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by barik 14y ago
Depends on how you define launch I guess. Gmail began as invite-only around 2004, I believe. Publicly available, but still in beta around 2007, and released from beta in 2009. If you use the publicly available date, then it's about 5 years.
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by barik 14y ago
I've done some research in this area with examining user input mechanics. This particular example would be solvable using B-spines [1], as one possible approach. The "path CAPTCHA" even provides some great computational hints, by indicating
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by barik 14y ago
It's been available at companies such as UPS for a while: https://ups.managehr.com/Benefits.htm I'm not sure if it's the norm.
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by barik 14y ago
Unfortunately, most companies don't seem to publish it, but you can find out through HR. I worked at a company (now Lonza), and they had 100% tuition reimbursement with no caps. I did my entire Master's degree at their expense (ECE), and I
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by barik 14y ago
I've often wondered the same. You basically end up having to have all three in your init.el file, since there doesn't appear to be a good rhyme or reason are to which packages are contained in which repositories.
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by barik 14y ago
I'm starting to suspect that the people who keep recommending TrueCrypt for day-to-day usage on Dropbox fall into the camp of "Do as I say, not as I do." Because if they are actually using TC the way they suggest, they might as well use FTP
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by barik 14y ago
That's fantastic! One of the reasons I keep coming back to DDG is that you guys are so responsive to users' needs. That's what made me a loyal DDG user in the first place.
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by barik 14y ago
> search quality is adequate to quite bad. Example: "amazing spiderman rotten" (I was looking for the rotten tomatoes page for that movie that just came out, entered a typo) gave the right page for google, while the right page is not am
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by barik 14y ago
There are very few circumstances in which certifications are useful. Many companies will, however, pay for you to get certified as part of their employee benefit, so you should definitely take advantage of that. It will give you an opportun
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by barik 14y ago
Yes, and it certainly isn't the first. Here are a few more, all of which reference lolcat at some point (all of these I believe are PhD dissertations, assuming I set the filter correctly): Frigiola, H. N. (2009). The meanings of dogs and ca
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by barik 14y ago
That's not entirely true. org-mode is quite flexible and serves as a lot of things, and one of them is in fact as a TODO list [1]. This becomes particularly true when you use the TODO extensions. I am constantly surprised at the capabilitie
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by barik 14y ago
It's a terribly confusing universe these days, and boycotts must depend on the position of the moon. Wasn't that long ago that people wanted to boycott Amazon for doing their silly one-click patent. Or their 1984 Kindle book deletion thing.
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by barik 14y ago
Just curious, but are you actually using a conspiracy theory site as evidence of "not hard to find"? My favorite part of the article was perhaps this line: "The evidence comes from events that revealed the NSA’s true motives from 2005 throu
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by barik 14y ago
"When I say that their "My Documents" folder is a level above their Dropbox folder, I get a blank stare." You might get a blank stare, because Windows itself has been trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to move away from this hierarchical mode
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by barik 14y ago
From my perspective, it seems like these customers are not the target market for Dropbox. As such, I hope that Dropbox continues to cater to people like myself, who use Dropbox for synchronization across machines instead of as a substitute
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by barik 14y ago
I like the change, and also consider the Public folder to be redundant. I hated having to move files to the Public folder every time I wanted to send a link to someone. I am satisfied with https://www.dropbox.com/links as a way to see whi
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by barik 14y ago
Yes, I thought this particular link was perhaps not the best way to present the work, mainly because the interesting part is actually this: "We accomplished this with a combination of Machine Learning, hashing methods, keyspace reduction ta
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by barik 14y ago
This isn't a huge problem for security people. Indeed, at most academic security conferences, by the time you present your work it has usually already been broken and/or countered. To goal of good research (and one that differentiates resea
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You can tell the software bias in the HN community because almost every book recommended is inappropriate if you want to understand the image of the chip shown in the link. Even looking at "Art of Electronics", it's too high level, and my p
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This is not a trivial question at all, since this sort of design is usually a third year undergraduate EE/ECE class, second year at the very earliest, usually in conjunction with semiconductor physics. It took an entire semester for me to b
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by barik 14y ago
I have to make a confession. Initially, I was quite tempted to pirate this film through Pirate Bay. But then I noticed the following comment by the co-director himself. I was incredibly impressed with the tone of the comment, and decided to
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May I ask how you were able to get it diagnosed? Are there specialists that one can see to identify this? What is the testing procedure?
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by barik 14y ago
Holy smokes, thank you, thank you, and thank you so much for posting this! I had no idea that this had a name called "Dyscalculia". I wonder if there is a way to medically verify if I actually have this condition. To this day, I cannot read
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The FAQ seems [1] to answer this, though I don't know if the UI is any good. Personally, I want to watch it on my large screen TV through WD TV Live, not on my tiny laptop screen, which seems to imply that the direct non-DRM download (mp4)
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Since both the Steam version and the DRM free version are $9.99, I'm a little confused on why one would buy the Steam version. I understand the rationale for things like games, where you have friends on Steam or you want your games to autom
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by barik 14y ago
For what it's worth, the Windows binaries are now available: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip
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by barik 14y ago
This means that I can finally try out Emacs Prelude [1]. Fantastic! I've been wanting to check it out for a while, but I haven't been brave enough to run a non-stable release of GNU Emacs. http://batsov.com/prelude/
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by barik 14y ago
My initial gut reaction to Haxe from the homepage alone, was "Gah, this language is ugly!'. Then I immediately realized that this ugliness was from the fact that the Source example isn't using a monospaced font. It's sort of amazing that, a
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by barik 14y ago
This is great advice for overcoming procrastination and I use it daily. It has significantly improved the way that I work. I think I learned of the trick from GTD, or possibly Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. A TODO list by itself isn't hel
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by barik 14y ago
I'm curious about these numbers. Do Facebook interns receive insurance? Do they get any other benefits, like stock or bonuses? Undergraduates have echoed numbers like this to me, which is great, but we should be careful to compare internshi

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