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On the Still-Undefeated Tyranny of Apple(loper-os.org)
4 points by ab9 16y ago|0 comments
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Creators Should Never Read Their Forums(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
54 points by ab9 16y ago|22 comments
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Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting(lesswrong.com)
198 points by ab9 16y ago|47 comments
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Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die(wired.com)
3 points by ab9 16y ago|0 comments
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Select vs. choose(inessential.com)
1 points by ab9 16y ago|1 comments
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iPad 'newspaper' created by Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch(guardian.co.uk)
10 points by ab9 16y ago|2 comments
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Alert boxes now tab-modal in Firefox 4(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
62 points by ab9 16y ago|37 comments
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Managing Facebook Like. Or not.(zeldman.com)
2 points by ab9 16y ago|0 comments
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Fleep (2001 comic)(shigabooks.com)
15 points by ab9 16y ago|1 comments
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by ab9 16y ago
It's a vote of confidence, yes, but insurgents look at more than just reliability when making their purchasing decisions. They also like the fact that Hilux-specific spare parts and expertise are relatively common in Afghanistan. And they l
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The tricks behind nature documentaries(washingtonpost.com)
91 points by ab9 16y ago|31 comments
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Man reaches astronauts with amateur radio(abclocal.go.com)
33 points by ab9 16y ago|13 comments
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by ab9 16y ago
That's a common sentiment. Indeed, I hear people liken "I'm not on Facebook" to "I don't watch TV" more often than I hear people say "I'm not on Facebook."
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by ab9 16y ago
From the article: "The irony is that The Exile was always far harder on America than Russia and, by the end, was probably more widely read by Russians than Americans." Perhaps that's part of the reason The Exile was allowed to continue
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by ab9 16y ago
True. But it's worth noting that those predictions are sufficient for a slow, partially-working substring search. Gmail could search for the n most likely completions of your query terms in addition to the normal search, and collate the res
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by ab9 16y ago
Gmail doesn't even have substring search (e.g. searching for "hack" will not find instances of "hacker"). I think that would be a prerequisite for Instant-style searching.
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How the “focus on first” helps hide Google’s relevancy problems(searchengineland.com)
17 points by ab9 16y ago|8 comments
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by ab9 16y ago
I think you overestimate how well we can predict the effects of a sudden extinction. From the Nature article: "Views differ on what would happen if that biomass [of mosquitoes in the Arctic tundra] vanished. Bruce Harrison... estimates th
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by ab9 16y ago
"We can always keep some mosquitoes in a cage in the CDC in the unlikely event that they do turn out to be useful." Say we kill all mosquitoes in the wild, and then discover that they were in fact protecting us from some Awful Thing. By the
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by ab9 16y ago
No. That's only part of the analysis. Mosquitoes may benefit, as well as harm, humans. For example, they may be keeping more dangerous animals or diseases in check in extremely subtle ways.
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by ab9 16y ago
"I agree with the author, but there is one point he seems to have overlooked; brand." That's exactly what I was thinking. Users have to learn, through repeated use, to trust automation. They might take a chance and buy an intelligent sensor
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by ab9 16y ago
Thanks, I've edited my comment. You're right that it's less an issue of underpricing per se, and more that she had complementary skills that she wasn't taking advantage of. The fact remains that working less did not, in itself, add value fo
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by ab9 16y ago
Allie is not "earning far more by actually working far less." That implies that working less causes her to make more money. Rather, she's earning more by charging more , and she was able to do that because she had complementary skills that
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Intro to Monads (new chapter of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good)(learnyouahaskell.com)
69 points by ab9 16y ago|23 comments
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Vim 7.3 released(groups.google.com)
175 points by ab9 16y ago|45 comments
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Spies, secrets and smart-phones(economist.com)
2 points by ab9 16y ago|0 comments
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Computer Science Education Act introduced in Congress(acm.org)
7 points by ab9 16y ago|2 comments
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Open source: A hardy few do all the work(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ab9 16y ago|0 comments
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by ab9 16y ago
Interesting. The website says chapters on monads, monad transformers, and zippers are "coming soon." I wonder if they'll only be in the printed version.
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The end of Wintel(economist.com)
53 points by ab9 16y ago|28 comments

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