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by blasdel 15y ago
Artist royalties have gone from dollars (physical albums), to dimes (digital singles), to fractions of pennies (streaming). Once you can track how much it actually gets used, it becomes readily apparent just how overvalued it's been. See th
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by blasdel 15y ago
On the other hand Chrome stores your entire history going back a year with full-text indexes and doesn't give a shit. For my primary profile that's 2.5 GB on disk (500 MB compressed)
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by blasdel 15y ago
They were already paid for their work, by Disney. Very few credited contributors are going to have points on the gross of a Disney movie, especially not the animated ones.
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Stanislaw Lem Google Doodle(washingtonpost.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
The ASF isn't where projects go to "grow up". It's mostly where companies like IBM go to dump their enterprisey Java frameworks so they can be marketed as ostensibly open to outside developers.
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by blasdel 15y ago
You're still obstinately missing the point in your nerd rage — letting other people run the same source code does nothing to replicate that part of the experiment — they need an independent implementation to do that! Releasing the source co
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Update on Multi-process Firefox Development(lawrencemandel.com)
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https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16696-FACT-CHECK-SCAD... https://infosecisland.com/blogview/16770-SCADA-Air-Gaps-Do-N... I tried to submit this and the followup article a while ago, but the domain was blacklisted by pg so the sto
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What I Didn’t Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook(themorningnews.org)
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You don't understand at all — the whole point is that you're concurrently controlling both characters, but then for some reason it's always from the player's perspective of the male. It's a bug. The game starts with the male on the bottom,
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The iPhone Argument For Pop Music(bmichael.me)
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What will happen if the SEC chooses to permit crowdfunding?(quora.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
OneNote on a TabletPC was pretty much tailor-made for middle management at Microsoft to use while sitting in meetings all day. That's how it came to exist, as the most delicious dogfood.
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Words matter: terms that have different meanings for scientists and the public(blogs.agu.org)
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The FSF is papering over a binary blob(lwn.net)
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by blasdel 15y ago
I'm a DC native and that story is bullshit. The red line does turn south a bit going west out of Gallery Place, but it doesn't go any further south than D street and doesn't go under any important federal buildings. Besides, what would be t
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by blasdel 15y ago
You don't understand the problem at all. Both PRC and ROC say that Taiwan is entirely under Chinese control, that there's only one China, and that they govern all of its territory.
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by blasdel 15y ago
Uh, it's from March 2010 and has nothing to do with Jobs-mania
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by blasdel 15y ago
It wasn't originally developed for direct consumer use at all — it's debut was in the protocol used by Airport Express streaming.
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by blasdel 15y ago
When I was comparing them years ago I found that a lot of FLAC implementations had a lot of trouble with seeking properly, skipping to the wrong spot and then reporting a third spot as the current timecode. Then you have the metadata proble
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Women Who Ask Do Get Ahead, But Men Don't Have To(forbes.com)
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Richard P. Gabriel: Flawed Software Tools as Creative Partners(dreamsongs.org)
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by blasdel 15y ago
He cited it himself in two other papers :/ As far as crackpot symptoms, it looks like he's a biblical literalist too!
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The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Making Knuth’s wish come true: the x32 ABI(blog.reverberate.org)
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The First Law of Complexodynamics(scottaaronson.com)
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The pipeline to your corporate soul(cooper.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
Mozilla makes a 9 digit income in referral fees from setting search engine defaults, almost exclusively from Google. At least they no longer solicit donations, but for them to pretend they're viable without that omg privacy violating teat
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The Top 5 Things That Bother Me About This Headline(good.is)
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by blasdel 15y ago
Nevermind Pakistan, why would 2,626 Mexicans go to Greenland? http://migrationsmap.net/#/GRL/arrivals

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