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by ableal 14y ago
Seconded. Amazon was late to the "sell books on the internet" party, but first-mover books.com was sold to Barnes and Noble around 2000 or so.
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You Have $75 Billion To Save the World - How would you spend it?(slate.com)
1 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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Farewell, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, Ousted for a Résumé Lie(thedailybeast.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
In late 2009, in Europe one could buy the unlocked iPhone 3GS from Expansys (online shop) for around 600+ Euros.
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Google's self-driving car snags first-ever license in Nevada(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple updates iOS, mum on Wi-Fi, battery fixes(theregister.co.uk)
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by ableal 14y ago
> Jeff was ahead of the curve with the online book company That's a popular belief, but it is wrong. Back in 1990 (pre-web) there was an online books company at books.com. It was an outfit in Ohio, which started with telnet access and o
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The Ubuntu Android Phone/Computer(pcmag.com)
8 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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(Trailer) Thanks for your support of Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview(cringely.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
Corbet also occasionally posts subscriber links here from his own account ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=corbet ).
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by ableal 14y ago
A word of appreciation for the highlighting of the search words in the cached page, such as Google had and lost. (Having to bulls-eye a dinky little triangle to click 'cached' in a single-item drop-down ... not so much appreciated.)
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by ableal 14y ago
> Great, another prophet. Heh. "Pandora didn't get half the kicking around she deserved", as I think that R.A.Heinlein jokingly put it. (Not that I believe that GP is that prescient.)
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by ableal 14y ago
David Langford's fictional BLIT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_%28short_story%29 ) is not bad either, as a hack concept ...
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by ableal 14y ago
Note well-informed correction by Still_Here's comment at http://www.cringely.com/2012/04/by-2015-IBM-will-look-like-o...
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By 2015 IBM will look like Oracle(cringely.com)
4 points by ableal 14y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
Look up graph visualization, and see if any of the tools that pop up meets your needs.
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by ableal 15y ago
Double quote: In a strange way, Britain’s ONS, and similar agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in the United States, hold the fate of politicians in their hands because they help write t
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Can national statistics be self-fulfilling?(blogs.reuters.com)
2 points by ableal 15y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
I like the earlier bit of the quotation, more general and insightful: “These huge West Coast companies, peopled mostly by kids who cannot believe their good luck, commonly turn paranoid and think everyone is out to get them,” veteran colum
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by ableal 15y ago
Beware answered prayers. Over in my corner, we have a State provided income tax simulator and filer. Not too pretty, but correct and useful; it's done in Java and runs under Windows, MacOS and Linux. It's been so successful that most tax re
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by ableal 15y ago
I recently used a pointer/controller with stopwatch that seemed to be this one: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-2-4-Cordless-Presenter-Black/... It was loaned, I had no idea it was so expensive. Good design, though. The stopwatch can be 'p
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by ableal 15y ago
The article seems pretty old - at least from 2004 ( http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.angelfire.com/pq... ), probably even older. Angelfire was popular in the late 1990s ...
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by ableal 15y ago
"Throughout history, Intel has occasionally tried to launch chips based on a non-x86 architecture, usually without success. In 1989 it released the i860 [...]" The iAPX 432 was an earlier Intel miss. Much ballyhooed in the trade press for
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by ableal 15y ago
Another way of looking at it - which I believe was not covered in the article - is observing chip areas. If you look, top-of-the-line server chips (Xeons, etc.) pretty consistently hit 300 mm2. On the other hand, mid-range desktop chips usu
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by ableal 15y ago
Good historical data. I wonder how well the recent batch of seizure-style ads (pictures shaking by a few pixels at 5 Hz or so) is doing. I tend to close the page they're on ...
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by ableal 15y ago
Good discussion, with some pushback on the "correct answer" (use system libs), e.g. http://lwn.net/Articles/491030/ ("we have almost every single library pulled into the source tree.")
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Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?(lwn.net)
5 points by ableal 15y ago|1 comments
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Citrix champions CloudStack, throws OpenStack under a bus(theregister.co.uk)
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How Bolivia Lost Its Hat(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by ableal 15y ago
Most hardware is just wires. Especially since transistors shrunk down to nearly nothing. Still, the layout of something like a barrel shifter (e.g. http://www.erc.msstate.edu/mpl/distributions/scmos/images/bs... , from a casual search) t

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