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by ajasmin 14y ago
Could someone explain how that site works? Are the amateur astronomers mentioned in the article user of planethunters.org who just happen to have been served the right pictures to work on? Is this Mechanical Turk type work or does it requir
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Too bad the description specify "current academic enrollment" as a requirement. If you're qualified. I suppose you could always try to apply for a job...
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by ajasmin 14y ago
I'm not sure how distributing flyers is perceived in California but I'd be really surprised if anyone ends up in jail for this. At least it shows these hackers are willing to go out and some promote their ideas.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Device obsolescence is also encouraged by subsidized phone contracts, aggressive marketing and the craze new hardware cause in the tech press.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Having your webmail service also act as an OpenID provider would be much simpler. I often login with Gmail (or rather my Google account) on sites that support it.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
It would be interesting to see non-european predictions.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Maybe PG has a script that automatically enables noprocrast on all the YC entrepreneur accounts.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/q/165779 You can use other request methods with XMLHttpRequest. Apparently HTML5 allowed forms with PUT and DELETE for a while but this was removed from the spec.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
One of these day I'll have to buy an IDA license. I keep seeing amazing uses of that disassembler.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
So does this have some legitimate use on the web (such as product activation on the Ubisoft website) or is this an ActiveX component intended to be used locally that could have been marked as "safe for scripting" by mistake? Edit: Other com
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by ajasmin 14y ago
The link to Tranceatlantic podcast in the show notes is for iTunes. If you don't use iTunes here's the website: http://djbissen.com/ And the RSS feed: http://metatechnik.com/Podcasts/BissenPodcast34.rss
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by ajasmin 14y ago
s/capchas/captchas/
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by ajasmin 14y ago
People interested in capchas may also like this episode of the Hacker Medley podcast http://hackermedley.org/humans-only/ It talks about capchas vs ocr technologies and capchas solving companies in India.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
So if I install this everyone on the network can flood me with notifications?
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by ajasmin 14y ago
I love the skeuomorphic Newton design of the page. Very appropriate.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Thanks for clearing that up. Indeed the GPL forbids further restrictions on the rights it provides. Which makes it incompatible with app store distribution. I though I saw something in the App Store rules as well. I double checked and they
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Is that just their changes to the LGPL components or the whole app? My understanding is that if you dynamically link to an LGPL library you're only required to distribute changes to that library not the whole app. Also I don't get these two
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by ajasmin 14y ago
The music tracks in the BitTorrent downloads are packaged in a zip file. That's pure quibbling on my part but I'd prefer to download a directory as BitTorrent supports that and I wouldn't have to unzip anything.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Paying these mentors would bring up the cost though. Travelling to a remote island and renting a villa doesn't sound cheap to start with.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
I think that's the point the author was trying to make.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
We are seeing a comeback of folders within apps in the form of play-lists and photo albums. But they're smarter, synced to the cloud, searchable, sharable and auto-categorized. The PC is evolving and it's not clear who it will work in a few
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Speaking of IP addresses. Does Google Fiber supports IPv6? Not that you want to host an IPv6 only website just yet...
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Right. Embrace failure.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Buy volunteer time?
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Right.. Should have though of that. It's the same with other kernels. Perhaps a simpler workaround would be to run Mountain Lion under VMWare. I believe it supports graphic acceleration and there should be no problem running a 64-bit OS on
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Perhaps there will be some way to re-enable 32-bit drivers support in the darwin source code. All it takes is an angry hacker with old hardware.
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by ajasmin 14y ago
The OS X app looks very nice. Though I'm having difficulties grabbing the scroll bar thumb on that blog. There's an element hovering it. Am I the only one seeing this: http://i.imgur.com/GyJ2z.png Of course I can use the scroll-wheel or c
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by ajasmin 14y ago
Potentially yes. But Microsoft and Apple not supporting VP8 & WebM probably has more to do with these companies being part of MPEG LA (a firm which sell licenses for H.264 related patents).
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by ajasmin 14y ago
> Active Directory and Outlook are supposed to be awful, but there is still nothing I see that I could replace them with. (I might be wrong, I haven't been looking at it lately) Things like Google apps and other web based mail and calen
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by ajasmin 14y ago
With the current trend of combining the address and search bar I doubt browsers will let you go to e.g. http://lol when you type "lol" in the bar. In fact I just checked that typing "ac" in the Chrome omnibox makes a Google search for "ac

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