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Extremist Programming(blog.ezyang.com)
167 points by achille 14y ago|66 comments
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by achille 14y ago
The paragraphs in question: "Fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2012 results include a non-cash goodwill and intangible asset impairment charge of $8.8 billion relating to the Autonomy business within the Software segment" "The majority of
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HP takes a $8.8 billion writeoff, alleging Autonomy accounting fraud(h30261.www3.hp.com)
136 points by achille 14y ago|104 comments
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by achille 14y ago
Your 313 figure is incorrect. Obama won with 332 votes to Romney's 206. See the link I posted.
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by achille 14y ago
Just to add to that: Obama would have still won even if he had lost Florida, Ohio and Virginia, combined. See: http://nyti.ms/VJ5rDb
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by achille 14y ago
Just curious, why'd you take down the prototypes? I'm assuming the actual app doesn't share any of that source.
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by achille 14y ago
The examples shown are neat and the screenshots shown are usable on your ipad: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6432940/paper/mixingWell/4/index.htm... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6432940/paper/mixingWell/22/index.ht... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6432
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by achille 14y ago
Sorry, meant to say depersonalize. Care to expand why this doesn't work? Just ran the same test, and I see the exact same results.
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by achille 14y ago
Here's how to easily de-personalize your google experience 1. Disable cookies for encrypted.google.com 2. Set the default search engine to: https://encrypted.google.com/search?&q=%s Edit: Sorry, de-personalize, not anonymize.
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by achille 14y ago
I'd be willing to fork up the $150 to see if they could hack into my own gmail account. Seems like cheap penetration testing. Pointing them toward myself should be legal as well. So who do I pay? In fact Google should be paying them to hack
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by achille 14y ago
Except you can't use it for any legitimate purpose, as this would violate the CAN-SPAM Act.
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by achille 14y ago
Note that its not as trivial as you might think. Pumps cannot pull fuel from the 17th floor, because even if they create vacuum in the tube, atmospheric pressure can't push the fuel to the 17 floor. So the pump has to be positioned at t
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by achille 14y ago
Don't underestimate "a storm". A hurricane releases about 1.3 x 10^17 joules/day [1] of raw kinetic energy (wind), and that's not including rain and flooding. That's equivalent to 31 megatons per day. The most powerful US nuclear weapons to
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by achille 14y ago
Googlebot will definitely see it. Googlebot is essentially a chrome instance. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3182579
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by achille 14y ago
The render process on very page you're on right now consumes 116mb, see: http://i.imgur.com/gCA1C.png
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by achille 14y ago
There's a pretty big shortage out there. Be ready to pay $100+ / hour. Your other alternative is to learn it yourself, or find someone who knows java, and pay them to learn Apex.
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by achille 14y ago
The chief Iranian computer scientist in charge of managing Stuxnet was killed by a magnet car bomb attached by a motorcyclist. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-11/iran-nuc... No exploit > No Stuxnet > No Death
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by achille 14y ago
Note that he's rebranding it as a lottery. Something of a half lottery & half game of chicken. If you withdraw too early, you earn some, but not much, if you withdraw too late, you risk losing all your investment.
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by achille 14y ago
Did you bother reading the article? There's a slew of improvements listed that are mainly useful to users, like better integration with finder etc.
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by achille 14y ago
The great firewall is much more advanced than that. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peop... Methods * IP Blocking * DNS Filtering * URL Filtering * Packet Filtering ( TCP, FTP, POP, SMTP, ETC) * Connection res
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Nasdaq's Facebook glitch caused by 'race conditions'(computerworld.com)
3 points by achille 14y ago|0 comments
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LightSquared files for Chapter 11(online.wsj.com)
1 points by achille 14y ago|0 comments
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by achille 14y ago
+1 on this. Had a similar bad experience as a customer of Aw.Rem. After a few months of charging $10/month, Zach increased the price to $40 and cut the calls to my girlfriend roughly twice a week -- instead of every day. That's fair enough.
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This hit hard: The one sentence that will convince you to return/skip the iPad
48 points by achille 15y ago|73 comments
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by achille 15y ago
Tl;dr: the sexting app. I met one of the cofounders at the Stripe CTF meetup. They're a Waterloo U. Team, seemed like a sharp group. Pair was their pivot. Initially they had a 3D mouse based on the iPhone accelerometers.
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by achille 15y ago
Went through a number of his videos. Fake. 100%. Once you know when the CGI switch happens, it's just painful to watch. In this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tKFOcHyrI#t=101s The switch happens in a moment of blur at 1:53. Here
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Regarding the iPad naming ambiguity: It makes sense.
18 points by achille 15y ago|12 comments
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by achille 15y ago
It does not seem to be relevant, as it seems to track along with the general use of the word 'sleep' http://i.imgur.com/4AtC1.png
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Stanford researcher: Google Circumvents iOS Privacy protection in AdSense ads(eff.org)
102 points by achille 15y ago|50 comments
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by achille 15y ago
This was news to me, so I went ahead and submitted a tip to both CNN and Drudge. I hope they pick it up.

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