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Do-Not-Track Movement is Drawing Advertisers' Fire(nytimes.com)
6 points by bgruber 14y ago|2 comments
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by bgruber 14y ago
actually, i have found that this is still possible within new york, if you drop the letter in the mail early enough and the recipient happens to get their delivery later in the day. next-day delivery within nyc is pretty much de rigueur.
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In Mark Zuckerberg's world, lying is the only way to be yourself(theverge.com)
10 points by bgruber 14y ago|1 comments
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by bgruber 14y ago
I've also spent a fair amount of time working in Max/MSP and I would support nearly every statement you said here, even though I'm not a programmer that thinks in graphical terms. The 'wires going everywhere' thing is potentially a problem,
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by bgruber 14y ago
this one is good because, unlike the oatmeal, it is a down-to-earth telling of the story of electricity, and is not obsessed with trying to establish people as heroes or villains. Too often we I think we become obsessed with trying to estab
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by bgruber 14y ago
I think yours is the best assessment. The only one of his films i've seen ("The Trap") was a bizarre viewing experience, because I agreed with most of his conclusions and found the filmmaking technique and music impressive, but thought that
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by bgruber 14y ago
for the record, I too have about 5000 tracks these days.
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by bgruber 14y ago
"One would hope that his education background might have given him some insight into what "slope" was, and how to best explain it to someone in the 8th/9th grade." That leap you made there at the end of your sentence is the crux of the issu
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by bgruber 14y ago
"Albums from oldest to youngest? No problem. Artists alphabetically? Sure thing. Artists alphabetically and their albums in chronological order? No problem." from the "to each his own" file: i have never understood why anyone would care abo
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by bgruber 14y ago
"HTTP is stateless, which means for each request client has to create a new connection with the server." That's not what stateless means. And unless I am gravely mistaken, HTTP over SPDY is still stateless.
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by bgruber 14y ago
oh galeon, how i miss thee, particularly your sane address bar tab-completion. anyone know if there's anything comparable as a chrome extension or firefox addon?
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by bgruber 14y ago
In the us, few cards besides AMEX have annual fees. The credit card companies make most of their money on people who fall behind on their payments and end up paying a ton of interest, and i would guess that annual fees aren't attractive to
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by bgruber 14y ago
> I also got into a significant amount of debt in order to get a degree to make me more "employable" There lies the rub between many of us and higher education. Making you more employable is supposed to be a side-effect of college, not
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by bgruber 14y ago
one of the nice things about computer music is the way in which it can be a collaboration between musician and engineer, so much so that the lines are frequently blurred. i certainly got the impression from the article that in this case, Mo
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by bgruber 14y ago
to clarify: the THX sound was created by a synthesis program that was probably quite substantial itself (I have long been under the impression that it was a MUSIC-N derivative, and Moorer's description seems to confirm it) and, I'm guessing
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Whatshouldwecallme for hackers(thewhatcombinator.tumblr.com)
2 points by bgruber 14y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 14y ago
"test results have proven to be a better predictor of long term outcomes" i'm not sure what long term outcomes you're referring to and how they were measured, but if they're education related the measurement was probably more test results.
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by bgruber 15y ago
http://blip.tv/clojure/dan-friedman-and-william-byrd-minikan... 19:20
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by bgruber 15y ago
i think this says more about testing than about ads. update: i'm trying (and apparently failing) to imply that this article makes me question the idea of "test everything" rather than bolster the idea (the article's conclusion).
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by bgruber 15y ago
i had never before read about the unicode flags, and the rather (politically and technically) brilliant end run around the problem. fascinating.
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by bgruber 15y ago
New York, NY - Meetup Meetup has been helping people use the internet to get off the internet for nearly 10 years now. We're hiring fulltime backend and frontend engineers, QA, product managers and designers. We're also looking for summer i
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The return of the ie-only button (seen on thenextweb.com)(gimmebar-assets.s3.amazonaws.com)
2 points by bgruber 15y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 15y ago
like i said, this is speculation based on the information cited from the help page. i think you're being downvoted because I believe i was pretty clear about it, saying things like "i imagine that's the basic idea."
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by bgruber 15y ago
the help page says that the ipad and blu-ray player need to be on the same wifi, and the blu-ray needs to be hooked up to the internet. I would presume that they're using some internet-accessible service not wholly dissimilar from a NAT tra
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Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The Arts Than NEA(idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)
67 points by bgruber 15y ago|36 comments
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by bgruber 15y ago
i, too, used fastmail for years. these days i do everything through gmail, which i switched to because i needed the larger quota it provided and had no money at the time to pay fastmail for it. Fastmail offers a free 'guest' account, which
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by bgruber 15y ago
I said "not always". You said "typically (not always)" and I say pretty close to never. I don't try to justify the tiering of the co-pay You said the co-pay was tiered " because such procedures are typically (not always) preventable" (
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by bgruber 15y ago
"Even with insurance, the co-pay on wisdom tooth extraction is typically 50%, because such procedures are typically (not always) preventable by proper dental care." Wait, what? It's true that under most dental coverage you pay a percentage
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by bgruber 15y ago
i'm disturbed that tim o'reilly, of all people, is shocked--shocked!--to discover that apple's products are manufactured in some not-so-great places. it does make me think that this story really needs more mainstream press.
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by bgruber 15y ago
btw, meetup already does this automatically on a topic basis. Your group only has one topic, hacking, so it will show up on the map at http://hacking.meetup.com . Likewise, you can see groups tagged with "hacker news" at http://hacker-new

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