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by ajays 15y ago
I'm a bit disheartened to see that everyone is buying the COPPA bullshit. Yes, COPPA is the law that applies, and has some restrictions. But that doesn't force Google to act like a total dick about it! Lets assume there's an automated proce
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by ajays 15y ago
This service is BS. I just went there and it gave me a random torrent, "Jennifer Lopez Papi" (or something like that). I wouldn't get anything of JLo's, even if they gave it to me free.
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by ajays 15y ago
Have you tried any of the note-identifying apps? How are they? I'm not a huge fan of game mechanics, but an app that can critique you and lead you to more and more advanced guitar playing would be great. I've always wanted to learn to play
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by ajays 15y ago
The USG has always been a big follower of the "do as we say, not as we do" paradigm.
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by ajays 15y ago
That's revenue, not profit. "Earned" is the wrong word to use. How much is the profit margin per item sold in an Appple store? Even if it is 20%, that's still only about $96K per employee. And if all of this 20% profit was given to the empl
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by ajays 15y ago
Being nerds and geeks, we automatically focus on the numbers: is 96% utilization too high? Will there really be 20x fewer cars sold? Those exact numbers are beyond the point. But a more realistic number for utilization may be close to 50%:
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by ajays 15y ago
As I was reading that story, the sequence at the beginning of each episode was flashing through my mind, in Adam's voice: "do not try this at home. We are, what you call, professionals"... // yeah, I know, mistakes happen.
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by ajays 15y ago
Have the Indian politicians learnt nothing from the events unfolding in the Middle-East this entire year? Or could it be that they _have_ seen the power of the 'net, and are scared? This (defamatory pages) could just be a ruse to assert con
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by ajays 15y ago
Most of the Chinese and Indian politicians have STEM backgrounds. To the contrary. Most Indian politicians are battle-tested veterans of university student unions (the "youth" wings of major political parties). They spent their university
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by ajays 15y ago
With EC2, why do you need so much idle capacity? Just spin up more instances when demand picks up. I'm probably missing something, so I'd be happy to be enlightened.
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by ajays 15y ago
Can I use QEMU to run Mac OSX on my Linux box (at decent speed)?
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by ajays 15y ago
Can it handle multiple invocations of same argument? For example: ./foo.js -x 1 -x 2 -x 3 (should give an array [1, 2, 3] for 'x')
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by ajays 15y ago
Thanks for posting that. These little things are often not mentioned in the success stories we hear. Was Mrs. Gates' chat with Mr. Opel the sole cause of Microsoft's success? Of course not! But opening a few doors so early on is definitely
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by ajays 15y ago
Well, every module doesn't have to have wifi. It could be Zigbee, with a base station(s) that interface with wifi.
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by ajays 15y ago
I'll play the same tune I played the last time this was discussed: what is the cost? If the cost is above $30, I'm not sure I'd be interested. If they can bring the cost down to $10, that would be ideal. More generally speaking: how difficu
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by ajays 15y ago
Twitter is just a medium. Fine, don't use Twitter. Use SNMP or Finger or Email or a broadcast over the subnet; it doesn't matter.
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by ajays 15y ago
Green Goose looks interesting. But the TC article says that they were going to start selling kits on 02/28/2011, but I don't see any on their site. To me, it's basically a matter of cost. If the "washer is done" sensor costs $50, I'd much r
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by ajays 15y ago
Single page version for the lazy: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/05/features/sex...
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by ajays 15y ago
They seem to have tweaked their algorithm after the Match acquisition. My ex, with whom I had about 65% match (she signed up after we broke up), suddenly one day became a 80% match. She claimed she hadn't answered any more questions, and ne
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by ajays 15y ago
The population of the US is (or was at a recent instant in time, since it's never static) 308,745,538 , and not 208,745,538 as he claims. All of his statistics are off by ~50% throughout the rant. And it just goes downhill from this basic e
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by ajays 15y ago
Personally, I think the true intent of SOPA is to prevent a Jasmine Revolution happening in the US (or Europe), and to prevent sites like WikiLeaks from spreading. The US saw that Twitter and Facebook were key driving forces behind the even
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by ajays 15y ago
What an amazing story! It is interesting how much they mention "community". I have a feeling that forming such a community of early adopters and treating them well is the future of marketing. The days of "build a better mousetrap" may be nu
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by ajays 15y ago
> Are these people so upset by the word that their brains fail to parse it when one vowel is obscured? I used to date a girl who did not like swearing. She would correct me if I used fuck or some other swear word. It's not that she wa
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by ajays 15y ago
Instead of opening the file "foo" by hand, you can use Perl's "awk mode" thusly: perl -lane 'system("command -x -y -z $F[2]")' foo
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by ajays 15y ago
I know it sounds bad, but it is the truth: as very rational people, we find it a bit hard to understand women. And I say this as a person who has many more close women friends than guy friends!
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by ajays 15y ago
On a similar (but tangential) note: US currency notes have similar yellow circles, which are detected by photocopiers, which, in turn, then either (a) refuse to photocopy them, or (b) mangle the copy (put vertical bars through it). Try phot
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by ajays 15y ago
Such feelings are natural. It used to bother me a lot too that others were getting laid, and I wasn't. Then, after some trial-and-error, I was able to "crack" the womens' code, in the sense that I was able to understand where they were comi
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by ajays 15y ago
Those are all valid concerns, but (and I don't mean this negatively), they seem to be more "first world" problems. For the majority of the people on this planet (c.f., Haiti), a sturdy box with a roof itself will be a huge step up. Imagine
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by ajays 15y ago
FTA: "In 1941, while at Princeton he joined the Communist Party, part of his pedigree since both his parents were members." ... That's ironic, considering that the other McCarthy (Senator) was synonymous with anti-Communist hysteria. The ar
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by ajays 15y ago
I wonder why the blog is in Japanese, but diagrams are in English? Have they been copied from somewhere? Not to detract from the topic, of course, but it bothers me when people lift images and artwork from other places without due credit.

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