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Cartier “Santos Droit” Wristwatch(cartier.com)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|2 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
"Sorry, Netflix hasn't come to this part of the world yet" on a blank page. Kind of annoying, not even letting the possible future customers do some harmless window shopping.
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by ableal 12y ago
> I think it's an ease-of-use race to the bottom - the whole cloud storage thing. That set me thinking if there's an asymptotic limit for that. I suppose it would be for everyone in the planet to always be recording everything
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by ableal 12y ago
Psst, MS SkyDrive - 30 GB free, 15 for signing up, another 15 for installing the app in a smartphone. App saves camera roll. (Unpaid satisfied user.)
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by ableal 12y ago
I didn't know this bit: 'Back when English was a four-form system, it, too, had a si—a word used specifically to contradict negative statements. That word was “yes.” To affirm positive statements, you used “yea”' (Then cont
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by ableal 12y ago
> machines that treat people right You might come to regret that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
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by ableal 12y ago
Thanks for this one, and the "heel and toe" explanation in the other comment. I spent a couple minutes on the Wiki page and this little picture sort of sums up rally racing - they soberly resisted writing "flying" in the
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by ableal 12y ago
Oops. Scanned too quickly on the way to the conclusions. Thanks for the heads up. (Drats, it was a nice one.)
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by ableal 12y ago
I sort of collect amusing typos. Right near the top of page 6, label for Figure 2: "FredEx". Might be a Freudian slip - perhaps a FreudEx - or simply the now prevalent autocorrect. (I have "rear window defrogger" and &qu
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by ableal 12y ago
Everytime I see this kind of "new building" news, I'm reminded of the genial "Plans and Plants" chapter of the Parkinson's Law book (by C. Northcote Parkinson, natch). Worth a look. I've seen it in action
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by ableal 12y ago
Tossed this into the submissions hat because I didn't know that "he spent more than a dozen years of his adult life outside the United States", and a few other tidbits in this piece. (Not that I was an expert on Twain before,
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by ableal 12y ago
"Miss Ann Thrope" packs in a few nicely barbed lines, among them "country that was not farsighted nor fortunate enough to avoid being charming".
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A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twain(washingtonpost.com)
16 points by ableal 12y ago|2 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
"This", as they say. Bright 14 year olds manage to read too many books. They need to get out, make friends, make things - especially learn to finish things. They need the tortoise and hare fable pounded in by practice. (As you pro
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A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twain(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
Back in 2003, Tim Bray hit that nail: "Are You a Sharecropper?" https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl...
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by ableal 12y ago
There's an obvious privacy/trust issue that has already been solved by cloud photo sharing. I've seen it in Flickr and OneDrive: both of them allow one to select a bunch of items, or a folder/album, and generate an URL k
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by ableal 12y ago
You must be conflating 1200 and 9600 baud. The usual bit-per-second speeds were 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 9600, 14400, 28k, 56k going from the 1970s to the late 1990s.
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by ableal 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Billings The article mentions, by photo, two others of a trio of 19th century American humorists - Mark Twain and Petroleum V. Nasby. All three are pen names ...
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by ableal 12y ago
Seems that "first-ever English translation" is not quite exact, there was a 1988 version titled Inspector Glebsky's Puzzle: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1053108.Inspector_Glebsky... P.S.: als
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by ableal 12y ago
Thanks for the source. I got intrigued by the first sentence of this phrase: "Democracy should be used only where it is in place. Scientific training, as we are held to practice it in accordance with the tradition of German universitie
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by ableal 12y ago
That's an interesting idea. It would allow unit tests to check what breaks under different precision settings. It could probably be emulated in C++ with user defined types and overloaded operators. In C one could go the other way - &#x
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by ableal 12y ago
Somehow, I was looking for Terry Pratchett's signature on this piece. It would be right up his alley - a border redefinition error that leaves a gap, instead of an overlap. Sigh.
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by ableal 12y ago
> There's an online meme that goes, "Arguing with an engineer is a lot like wrestling with a pig in the mud; after a couple of hours, you realize the pig likes it." I'm an engineer. I've been online for over 30 y
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by ableal 12y ago
Looking at the submitter's id, I'd guess he's still happy.
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by ableal 12y ago
Two kids can share the same Minecraft play area in two different tablets/PCs. One runs a local server, which the other connects to. State is saved between build sessions. I'm getting reports of a Bacon City and a Cake City being b
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by ableal 12y ago
> RAID controllers fail left and right. we keep tons of spares around. Kind of scary. I would guess the replacement should be perfectly identical, to the last firmware bit (... and giving thanks that no subtle circuit timing factors are
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by ableal 12y ago
Took me a bit to understand that the four "planet" gears are connected by a ring (faint shadow in the animation, better shown on mouse-over), which is where the combustion engine pumps power.
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by ableal 12y ago
Larry Niven himself was somewhat like an imagination burst in the SF field, back in the 1970s. There was all this gloomy, word perfect "new wave" prose mopping up the critical praise, and there was Niven pitching hard SF idea ball
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by ableal 12y ago
There's an update from Jan 24 (today), at the bottom. Very relevant items. Only got around to reading this over a day late, but I'm glad I did. Very clear and well written, the insider's low-down on the new-media realities th

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