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811.
by bdr 17y ago
If this change stands, the majority of Facebook users affected by it haven't signed up yet, so your first point doesn't have a lot of bearing on whether the move is ethical or not.
812.
by bdr 17y ago
Because it does the right thing.
813.
by bdr 17y ago
Not exactly the same. An English speaker would pronounce d-sounds before the js in "JooJoo" that wouldn't be there in the French "joujou".
814.
What is your job/hobby's do-all "duct-tape equivalent"?(forums.somethingawful.com)
1 points by bdr 17y ago|1 comments
815.
Mario Couldn't Jump At First(us.wii.com)
92 points by bdr 17y ago|33 comments
816.
You Built a Metaclass for *what*?(lazypython.blogspot.com)
2 points by bdr 17y ago|0 comments
817.
by bdr 17y ago
Yep. For Python there's a good-enough client for the graph API called "graphy", I think it's on Google Code.
818.
by bdr 17y ago
I think so. It's an easy-to-miss detail that really changes your perception of the data. Ideally the graph would indicate this itself by having a broken axis, but that's probably a pain to do.
819.
by bdr 17y ago
Watch out for the bad Y-axis labels on this post: they go from min to max instead of 0 to max. This doesn't change the ranking, of course, but exaggerates the relative difference.
820.
by bdr 17y ago
I doubt they're giving you more in cashback than they make from transaction fees.
821.
Notes about Go(bitbucket.org)
57 points by bdr 17y ago|14 comments
822.
by bdr 17y ago
One possibility is that Isildur analyzed the current standard of top-level heads-up play and found out that the strategy was exploitable by, for example, playing more aggressively in a lot of cases. If that's the case, standard play will ad
823.
by bdr 17y ago
It would be interesting if, over time, more and more private schools' endowments allowed them to eliminate tuition, so that in the end public schools were the more expensive choice.
824.
by bdr 17y ago
OkCupid isn't a representative sample, either. Even more, you have to take into account the site mechanics: a mutual 4 or 5 star rating results in a "match event", but any other combination doesn't. So rating someone 1-3 is equivalent ("I d
825.
by bdr 17y ago
The NSA has long advised MS about what crypto systems to include in Windows. In particular, I heard that MS was advised to support elliptic curve cryptography within a two-year timeframe, which is shorter than usual, leading some to specula
826.
by bdr 17y ago
The article made it sound to me like they are altering the browser's code.
827.
by bdr 17y ago
There were 23000 downloads of the free version, and 220 copies paid for at $2. But it's not clear from the post what, if anything, differs between the two versions.
828.
by bdr 17y ago
I hadn't heard about Tele-Atlas, but this weekend I got wrong directions for the first time. It had me turning left where that would have been illegal.
829.
by bdr 17y ago
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-app...
830.
by bdr 17y ago
Django doesn't call itself MVC because it isn't MVC.
831.
by bdr 17y ago
Imagine that it was someone you really dislike who made what you made. You'll be newly motivated to find flaws in it. This works uncomfortably well.
832.
Is That All There Is?(happydays.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by bdr 17y ago|1 comments
833.
by bdr 17y ago
They've found that almost everyone only uses two of the buttons -- but it's a different two for each person.
834.
by bdr 17y ago
You're blatantly taking that out of context. GP's idea was to "develop a profitable arbitrage trade" using one's intelligence, not to go work for a bank.
835.
by bdr 17y ago
I want to clarify that half my point is that this crap is easy to write.
836.
by bdr 17y ago
How about: Wealthy businessmen talk about people. Average businessmen talk about things. Poor businessmen talk about ideas.
837.
by bdr 17y ago
Well, that could be done by brute force. Realistically, though, it's more about whether anyone can beat your answer.
838.
by bdr 17y ago
Here's one interpretation: What will the simplest program that outputs these numbers output next?
839.
by bdr 17y ago
It's a demonstration of how backwards-sounding can sometimes be right.
840.
by bdr 17y ago
They're still growing really fast. Lowering their prices, besides reducing profit, would make them have to work harder at scaling. I don't think they're going to do it until growth levels off.

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