they do find good candidate events. The LHC should be able to produce much higher statistics and thus have a better chanc
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by RK 18y ago
What's the temperature/pressure of the water? :)
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by RK 18y ago
Moreover, I understand A-series paper — especially A4 — is slowly becoming the norm in US colleges and universities, if for no other reason than making it easier for students and staff to photocopy articles from (inevitably A4-sized) journ
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by RK 18y ago
GizmoOjo.com Ojo means "eye" in Spanish in case you were unaware.
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by RK 18y ago
I think the argument might be similar to why so many people here are using OS X rather than Linux. I happen to use Gmail + Thunderbird (IMAP) + Ubuntu.
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by RK 18y ago
When I was in physics grad school, we'd sometimes amuse ourselves with the game "grad student or homeless", which involved guessing the circumstances of a given person we might come across. It was surprising how often we were wrong... :)
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Why Does Everyone Heart Boxee?(gigaom.com)
2 points by RK 18y ago|1 comments

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