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by Tekker 13y ago
IMO, there's not need for a patent on an algorithm to "allow one window to display partially occluding another" or "method to display multiple items on a drop-down menu". I can understand patenting things like file formats (e.g.: PSD) but g
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'Self-Proclaimed Leader' of LulzSec Hackers Arrested(mashable.com)
4 points by Tekker 13y ago|1 comments
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by Tekker 13y ago
Microsoft gets royalties on Android devices because it owns some patents of stuff Google uses? Worlds collide.
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Microsoft signs Android patent deal with Foxconn(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Tekker 13y ago|1 comments
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by Tekker 13y ago
I don't see how this is "anti-gravity" - making something that floats isn't necessarily anti-gravity. He wants to create a microversion of a weather system, so I don't see how this is going to work beyond being a few cms over the ground.
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Jurassic Bark: How Sound Design Changed Our Imaginations(npr.org)
1 points by Tekker 13y ago|0 comments
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The exploding toilet(askthepilot.com)
214 points by Tekker 14y ago|13 comments
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A Little Black Box That Could Change Guitars Forever(gizmodo.com)
6 points by Tekker 14y ago|3 comments
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Are you a "budget wife"?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by Tekker 14y ago|0 comments
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by Tekker 14y ago
Same for me
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Scientists Think They Have Found The Mythical 'Sunstone'(businessinsider.com)
1 points by Tekker 14y ago|0 comments
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by Tekker 14y ago
Regarding Comic Sans misuse, I suspect many people are looking for a "handwritten" font, of which Comic Sans is often the first similar sort of thing, and people gravitate to it.
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by Tekker 14y ago
Why is the uppercase D so droopy? That's the one character I hate in the font.
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by Tekker 14y ago
Although the comments seem against it, I'm for it - I've played piano (and organ) for some 45 years now. You have to remember that the piano is mainly a percussion instrument, and there are few options to temper the sound, outside of susta
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Scientific Reasons to Respect Light Beer(gizmodo.com)
1 points by Tekker 14y ago|0 comments
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Back Lord British’s Kickstarter, Get This $5,000 Game(wired.com)
28 points by Tekker 14y ago|1 comments
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Nectar That Gives Bees a Buzz Lures Them Back for More(nytimes.com)
2 points by Tekker 14y ago|0 comments
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by Tekker 14y ago
The chip is small, but the USB connection is a b*tch. Really, though, it gives rise to other potential dangers (not that that's a reason to not do it). Imagine a USB flash drive with a full computer behind it (but so small you'd not know i
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by Tekker 14y ago
When I interview others, I use a couple of basic whiteboard show-me pseudocode questions (how would you reverse a string, how does a linked list work, give me an example of a callback). It seems to me that if they know their stuff, they ca
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by Tekker 14y ago
Apparently, it's before an article like this is written...: http://www.privco.com/livingsocial-receives-emergency-110m-c...
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by Tekker 14y ago
I would have preferred he simply turned off optimization, for clearer results, rather than obfuscate the code (and who knows what other optimizations were still in place).
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by Tekker 14y ago
In addition to the red delicious, the strawberries, and the tomato, count in watermelon. It's gotten so you can only buy seedless in the store, and seedless isn't close to the flavor of seeded. On all of these, flavor has been bred out in
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by Tekker 14y ago
Then we could build it into Unicode!
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by Tekker 14y ago
Living in New England, 45 degrees is not "chilly", it's (at this time of the year) very nice. Will this car run at, say, 5 below? Cold, as a rule, is not kind to batteries. Though the tests are enlightening, they show this car is not des
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Star Trek ‘tractor beam’ created by scientists(sciencerecorder.com)
4 points by Tekker 14y ago|1 comments
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by Tekker 14y ago
I appreciate the honesty, but I don't see any "this is how we'll fix it", rather, just "we promise to document it and make it clear to anyone who wants to measure it". Effectively, they have a fundamental architectural problem, and don't kn
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by Tekker 14y ago
As someone with Stage IV cancer, I say "congratulations" but don't be so hard on your oncologist - I don't know your details, but every situation is different. Every cancer case responds differently. If you think your oncologist was wrong
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by Tekker 14y ago
It should be noted that the Star Wars asciimation guy also did the thoroughly awesome Jet Powered Beer Cooler using a jet engine built in his shed (in NZ) to chill his guinness to a respectable 2c, of which I am in awe. http://www.asciimat
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Some of the earliest color motion pictures you will see(slate.com)
1 points by Tekker 14y ago|0 comments
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by Tekker 14y ago
I have Windows 7 and still work in the DOS box daily. First tried DOS 1.0, have been using it consistently since 3.0, and it really took off after 5.0 (was a beta tester for DOS 5.0). Can't imagine functioning in Windows without DOS/comma

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