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by ableal 13y ago
Clicky: http://ubiome.com/shop/
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by ableal 13y ago
> Ok, done ranting. :-) OK, I'll take it from here ;-). Me, I paused at these words: "the intent is always to influence" Well, yes, I suppose so. Except, perhaps, for the non-fools (actually Johnson said blockheads) who wisely spin en
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by ableal 13y ago
My thought was "Hey, rainbow apple logo for the XXI century." Kind of hard to put that on device lids/backs, though. But it would look nice on stickers. P.S. Amusingly, http://danhadi.com/blog/?p=526 (classic rainbow on modern lid) comes
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by ableal 13y ago
I believe that is a tout - as in "touting his wares". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tout mentions barker (US) and spruiker (AU) as equivalent.
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by ableal 13y ago
Worth a look (authors include D.J. Bernstein): We describe here MinimaLT, a secure network protocol which delivers protected data on the rst packet of a typical client-server connection. MinimaLT provides substantial protections and is ex
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by ableal 13y ago
Beware, it has a subtle catch: (1 TB) / (300 (MB / month)) = 291.271111 years But if you think you're dealing with decimal Bytes, you're wrong - e.g, putting it in GB and taking the units out: 1000 / (0.3 / month) = 277.77777
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by ableal 13y ago
There's also the fact that some "AI" consisted of redoing - poorly, out of ignorance - what had been done previously in fields such as operations research, optimal control, computer aided design, etc.
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by ableal 13y ago
Interesting, thought provoking posts, but you seem to have used two different tags that pop up in search: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/tag/project-allocation/ (the Discomfort is Bad piece) http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/tag/c
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by ableal 13y ago
Hosted at https://posthaven.com/ "Simple, easy blogs for $5 a month, forever." Interesting.
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by ableal 13y ago
Google has now tied Gmail id to YouTube id (which I never cared to have). If you sign out of YouTube, you're signed out of Gmail. I am not a happy camper.
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by ableal 13y ago
"But I never encountered anything as nauseating or alien like PhePHMe" (There are unfortunate coincidences in names ...) Other branches of science/engineering may feel olfactorily deprived, never getting in their labs past the occasional
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by ableal 13y ago
"Thank you, Mark Pilgrim". (Unless you already knew it ten years ago. Back when he wrote "Everything you thought you knew about strings is wrong." it was quite true of most every programmer, and it was thanks to this piece and similar ones,
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by ableal 13y ago
I tried a couple of the "precomputed datasets", and both came back with this error: "The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site. The developer of this web site can generate a new key here."
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by ableal 13y ago
(posted the same minute the question was asked by jgrahamc, by the way, hold the arrows ;-)
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by ableal 14y ago
"BaGoMa - A script to Backup Google Mail." http://sourceforge.net/p/bagoma/home/BaGoMa/ Thanks
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by ableal 14y ago
> (Seriously: Genders for words, who came up with that? ; ) It's for entertainment purposes. Provides harmless amusement to native speakers of languages that have it, especially when English (or Chinese, or whatever underfeatured langua
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by ableal 14y ago
Pretty random, first thing that occurred to me. You probably did not want to be in this guy's path: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan (I may have been echoing an old SF story where a XXX century displaced person was telling a frie
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by ableal 14y ago
> I feel what a terrible place and time I have been born in. I wouldn't advise the XIII century. Or most of the XX. Or the 5th BC. Or ... As a matter of fact, you probably just have "better" news of the world, not objectively worse cond
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Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery(queue.acm.org)
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Accidental Empires, Chapter 10 — The Prophet [Apple 1980-1990](cringely.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
> You usually want a LTV of 3:1. So your LTV would need to be [...] Lifetime value of a customer ? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifetime_value )
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Google Paid This Man $100 Million: Here's His Story(businessinsider.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
Debian/Ubuntu repositories have pdftk, which has been good enough for all my PDF merge/split/etc needs. E.g. 'pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf'; 'pdftk -h' has more examples
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Nvidia unveils Minority Report-style face-bot tech (2 Teraflops)(theregister.co.uk)
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by ableal 14y ago
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right , "The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument (1831) [...] written by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in sarcastic deadpan." Rhetorical training was a paying
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by ableal 14y ago
> A browser that runs code at native speed is an operating system, fullstop. You could give some people a stroke with that statement. They probably would mind that a supposedly sandboxed browser is fully controlling the hardware.
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by ableal 14y ago
The wood smoke impact was news to me, and I love fireplaces. (Fortunately, so it seems, I rarely get to enjoy them ...) But this last bit got me thinking: "And that should give you some sense of what we are up against whenever we confront
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by ableal 14y ago
The big one is #6, implying client side encryption. With that, most of the others are mitigated or irrelevant. The services I'm aware of with client side encryption are Wuala, SpiderOak and the controversial reborn Mega.
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by ableal 14y ago
What he said. It seemed a good idea at the time, considering that, back then, the alternative to a CLI on a 80x24 monochrome terminal were decks of punch cards, featuring 30-60 minutes turnaround time, with output on greenbar paper. Besides
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by ableal 14y ago
http://i.minus.com/idrgWk.gif , for the easily intrigued. P.S. The TC article ( http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/11/screenhero-yc/ ) commenters compared screenhero with http://www.multimouse.com/ , https://www.yuuguu.com/s/home and oth

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