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901.
by ableal 15y ago
Snack for thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Sabotage
902.
by ableal 15y ago
Poke at those looking only at animals, from the extended quotation: "It’s as if you wrote a four-volume tome supposedly on world history but beginning in the year 1800 at Fort Dearborn and the founding of Chicago." Worth reading the rest.
903.
by ableal 15y ago
Hmm, that explains why they are "reviews" (with verifiable names) instead of just ratings (untraceable externally). Fortuitous interesting excursion on arXiv: top-200 heavy physics papers readers, "2010 Institutional arXiv Usage Data" at h
904.
by ableal 15y ago
I suspect quite a bit of astroturfing is going on in app store reviews. My national iOS app store has a fairly small volume of ratings/reviews, usually single or double digits, only hitting hundreds for a very few apps. I've spotted two or
905.
by ableal 15y ago
I suppose that Tichy Ijon (lastname firstname) is a pun on tachyon. Nicely fitting the current LHC head scratching ... My first look at the doodle popped up "Trurl and Klapaucius" in my head - and it's been many years. Queue one Cyberiad fo
906.
by ableal 15y ago
Seems to be a point in favor of the "Real men have fabs" quip. See: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4210796/Real-... http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1031588/amds-sander... (Unfortunately, AMD had to spin off its
907.
by ableal 15y ago
"(I’m not sure what you’d use the memory card for, considering that Barnes & Noble doesn’t even have a downloadable-movie store. But whatever.)" There's possibly a thrifty caveman or two who rips his own DVDs. Let us ignore those poor
908.
by ableal 15y ago
"Busicom actually owned the design of the 4004 and had exclusive rights to its use, but eventually agreed to let Intel sell the chip commercially" That bit is not widely known. Also, the article skips over the 8085 (a popular remake of th
909.
What Happened to Kinect?(pcmag.com)
1 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
910.
by ableal 15y ago
Notable observation by Levy: "Replacing the hardware is no more complicated or emotionally involved than changing a flashlight battery." This is followed, in the next paragraph, by the "you’re filing citizen papers for the digital duchy
911.
by ableal 15y ago
Pogue incidentally hits an important nail: "Now, choosing an e-reader is a big decision. Each company’s books are in its own proprietary format, and you can never sell or donate them." This also applies to 'appstore' accounts. However man
912.
by ableal 15y ago
> We can see how that's worked out in other areas of government regulation of technology (though maybe the crowd here is too young to remember the dark ages of landline phone service where there was no innovation [...] I'm pretty sure
913.
by ableal 15y ago
Dropped by the blog to refresh my memory of the amusing, and fairly accurate, piece titled "The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint", http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html
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What I Learned From Steve Jobs(blog.guykawasaki.com)
5 points by ableal 15y ago|1 comments
915.
by ableal 15y ago
In that page "student names great for first day jitters)" accidentally a (. (Unless it's a trap for compulsive proofreaders and/or code checkers.)
916.
by ableal 15y ago
I hope Maciej is not going soft on the trademark "brevity is for the weak" style, which I've been appreciating since idlewords.com days. I believe he spared the spelling out of the LOAF acronym, and scanning the very interesting http://loa
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The Evercookie: Like trying to kill Steven Seagal(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
918.
by ableal 15y ago
For one, the mini-map feature. I believe it was fairly unique a few years ago, don't know if it still is.
919.
by ableal 15y ago
These two phrases, early in the article, could give someone an interesting problem to solve: Our initial tag engine design was a GC nightmare. The worst possible type memory allocation. Lots of objects with lots of references that lived ju
920.
by ableal 15y ago
There are some neat cross-sections of the 28 nm process here: http://www.electroiq.com/blogs/chipworks_real_chips_blog/201...
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Empty Charsets in IE 9 Causing JSON Parsing Errors(blog.wekeroad.com)
2 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
922.
by ableal 15y ago
Sidebar on the page I read: 90’s Internet: Nobody knows you’re a dog. 2011 Facebook Timeline: Everyone knows you’re a dog.
923.
by ableal 15y ago
Bagged these two pages in my Trello search. Joel explains the idea: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/09/13.html Answers: promised free as is, possibly freemium features later (7th item): http://blog.trello.com/trello-common-quest
924.
by ableal 15y ago
Went down the wwww rabbit hole, found this current trove of Bell System Technical Journal PDFs http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/
925.
by ableal 15y ago
"Haskell too has macros. The subsystem is called Template Haskell. It is a Lisp-like AST generation framework that comes as a GHC extension" I'm only reminded of this quotation: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
926.
by ableal 15y ago
> It’s the WiFi, no cellular to worry about A palpable hit. Gibson was talking about the tablet, but I suspect there may be quite a few (Wi-Fi enabled) phones out there without data plans.
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China Is An Economy On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown(businessinsider.com)
8 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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Amazon vs. Apple? No, it's Amazon and Apple vs. Everyone Else(mobileopportunity.blogspot.com)
4 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
929.
by ableal 15y ago
One of the links ("just a rebadged BlackBerry Playbook" http://gdgt.com/discuss/the-amazon-tablet-will-look-like-a-p... ) has some purported scuttlebutt about development, tailing off with: Although Amazon did refresh the ID of their Pla
930.
by ableal 15y ago
I'd advise searching a bit for people describing their use - I suspect most 'send' material for later reading to the Kindle (through readability.com or some equivalent process).

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