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by aprescott 15y ago
On the water filtration front, one thing I'm curious to know is what happened to the LifeSaver bottle. Was that just the victim of TED hype? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeSaver_bottle http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents
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by aprescott 15y ago
Does this include so-called verbatim search? http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-t... I don't use it but I'm curious to know if the problems you're encountering also happen with this new feature.
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by aprescott 15y ago
An interesting take on the file sharing service that I've used occasionally is http://justbeamit.com/ which opens a direct connection between you and the recipient. If you close the window before the file is transferred, the transfer gets
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by aprescott 15y ago
That's a disheartening story. "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's w
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Battleship(datagenetics.com)
4 points by aprescott 15y ago|1 comments
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by aprescott 15y ago
I think it's worth also reading http://ospflor63.stanford.edu/upload/An-Introduction-to-Stoc... which is quite informative.
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Completion files and man pages(aprescott.com)
1 points by aprescott 15y ago|0 comments
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by aprescott 15y ago
I think this was one of the most interesting parts of the article: The other question that made sense was from Chief Justice Roberts: CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: So I have a great idea. You take wood, you put it on a grate, you light it, and
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by aprescott 15y ago
Just for anyone else: AMTTLOPW = add me to the list of people who. That was hard to find via Google, for some reason.
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by aprescott 15y ago
I completely and utterly loathe the security question-answer system. Has there been any study into how effective they are at improving security compared to, say, being forgotten and causing a complete annoyance? I've been unable to get acce
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by aprescott 15y ago
I'm no software license lawyer (and admittedly I haven't read Apache in depth), but I understand that the Apache license has at least one requirement I'm personally not too keen on. 4.2 in the license: "You must cause any modified files to
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Gmail Dynamic Themes Preview(tutanhamon.com.ua)
1 points by aprescott 15y ago|0 comments
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by aprescott 15y ago
Until they graduate into adulthood when suddenly this knowledge is bestowed upon them!
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by aprescott 15y ago
What about the case where it isn't a long-form post, but something more casual like a retweet or a link to some website? I can see the blog solution working out there, too (cf. Daring Fireball), but you might not want to have that full setu
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by aprescott 15y ago
Reading your three situations, I have another one which I've been thinking about: a post which is informative and in some way beneficial to the public, but which a significant portion of the people you know simply do not care about. For exa
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by aprescott 15y ago
I was somewhat surprised to learn: it's available immediately. 2 minutes after they posted on Twitter that it's now available to everyone, I followed their steps of closing Tasks and Chat windows, hit refresh, clicked the link. Done. (You m
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by aprescott 15y ago
You may need to switch to the Rapid Release track, so you get new features earlier.
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by aprescott 15y ago
The paid time off figures say something about the US compared to the UK, where the statutory minimum for a full-time worker is 28 days. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/Timeoffandh...
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by aprescott 15y ago
While this is true, it's in the same class of work-around as just registering a @gmail.com account. It doesn't let an Apps user use their Apps account in a unified way, which is what I was getting at.
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by aprescott 15y ago
I know I need to just be patient and wait for Apps users to get Profiles/Plus, but I don't find it particularly sympathetic of Google when they keep saying that "everyone" can use Google+ now, even in their financial results announcements.
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by aprescott 15y ago
Or not! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SI_base_unit.svg
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by aprescott 15y ago
Huh? "In fact, of the seven fundamental metric units — the kilogram, meter, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela — only the kilogram is still dependent on a physical artifact." Followed by: "And the luminosity of light, or candela, is