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by arebop 12y ago
I've heard that Google Fiber has inspired other ISPs in its service areas to initiate high-speed service. I wanted to see this contention though so I clicked around in speedtest.net a bit. Can you point out some contention, because I d
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by arebop 12y ago
The "exclusive" article was posted at 10:16. Larry's post, quoted in the article, was posted at 10:18.
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by arebop 13y ago
I've been wondering if there's a PAC I could contribute to that would offset my Intuit funding.
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by arebop 13y ago
There are five quotes explaining it that way right in the wikipedia article. The only company quoted that doesn't admit to complying with court orders is Dropbox; they flatly deny involvement in anything such as PRISM. I'm not say
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by arebop 13y ago
The slides (as usual for slides) are pretty ambiguous, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#In... says that the companies and Facebook in particular deny cooperation with PRISM, and the only qu
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by arebop 13y ago
[citation needed] about those deals between Facebook and NSA.
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by arebop 13y ago
Yeah, how much would it cost to lay new fiber and all the necessary equipment to support 1Gbps/house? Less than [ https://www.google.com/search?q=google+fiber+profitable ] $70/month/house [ https://fi
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by arebop 13y ago
These protesters are themselves just as much a part of the NSA surveillance as Google is.
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by arebop 13y ago
"HyperCard for Windows 8" rather: It's a Windows 8 application for making Windows 8 applications (which can use the network). Which makes this much less interesting to me.
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by arebop 13y ago
The liberal arts mechanism for ordering arguments is democracy! The idea of liberal arts is that their study enables one to participate as a full-fledged member of society. Thinking critically about arguments that concern society requires n
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by arebop 13y ago
Yeah, I remember finding it very interesting the first time I saw one of those postings, because the salary on the form was about 1/3 my salary at the time, and lower than my starting salary when I held the lowest-ranking programming p
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by arebop 13y ago
This is a disgraceful smear. The phrase "expectation of privacy" occurs exactly once in the cited filing, and that's in a quote from another case. It is used to argue that if someone (not necessarily a Gmail user) sends email
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by arebop 13y ago
home mortgage interest deduction?
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by arebop 13y ago
I attended a less prestigious school for undergrad, a more prestigious school for grad school, and now I work at a well-regarded software company. I think undergrads in a more prestigious and better-funded department likely have more schedu
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by arebop 13y ago
If genetics and biotech knowledge is a public good, then one alternative to IP would be to let the public i.e. governments fund the development of this knowledge. I agree that buying seeds yearly seems pretty practical to me too, but altern
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by arebop 14y ago
Also, transclusion never really took off, so traditional web pages are different to an app's page state, which might be initialized from computation by composed modules on the backend and a series of asynchronous updates in frontend. CSS ha
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by arebop 14y ago
Try https://www.padmapper.com/ I don't know much about SJ but I can tell you about my experience in SF. Tenants have the upper hand over landlords in SF, but landlords have the upper hand over /prospective tenants/; you won't have much ab
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by arebop 14y ago
Microsoft's traditional strength has been their ability to lock users into their ecosystem. Windows revenue has been important for them, but as long as Windows helps them secure stable/improving positions for their other products and servic
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by arebop 14y ago
Google tried this, but to a first approximation nobody used/uses Hotpot/Google Places/Google+ Local.
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by arebop 14y ago
But the judge ordered "Therefore, each side and its counsel shall file a statement herein clear identifying all authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers who have reported or commented on any issues in this case and who have received m
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by arebop 14y ago
Funny headline, given the paragraph from the article: "In their respective responses filed with the court today, Google flatly denied directly paying anyone who wrote about this summer's trial. Oracle only identified one person on the payro
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by arebop 14y ago
I think his point is that although people are often interested in parallel behavior, they should really focus more on concurrent design to avoid/remove the dependencies that ultimately limit parallelism. Slide 19 mentions automatic parallel
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by arebop 14y ago
This 70--80% you're talking about are the email/facebook segment who do not choose for themselves what OS to run?
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by arebop 14y ago
no, for example http://code.google.com/p/closure-compiler/ http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ and http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ are all active open source projects at Google, and there are many more.
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by arebop 14y ago
"Facebook isn’t giving any advertisers information about users" So there's no evidence for the inflammatory headline here.
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by arebop 15y ago
"All Google ever hoped to do was provide a shell-shocked smartphone industry with the tools to build a credible alternative to the iPhone that didn’t come with Apple’s tight-fisted control." Every other commenter has tried to tldr this arti
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by arebop 15y ago
I've been using http://www.boatingsf.com/ais_map.php and I like this better because (1) it's not flash and (2) your dataset is slightly more detailed. I do miss boatingsf's animations, because it gives me a better idea about the path and
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by arebop 15y ago
Two common complaints I have heard about Yelp are (1) its ratings are not personalized and (2) it took bribes. Google tried "hotpot," now "places" with personalized recommendations and no pay-to-play scandals but hardly anyone uses it. My r
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by arebop 15y ago
p3p [ http://www.w3.org/P3P/ ] was based on similar intuitions. If there were a small number of frequently used policies, you could take things one step further to formally describe these policies and even build software to help negotiate:
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by arebop 15y ago
Oh look, Google fails to fully support features only MSIE has [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P#Criticisms ]! Shame on them. P3P was standardized but it never got traction due to various practical problems. For example, privacy policies va

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