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The Android IM app that brought T-Mobile's network to its knees(fiercewireless.com)
13 points by blasdel 16y ago|6 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yes, enough so that a certain HN personality could with a moment's googling find a picture of me in my underwear to link to in an attempt to discredit me in an argument. People routinely try to tell me that I'd never say what I do on the in
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by blasdel 16y ago
It usually takes me a while to remember that it isn't your real name, and then I remember that there's no way I could spell Braithwaite without looking it up
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by blasdel 16y ago
To be really fair, OO does the same thing, and forget about there being any kind of ODF interoperability between different FOSS packages. Hell, OO won't even save and reopen the same document unmodified on the same computer consistently.
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by blasdel 16y ago
It was clear from the beginning that Diaspora would have problems — they were a handful of NYU students just learning to program who'd never shipped anything before, starting from scratch on a white-elephant project that several other group
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by blasdel 16y ago
What's bizarre about the Kickstarter model is that for the most successful projects they end up acting as a blocker — if you reach your goal in a few days and you set your deadline to a month away, there's no way for you to get the funds un
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by blasdel 16y ago
In the US the government isn't even allowed to hold copyright on its works — the taxpayers funded it, so all Government publishings must be public domain. In the UK and Commonwealth countries the Crown holds full copyright by default over a
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by blasdel 16y ago
The problem is that they can't change the UI model without pissing off their existing userbase that likes clicking cardinal arrows to shift the map tiles around. Google's never going to implement that interface, even their nojs interface us
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by blasdel 16y ago
How many of those are duplicates of existing questions — doesn't heralding growth contradict the original site goal of wiki-edited QA that stays fresh forever?
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by blasdel 16y ago
No, unfortunately it wouldn't. The google juice is completely concentrated on the stackoverflow domain — I constantly find insta-moved SO questions at the top of the search results, with the moved question on SF or SU nowhere to be found. Y
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by blasdel 16y ago
Keep refreshing to get different background autoplay WAV clips!
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by blasdel 16y ago
Tax brackets do not work that way! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQg8JKo_3ZQ You only pay the higher rate for income within that bracket. Making an extra dollar pushing your taxable income to $34,001 as a single American in 2010 does n
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by blasdel 16y ago
I assume you're the one that edited it? With the link we're ostensibly talking about them, without it we're reduced to their level, and just having the same adolescent discussion again. Editing out the link makes HN more like reddit .
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'Science as the Enemy': The Traveling Salesmen of Climate Skepticism(spiegel.de)
12 points by blasdel 16y ago|19 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Those brilliant Chinese and Indian grad students are cream skimmed off the top — there's not just millions of merely good students in universities in their home countries, but also two billion mediocre students doing manual labor.
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by blasdel 16y ago
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/08/16/towering-lunacy/
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The eReader incompetence checklist(craigmod.com)
2 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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Tomatoes and Election Season(infovegan.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Previously it would have been kind of a dick move to make alternate reader apps, but maybe now he could perhaps support an official API for subscribers
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by blasdel 16y ago
Plus almost all of the users that do stick around go for the high-end financial referrals that Mint pitches them based on their data. Cost Per Action fees for rewards cards and mortgages are through the roof for complete signups of high-val
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by blasdel 16y ago
I stopped logging into Mint for exactly this reason — the auto-labeling it does is abysmal , and the UI for correcting it is even worse . I have no idea what people are talking about when they fawn over Mint's user experience.
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by blasdel 16y ago
In Germany you must by law have front and rear lights with reflectors on your bike, and most are sold with generators to power them. Blinking lights of any kind aren't even legal for sale, much less use. Headlights with round beams are only
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by blasdel 16y ago
I share your absolute hatred of the Ubuntu user community — from inane theming to blogspam with <pre> elements that contain huge blocks of sudo apt-get install…
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by blasdel 16y ago
Another strategy is to actually wear OSHA-certified hyper-reflective clothing, such that the anyone would assume that a driver who hit him must have been paid a million dollars to do it. A friend of mine does this, he has a whole closet ful
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You’re Stealing it Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles (56m video)(ascii.textfiles.com)
4 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Just because a user might search for the terms every day doesn't mean it's necessarily even possible for them to convert more than once (like for a subscription service). On top of that a lot of searches are really just content-addressable
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by blasdel 16y ago
I'd much prefer that noone calls any piece of software a 'firewall' ever again. It's been over-applied to the point of meaninglessness.
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by blasdel 16y ago
And to my knowledge none of them do direct distro maintenance to keep the laptops they've sold supported -- they just resell OEM (Sager-style) laptops that they spec conservatively so that all the hardware is supported when sold.
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by blasdel 16y ago
But not for the reasons you'd think -- mechanically they're incredibly reliable these days, even when violence is done to them. What sucks now is the software running on the embedded drive controller, especially on the most recent highest-c
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by blasdel 16y ago
It is. One of the founders of Cuil decided that the final mystery-meat feature from Cuil (cpedia) needed to be its own company, plus automatic powerpoint creation with text-to-speech narration.

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