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by bd 17y ago
MySpace (mentioning cost savings as one of the main reasons): http://gigaom.com/2008/05/28/myspace-uses-gears-to-grind-dow... http://developer.myspace.com/community/blogs/devteam/archive...
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by bd 17y ago
They could use Gears for some more in-depth local indexing, then it would be you bearing extra computational and storage costs.
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by bd 17y ago
You can use Thunderbird + IMAP to keep a local backup (All Mail -> "select this folder for offline use").
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by bd 17y ago
And their "future work" is also very interesting: "We’re currently working with the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies on a version of an Augmented Reality version of Videotrace that you can use while walking around. The idea is th
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by bd 17y ago
"sussing out what something really is" Wouldn't this be easier done by simply scraping "Category" links on the page? That's free human curated metadata right there.
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by bd 17y ago
For non-Polish Slavic speakers Polish is not difficult to pronounce, just funny. It's very soft sounding and even normal words often have forms that would be diminutive in other Slavic language. So everything sounds like a baby talk.
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Dive Into HTML 5 preview (by Mark Pilgrim)(diveintohtml5.org)
123 points by bd 17y ago|12 comments
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by bd 17y ago
This particular demo runs on Macbook Pro with Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uoVRs_zLn8 Not so smooth as on the desktop GPU, but even not top-of-line gaming card for few hundred bucks will give you very impressiv
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by bd 17y ago
There is a nice demo in Nvidia's Cuda SDK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh2q_p6hQEo
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by bd 17y ago
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottlaird/31366517/ :)
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by bd 17y ago
Couldn't it be because of different default configurations of notebooks in US vs EU? I noticed this recently when buying Thinkpad. At the first sight, EU prices looked crazy high compared to US, but when I tried to configure exactly the sam
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by bd 17y ago
Cool, though there is no Windows or Mac support (so far).
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by bd 17y ago
A good find. There is much more info in the paper: 1. People who contemplated suicide actually started with 21% less income than comparable peers. 2. Income increase effect (23-44%) significantly decreases with time - it goes to zero in 12-
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by bd 17y ago
Well, not sci-fi, but still somehow geeky - when I was a kid, I enjoyed " Three Investigators " series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators Also, you can introduce him to some excellent Ostblock sci-fi authors: Stanislav Lem
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by bd 17y ago
In this way you can attach just one function to the event. Other way allows for more flexibility. http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_tradmod.html http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_advanced.html But I guess interviewer was not implyin
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The Regeneration Recipe(the-scientist.com)
1 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
You are right, it's something about the network. On my notebook (physically in Europe) it took 25 seconds to wget DF's index page while from ssh session on server in California it was instantaneous. Though it's strange that it's so specific
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by bd 17y ago
Anybody else having (regular) troubles accessing articles at The Daring Fireball? For me it usually takes very long time till they appear, sometimes it just times out. It's weird that with such revenue he doesn't use some better hosting and
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by bd 17y ago
Yes please. There are many clustering / level-of-detail solutions available for Google Maps: Handling Large Amounts of Markers in Google Maps http://www.svennerberg.com/2009/01/handling-large-amounts-of...
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How wars, plagues, and urban disease propelled Europe’s rise to riches(voxeu.org)
8 points by bd 17y ago|4 comments
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Building Rome in a day (3D reconstruction from Flickr photos)(grail.cs.washington.edu)
9 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
And there is also ShapeShop: http://www.shapeshop3d.com
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Canvas Demos: demos, games, tools and tutorials for the HTML canvas element(canvasdemos.com)
13 points by bd 17y ago|1 comments
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by bd 17y ago
That's basically the premise of Virtuality (new TV series by BSG creators): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality_(TV_series) Pity the pilot wasn't picked up, it looked quite promising.
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by bd 17y ago
Well, the guy that probably orchestrated this Wave presentation came to Google from Microsoft (where he was "General Manager of Platform Evangelism"). http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/29/technology/msft_brain_drain....
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by bd 17y ago
Amazing. This is actually much more interesting than the original post.
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by bd 17y ago
Are adult stem cells equivalent to embryonal ones? From how I understood it, they just separated germline cells from very early embryos and let them develop into sperm in an incubator (that is, these germline stem cells would anyway develop
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by bd 17y ago
There were interesting comments about this when it was posted here before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=394826
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Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution (free PDF book)(droidmaker.blogspot.com)
2 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-snooping_bias This would explain the same height, weight, and blood type.

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