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by arantius 17y ago
> That's about 80 years of combined, daily, multi-hour a day driving. Not to belittle your point, but you're making a common mistake. Just because "80 years" feels like a big number doesn't make it significant. You've presented the dat
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by arantius 17y ago
Single anonymous blogger claims that advertising is fundamentally broken, and, thus, that all the parties collectively investing billions of dollars into it each year are fools, who do no ROI calculations on their dollars spent. Yeah right.
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by arantius 17y ago
I used to go semi-frequently. I have specific musical tastes. Now, I can't help but get it to shuffle to something like 9/10 songs that I would never want to hear. Limiting to a genre, in the old version, it used to be 1 or 2/10 that I di
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by arantius 17y ago
> When the app store chooses not to carry a software product, you can always go to ?????? ... one of the other mobile platforms. The OP listed four alternatives.
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by arantius 17y ago
I use "pv" (pipe viewer) for this. So the example would be: pv tarball.tar | tar xf - And the output is great.
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by arantius 17y ago
I find the fact that so many people decided to create their own "standard libraries", even after so many others were available a strong statement for the fact that one standard would be bad. Obviously, all these people had reasons strong e
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by arantius 17y ago
> Collaboration automatically opens up security problems. I think you mean: "Collaboration automatically opens up _privacy_ problems."
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by arantius 17y ago
It depends on which "an Android phone" you want to consider. Manufacturers can lock down the phone as much as they like. The N1 however requires one simple command (which can and probably does void your warranty, depending on how nice HTC/
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by arantius 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_formal Social event.
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by arantius 17y ago
Actually, in that same situation, I believe it was limited by memory (MB per apache+php process), and number of processes available driven by latency. Given the number of processes running on a machine, and the memory that each consumed, w
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by arantius 17y ago
> Microsoft's Bing is anonymizing this information after six months by deleting the entire Internet Protocol ("IP") address associated with your search queries. Google can and should anonymize search queries in the same way after six m
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by arantius 17y ago
> I’ve heard the argument "you don’t need a compiler, since PHP is rarely the bottleneck" for many years. I think its complete bollox. ... > Unless your PHP server is sitting there idling (which is probably the case for many PHP ser
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by arantius 17y ago
> a single "Menu" entry that popped up the other menu items as an overlay menu would be great for me and would allow me to ditch the menubar Among others: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455
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by arantius 17y ago
True, but I believe the point is still valid. Given knowledge of cryptographic hashes, and ignorance of HMAC, it is a perfectly reasonable assumption to use a hash in this way. I think that's a rather common situation, and outcome. And, b
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by arantius 17y ago
The Google Voice app on any android phone will do this. The original post is about one really specific feature, completely under T-Mobile's control (and restriction in this case), and has nothing to do with Google or the Nexus or Google Voi
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by arantius 17y ago
Agreed. It doesn't matter why you're doing it. Hijacking existing ads is a dirty tactic.
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by arantius 17y ago
It never has, even back when all the Android devices had LCD screens. I'd mostly chalk it up to not having the UI bits that normally were blue in (i.e.) gmail, so the blue just didn't show up. Text is black on white, buttons are black on
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by arantius 17y ago
I have, to date, had zero trouble using my N1 phone anywhere yet. Two key points: 1) It's winter in New York City. Even outside there's not a lot of really bright sunlight. 2) The N1 has a feature (which I like) whereby, with a light sens
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by arantius 17y ago
You've always been able to. The nexus one was never _carrier_ locked. (But as mentioned, the different frequency that ATT uses for 3G is unsupported -- so just voice and EDGE data.) This "unlock" is, as described, attaining root level per
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by arantius 17y ago
The article doesn't provide any details; I'm quite curious _how_ this happened. And how did it stop?
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by arantius 17y ago
> That means anyone who buys the phone online with a T-Mobile contract and wants to get out within 3 months are ... ... fools who aren't responsible enough to sign a contract in the first place, and just getting what comes to them. Eith
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by arantius 17y ago
> I'm tempted to ask everyone who has been affected by PayPal's "security measures" (a frozen account) to write a post and submit it to a blog. I'm tempted to ask everyone who has _not_ been affected to do the same. Except that there a
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by arantius 17y ago
I think "Swing doors waste ..." is more accurate. And perhaps easier to grasp. Doors don't _use_ energy, unless they're motorized.
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by arantius 17y ago
> 1) There is no option to say "reply using the same 'from' address that the mail was sent to." .. Used and loved this extension to solve that for some time: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/594 > 2) ... the stat
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by arantius 17y ago
But the OP is specifically talking about information specifically besides that "supplied here". Like, measuring how much it really costs, the hidden challenges, etc, in setting up a large automated mailing system.
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by arantius 17y ago
> .. appended to the beginning .. Or, of course, prepended.
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by arantius 17y ago
> The old Google linked from the SERP through a proxy link which redirected to the actual result. The new Google links directly from the SERP to the result. It is my understanding that this is always on, but for a random subset of user
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by arantius 17y ago
> Then you can set the catch all address, and for every website you need an email address for, you use <website>@<yourdomain>.com (eg amazon@example.com and msdn@example.com. I do exactly that, BUT with one critical dif
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by arantius 17y ago
https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/Afs.html
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by arantius 17y ago
I agree. I also listen to Planet Money and This American Life regularly. Both great shows, but Radiolab is awesome.

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